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Pharma Veterans – Concept and Practice – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1015 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1015 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. Designed with Microsoft Designer Designed with Microsoft Designer Preamble Pharma Veterans is a group of senior pharmaceutical professionals which came together to form a core group under the umbrella of ‘Pharma Veterans’ in 2019. Pharma Veterans domain and blogs were launched in 2017 by Asrar Qureshi and had been continuing since. All group members are full time working professionals who take out time occasionally to meet and discuss the industry situation and what may be done. Pharma Veterans Fundamentals Vision Build and Run a Vibrant, Inclusive, Evolving, and Growing Platform for Pharma & Healthcare Industry Veterans Mission 1. To project and c...

Ethics and Pharmaceutical Industry – Need – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #793 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #792 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Photo Credit: Alexandro Chanztimidos Photo Credit: Chonkiti Khongchum Photo Credit: Pietro Jeng Several posts shall be published under this topic, but each post shall be complete in itself. Why are Ethics Important in Pharmaceutical Business? Pharmaceutical Industry is different from other industries in many respects. However, the question of ethics is not raised so consistently in other industries. More recently, corporate responsibility, sustainability, impact on climate have come under focus, but not ethics. The most critical difference is its relationship t...

State of Healthcare in Pakistan – Part 5 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #788 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #788 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: cottonbro studio Photo Credit: RODNAE productions Healthcare stands on three pillars: Healthcare related policies; Public and private health infrastructure; and availability of diagnostic and treatment tools, the last one also includes easy access to drugs. We shall review each of these in some detail to understand the entire healthcare landscape. The information is gathered from several sources, and references are given at the bottom. Public Health Infrastructure – Issues and Opportunities Public sector hospitals have bee...

State of Healthcare in Pakistan – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #784 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #784 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Photo Credit: Karolina Grabowska Photo Credit: Laura James Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world, with a population of over 220 million, a figure which is likely to increase after the current census gets done. We still prefer to call ourselves ‘a developing country, though we have fast degraded as an ‘underdeveloped’ state. Our economy has nosedived, our governance is at its worst ever, our politics is at it dirtiest, and our people, businesses, workers, officers, decision makers, law enforcers, and reformers are at t...

More Facts About Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Photo Credit: Artem Podrez Photo Credit: Nandhu Kumar USFDA maintains that currently available data for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines shows that the vaccines are safe by and large. A CDC study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases says that self-reported data was reviewed by the researchers. Patients were advised to report adverse events on two systems: VAERS – Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, and v-safe tracker. Of the 340,522 reports made to VAERS, 92% were non-serious, 6.6% were serious, and 1.3% were deaths. The most common adv...

More Facts About Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Pat 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #752 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #752 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: Google Images When COVID19 started from Wuhan, China and rapidly gripped the world, the talk of vaccine started immediately. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine took the lead in introducing its mRNA-based vaccine. It was closely followed by Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. China and Russia also delivered their conventional vaccines. The vaccines were administered worldwide, despite the initial inequality when the developed nations kept most of the stock for their own population. Some statistics are staggering. • 13....

Career Suggestions for Gen Z – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #745 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #745 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Photo Credit: MART Production Photo Credit: Polina Tankilevitch Photo Credit: SHVETS Production Generation Z are the people who are borne between 1997 and 2012, give or take couple of years. This is the most tech savvy generation because they grew up in the age of technology. They are very familiar and comfortable with gadgets and love to use these. Some of the Gen Z have already come into workforce and others are at stages of education where they need to decide about their career choices.  We continue with career options for Gen Z. A...

Opioid Crisis and Pharma Industry – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #723 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #722 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. This series of blogposts is based on multiple sources, links to some of which appear at the end. Johnson & Johnson is the third company which is implicated in the opioid crisis directly. Their story is by far the most damning in the entire cycle of crisis. In 1980s, J&J needed a reliable supply of opium for a popular product, Tylenol with Codeine. Having the reach of a multinational, they found and acquired a business in Tasmania, Australia, which grew and processed poppies. They grew the business further, and even developed a new strain of poppy calle...

Education in Pakistan – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #680 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #680 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Writing about education in Pakistan is a complex task. Too many factors, too many voices, too many analyses, too many reports, make it an uphill task to sift the facts from junk. It is also open to conjecture because any number of ideas may be floated and are flying around.  I shall try to walk on a thin line and rely on several sources and hard data to make this discussion worthwhile. I shall give references at the bottom which may not necessarily be in the same order, but some parts of these would have been used as source in this discussion. Yesterday, chief minist...

Obituary – Javaid Nasir Qureshi – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #679 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #679 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Picture taken after group meeting at Netsol Technologies. Javaid Qureshi is 6th from left. On Wednesday 10th August morning, a little before 9, Aamir Zafar called me and said that he had heard that our group member and dear friend Javaid Qureshi had passed away. He said he could not confirm it. He asked me to confirm it and then announce in the group. I waited a little to let Javaid’s office open. I called but no one picked up. Then I called one of his managers whom I knew. He confirmed and gave some details also. I then announced the news in our group of Pharma Veterans...

Belief, Business and Corporate Culture – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #678 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #678 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by 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. Continued from Previous…… China does not have a religion as such, it never had one like the divine religions. Since the communist revolution in 1949, religions were officially banned. However, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism have kept on surviving. We have talked about Confucianism already; we shall now briefly look at Taoism and Buddhism. Taoism, also spelled Daoism, refers to a constant string of cultural, intellectual, religious, and textual tradition coming from about 500 BCE to today. The founding of this tradition is attributed to a legendary p...