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Business Strategies for Smaller Pharma Companies – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #893 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #893 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Alena Darmel Credit: Anna Tarazevich Credit: Arina Krasnikova This topic is new. Though the desire of smaller companies to do better than the competition and become big quickly, but they often adopt wrong strategies. The time moves forward rapidly and the organizations which do not play along are left behind. Pakistan market is littered with low performing organizations, both old and new, who are struggling to survive.  When an organization is left behind, it is not just the business owners who suffer, all employees, vendors, suppliers, creditors suffer wit

Professor Dr. Claudia Goldin – Winner of Nobel Prize 2023 for Economic Sciences – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #892 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #892 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Professor Dr. Claudia Goldin Credit: Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz Credit: Swastik Arora News – Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel in Economics for Studying Women in the Workforce – New York Times Similar news flashed across many platforms as Professor Goldin was chosen for Nobel Prize. She is only the third woman to have won the Nobel Prize in Economics, and the first one to win it solo. Nobel Prize carries a prize amount of 11 million Swedish crowns (US$ 986,000) besides being the highest award recognizing the most valuable contribution by people in

25 December For Us and Through Times – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #891 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #891 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Asim Mushtaq 25 December, being the birthdate of our great leader Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah holds special significance for us. We remember him with fondness, reverence, and respect. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Sahib, popularly known as the "Quaid e Azam" (Great Leader), was a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the founding father of Pakistan. His life, principles, and unwavering commitment to securing a separate homeland for Muslims reshaped the course of history in the Indian subcontinent. Early Life and Legal Career Born on December 25, 1

Girls in Education in Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #890 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #890 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anastasiya Gepp Credit: George Dolgikh Credit: Julia M Cameron Credit: Nicole Berro Let us talk about the great achievements girls are making in education. Pass by any road and we see large billboards displaying extraordinary results obtained by girls, their names, and pictures (mostly) are shown. I wish to raise a point here that it is inappropriate that the names and pictures of young, innocent girls are displayed publicly. Given the pathetic mentality our males have, it could pose risk for anyone of them. There is no doubt that girls are beating the boys in many fields, a

Understanding Our Power of Influence – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #889 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #889 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Vanessa Bohns Credit: Mikhail Nilov Do we understand how much power we have of influencing others? Generally, we have some vague idea with many ifs and buts. Mostly, we tend to think that influencing others is a very difficult task and only people with special skills can do it, not the ordinary people. Although we presently see an army of ‘influencers’ in every category from food to fashion to technology, we still believe we are not the influencing material. For this reason, we do not even try to exert our influence on others. Venessa Bohns is a social psychologist and profess

Alert for Career and Profession Changes – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #888 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #888 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Marily Torres Credit: Monstera Production Workers of all grades! You guys should consider doing these things, now.  One, learn and keep learning new skills while you are safely tucked in your present job. Learn skills related to your current profession, and also the professions which shall be in demand in the future. Two, do take pride in what you are doing and have been doing, but be mentally ready that you may have to do some other work. It may be an emotionally stressful event, and if it is, seek help to overcome it. Three, build network and c

World Drug Report 2023 – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #887 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #887 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Alena Baliaeva Credit: Cristian Arias Credit: Damian Barczak Credit: Anecb YcuiHay UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has published World Drug Report 2023 (link at the end) which shows where the world is vis-à-vis drugs and crime. I am reproducing here the highlights of the report in summarized way. Key Message #9 – Forcibly displaced populations suffer an elevated vulnerability to mental health and substance use disorders. By mid-2022, the number of people who had been forcibly displaced worldwide had exceeded 100 million, which was more than double the ne

World Drug Report 2023 – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #886 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #886 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Baqir Zaidi Credit: Sinitta Leunen Credit: Towfique Barbhuiya UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has published World Drug Report 2023 (link at the end) which shows where the world is vis-à-vis drugs and crime. I am reproducing here the highlights of the report in summarized way. Key Message #4 – Large inequalities remain in the availability of pharmaceutical opioids for medical consumption, and treatment of drug abuse. The issues with opioid abuse besides, inequality exists even in the availability of these pharmaceutical products between high-income and low-i

World Drug Report 2023 – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #885 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #885 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Alesia Kozik Credit: MART Production Credit: Zarina Khalilova We are now talking about DRUGS, the illicit compounds of various types and abused medicines.  This is the latest information from UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. They have published World Drug Report 2023 (link at the end) which shows where the world is vis-à-vis drugs and crime; illicit drugs or abused medicines are a crime by itself and leads to more crimes. This report such important information that it should be shared in detail and shared publicly to raise awareness. I shall reproduce here

Withdrawal of Medicines is Quite Common – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #884 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #884 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Polina Tankilevich Credit: Wesley Davi My first experience with the withdrawal of a medicine was just a few months after I started working in 1975. We had an injectable antibiotic Reverin (rolitetracycline) which had two variations: intravenous and intramuscular. One day, we received the instructions that the product was being withdrawn and that we had to go to every pharmacy in our area, count the physical stock of the product, and make a credit note, one copy for the pharmacy and one for the office. It was not a widespread product, and the job