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Drugmakers flock to Vineti's fix for a cell, gene therapy problem

Bio Pharma Dive

A group of drug companies, including Novartis, Takeda and Roche's Genentech, have agreed to collaborate with Vineti to usher in new identification standards for complex medicines.

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The right balance in DTC: Tv versus digital ads

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Television remains the most important medium for healthcare advertising , accounting for 54.7% of all spend in 2018, far higher than television’s 30.8% share of the advertising market as a whole. However, recent trends indicate that healthcare marketers are shifting more dollars to digital ads. The shift to digital advertising doesn’t make sense when pharma product websites don’t meet consumers’ needs.

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Life-sciences pros believe in potential of AI, blockchain: survey

Outsourcing Pharma

A survey by the Pistoia Alliance indicates most professionals believe the tech can accelerate R&D, but companies are stymied by a skills gap and data bias.

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Gamification for patient care, medical education, and virtual engagement

pharmaphorum

“Gamification” – adding game-like elements into non-game or real-world settings – has become a popular concept in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and event industries, especially as virtual engagement becomes more common during COVID-19. However, it is proving more than a mere buzzword. With diverse applications and approaches, it is quickly becoming a promising tool for patient adherence, chronic disease management, preventive medicine, rehabilitation, and paediatric care, as well as for medica

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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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Roche stops giving Huntington's disease drug in closely watched study

Bio Pharma Dive

A disappointing recommendation from outside data reviewers raises doubts about the DNA-targeting drug's benefits and puts pressure on Roche's partner, Ionis Pharmaceuticals.

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Can ROI ever be used with patient-centric?

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: The goal of business is to maximize profits for shareholder returns but when a company that serves the public good pays CEOs millions of dollars in compensation while having among the highest profit margins within ANY industry I would argue that something is dreadfully wrong. The U.S. pharmaceutical firms behind the approved coronavirus vaccines — Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Pfizer — have quietly touted plans to raise prices on coronavirus vaccines in the near future and to capi

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Health tech and digital transformation lessons from the NHS

pharmaphorum

In the year since the UK went into its first lockdown to limit the spread of COVID-19 the country’s health service has undergone an unprecedented digital transformation. . The NHS quickly scrambled to reduce face-to-face contact between patients and healthcare professionals, and manage demand for services that would soon be overstretched by dealing with the pandemic.

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Bristol Myers gets late-stage win in test of new type of immunotherapy

Bio Pharma Dive

When given together with Opdivo, Bristol Myers' new drug kept skin cancers from progressing, a rare clinical victory for a combination of immunotherapies that puts the pharma a step ahead of several rivals.

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The pharmaceutical’s industry biggest challenge

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: If you start to lose key people, you won’t be able to keep the business you do have, and things will go from bad to worse. Companies who see their good employees as “replaceable” are wrong. Good employees are not replaceable. Pharma cannot afford to let good people leave without so much as an exit interview to try and retain them. A colleague recently decided to leave her organization to join another pharma company.

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FDA nod for Kiniksa’s Arcalyst in recurrent pericarditis

Pharma Times

Recurrent pericarditis is an autoinflammatory cardiovascular disease

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

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FDA Designations for Rare Disease Products, Part 3: Rare Pediatric Disease Designation

Camargo

The Camargo Blog is publishing a four-part blog series highlighting those designation programs available specifically for products with rare disease indications : Orphan Drug Designation (ODD), Rare Pediatric Disease Designation (RPDD), and Humanitarian Use Device (HUD) designation. Subscribe to our mailing list at the bottom of this page to be notified when future installments are published.

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Pfizer and Lilly's pain drug hits setback in negative committee vote

Bio Pharma Dive

In a Thursday meeting, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration concluded the companies didn't have a strong enough plan to mitigate the risks associated with tanezumab.

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How to Achieve and Maintain a Nice Smile

Pharma Mirror

One of the best gifts you can give to another person is a beautiful smile. Though it costs you nothing, it goes a long way in adding to others and you. It typically has a favourable effect on others, attracts people to you, and makes you approachable and likeable. A smile is very important. It is a part of your dressing and personality. Without a smile, you are incomplete, no matter how expensively and gorgeously dressed you are.

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Novartis’ radioligand therapy meets phase 3 prostate cancer trial target

pharmaphorum

Novartis’ radioligand therapy Lu-PSMA-617 has met its target in prostate cancer, as its $2.1 billion acquisition of specialist pharma Endocyte looks to have been justified. . The big Swiss pharma added this drug to its pipeline after it swooped for Endocyte and so far it looks like a good piece of business, with potential blockbuster sales predicted for the drug if it makes it to market.

