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Can genetic data be a magic bullet for drug R&D?

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Drug development has long been an issue for the pharma industry, due to the expense and the high failure rate of potential treatments. Ben Hargreaves finds that the vast amount of genetic data that exists today could help provide a faster, more targeted way of developing new drug candidates.

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Innovation doesn’t always need to be radical: an example in diabetes

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The first GLP-1 RA used for diabetes (short-acting exenatide) became available in 2005 (US)/2006 (Europe) and required twice-daily injection. Figure 1: Timeline of GLP-1 RA development [9] , [10] Abbreviations: EMA, European Medicines Agency; US FDA, United States Food and Drug Administration. What’s next in diabetes?

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Bringing the patient voice into clinical trials with clinical outcome assessments

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Clinical outcome assessments can take years to generate but may pay big dividends in patient-focused drug development, centering the patient experience and potentially bolstering a product’s case with regulators and payers. Patient focused drug development in alopecia areata clinical trials.

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Securing every dose with an edible security technology for safe medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

The prevalence of fake drugs is a continually growing problem worldwide. Fake drugs can be categorised as substandard, falsified, counterfeit and diverted drugs, and the World Health Organization (WHO) broadly defines a counterfeit medicine as “one which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source.”

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How clinical outcome assessments can help us understand the patient experience

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Clinical outcome assessments can take years to generate but may pay big dividends in patient-focused drug development, centering the patient experience and potentially bolstering a product’s case with regulators and payers. We developed or explored over 100 COAs and achieved ethical approval in multiple countries including the U.S.,

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Solving the taxing problems of taxanes?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Nevertheless, chemotherapy’s disadvantages, including substantial toxicities, combined with inconvenient hospital-based intravenous (IV) administration, impede patients’ ability to stay on treatment and their quality of life. tumour effects. The importance of taxanes in oncology.

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Learning from lecanemab: a breakthrough treatment

European Pharmaceutical Review

On 6 January, a milestone was achieved—lecanemab gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval via the Accelerated Approval pathway. What sets lecanemab apart from other Alzheimer’s treatments in the current drug approval space? We believe this is the reason why we were successful with this Clarity AD study.