PharmaPodia 07 02 2010

Hello and Welcome Back to PharmaPodia!

I'm currently on the road so no recording will be posted.  I plan to do so sometimes next week.  Check Back for more updates.

For now, I will be posting the transcript of what I plan to record.

Enjoy and don't forget to come back next time!

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PharmaPodia Podcast 07 01 2010

Hello and Welcome!

Some of the highlights of today podcast!

• Update on several clinical trials
• A few new licensing agreements
• New insight in Parkinson Disease treatment
• Other pharmaceutical related news

Thank you for Listening and don't forget to come back for more update!  Below is the transcript for today!

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PharmaPodia Podcast 06 30 2010

Hello and Welcome Back!

Many of the medications today have orphan drug designations. If you want to know what orphan drug is, please go to the glossary! Topics include approval of new medical device, initiation of clinical trials, and orphan drug designation approvals.  In addition, several agreement/licensing and acquisition have been completed.  Several other news are also included such as noncomfirmity of NOV002 and the launch of a new web-based forum for Parkinson's Disease.

Last but not least the consumer health bits about medication compliance.

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to check back for more updates!

See you then!

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PharmaPodia Podcast 06 29 2010

Welcome!

 

 

Hello and Welcome Back!
The topic for today includes results and initiations of several clinical trials in the US as well as Europe.  There will be topics about several licensing/agreements that have been signed over the last few days as well.
The generic version of Aridimex is approved! (Teva)

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to check back for more update!  Transcript is included!

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PharmaPodia Podcast 06 28 2010

Welcome to PharmaPodia!

Today Podcast will have a strong focus on diabetes medications. We will also have some news about acquisitions that have been conducted recently.

Thank you for listening and don't forget to comeback next time.  Transcript is included.

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PharmaPodia Podcast 06 27 2010

Welcome Back!

Today focus will be drugs on the move with several diabetes medications are being discussed.  

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has picked a vaccine manufacturing company's proposal.  

A HCV point-of-care test has been approved in the US.  

New indication for a cancer treatment has been approved in the UK!

Hope you enjoy the podcast! And don't forget to check back later!  Below is the included transcript!

Glossary

Welcome to the Glossary Page!

You will find some of the commonly used terminologies in pharmaceutical fields.

Due to the nature of this post, things might not be in alphabetical order but the search/find function embedded in your browser should be able to direct you to the words you are looking for.

Enjoy!
Note: For all links, please right click and open new page otherwise the new page will be displayed within this frame => limited viewing capacity!

Useful Links!

Hello everyone,

I've been compiling sites that can be useful if you would like to look up information about specific medications or regulations in several countries. By no means the list is inclusive, but I still hope you find them useful.

Several links are in foreign languages.

Enjoy!

US:

• Food and Drugs Administration:
• http://www.fda.gov/ 
• Package Insert of Medications that have been approved for used in the US: 
• dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymet/about.cfm 
• Lists of clinical trials (US and Other Countries) that have registered. It is the product of the collaboration of the US National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine (MLN) and the FDA: 
• clinicaltrials.gov
• Trial Identification Number/Code: NCT

Canada:

• www.sedar.com : System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (started on Jan 1, 1997): contains electronic filing related to the Canadian securities regulatory authorities.  t is a subsidiary of the Canadian Depository for Securities Limited.  Note:  This is not a government agency
• Health Canada Drug Product Database:
• http://webprod.hc-sc.gc.ca/dpd-bdpp/index-eng.jsp 
• Contains information about medicinal products that are marketed in Canada.  You can search by names, drug identification number, company, and others.

UK & EU

• European Medicines Agency: the decentralized body of the European Union.
• http://www.ema.europa.eu/ 
• European Public Assessment Report (EPAR) (link from EMA): On this page, you will find information about products that have been approved under the decentralized system. Multiple languages are also available,
• www.ema.europa.eu/htms/human/epar/eparintro.htm 
• Medicines and HealthCare Product Agency 
• www.mhra.gov.uk/index.htm 
• European Clinical Trials Database (A bit hard to navigate) for Clinical Trial Registration.
• eudract.ema.europa.eu
• Trial Identification Number/Code: EudraCT
• European Commission: Public Health: You can find information European Union Legislation in the Pharmaceutical Sector here. A pretty nice and useful link 
• ec.europa.eu/health/documents/eudralex/index_en.htm
• Electronic Medicine Compendium: similar to the US DailyMed website. You can find package insert of medication that is approved for use in the UK.
• www.medicines.org.uk/emc 

• Ireland: contains information (Prescription information) about medicinal products that are currently marketed in Ireland.  Quite a neat website.

• http://www.medicines.ie/default.aspx

• Portugal

• http://www.portaldasaude.gov.pt/

• Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products

• http://www.swissmedic.ch/

• Scottish Medicines Consortium
• http://www.scottishmedicines.org.uk/Home 

Asian and Others:

• Indian Clinical Trial Registry: It is set up by the ICMR's National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS). All interventional clinical trials conducted in India need to be registered in the registry
• http://www.ctri.in/
• Trial Identification Number/Code: UTRN
• Korean Food and Drug Administration
• eng.kfda.go.kr/index.php 
• China: State Food and Drug Administration, P.R. China:
• http://eng.sfda.gov.cn/eng/ 
• Japan: 
• The Risk / Benefit Assessment of Drugs - Analysis and Response: https://www.rad-ar.or.jp/english/index.html
• This website contains information about 3000 medicinal products that are marketed in Japan. The website is written in both English and Japanese. It looks like the Japanese version has more update than the English version. If you speak, read, or write Japanese, feel free to navigate the Japanese Version. 
• Singapore: Health Sciences Authority:
• www.hsa.gov.sg/publish/hsaportal/en/home.html
• HongKong
• http://www.psdh.gov.hk/eps/productSearchSimpleAction.do
• Australia:
• http://www.tga.gov.au/hp/index.htm#medicines
• www.anzctr.org.au : the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry
• Israel
•  http://www.health.gov.il/units/pharmacy/trufot/index.asp?safa=e