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coronavirus

  1. COVID and health insurance

    Health insurers are dealing with a complex situation in a market battered by the coronavirus. While the present volatility is bound to give way to stability once normalcy returns to the industry, it is not known what effect the crisis would have on insurance firms in the long term.
  2. Success of Vaccines & Antibiotics in Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

    Experiments, clinical trials and researches are on peak across the world to come up with a vaccine for COVID-19. Administrative bodies have approved certain medicines and antibiotics to treat the virus. However, no vaccine or cure has been found yet. Know the advancements and success of the...
  3. Veru's progress in the COVID-19 cure race

    On Tuesday, Veru received FDA permission to initiate a phase 2 clinical trial to assess the efficacy of VERU-111 in combating COVID-19, the global pandemic disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Veru has initiated the study and expects the first patient to be dosed within 2 weeks...
  4. Infographic: Abbott Laboratories (ABT) Q1 2020 earnings

    Abbott Laboratories (ABT) reported its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 today. The company reported a 16% drop in earnings for the first quarter of 2020 due to tax expense despite a 2.5% increase in the top-line. Abbott is suspending its previously announced annual...
  5. Ferring doesn’t care about field sales employees

    I’m a field rep, I enter many hospitals each day. Not only am I at a high risk of catching Covid-19, if I did, I could easily spread it to other hospitals, not to mention my family. Ferring still has not shut down field based reps. However the Executive Leadership Team (and all of corporate) is...
  6. Sales Leadership- do the right thing

    I wrote out a long and sarcastic post about this but I think its more appropriate to just say this. Please, do the right thing. We gain nothing by being out in the field. The possibility that I will have a positive sales call are slim to none. The possibility that I will piss off our customers...
  7. Coronavirus prevention

    How is everyone limiting their exposure? I will be making most of my "calls" remotely and NOT flying unless absolutely necessary. I am sure my facilities and clinicians will appreciate our efforts to help keep everyone safe and allow them to focus on their urgent responsibilities. Most things...