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Thursday pharma headlines

World of DTC Marketing

Merck’s old drugs are under more scrutiny, and anti-vaxxers are causing problems by cherry-picking unreliable information. regulators knew about reports of suicidal behavior in men taking the anti-baldness treatment Propecia when they decided not to warn consumers of those potential risks in a 2011 update of the popular drug’s label.

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Bringing the patient voice into clinical trials with clinical outcome assessments

Clarivate

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. The purpose of clinical trials is to understand the efficacy and safety of treatments for the patients who need them.

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How clinical outcome assessments can help us understand the patient experience

Clarivate

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. The purpose of clinical trials is to understand the efficacy and safety of treatments for the patients who need them.

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Centinel Spine® Completes Enrollment in First-of-its-Kind 2-Level IDE Trial Evaluating prodisc® C Match-the-Disc™ Cervical TDR System

Legacy MEDSearch

The prospective, randomized clinical trial is designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the pro disc C Vivo and pro disc C SK system by comparing it with an approved TDR product as a control for 2-level indications, making it the first and only of its kind with two investigational devices and a TDR control.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Limitations of monoclonal antibody therapies Regulatory approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for aducanumab and lecanemab – and likely very soon for donanemab also – opened a route for different therapeutic modalities and other relevant disease targets, such as tau.

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Pharma panics over patent wavers

World of DTC Marketing

Some say pharma should be allowed to make as much as they want because we live in a capitalist society but JAMA recently found out that price increases in branded drugs means that people will often go without their medications. But what about the costs to develop new drugs and the failure rates?

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