They may not march with placards or throw tomatos at Bernie Poussot. But the frustration over the recently announced job cuts - in which some 1,200 sales jobs are being eliminated - is prompting some reps to consider withholding applause for Wyeth management when they take the stage in Las Vegas for a pep rally [...]

The website where detailers love to dish last night posted a message of its own telling the House Energy & Commerce Committee ‘thanks, but no thanks.’ You may recall that, earlier this week, the committee widened its probe yet again into the way Merck and Schering-Plough handled the controversial Enhance trial of their Vytorin cholesterol [...]

As early as last spring, there was scuttlebutt about the controversial Vytorin data - the bet-the-franchise study that failed to find any statistical advantage over the much cheaper Zocor in reducing arterial plaque. The results were delayed for nearly two years while the primary endpoint was briefly changed by Merck and Schering-Plough without consulting the [...]

Sales reps ride around with an awful lot of samples in their cars. And at the end of the day, those samples should be stored in “conditions that will maintain their stability, integrity, and effectiveness, (to) ensure that the drug samples are not contaminated, deteriorated, or otherwise adulterated,” says the Prescription Drug and Marketing Act.
Common [...]

The latest periodic temperature reading on CafePharma, where overheated sales reps love to vent, indicates Novartis (and Ciba) folks are antsy. However, this is only a preliminary finding. The polls have been open just one week and this reflects voting from just 26 reps.
So far, though, the sentiment is in favor of hitting the road, [...]

After several days of silence, the former AstraZeneca oncology regional sales manager came to the phone and tells Pharmalot that, not surprisingly, the past week has been a “horrible” ordeal. “I don’t wish this on anyone,” says the Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, resident.
For those who missed the controversy, Zubillaga was canned last Friday after comments he [...]

Some of the busy Pfizer sales reps are stopping between appointments to sound off about their employer - again. The latest temperature reading on CafePharma, where overheated detailers love to vent, asks them to answer this: What exactly stinks at the big drugmaker?
So far, just 59 people have voted, suggesting some sales reps have given [...]

Time for another temperature reading. This one is being conducted among AstraZeneca sales reps at CafePharma, where overheated detailers love to vent.
This latest poll asks a simple question: Rate your experience with the drugmaker. Has it been great, neutral or terrible?
With 60 votes over the last few days, the results so far aren’t particularly encouraging [...]

Well, they don’t mind the boss showing up unexpectedly, anyway. A new poll on CafePharma, web site to the sample brigade, finds that most Merck reps aren’t bothered when their managers unexpectedly decide to accompany them on their rounds to see doctors.
Question: Do you mind surprise field visits?
- I could care less. I do the [...]

Not terribly, no. Well, that’s if you believe a poll on the CafePharma web site. The pill peddlers are asked to ‘fess up and choose one of the following:
3-4 hrs a day: collect sigs & go home;
5-6 hrs: do lunches whenever I can & get sigs to leave asap;
7-8 hrs: in the field by 9 [...]