The News Review:

- In a race against time ‘
- High-dose chemo provides little benefit to breast cancer patients
- Careers: Pharmacy anyone?

In a race against time ‘
Express Pharma – Dec 15, 2007
Viveka Roychowdhury analyses. The rationale of outsourcing i. to reduce costs comes with an added dimension in clinical trials industry—when trials are outsourced a CR is considered more efficient if the trial is completed ahead of schedule. In other words the sponsor (usually a pharmaceutical company) expects a CR to shrink deadlines.

High-dose chemo provides little benefit to breast cancer patients
Tehran Times – Dec 15, 2007
“”When you’re doing a meta-analysis and combining large numbers of studies with different populations and you’re not able to get a really significant survival advantage I think that the benefits of high-dose chemo are not there”" added Dr. “”utside of a clinical research trial I do not recommend high-dose chemotherapy. “”The findings are expected to be presented Thursday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. High-dose chemotherapy for breast cancer has a somewhat controversial history. The treatment is delivered in conjunction with an autologous (from the same person) bone marrow transplant which rebuilds bone marrow damaged by the chemotherapy. The regimen was at one time favored for high-risk patients (those whose cancer has spread to at least four lymph nodes).

Careers: Pharmacy anyone?
Pakistan Dawn – Dec 15, 2007
“For management positions we prefer MBAs from IBA and LUMS with an additional MBBS degree from DMC or Pharm-D degree from Baqai University or University of Karachi but MBAs with extraordinary skills and a diploma in pharmacy from polytechnic institutes are also accepted” says Asif Iqbal. The other options are to work in the hospitals or pharmaceutical companies and teaching at a university as a lecturer so. Pharmacists moving to commercial management fields can get enrolled in MBA programme and after its completion can orientate their pharmaceutical knowledge and experience to the health economic environment. Besides opportunities available in our own country pharmacists are also in great demand in firms abroad and anyone with the drive and skill can achieve this target.