ESPICOM PHARMACEUTICAL & MEDICAL DEVICE NEWS [441]

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ESPICOM Pharmaceutical & Medical Device News

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, April 01, 2013

Last Update To Bluesheet: August 3, 2010

Bluesheet Contents PDF version

File Description	Database Content	DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories	Basic Index	Rank
Subject Coverage	Document Types Indexed	Contact	Additional Indexes	Predefined Format Options
Tips	Geographic Coverage	Terms and Conditions	Limit	Rates
Dialog File Data	Special Features	Sample Record	Sort

File Description [top]

ESPICOM Pharmaceutical & Medical Device News provides news articles from Espicom’s news publications. These news feeds contain current news and developments on companies and markets in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries worldwide. They have excellent coverage of emerging and novel companies, strategic alliances within the industry, and the latest market trends. Company financial results, R&D funding and product developments are all included.

Tips [top]

USE FILE 441

to get current news and developments on companies and markets in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries world-wide.

USE EXPAND CO=

to locate company names.

SEARCH TIMELY SUBJECTS BY COUNTRY

S (NUTRICEUTICAL? OR NUTRACEUTICAL?) AND JAPAN

USE RANK

to see which companies are working in an area of interest.

SELECT (PEG OR POLYMER)/2010 RANK CO

Subject Coverage [top]

Information for the newsletters is gathered directly from companies and governments by the information providers’ editorial staff.

Medical News include the following newsletters:

Medical Imaging News
Medical Industry Week
Orthopaedics Business News
Drug Delivery Insight
Cardiovascular Device Business
Diagnostic Focus
Wound Care News

Pharma News include the following newsletters:

Pharma News
Biosimilars Business Review
Cancer Drug News
CNS Drug News
Anti-Infective Drug News
Neuro Drug Focus
Pharma Agreement News
Cardiovascular Drug News
Auto-immune Drug Focus
The Diabetes

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	Medical Industry Week: March 1995 - Present Pharma Company Insight: January 1996 - Present
File Size:	More than 150,000 records as of August 2010
Update Frequency:	Daily

Database Content [top]

Complete Text Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

Newsletters

Geographic Coverage [top]

International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

None

Special Features [top]

ERA Available (REDIST only)
KWIC and HILIGHT Available
DIALOG Alert Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
DRUGECON	Pharmacoeconomics
HEALTHBU	Healthcare Industry News
MEDDEV	Medical Devices
MEDENG	Medical Engineering
PHARM	Pharmacology
PHARMIND	Pharmaceutical Industry News

Contact [top]

ESPICOM Pharmaceutical & Medical Device News is provided by ESPICOM Business Intelligence. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

ESPICOM Business Intelligence
Emily Gower
City Fields Business park,
City Fields Way
Chichester, W. Sussex PO20 6FS
U.K.

Telephone:	+44 1243 533322
Fax:	+44 1243 533418
E-Mail:	mark_hamson@espicom.com

Terms and Conditions [top]

Database is copyrighted by ESPICOM Business Intelligence. For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive policy, enter HELP ERA online.

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`DIALOG(R)File 441:ESPICOM Pharm&Med DEVICE NEWS`
	`(c) 2010 ESPICOM Bus.Intell. All rts. reserv.`

AA=	`00150562 00177315 (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT)`

/TI	`Novartis begins shipping Fluvirin to US market for 2010-2011 flu season`

JN=	`Anti-Infective Drug News`
PD=,PY=	`30 July 2010 (20100730)`
RT=,WD=	`RECORD TYPE: FULLTEXT WORD COUNT: 127`

/TX	`TEXT:`
	`Novartis Vaccines has started shipping its seasonal influenza vaccine to US`
	`customers for the 2010-2011 season. The company plans to supply the US`
	`market with approximately 40 million doses of Fluvirin flu virus vaccine,`
	`which has been approved by the FDA for patients aged four years and older.`
	`The product will be available to healthcare professionals in both prefilled`
	`syringes and multi-dose vials.`
	`The 2010-2011 season is the first for which the US Centers for Disease`
	`Control and Prevention has recommend flu vaccination for all people aged`
	`six months of age and older, rather than just high-risk individuals.`
	`Fluvirin vaccine contains antigens to the three flu virus strains for this`
	`year's vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization:`
	`A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)-like virus;`
	`A/Perth/16/2009 (H3N2)-like virus; and`
	`B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus.`

/CO,CO=	`COMPANY: Novartis`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S INFLUENZA(W)VACCINE
/CO	CO	Company Name^1,2	Word	S NOVARTIS/CO
/TI	TI	Title	Word	S FLU(W)SEASON/TI
/TX	TX	Text	Word	S VIRUS(W)STRAINS/TX

¹Does not exist in Medistat News.

²Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
AA=	AA	Supplier Accession Number¹	Phrase	S AA=00177315
None	AZ	DIALOG Accession Number
CO=	CO	Company Name^1,2	Phrase	S CO=NOVARTIS
JC=	JC	Journal Code³	Phrase	S JC=MDCA
JN=	JN	Journal Name	Phrase	S JN=ANTI-INFECTIVE DRUG NEWS
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=20100730
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=2010
RT=	RT	Record Type	Phrase	S RT=FULLTEXT
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999
WD=	WD	Word Count	Phrase	S WD<500

³Journal Code for Medistat - MEDI, Medical Device Companies Analysis - MDCA, Pharmaceutical Companies Analysis - PCA.

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
/FULLTEXT	Fulltext	S CO=JOHNS HOPKINS/FULLTEXT
/SHORT	Short	S S2/SHORT

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
JN, PD, PY, TI	SORT S5/ALL/PY,PD

RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS	EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked.	RANK CO RANK PY S4

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


Display codes listed in the Search Options tables can be used to customize output.	TYPE S4/CO,JN/1-5

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.	DIALOGWEB FORMAT	RECORD CONTENT
1	--	DIALOG Accession Number
2	Short	Full Record except Text
3	Medium	Full Record Except Text
4	--	Full Record except Text
5	Long	Full Record
6	Free	Title
7	--	Full Record
8	--	Title
9	Full	Full Record
K	--	KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
If the accession number of a specific record is known, it can be used to display the record directly.	TYPE 00072464/9 PRINT 00072464/9

Rates [top]

Rates For File: ESPICOM Pharmaceutical & Medical Device News[441]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $9.47
Cost per minute:                   $3.77
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                    $8.50
ALERT (Monthly)                *  $23.00
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $13.25
ALERT (Weekly)                     $8.50
ALERT (Daily)                      $8.50
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *   $8.50
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $8.50
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $5.00    $5.00
     3    $5.00    $5.00
     4    $5.00    $5.00
     5    $9.00    $9.00
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $9.00    $9.00
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $9.00    $9.00
KWIC95    $2.75       NA
KWIC96    $2.75       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

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