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		<title><![CDATA[Unemployed Drug Reps: "Go East, Young Man (and Women)"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10004986/unemployed-drug-reps-go-east-young-man-and-women/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical sales reps: Are you sick of seeing headlines about layoffs at virtually every major pharma company? Wish you could turn the clock back to when every company was hiring and new reps could name their price? Now you can -- if you're willing to live in Japan. by Jim...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:12:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama's Speech Offers Lucrative New Universe for Big Pharma]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama's speech on Wednesday night laid down clear battle lines in the healthcare reform debate: drug companies are on Obama's side, health insurers and Republicans are on the other. It will be interesting to see who has the more powerful lobbyists, Big Pharma or Big Managed Care. by Jim...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:26:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Medicis Doubled Pay of Exec Convicted of Off-Label Sales]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicis more than doubled the pay of its sales chief in 2008 even though that executive, Richard Havens, pled guilty to conspiracy to violate the Food and Drug Act last March. Havens, the former evp of sales, and three of his underlings pleaded guilty right before his April retirement to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:51:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Valeant Executive Pay Doubles to $19.7 Million Despite Quadrupling of Company's Losses]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valeant Pharmaceuticals saw its revenues decline, its net loss quadruple, and its cash sink by $109 million in 2008. But the compensation of its top executives doubled, to $19.7 million in 2008 from $8.6 million in 2007.    Half of that, $9.7 million, went to CEO J. Michael...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:09:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gilead Executive Pay: Modest Raises for Outstanding Performance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gilead CEO John C Martin got a negligible pay raise in 2008, despite the fact that his company largely met its performance goals. Revenue was up, net income was up, and the stock price held (it's still double the price it was in 2004).    Yet Martin's total...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:48:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Study: P&G's Intrinsa Doesn't Work; Reflects Badly on Noven and Pharma Unit Sale]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More bad news for Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals: a study review found that its sex-drive-enhancer for women, Intrinsa, doesn't work and its safety record is in doubt.    This will not reflect well on Noven, which last year entered a partnership with P&G to boost the packaged-goods company's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:03:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Aceto Corp., F2Q09 (Qtr End 12/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator   Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Daniel Rizzo from Sidoti & Company. Please go ahead. Daniel Rizzo - Sidoti & Company  Hi, guys. Len Schwartz Hi, Dan. Daniel Rizzo - Sidoti & Company  First with the health sciences business, that was...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:48:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pharma Roundup: Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, Forest, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unhappy wind blows through Johnson & Johnson -- Patent expirations are taking their toll on the drug giant, which has seen profits slip and year-over-year sales drop 11 percent. Analysts predict an acquisition. [Source: Forbes, via Corey Nahman]    Abbott's diversification brings financial health -- The yin...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:48:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Starved of News, Press Speculates on Deals for Abbott, Pfizer and Wyeth]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Year is a slow news period, which is why the business press filled up with next-to-useless corporate strategy stories about Abbott Labs, Wyeth and Pfizer. The one thing these stories all have in common? They're long on speculation and short on substance. Let's take them one at a time....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:20:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Drug Makers Gave Lobbyists an Xmas Gift -- Millions More to Lobby Obama Administration]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000547/drug-makers-gave-lobbyists-an-xmas-gift-millions-more-to-lobby-obama-administration/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A New Year will bring a new president, a new FDA chief, many new drug regulations, and, possibly, health insurance reform. Mindful of the ton of major drug brands that will go off-patent in 2009, drug companies have not rested in their lobbying efforts over generics and patent issues. They...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:36:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pharma Roundup: Feds Sue Ovation, Bristol Cuts Jobs, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ovation faces federal lawsuit for price gouging, Bristol lays off 10 percent, Pfizer freezes dividend, Jazz eliminates 71 positions. by John Maas]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:46:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will P&G Pharma Auction End the Company's Pursuit of "Viagra for Women"?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000491/will-pg-pharma-auction-end-the-companys-pursuit-of-viagra-for-women/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Procter & Gamble's desire to get out of the prescription pharmaceutical business either by selling its brands or managing them through their natural declines raises the question of whether this will finally kill P&G's longtime, ill-fated interest in creating a version of Viagra for women. BNET readers will remember that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:31:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sanofi Names D-Day for Layoffs: Dec. 1]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000427/sanofi-names-d-day-for-layoffs-its-dec-1/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  	UPDATE: Sanofi plans a similar layoff plan for Thanksgiving 2009.       Sanofi-Aventis has named a day for announcing its layoffs: Dec. 1, a source tells BNET. The Dec. 1 date already came up on CafÃ© Pharma as a possible timeframe for the call....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:58:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pharma Roundup: Amylin Cuts Jobs, Sanofi Faces Hard Times, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000381/pharma-roundup-amylin-cuts-jobs-sanofi-faces-hard-times-and-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Amylin cuts 340 jobs, UBS predicts hard times for Sanofi, Pfizer sells a factory and GSK will close one. by John Maas]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:51:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pharma Roundup: Glaxo Reorganizing in U.S., Pfizer Urged to Keep Jobs in Connecticut, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glaxo reorganizes U.S. operations; Connecticut congressmen ask Pfizer to keep U.S. jobs; AstraZeneca executive Patterson to retire; DTC advertising not earning its keep? by John Maas]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:09:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pharma Roundup: Obama May Decrease Drug Revenue, Strong Viagra and Cialis Sales, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000330/pharma-roundup-obama-may-decrease-drug-revenue-strong-viagra-and-cialis-sales-and-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama health plan provision could cost pharma billions in revenue; Viagra and Cialis sales still swelling; Glaxo opts for transparency; contract manufacturing worth $20 billion by John Maas]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:16:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pharma Roundup: Daiichi and Ranbaxy, Generics and Staff Shake-Ups at Novartis, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000311/pharma-roundup-daiichi-and-ranbaxy-generics-and-staff-shake-ups-at-novartis-and-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Daiichi buys 20% stake in Ranbaxy; at Novartis, executives and jobs on the move, and sinking profits from generics; Wisconsin doctors ban gifts from pharma companies. by John Maas]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:52:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pharma Roundup: Pfizer Re-Slices Organizational Pie, Lilly Dishes Out Zyprexa Settlement, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000268/pharma-roundup-pfizer-re-slices-organizational-pie-lilly-dishes-out-zyprexa-settlement-and-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Pfizer reorganizes; Lilly to pay $62 million fine over Zyprexa; biotech losing talent to clean tech; Consumer Reports blacklists 20 drugs for seniors by John Maas]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:11:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The 10 Weirdest Drug Stories of the Month]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000251/the-10-weirdest-drug-stories-of-the-month/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Another page has been torn off the calendar, and that means it's time to open up Big Pharma's vault of peculiarities and do a roundup of strange-but-true tales from the world of drugs that surfaced on my radar last month.    I give you the 10 weirdest drug...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:50:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New CEO Veihbacher, Plucked From the U.S., Could De-Frenchify Sanofi]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paris-based pharma giant Sanofi-Aventis may be about to get a little less French with the appointment of Chris Viehbacher, formerly head of U.S. pharma at GlaxoSmithKline, as its new CEO.    The company gets more than half of its revenues on its top drugs from the U.S. (as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:28:26 -0700</pubDate>
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