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The current pharma business model is unsustainable

World of DTC Marketing

In pharma, growth depends on new products with hefty price tags when over 80% of voters want lower costs for their prescription drugs. They relied so much on a new drug that they tried to market a product with bad science behind it. The pharma industry is a giant behemoth that needs new drugs to survive and grow.

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CAMP4’s funding influx paves the way for tapping regulatory RNA to treat urea cycle disorders

Pharmaceutical Technology

In preparation for this, drug manufacturing will begin later this year and will be outsourced to external contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs). This leads to hyperammonaemia, which causes symptoms such as vomiting, mental confusion, and lethargy. A nitrogen-binding drug, its global sales were $292m in 2021, as per GlobalData.

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Abyrx Receives Additional FDA Clearances for MONTAGE® Settable, Resorbable Bone Putty as Bone Void Filler and Cranial Bone Cement

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Additional development efforts of its proprietary technology platform are underway for tissue fixation, intra-operative shaping of patient-specific implant devices, and site-specific delivery of growth factors, anti-infective agents, and local anesthetic drugs.

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Targeting tumours with novel radiopharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

One of the aspects of radiopharmaceuticals that is often overlooked is how complicated it is to develop a new agent, in terms of the complexity of drug design to realise a therapeutic candidate and the implementation of the clinical evaluations. Can you share an update on the clinical trial for your lead candidate?

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Patient Engagement is no longer optional

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Regulators and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies are increasingly demanding the patient voice play a central role in drug development – making it riskier for developers to ignore the need for engagement than to embrace it. Building relevance. The patient centricity movement has been building momentum in recent years.

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Pharmaceutical microbiology: key developments 2022

European Pharmaceutical Review

This also occupies a large resource, given the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirement for double plate checking using a second ‘independent’ person. The US federal drug GMP regulations that first became official in 1977 and their European counterparts will need to be re-interpreted for this new generation of products.

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High biologics demand spurs need for greater contract manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

These attributes make some biologic drugs, especially monoclonal antibodies more specific and targeted in their treatment. With new drugs on the market, companies are now looking for ways to manufacture recently approved biologics, and countries are racing to claim their corner – or maintain their decades-old market share.