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The impact of clinical trial decentralisation on the pharma supply chain

Pharmaceutical Technology

Clinical trials require precision and faultless execution for hypotheses to become therapies. For most of pharmaceutical history, this has made the potential benefits from outsourcing elements of these trials elusive. But that is changing; technological and cultural shifts mean decentralised research – where part or all of a clinical trial is conducted remotely – is on the rise.

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Three VCs launch Dimension, a new firm with plans to fuel biotech’s ‘digitization’

Bio Pharma Dive

The veteran investors see the marriage of tech and life sciences as the “largest opportunity in venture today,” said co-founder and former Lux Capital general partner Adam Goulburn.

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Losing Focus May Actually Boost Learning, Study Finds

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Losing focus for a brief moment might actually help boost learning by giving our brains a quick reprieve from the task at hand. According to a new study, this could allow us to absorb information that might not be directly related to the task at hand, but could still be handy to know.

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Pharma Mirror Q&A with Jane Myles, Vice President of Clinical Trial Innovation at Curebase

Pharma Mirror

The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) convened a listening session January 11. This webinar focused on the need for a coordinated clinical trials enterprise, one that can quickly characterize emerging viral threats and evaluate the effectiveness of vaccines, therapeutics, and other countermeasures across a diversity of trial participants.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Current and future players in the lupus market

Pharmaceutical Technology

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic, inflammatory, chronic autoimmune disease that can affect multiple organs simultaneously or sequentially, with a relapsing and remitting nature. While SLE can affect multiple major organ systems in the body, one of its most severe manifestations is renal (kidney) involvement, known as lupus nephritis (LN).

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Roivant’s Matt Gline on the hub-and-spoke biotech model and lessons learned from Axovant

Bio Pharma Dive

This year could stay turbulent for the biotech sector as investors look for what the Roivant CEO described in an interview with BioPharma Dive as “safe harbors in a storm.

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STAT+: Pfizer is scolded by a U.K. trade group for remarks its CEO made about vaccination

STAT News

After weeks of deliberation, Pfizer was scolded by a U.K. pharmaceutical industry trade group after its chief executive officer made misleading statements in a media interview about the need to vaccinate young children against Covid-19. The fracas began when the Pfizer chief, Albert Bourla, gave an interview to the BBC and discussed the idea of vaccinating children between five and 11 years old, a course of action that had not yet been approved by regulators in the U.K.

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FDA accepts Lilly-Boehringer Ingelheim’ sNDA for Jardiance

Pharmaceutical Technology

Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Jardiance (empagliflozin) tablets for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adult patients. Jardiance is currently being evaluated as a potential therapy for reducing kidney disease progression and cardiovascular death risk in CKD adult patients.

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Pliant shares jump on new data for lung disease drug

Bio Pharma Dive

A high dose of the company’s experimental medicine appeared potent in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an elusive target for drugmakers. The results are from a small and short clinical trial, however.

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Six Minutes of Intense Exercise Boosts a Crucial Molecule in Your Brain

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Six minutes of high-intensity exercise is enough to produce a key protein in the brain, one that’s important in brain formation, function, and memory, and which has been implicated in the progress of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

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Optimizing Clinical Supply Strategy: Navigating Challenges & Finding Your Ideal Model

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FDA considers major shift in COVID vaccine strategy

NPR Health - Shots

The new approach would simplify vaccination guidance so that, every fall, people would get a new shot, updated to try to match whatever variant is dominant.

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Health Canada accepts Veru’s Covid-19 therapy NDS-CV for review

Pharmaceutical Technology

Health Canada has accepted for review Valeo Pharma partner Veru’s new drug submission (NDS-CV) for Covid-19 therapy sabizabulin. The new dual antiviral and anti-inflammatory agent Sabizabulin is being developed to treat hospitalised adult patients with moderate to severe Covid-19 who are at high acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and mortality risk.

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FDA weighs shift in COVID vaccination strategy

Bio Pharma Dive

Agency scientists are proposing to update COVID shots once a year to match circulating coronavirus strains, as well as simplifying current vaccination regimens.

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There’s a Science to How Often You Should Change Up Your Exercise Routine

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

People asking for exercise advice are usually looking for a simple answer. Do this over that. Do this many of that thing, for this long. Get these gains. In reality, things are never that simple. That’s certainly true for the age-old question of how often one should change up one’s exercise routine.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

White paper that delves into the complex topic of Decentralized Clinical Trials and how to master them within the confines of FDA Regulations

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Anti-aging gene shown to rewind heart age by ten years

Medical Xpress

An anti-aging gene discovered in a population of centenarians has been shown to rewind the heart's biological age by 10 years. The breakthrough, published in Cardiovascular Research and led by scientists at the University of Bristol and the MultiMedica Group in Italy, offers a potential target for patients with heart failure.

