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Sex and Starbucks: Odd Incentives in Glaxo's New Bonus Plan for Sales Reps | BNET Pharma Blog | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) may have shot itself in the foot with its new bonus structure for pharmaceutical sales reps. Instead of rewarding its sales staf” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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WellPoint raises outlook as earnings | Top Industry News, Statistics, Research and Trends | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “NEW YORK (Reuters) - WellPoint Inc (WLP.N) posted higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday on better performance of its health plans for small businesses and it raised its full-year outlook, the latest in a string of strong second-quarter earnings reports for U.S. health insurers. WellPoint's report comes after Aetna raised its outlook late on Tuesday, although analysts expect a muted reaction to the industry's earnings as fears over the impact of the new healthcare reform la” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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Aetna Boosts 2010 Profit Forecast, | Top Industry News, Statistics, Research and Trends | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Aetna Inc., the third-largest U.S. health insurer, increased its 2010 profit forecast a second time after a milder-than-expected flu season and improved coordination with doctors helped reduce medical costs.Operating earnings may reach $3.05 to $3.15 a share, Hartford, Connecticut-based Aetna said. That's more than the $2.75 to $2.85 predicted in April. The insurer also awarded a 12-year contract to CVS Caremark Corp. to manage some pharmacy- benefits services, giving the ” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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Circumcision Joke Sent Via Twitter Lands Writer a $70K Ad Agency Job | BNET Advertising Blog | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “Saatchi & Saatchi has given a $70,000-a-year writing job to someone who sent the ad agency a penis joke on Twitter. It’s a sign of how socia” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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How the FDA's New Plan for Wireless Medical Implants Will Delight and Horrify the Conspiracy Theorists | BNET Pharma Blog | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “When PositiveID (PSID) announced earlier this month that it had stopped marketing its VeriMed microchip implant, a whole set of conspiracy theories ab” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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Asia is hot destination for | Top Industry News, Statistics, Research and Trends | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “When Khazanah, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund, launched a bid for control of Singapore's Parkway Holdings healthcare group earlier this year, it triggered a cross-border takeover battle involving companies in three Asian countries. The tussle demonstrates the high value attached by the rival bidders to Parkway's extensive hospital network, which the bidders hoped to use to create a leading Asian healthcare provider " and capitalise on the region's fast-growing medical tourism industry. Demand ” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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Mad Men as Rorschach Test: Media Execs See Only Themselves in AMC's Hit Show | BNET Advertising Blog | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “Season Four of Mad Men debuted last night and the universal reaction of those close to the ad biz was: It was all about me! We learned that Sterling C” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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Why Mazda's "One Throat to Choke" Policy Will Not Help Its Advertising | BNET Advertising Blog | BNET
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Don't Look for Strategy Behind Sanofi's Bid for Genzyme: It's All About the Cash | BNET Pharma Blog | BNET
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Weekend news item: Medical marijuana | Top Industry News, Statistics, Research and Trends | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “WASHINGTON " Patients treated at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics will be able to use medical marijuana in the 14 states where it's legal, according to new federal guidelines. The...This article requires a Basic Web subscription. Log in or register below” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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Patient Money: For Chronic Care, | Top Industry News, Statistics, Research and Trends | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “IF you are one of the 133 million American grappling with a chronic illness like diabetes, asthma or heart disease, where do you turn for help managing your condition?Enlarge This Image Patricia Sweet, left, a manager at the Pitney Bowes Medical Wellness Center in Stamford, Conn., and Kathleen Ryan Mufson, an executive. Offering a chronic care program has helped the company cut health care costs.Your employer may seem like an unlikely choice. Chronic conditions account for 25 percent of all medi” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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Obama Law May Cost Children | Top Industry News, Statistics, Research and Trends | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Insurers led by UnitedHealth Group Inc. and plans in Florida and Oklahoma stopped offering children-only health coverage because of the potential added costs of insuring sicker youngsters under the new U.S. health- care law.UnitedHealth won't sell new policies that cover only children, foreclosing an option used by parents seeing cheaper care, Kevin McCarty, Florida's insurance commissioner, said today at a meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in ” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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Judge Says Vitaminwater Might Be Fattening: Why Doesn't Coke Understand the "Jelly Bean Rule"? | BNET Advertising Blog | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “A class action lawsuit claiming Vitaminwater falsely advertised that it could prevent “age-related eye disease can go ahead, a federal judge” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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Consumer gene test services probed | Top Industry News, Statistics, Research and Trends | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “Gregory Kutz led a probe for the Government Accountability Office by setting up customer accounts with the firms " Navigenics Inc., 23andMe Inc., Pathway Genomics Corp. and DeCode Genetics Inc. " and sending them DNA from five people. The companies' assessments of health risks were "medically unproven and so ambiguous as to be meaningless," Kutz said in his report, presented Thursday at a hearing in Washington.The oversight subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee i” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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UnitedHealth wants to be Kaiser | Top Industry News, Statistics, Research and Trends | BNET
industry.bnet.com — “Apple's top-notch security has managed to keep its new gear out of bars and the contents of...Google decides that a security invasion from China was the last straw and bans the use of...Microsoft's Windows 7 arrived in late 2009 and kicked off a PC upgrade cycle that's expected to” View full resource at industry.bnet.com
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