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Personalizing the Cancer Patient Journey

Pharma Marketing Network

It is too soon to say if the healthcare industry is on the verge of adopting a retail-style customer focus, however, if we learned anything from the pandemic, it is that patients now realize so much more is possible. How will healthcare respond? The IMPORTANCE of PHARMACOVIGILANCE Safety Monitoring of Medicinal Products.

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EU proposes new blood, tissues and cells Regulation

European Pharmaceutical Review

The European Commission (EC) has issued a draft proposal for a new EU Regulation on blood, tissues and cells (BTC) to help increase the safety and quality of substances of human origin (SoHO). The EC noted that the EDQM’s standards “will now become the primary means to meet the EU standards of quality and safety for BTC.”.

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Competition is on the horizon for costly narcolepsy treatments

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Sodium oxybate — which in the late 1980s was marketed to bodybuilders and then became known as GHB and criminally used as a date rape drug — has been sold under the brand name Xyrem after gaining FDA approval in 2002. Jason Peterson RPh is a clinical pharmacist at RemedyOne, with over 25 years of experience in healthcare and pharmacy.

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Indivior must go to court over addiction drug monopoly claim

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The state alleges that the drugmaker made false and misleading claims that Suboxone film was less subject to diversion and abuse, and less likely to be accidentally swallowed by children, blocking generic competition that would have reduced pressure on healthcare budgets during an epidemic of opioid abuse.

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GAMP 5 update: computerized system expectations for pharma manufacturers

European Pharmaceutical Review

The validation of computerized systems should be focused on ‘intended use’ and scaled commensurate with the risks to patient safety, product quality and data integrity” The focus until now has too often been on compliance and not on quality. Takeaways from ISPE’s GAMP 5 Second Edition update. FDA, 2022. . About the authors.

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Preparing for stricter standards on substances of human origin

European Pharmaceutical Review

Covered SoHO activities are “action[s], or series of actions, that [have] a direct impact on safety, quality or efficacy of SoHOs.” This will enable better monitoring of the safety and quality of these products, but it may also require additional investments in IT infrastructure.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Active immunotherapy through vaccination has a far lower cost than mAb-based therapies, representing an important decrease of economic burden for healthcare systems at a global scale. 7 It is currently being evaluated in a Phase Ib/IIa clinical study, demonstrating to date a good safety profile.