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Decades-long regulatory odyssey ends with FDA nod for Fabre-Kramer's depression med Exxua

Fierce Pharma

Fabre-Kramer Pharmaceuticals' major depressive disorder (MDD) drug gepirone has been rejected by the FDA not once, not twice, but three times since the turn of the millennium. | Fabre-Kramer's Exxua suffered three prior FDA rejections before scoring an FDA approval for major depressive disorder last week. Its label doesn't include sexual dysfunction as an adverse reaction, which is rare among antidepressants.

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Amicus Therapeutics Rare Disease Combo Therapy Wins Long-Awaited FDA Nod

MedCity News

Sanofi dominates the market for therapies that treat Pompe disease, a rare enzyme deficiency. The FDA has approved an Amicus Therapeutics combination treatment for patients inadequately served by the Sanofi products.

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After Amicus scores FDA nod for Pompe disease combo, it's game on with Sanofi

Fierce Pharma

Slated for an FDA decision last October, Amicus Therapeutics’ Pompe disease bid was foiled by COVID-related travel restrictions. | Slated for an FDA decision last October, Amicus Therapeutics’ Pompe disease bid was foiled by COVID-related travel restrictions. Nearly a year later, the Philadelphia company has gained its long-awaited green light.

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4 States Received Enhanced Medicaid Funding During Covid Despite Wrongly Terminating Coverage

MedCity News

New York, Florida, Texas and Minnesota terminated Medicaid coverage for some enrollees for “unallowable or potentially unallowable reasons” during the Covid-19 public health emergency, according to a recent Office of Inspector General report.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic gets FDA label update flagging risk of intestinal blockage disorder

Fierce Pharma

While GLP-1 drugs from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are believed to be relatively free of serious side effects, a few problems have emerged as the treatments have gained wider and longer-term use.

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C-SNPs: Promoting Healthcare Focused on Chronic Conditions

MedCity News

C-SNPs are Medicare Advantage plans formulated to meet the desired needs of people living with chronic diseases. These plans are different from traditional Medicare plans because they’re only available to people who fit the special needs category that the plan serves.

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CCC Pilots AI-disambiguated Researcher and Institution Data in RightFind Navigate

Copyright Clearance Center

September 28, 2023 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces the availability of AI-disambiguated data and enriched metadata, for researchers and institutions, within RightFind Navigate through a pilot for its customers. CCC also announces several powerful new features of the RightFind Suite.

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J&J's Rybrevant combo bests AstraZeneca's established Tagrisso in key lung cancer study

Fierce Pharma

A highly anticipated head-to-head matchup between a Johnson & Johnson combination and AstraZeneca’s star Tagrisso as a first-line treatment in a subset of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has | With the trial win, Johnson & Johnson sees potential for its drug combination as the new standard of care in locally advanced or metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated non-small cell lung cancer.

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Customer Service Training: Empowering A Service Mindset

Integrity Solutions

It’s never been more important to understand your customers and what they value. It’s easy to say that we put the customer first, but what does that actually look like in practice? In the past, customer service centers were viewed as cost centers or expenses. Today, the organizations that are delivering a superior customer experience are proving just how outdated that perspective is.

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GSK dials up HIV sales projection to £7B by 2026, updates next-gen launch timelines

Fierce Pharma

Riding on the growth of long-acting antiretroviral therapy Cabenuva, GSK is laying out a more optimistic vision for its overall HIV business. | Riding on the growth of long-acting antiretroviral therapy Cabenuva, GSK is laying out a more optimistic vision for its overall HIV business.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Generative AI-focused biotech startup Evozyne raises $81m

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company’s algorithms put proteins through millions of years of simulated evolution to identify potential functional candidates.

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Bluebird taps Lonza to boost manufacturing capacity for its gene therapies Zynteglo, Skysona

Fierce Pharma

As bluebird bio’s pricey gene therapy launches take flight, the company is boosting manufacturing capacity with Swiss CDMO Lonza. | Bluebird and Lonza recently amended their production contract for the second time since the deal was announced in summer of 2016. Under the updated deal, Lonza has agreed to increase manufacturing capacity for bluebird’s therapies Zynteglo and Skysona, according to a SEC filing published Wednesday.

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Ophelia, Vori Health Team Up To Support Patients with Opioid Addiction, MSK Pain

MedCity News

Through a new partnership, Vori Health will be able to refer its patients who report having an opioid addiction to Ophelia. On the flip side, Ophelia can refer its patients who report having MSK pain to Vori Health for non-opioid treatment.

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'The Top Line': Exploring AstraZeneca's environmental pledges

Fierce Pharma

AstraZeneca has made several news headlines for its environmental sustainability pledges, including deals for renewable natural gas and a commitment to plant hundreds of millions of trees. | In this episode of "The Top Line," Fierce Pharma's Eric Sagonowksy talks with Pam Cheng, the AstraZeneca executive who is playing a key role in driving the company's sustainability ambitions.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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Driving Dosage Form Developments

PharmaTech

Dosage forms are being shaped by numerous factors, with patient-centricity continuing to be an important driver of decisions in development.

