Biography for Eric Palmer
Eric Palmer is a business and technology journalist with more than three decades of prize-winning experience as a reporter and editor with daily, weekly, monthly and online publications. He was heatlhcare reporter for The Kansas City Star before becoming deputy business editor for the daily newspaper. He spent eight years as editor of The Kansas City Business Journal, which had a strong emphasis on the healthcare industry. On the personal side, he is an avid fly fisherman, cooks and collects wine, and likes to travel with his family.
Articles by Eric Palmer
Impax calls on former Teva, Watson execs to confront FDA issues
Having failed so far to get its extended-release Parkinson's drug Rytary to market, Impax Laboratories ($IPXL) is turning to asking three big-name specialists what it should do.
Women want Apotex to pay for unwanted pregnancies
Forty-five women who had turned to Apotex for contraceptives to avoid having children are now looking to the Canadian drugmaker to help them pay for their babies, or their abortions, after they ended up pregnant.
JVs like Pfizer, Hisun hookup provide Chinese companies shot at Western markets
Joint ventures with Chinese companies have been seen as a way for Big Pharma to get better traction in the exploding China market. But it is not a one-way street. Chinese companies see the tie-ups as a way to build their own capabilities and begin to tap lucrative Western markets.
Australian judge kills Merck Vioxx class action settlement
A federal judge in Australia has put the kibosh on a half-million-dollar settlement over ill effects of Merck's ($MRK) painkiller Vioxx, a drug that has spawned billions of dollars in litigation.
Sanofi, France remain at odds over fate of 600 R&D jobs
Sanofi CEO Chris Viehbacher has reviled the company's research site in Toulouse, France as unproductive and overly costly. But try as he may, he can't seem to rid himself and the company of the center and its 612 researchers, a move Viehbacher initially advocated as part of 2,500 job reduction plan in the mother country.
India sets controversial price caps on 650 drugs
India has started the countdown on new price controls for a vastly expanded list of drugs, a move that is expected to cut deeply into the profits of drugmakers for hundreds of drugs.
EMA says Bayer's Diane-35 has more benefit than risk
France drug regulator in January yanked Bayer's contraceptive Diane-35 off the market and insisted the European Medicines Agency investigate its off-label use as an acne treatment and its risks of blood clots. The EMA has done that and has come down in support of the drug, even for the off-label use.
GSK tries novel approach in emerging markets: price cuts
GlaxoSmithKline CFO Simon Dingemans has found one of the mainstays of retail works just fine for drugs, particularly in emerging markets where GSK wants to build its foothold. You just put them on sale.
FDA gives Novartis' Ilaris big boost with nod for rare juvenile arthritis
Novartis has grabbed one of two new indications it was shooting for with its rare disease drug Ilaris, one step toward turning the drug into a blockbuster.
Dunsire out as Takeda rolls Millennium into its global R&D operations
CEO Deborah Dunsire is retiring from Millennium, the unit Takeda bought about 5 years ago, as Millennium's oncology R&D is rolled up into the parent company's global research organization.
