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Gilead caused injuries while waiting to develop safer HIV drugs, lawsuit claims

Fierce Pharma

Gilead caused injuries while waiting to develop safer HIV drugs, lawsuit claims zbecker Thu, 04/06/2023 - 11:40

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Op-Ed: CMS Should Fine 30% of Hospitals It has Found to Be Violating Federal Price Transparency Law

MedCity News

As a first step to move toward greater hospital price transparency and lower costs, CMS can immediately issue $2 million fines on the 30% of American hospitals it concludes are noncompliant. If CMS takes enforcement seriously, the hospital industry will respond by quickly coming into compliance.

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Pfizer escapes proposed class action lawsuit over patient copay assistance

Fierce Pharma

Pfizer escapes proposed class action lawsuit over patient copay assistance esagonowsky Thu, 04/06/2023 - 11:03

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Scaling Up IVF: How to Increase ROI and Build a (Re)productive IVF Business

MedCity News

By investing in the value chain of IVF with the right AI solutions, investors can solve the access problem growing in the IVF space, help more people build their families, and achieve significant ROI.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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Fierce Pharma Asia—BioNTech's ADC deal; Sanofi's potential consumer cut; Takeda's latest celiac play

Fierce Pharma

Fierce Pharma Asia—BioNTech's ADC deal; Sanofi's potential consumer cut; Takeda's latest celiac play aliu Thu, 04/06/2023 - 15:39

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MHRA fast tracks ADvantage’s immunomodulator for Alzheimer’s disease

Pharmaceutical Technology

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted ADvantage Therapeutics’ immunotherapy AD04 an Innovation Passport for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The designation, under the regulator’s Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway (ILAP), will fast-track a potential route to market for AD04 by providing collaborative opportunities with UK institutes like the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

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FDA Finally Pulls Preterm Birth Drug Makena From the Market

MedCity News

FDA withdrawal of Makena from the market comes four years after the drug, granted accelerated approval in 2011, failed a post-marketing study to confirm the drug’s benefit. The FDA decision also affects generic versions of the drug.

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AstraZeneca to face tough FDA scrutiny with Imfinzi-Lynparza combo in ovarian cancer: analyst

Fierce Pharma

AstraZeneca to face tough FDA scrutiny with Imfinzi-Lynparza combo in ovarian cancer: analyst aliu Thu, 04/06/2023 - 10:24

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Oxos Medical Rakes in $23M for Its ‘Radiology Department in a Box’

MedCity News

Oxos Medical recently raised $23 million in Series A funding. The company’s handheld X-ray devices are meant to replace C-arms, which are the leading medical imaging technology. The devices are portable are require little training to use, which is key considering the massive dearth of radiologists entering the field.

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FDA snatches back accelerated approval for Covis' controversial preterm birth drug Makena

Fierce Pharma

FDA snatches back accelerated approval for Covis' controversial preterm birth drug Makena zbecker Thu, 04/06/2023 - 16:47

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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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How Essentials Research Supported Established Brand with Agile Syndicated Tracking

InCrowd

A well-known, established blockbuster brand at a top-10 pharma company needed a better solution for tracking its highly competitive market. Their traditional, data-heavy, time-consuming, and expensive ATU wasn’t meeting their needs. Learn how Essentials, InCrowd’s syndicated tracking solution, helped them collect competitive intelligence, save budgetary dollars, and eliminate their large ATU, allowing for more time and attention to the market events.

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Enoxaparin – New Reliable Supply from Trusted Source

Fierce Pharma

Enoxaparin – New Reliable Supply from Trusted Source jpiatt Thu, 04/06/2023 - 14:34

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Icentia Receives U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Clearance for CardioSTAT®

Legacy MEDSearch

Icentia Inc., announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for CardioSTAT, an ambulatory, continuous ECG monitoring solution that relies on a wire free, single-use recorder. “This approval marks a key milestone for our company. The FDA clearance opens the door to the world’s largest medical device market. With the cost effectiveness and demonstrated ability of our cardiac monitoring solution to provide effective patient care and outcomes, we have no doubts that CardioSTAT will

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The Conversation Around Cancer Costs Must Go Beyond Drugs

MedCity News

As a primary care physician and cancer survivor, I’ve seen and experienced the physical and […]

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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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A drug just launched for a disease discovered only 10 years ago

PharmaVoice

Pharming just landed an FDA approval for a treatment targeting an ultra-rare immunodeficiency disorder discovered only a decade ago — and it’s already in the hands of patients.

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Eculizumab biosimilar gets positive CHMP opinion

European Pharmaceutical Review

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for EPYSQLI , a biosimilar referencing Soliris (eculizumab), also known as SB12. EPYSQLI [has become]… our first biosimilar in haematology to be recommended for approval in Europe” EPYSQLI has been recommended for approval in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH).