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In second attempt, Takeda scores FDA nod for subcutaneous version of Entyvio

Fierce Pharma

The FDA has signed off on Takeda’s subcutaneous version of Entyvio to be used as a maintenance therapy for patients with ulcerative colitis.

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AstraZeneca and SAS link up on AI and analytics

PharmaTimes

Collaboration will enable teams across the organisation to increase clinical research innovation - News - PharmaTimes

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Fierce Pharma Asia—AZ, Daiichi's TROP2 readout; Padcev's bladder cancer win; AbbVie, I-Mab's CD47 breakup

Fierce Pharma

Dato-DXd, the TROP2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate in development by AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo, has hits its goal in a breast cancer trial. | AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo's TROP2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate has hits its goal in a breast cancer trial. The combination of Padcev and Keytruda also succeeded in a broad first-line bladder cancer setting.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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European PFAS restriction could jeopardise pharmaceutical manufacturing

European Pharmaceutical Review

According to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), more than 600 essential medicines are at risk if a proposed restriction on the use of fluorinated substances, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) across pharmaceutical manufacturing in the EEA, is implemented. A total ban [of PFAS] would see medicines’ manufacturing in the EU grind to a halt in under three years” EFPIA stated that the EU chemical legislation under The Regulation on the regist

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Women in Life Science Denmark launches leadership drive

PharmaTimes

Initiative has been designed to support career advancement for women across the life sciences - News - PharmaTimes

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MedCity Moves Podcast: Recent Hires, Layoffs & an Interview with Chris Allen, CFO at Keck Medicine of USC

MedCity News

For the September episode, we discuss some recent executive appointments occurring in the healthcare sector, as well as layoffs affecting the industry. We also hear from Chris Allen, who recently became CFO at Keck Medicine of USC.

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Counterfeit Meds: Fighting the Forgers

Pharmaceutical Commerce

Questions and considerations for pharmaceutical companies in designing and executing strategies to curb the incidence of fake drugs.

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Roles and Responsibilities of Specialized Clinical Supply Experts

When selecting a clinical supply provider, consideration often focuses upon the manufacturing, packaging, storage and distribution capabilities available that will, at face-value, be sufficient to meet the needs of the sponsor and their trial. However, there are human-based and knowledge-driven factors that are often overlooked that go beyond these basic physical capabilities and are integral to the development and delivery of high performing clinical supply chains.

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Guaranteeing resilience in vaccine manufacturing

European Pharmaceutical Review

There has been a steady stream of developments in the vaccine manufacturing space throughout 2023. A notable milestone was Moderna’s announcement in April that it had, following finalisation of a ten-year strategic partnership with the UK Government, commenced construction of its mRNA vaccine manufacturing technology centre. Known as MITC, or the Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre, the facility is located in Harwell, Oxfordshire and is expected to become operational in 2025.

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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla led Big Pharma bonus payouts over 5 years — but he’s no Elon Musk

PharmaVoice

A recent report showed how pharma’s bonuses pale in comparison to other industries, but several execs still rake in hefty packages.

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Reshaped Priorities Pave Cold Chain Path

Pharmaceutical Commerce

How recent advancements in practice and technology have ushered in a new era of pharmaceutical logistics.

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Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs

MedCity News

Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Finding New Value in Drugs: Q&A With Darius Lakdawalla, Chief Scientific Officer at EntityRisk

PharmExec

Lakdawalla speaks about how drugs aren’t being properly valued.

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How pharma marketers can reclaim the drug pricing narrative

PharmaVoice

As Medicare negotiations heat up, it’s more important than ever for pharma companies to communicate their value. Here’s how.

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Meet Our Mentor: Grant Cox

MedTechVets

SEP 28th – We were proud to interview MedTechVet Academy Mentor, Grant Cox. Grant is currently the Vice President of Operations at Z Construction. He recently was going through the Fire Academy in Greenville, SC to become a Firefighter, but was medically released after having surgery on both of his hips.Grant is a huge believer in medicine and believes that better days are ahead of him. “With strong faith, a goal in mind and a purpose, you can get through anything.

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ROSS Dual Shaft Mixers

PharmaTech

The ROSS line of Dual Shaft Mixers are robust, versatile systems with enough power to batch dispersions, suspensions, and emulsions with viscosities up to several hundred thousand centipoise.

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Accelerating Clinical Supply Through Integrated Drug Development

As the development pipeline for new drugs continues to grow, biopharmaceutical companies are re-evaluating how to best manage and balance resources across an increasing number of development projects and complex clinical trials. There are two approaches that can be used to speed a drug from development to clinic faster: timeline compression and parallel processing, but only one that considers the benefits of integrating clinical supply into the overall drug development process.