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EU approves Daiichi Sankyo-AstraZeneca’s breast cancer therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

The European Union (EU) has granted approval for Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca ’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) as monotherapy to treat unresectable or metastatic HER2 low (IHC 1+ or IHC 2+/ISH-) breast cancer adult patients. Enhertu has been approved for patients who have previously received chemotherapy in the metastatic setting or who have seen disease recurrence during or in six months after adjuvant chemotherapy.

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FDA to seek outside advice on Biogen’s ALS drug

Bio Pharma Dive

The agency plans to convene a panel of experts on March 22 to discuss the approval application for tofersen, a closely watched medicine Biogen submitted to the FDA despite its failure in a key clinical trial.

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ICMR issues guidelines for umbilical cord blood banking for clinical application

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued Guidelines for Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Collection, Processing, Testing, Storage, Banking and Release for Clinical Application (2023).

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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BMS settles lawsuit with two fired employees who refused COVID vaccines

Fierce Pharma

BMS settles lawsuit with two fired employees who refused COVID vaccines kdunleavy Thu, 01/26/2023 - 14:30

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US FDA clears Transcenta’s IND for Rett syndrome treatment

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance for Neurogene’s investigational new drug (IND) application for NGN-401 to treat Rett syndrome. The investigational adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy candidate NGN-401 is claimed to be the first to deliver the full-length human MECP2 gene using the company’s Expression Attenuation via Construct Tuning (EXACT) gene regulation technology.

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J&J puts focus on cancer drugs in push to reach 2025 sales target

Bio Pharma Dive

The drugmaker reported fourth quarter revenue that fell short of forecasts, but reiterated confidence in reaching a $60 billion pharmaceutical sales goal.

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Shortage of teachers in govt ayurveda medical colleges hits ISM education in Telangana

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

The vacancies of teaching faculties in the two government ayurveda medical colleges in the state of Telangana still remain vacant despite pressures from association of ayurveda doctors and educational experts on the government wanting appointment of regular faculties.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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Merck's Keytruda dealt another blow in prostate cancer but readies new challenge to AZ's Imfinzi

Fierce Pharma

Merck's Keytruda dealt another blow in prostate cancer but readies new challenge to AZ's Imfinzi aliu Wed, 01/25/2023 - 10:17

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NICE recommends Kite’s CAR-T therapy to treat lymphoma

Pharmaceutical Technology

The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued final draft guidance recommending the use of Kite’s axicabtagene ciloleucel (yescarta) to treat aggressive forms of lymphoma. The chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel has been recommended for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL) in adult patients who have previously received two or more lines of systemic thera

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Merck gets a ‘surprise’ win for Keytruda in early lung cancer

Bio Pharma Dive

The FDA gave the top-selling immunotherapy a broad label in adjuvant lung cancer despite mixed results in the main study supporting its application, taking one Wall Street analyst by surprise.

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Exports of Ayush related products grew 53% in five years till FY 21

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Exports of Ayush related products from the country have gone up around 53 per cent in five years from the financial year 2016-17 to 2020-21, according to the Ministry of Ayush.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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Live blog: Tracking the meeting of the FDA advisory panel on Covid vaccines

STAT News

Fasten your seat belts, folks. We’re about to hit some turbulence. If you’re reading this, you’re interested in the discussion on the future of Covid-19 vaccination that’s going to take place today in a meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. We at STAT can’t predict the outcome, but we know enough to expect that this meeting will feature some heated debate.

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Collaboration with Janssen and Eli Lilly to address lack of paediatric medications

Pharmaceutical Technology

In recent years, with the advent of biologics and novel therapeutic targets such as anti-TNF, anti-interleukin, and anti-integrin, there has been a steady increase in the number of agents approved to treat inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), which has provided physicians with an increasing number of options to treat Crohn’s disease (CD). However, this progress is not reflected with respect to approved treatments for paediatric IBD patients.

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Finch to lay off 95% of staff, scrap microbiome drug study

Bio Pharma Dive

The company blamed a range of factors in its decision, including limited funding, slower-than-anticipated trial enrollment and “broader sector trends.

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Indian medical experts stress on need for USFDA advice to reduce risk of transfusion-transmitted malaria

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Indian medical experts stress on the need for USFDA advice to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted malaria. This is because the life-threatening infectious disease is a major health challenge not just in the country but many developing countries. Malaria is a life-threatening disease primarily found in tropical countries.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

This new white paper defines and details the impact of Decentralized Clinical Trials on the Pharmaceutical industry and how the impact can be measured along with steps companies can take to ensure adoption.