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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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Roche’s Tecentriq improves disease-free survival in early lung cancer

Pharma Times

Tecentriq is approved in five lung cancer indications currently

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AstraZeneca, under fire, tries to repair image with new vaccine data

Bio Pharma Dive

Updated results show the vaccine is only slightly less effective than AstraZeneca originally reported. But an unusual break with a study committee may damage perception of the shot.

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Two-month long CPhI Japan Connect to meet demand for pharma partnering in Japan

Pharma Mirror

The Japanese pharmaceutical market is preparing for renewed international growth and partnering. In response, CPhI Japan has opened a two-month long virtual event to meet demand from international pharma. Informa introduced CPhI Japan Connect – a new virtual platform for global professionals looking to grow pharma business in Japan – specifically to help its international audiences continue conversations, identify leads, and build new partnerships while international travel remains restricted.

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Boris Johnson slammed for saying “greed” is behind UK vaccine success

pharmaphorum

Boris Johnson’s sense of humour seems to have got him into trouble again, at the most delicate of times. The Prime Minister reportedly told Conservative backbench MPs on a Zoom call that “capitalism” and “greed” was behind the success of the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, before backtracking after realising he had made a blunder and telling attendees to forget the comments.

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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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Cambridge start-up PhoreMost raises £33m to progress PLK1 programme

Pharma Times

Lead ‘Allosteric PLK1’ asset will initially target brain cancer

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US stops rollout of Lilly's first COVID-19 antibody over variant concerns

Bio Pharma Dive

Treatments from Lilly and Regeneron that combine two different antibodies should be used instead, according to health officials.

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AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Found to Be 79% Effective in U.S. Study

NY Times

The company is preparing to apply for emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. But the shot may not be needed in the United States.

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COVID-19 underscores need to boost pharma manufacturing in emerging markets

pharmaphorum

For the past year, life science companies around the world worked at breakneck speed to develop and manufacture safe and effective treatments to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The scramble to produce vaccines and therapeutics and the challenges of getting these products to poorer countries underscores the growing importance of local pharma manufacturers for these emerging markets. .

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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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Cancer Research UK launches new ‘cancer tech accelerator’ programme

Pharma Times

New initiative aims to help researchers translate their ideas into innovations for cancer patients

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Roche immunotherapy notches a win in early lung cancer, pressuring Merck

Bio Pharma Dive

New results could make Tecentriq the first immunotherapy available in the post-surgery setting, adding pressure on Merck & Co.'s Keytruda to succeed as well.

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Cache of 29 Million AstraZeneca Doses in Italy Raises E.U. Suspicions

NY Times

The company has been at loggerheads with the bloc over vaccine supply shortages and faces stringent export restrictions.

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The Brexit deal; shot in the arm or kick in the teeth for the pharma sector?

pharmaphorum

The UK Government and EU Commission trumpeted their Brexit trade deal, struck at the end of December, as ‘comprehensive’, the ‘biggest yet’ But a closer inspection of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) renders these statements largely illusory for the pharma sector. While pharma companies grapple with the effects of Brexit, there are undoubtedly a number of ways that the TCA benefits the sector, while leaving significant issues unanswered.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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EMA accepts Astellas/Seagen’s enfortumab vedotin for review

Pharma Times

Marketing authorisation application is seeking approval for advanced urothelial cancer

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Moncef Slaoui, who led US Warp Speed effort, accused of sexual harassment

Bio Pharma Dive

Slaoui was fired as board chair of Galvani Bioelectronics following an investigation by the company's majority shareholder GlaxoSmithKline, which said the claims were substantiated.

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The 4 Biggest Cancer Biotech Acquisitions of 2021 So Far

XTalks

As a growing number of pharmaceutical companies set their sights on stepping into the burgeoning oncology space, major moves continue to be made with key cancer biotech acquisitions. And as big pharma works on developing and growing their oncology portfolios, the rising trend of such mergers and acquisitions won’t be slowing down any time soon. In the past few weeks alone, the industry saw four major cancer biotech acquisitions: Agilent Technologies’ takeover of precision oncology liquid biopsy

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Pfizer begins clinical trials of COVID-19 antiviral pill

pharmaphorum

Pfizer has begun clinical development of an antiviral pill against COVID-19, which could be prescribed to patients at the first sign of infection. The company was the first to get a vaccine approved against the disease with BioNTech and is now aiming to make a pill that could prevent it escalating once patients are infected. Being able to manage coronavirus infections and prevent hospitalisations and death would have huge benefits for wider society as well as patients after more than a year of l

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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.