Find Reports in the Pharmaceutical Trade News of New Drugs Being Developed by a Specific Company?

TOPIC: In this example, you will search the pharmaceutical news for new drugs being developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

Dialog has very strong content in pharmaceutical company and industry news.  Excellent indexing allows you to target for relevant returns. Prous Science Daily Essentials (Files 458,459), for example, provides up-to-date R&D information from approximately 25 late-breaking news items a day from the current biomedical literature, patent literature, congresses, company communications and internet monitoring.

Additional resources for competitive intelligence in the pharmaceutical industry include NewsRX Weekly Reports (File 135), which publishes the largest weekly database of current medical news, disease research and business reports; Adis Newsletters (Files 428,429), which provides all the news and full-text articles from Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes News™ (PON) and Reactions™ (REA); FDAnews (File 182), a source for domestic and international regulatory, legislative and business news in industries regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and The European Commission; and ESPICOM Pharmaceutical & Medical Device News (File 441), which contains news articles from Pharma Company Insight and Medical Industry Week. 

Consider also the core multi-industry trade journal literature databases, such as Business & Industry™ (File 9), Cengage/Gale PROMT® (File 16) and Cengage/Gale Trade & Industry Database™ (File 148) for outstanding coverage of the pharmaceutical industry.

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 458,459
SELECT ASTRAZENECA/CO AND PY=2009:2010
SELECT TC=COMPANY PROFILES & PIPELINES
SELECT S1 AND S2
Click S2 > Tasks > Picklist
Check records 1 and 2
Click Output/Format Full

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN Files 458 and 459 to retrieve the most current pharmaceutical news. 2. SELECT the company name and a date range (PY=). 3. The Therapeutic Class field (TC=, /TC) contains specialized indexing regarding company news or company profiles & pipeline.  SELECT TC=COMPANY PROFILES & PIPELINES. 4. In the Set Links pane, click S3 > Tasks > Picklist to see the first 10 records in FREE format (titles).
5. Click the check box(es) in front of the title(s) you want to see, select an Output Format (Full) and click Output.
The checked record(s) displays in FULL format.             Drugs in the pipeline.
Licensing agreement discussed.
Other activities reported.         Drug names indexed.

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Stock #: 53313; Last modified: 14 Sep 2011

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