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Improving Data Quality Through PIDs: How Scholarly Publishers Use Ringgold Solutions

Copyright Clearance Center

The post Improving Data Quality Through PIDs: How Scholarly Publishers Use Ringgold Solutions appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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NICE guidance recommends olaparib for breast and prostate cancers

European Pharmaceutical Review

A “groundbreaking deal” between AstraZeneca and NHS England has enabled the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to recommend olaparib for adults with early breast cancer and metastatic prostate cancer in final draft guidance. For breast cancer patients, the treatment is approved for those who have inherited faults in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, after surgery and chemotherapy and are HER2-negative and at high-risk.

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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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Institute of Cancer Research embraces olaparib recommendation

PharmaTimes

Vital AstraZeneca therapy may transform lives of people with certain breast and prostate cancers

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How MD Select Helps Medical Device Companies Sell to Physicians

Scott’s Directories

The world we live in is full of technology, innovations, and advancements. Thanks to medical devices, healthcare providers can provide more accurate diagnoses and better treatment to patients. Medical device companies are dedicated to providing the latest and greatest equipment to medical professionals. However, finding the right physician to buy your products can be challenging.

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Must know facts about Video marketing in Healthcare

eMediWrite

Different types of video media are used in video marketing to advertise and market the goods and services offered by healthcare companies. An astounding 86% of healthcare companies use video marketing as a marketing strategy. The effectiveness of video as a marketing tool is also attributed to its extremely shareable nature. It tries to draw in and educate audiences, hold their attention, and turn them into customers.

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UK’s NICE recommends AstraZeneca’s olaparib to treat cancer types

Pharmaceutical Technology

The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published final draft guidance recommending AstraZeneca’s olaparib to treat early breast cancer and metastatic prostate cancer. The latest development comes following commercial deals negotiated by NHS England and AstraZeneca for the anti-cancer medicine olaparib. These deals enabled NICE to recommend the medicine as a clinically and cost-effective option to treat HER2-negative, high-risk early breast cancer and previously tre

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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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Pharma USA 2023: The Next Silver Bullet: Modular Content

PharmExec

How to build a modular content system to optimize content creation and delivery, Using Al-powered engines that know your HCP's viewing behavior, using discomfort as an advantage and much more.

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Mirum applies for extended use of PFIC therapy in Europe

Pharmaceutical Technology

Mirum Pharmaceuticals has submitted a marketing authorisation variation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for expanding the use of LIVMARLI (maralixibat) to treat progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) patients aged two months and above. EMA has already approved the oral solution for treating cholestatic pruritus in patients of this age group diagnosed with Alagille syndrome (ALGS).

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Million Dollar Monday Podcast: Impetus Digital, The Pharmaceutical Revolutionary

Impetus Digital

Something many of us are used to by now is attending virtual meetings. For most of us, this is due to working at home throughout the pandemic, but Natalie Yeadon, co-founder and CEO of Impetus Digital, recognized the benefits of implementing virtual technology into corporate meetings and events long before it became our reality. Yeadon sits down with host Greg Muzzillo from the Million Dollar Podcast to share how she took a leap of faith by founding a virtual-based company in 2008, and has since

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Ginkgo buys StrideBio’s AAV discovery and engineering platform assets

Pharmaceutical Technology

Ginkgo Bioworks has strengthened its end-to-end R&D capabilities in gene therapy with the purchase of adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid discovery and engineering assets from StrideBio, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of the assets was announced with a secondary close scheduled, following the transfer of further in-licence agreements to Ginkgo.

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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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Positive study results for Infex’s RESP-X

PharmaTimes

Data demonstrates a sound safety and tolerability profile for therapy during phase 1 clinical trial

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ImmunoGen signs loan agreement with Pharmakon for up to $175m

Pharmaceutical Technology

US-based biotechnology company ImmunoGen has signed a term loan financing facility worth up to $175m with the entities of Pharmakon Advisors. ImmunoGen will use the proceeds from the agreement to support its growth trajectory and bolster its balance sheet. The company will receive the loan facility in two tranches. The first tranche of $75m will be available to the company once the agreement has been executed.

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Despite J&J’s exit, Big Pharma is closing in on a launch of the first RSV vax this year

PharmaVoice

Although Janssen bowed out of the RSV vaccine race, several pharmas are quickly closing in on the finish line in a disease with decades of unmet need.

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US FDA accepts Accord BioPharma’s BLA for HLX02 to treat cancer

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Accord BioPharma’s Biologics Licence Application (BLA) for HLX02 (a proposed trastuzumab biosimilar) to treat HER2 cancer types. Accord BioPharma is the US specialty division of Intas Pharmaceuticals. HLX02 is intended for adjuvant treatment of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer. It has also been developed to treat HER2-overexpressing metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma and metastatic breast cancer.

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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.