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Click Therapeutics kicks off digital therapy remote trial for migraine

Pharmaceutical Technology

Patients will receive the digital therapy through their mobile phone applications over a 12-week period, and its efficacy will be evaluated based on the difference in the number of monthly migraine days. According to the company, patients often do not achieve full remission with a solely pharmacotherapeutic approach.

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The future of medical cannabis development in Europe

European Pharmaceutical Review

1,2 Moreover, except for countries such as Czechia, Denmark and Germany, the cost of these medications is borne by the patient, rather than national insurance or healthcare systems. 3 With established drug development pathways, we are accustomed to a rigid structure of translation from bench to bedside.

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Pharma Injecting Life into Digital Health Amidst Funding Downturn

MedCity News

The consensus is 2022 was a challenging year for digital health companies. billion in 2022 — down 56% from $40.2 billion in 2022 — down 56% from $40.2 Rather, 2022 represents an overdue correction in the midst of global economic uncertainty after a period of overexuberance and lofty expectations in digital health.

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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment. 4 The initial patents are usually filed during drug discovery. The patent will typically expire after 20 years.

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Why aren’t digital pills taking off?

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broke ground by approving the first drug with an embedded biosensor to track its use. Proteus Health’s Abilify MyCite had an ingestible sensor that could track if a patient consumed the drug. Proteus’s profile grew considerably; it was soon valued at $1.5

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Targeting toxic species of Abeta, such as multimers (with aducanumab and lecanemab) or pyroglutamate Abeta3-42 (with donanemab), induced significant removal of Abeta plaque load in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, leading to the delay in cognitive decline. Treatment with the mAbs delayed cognitive decline by 2.6 months for lecanemab and 5.5