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Recent Drug Safety Alerts – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1125 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1125 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com . Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com   for publishing your contributions here. Covid Vaccine Scop Transdermal System Xyzal Zyrtec Preamble Post Marketing Surveillance, Pharmacovigilance, and Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting are tools through which adverse reactions are reported from various parts of the world. The activity is more seriously undertaken in the developed countries. The information thus collected is investigated in detail to see if the adverse reaction was caused by the drug or were other factors involved in the outcome. On the basis of the investigation, the regulatory authorities like USFDA, EMA, TGA etc. issue instructions to add cautions or warnings or black box warnings in the prescribing information or on the pack or b...

Why Pakistan’s Pharmaceutical Exports Lag Behind and How to Fix It– Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1124 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1124 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Franz van Heerden Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Preamble I have been personally involved in international pharmaceutical business for several years and here are my observation regarding poor export performance. Despite having a vibrant pharmaceutical industry with over 700 manufacturing units and a population of 240 million, Pakistan’s pharmaceutical exports remain frustratingly low. In 2023, the country exported medicines worth only around \$300 million — a figure dwarfed by Bangladesh (US$ 2.2 billion) and India (US$ 25+ billion). This underperformance raises a critical question: What is holding Pakistan’s pharma indust...

Formation of PharmEx Pakistan – Too Late, Too Little? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1123 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1123 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. PPMA Delegation in Meeting with Minister of Commerce Preamble The Ministry of Commerce, Government of Pakistan has finally rose up to the idea of supporting pharmaceutical export from Pakistan. Jam Kamal Khan, Minister of Commerce reaffirmed the government’s resolve to boost pharmaceutical export and announced the near-operational launch of PharmEx Pakistan – a new Pharma Export Promotion Council – under the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan. Formation of PharmEx Pakistan From the news, it shows that Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) Chairman Mr. Touqeerul Haq made a presentation during a meeting in wh...

Colossal Wrongdoings by Big Pharma – Ranbaxy Scandal – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1093 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1093 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Jonathan Borba Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Preamble In the early 2000s, Ranbaxy Laboratories was a shining star of the Indian pharmaceutical industry. As one of the largest producers of generic drugs globally, Ranbaxy played a key role in making medicines affordable for millions of people across the developing world. But behind the scenes, the company was engaging in widespread fraud that would eventually shake the foundations of trust in generic medicines. The Ranbaxy scandal, which came to light in the late 2000s and culminated in a record $500 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice in ...

Colossal Wrongdoings by Big Pharma – Vioxx – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1089 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1089 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Vioxx Pack Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Engin Akyurt Preamble Pharmaceutical business is like any other business where profit comes first. If businesses were left unchecked to do as they desired, which is still the case for many businesses worldwide, and for most businesses in badly managed countries like ours, they would do indescribable things, including but not limited to killing people. Pharma industry is ruled by Big Pharma internationally. There are Big Pharma companies locally also, but they are so small as compared to the real Big Pharma.  Big Pharma has been involved in criminal concealment of evidence and facts about their product...

Ethical Issues in Pharmaceutical Marketing – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1005 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1005 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Eva Bronzini Pharmaceutical Marketing is a different type of marketing because the customer is not consumer. In all other commodities, such as food, appliances, textiles, shoes etc., customer and consumer are the same person, unless someone buys for someone else as a gift which is a fraction of total business. In Pharma marketing, customer is doctor and consumer is patient. Pharma companies are not allowed by law to approach patients directly for selling medicines. Nutritional supplements such as vitamins, health foods, probiotics, energy boosters etc., are not supposed to treat any disease and are therefore allowed to adv...

Bayer Hierarchy Structure Shakeup – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #943 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #943 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Bayer CEO - Bill Anderson Brief History of Bayer Bayer is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company which was founded in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer, who was a chemical salesman, and Johann Friedrich, who owned a dye company. The company enjoyed rapid growth, and it was transformed into a joint stock company in 1881. Between 1881 and 1914, Bayer developed into a company with international operations. By 1913, over 80 percent revenues came from exports. Pharmaceutical department and more production sites were added. And then World War I started causing major disruption in exports. After WWI ended, German companies could not regain their previous markets and there...

New Drugs Approvals – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #929 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #929 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Mikhail Nilov Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Polina Tankilevitch Periodically, I gather information and write a blog post about approval of new drugs in the USA, because it leads in the research, discovery, and commercialization of new, research products. Even if a pharmaceutical product is first registered in Europe, it is inevitably applied to USFDA for approval. USA also leads because it is the single largest market in the global pharma market. US accounts for about 47% of the world pharmaceutical market which is currently estimated to be about US$ 1.2 trillion. You can have an idea of the size.  The list of new drugs/ newer uses of existing drugs is given bel...

Pneumonia Vaccine Campaign by Pfizer – Serious Questions? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #880 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #880 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: Alina Kurson Pfizer has recently launched (unleashed?) an aggressive campaign for its pneumonia vaccine PREVENAR13 (internationally PREVNAR13) for use in adults over 65 years of age. They have made emotionally charged advertisements in which their vaccine is being projected as the best gift for parents and grandparents. The emotion-soaked adverts make the audience feel guilty if they will not get their parents/grandparents vaccinated with Pfizer vaccine. You can use these links to see the ads on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...