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Amazon’s big gamble

World of DTC Marketing

Quick Read: Amazon will dramatically expand its healthcare reach with its planned $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical, a primary care provider with 188 offices in 25 markets nationwide but are they making a strategic move or a mistake? Telehealth has a future, but one could argue that physicians need to see patients firsthand to diagnose and evaluate patients.

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Announcing changes to the 2023 Journal Citation Reports

Clarivate

Starting from the 2023 JCR release, Journal Impact Factors will be expanded to all Web of Science Core Collection journals including arts and humanities. Today we’re proud to announce that in the 2023 release of the Journal Citation Reports , all Web of Science Core Collection journals will receive a Journal Impact Factor (JIF). This means expanding the JIF from Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) to include journals from the Arts and Humanities Citati

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Macmillan alliance will provide digital health apps to cancer patients

pharmaphorum

Newly diagnosed cancer patients across the UK will get free access to digital mental health therapies, thanks to a new partnership between Macmillan Cancer Support and Big Health. The alliance, billed as the first of its kind in the UK, means that cancer patients will be able to use Big Health apps like Sleepio and Daylight, which aim to treat insomnia and anxiety using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques.

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Entrance of novel therapies will drive Niemann-Pick type C disease market growth

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to GlobalData’s recent Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC): Opportunity Analysis and Forecast to 2031 report, the NPC market is expected to see significant growth during 2021–31. The three major markets (3MM: the US, Germany and the UK) will increase in market size from $128.35m last year to $188.35m in 2031, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.9%.

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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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It Takes a Village: How Pharma Can Help Address the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Crisis

PM360

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in depression and anxiety, along with an increase in opioid use and overdose. At the same time, emergency needs for COVID-19 vaccination and treatment captured the health community’s attention, and the focus on substance abuse treatment faltered. As a result of the worsening mental health issues and decreased attention to substance use, the United States saw an increase in alcohol and opioid use, resulting in additional comorbidities and deaths.

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Mayo Clinic: Decentralized clinical trials are more accessible for patients

MedCity News

Decentralized and hybrid clinical trials have a faster enrollment rate and a higher retention rate than centralized models, research shows.

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Press Ganey on New Healthcare Consumer Experience Trends

Referral MD

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Podcast, host Jennifer Thompson discusses the insights from the 2021 Consumer Experience Trends in Healthcare with Press Ganey’s Director of Channel Partnerships Matthew Davis, to determine the biggest shifts in patient habits that your practice needs to know – and how to improve their digital footprint accordingly.

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Improving Patient Portal Engagement with Pharma Content

PM360

Following the impact of the COVID pandemic in 2020, patient engagement has become the focus area for more than half of healthcare chief information officers (CIOs). At the same time, patient portals have always been considered one of the most efficient tools for patient engagement. Unfortunately, studies show that most active patient users, such as people with chronic conditions, are not always the ones who would most benefit from accessing their patient portal.

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Pear Therapeutics pares down its plans as restructuring cuts 9% of workforce

MedCity News

Pear Therapeutics is implementing a corporate restructuring projected to save about $28 million. The goal is to extend its available cash as the company presses on with commercialization efforts for its digital therapeutics.

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Scott Burrows, Financial Services Speaker

Scott Burrows

Don’t Forget Customers are People As a national financial services speaker who started his career in the financial services and insurance industries, I am familiar with the problems facing advisors and their firms. We live in the new age of digitization and data.

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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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Preventive Care Awareness and Access is Lagging for LGBTQ+ Patients—But Pharma Can Help

PM360

Preventive care is critical to improving outcomes in chronic diseases—including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer—which kill 7 in 10 Americans annually, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. But members of the LGBTQ+ community face unique challenges when it comes to preventive care, from gaps in their awareness and confidence to inadequacies in their healthcare providers’ education and training.

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Nursing & Patient Safety – Using Malpractice Claims to Identify Risk Trends [Sponsored]

MedCity News

Nurses face challenges that put themselves and their patients at risk. Using closed claim data, Coverys identified nursing risk trends. A full report, including recommendations, will be released this year.

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Digital Content Council on the Impetus InSite Platform®: A Customer Story

Impetus Digital

Using a mix of several synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous (over-time, anytime) virtual tools, all available on the same, comprehensive online collaboration platform, our client hosted a 10-month-long Digital Content Council with 8 headache specialists from across the US. The client’s main objectives were to: En gag e headache specialists on a monthly basis to review marketing and patient education resources and drafts asynchronously.

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Health data silos are growing: Can CDS Hooks help bridge the gaps?

MedCity News

The CDS Hooks API is a new specification that builds on FHIR, describing how EHRs can automatically invoke external platforms or apps. For the first time, by CDS Hooks invoking FHIR apps, EHR-only users can have insights relevant to the clinical situation and within their EHR workflow based on data sourced outside of it. CDS Hooks is potentially a powerful way to ensure that all patient data can be accessed via the EHR.

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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.

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CHMP meeting highlights – July 2022

European Pharmaceutical Review

Recommended for approval. Amvuttra * (vutrisiran) was recommended for marketing authorisation as a treatment for adults with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis, a rare life-threatening disease that damages multiple nerves across the body. The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion for Celdoxome pegylated liposomal (doxorubicin hydrochloride) for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, advanced ovaria

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Health equity is the solution to rising heart disease deaths

MedCity News

A better coronary artery stent cannot help a patient who cannot afford it, does not know they need it, doesn’t have a doctor who can make a diagnosis and identify that need. To help these patients, we urgently need to look at health equity.

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Bad Habits At Work That Can Ruin Your Medical Sales Career

MedReps

In order to meet your sales quotas and be the best possible employee, you need to keep your productivity up. Unfortunately, there are plenty of obstacles that may stand in your way. A number of bad habits at work, such as procrastination and pushing yourself for too long, can lead to poor productivity, burnout and more. What are these bad habits? Here are 15 of them, as well as some suggestions for overcoming them.

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MedCity Pivot Podcast: A conversation with Kevin Dedner, CEO of mental healthcare startup Hurdle

MedCity News

Hurdle wants to address mental healthcare for minority populations whose problems are not well-addressed by the prevalent healthcare infrastructures. Learn about cultural humility (not cultural competency) and how that can address the depression and anxiety felt by so many. My own recent loss helps me understand the important work that Kevin and others are undertaking.

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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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Iconovo receives $883,800 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

PharmaTimes

Funding will develop inhaled therapies using ICOone Nasal in preparation for the next pandemic

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Mayo Clinic, Mercy form 10-year data partnership to improve patient outcomes

MedCity News

Through the alliance, the two organizations are sharing their extensive clinical data with one another, which will help identify diseases and treatment plans earlier.

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MHRA grants marketing authorisation for Global Blood Therapeutics’s Oxbryta

PharmaTimes

Voxelotor is the first medicine in Britain to directly inhibit sickle haemoglobin polymerisation

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The current narrative on healthcare burnout is just plain wrong

MedCity News

No matter how many well-earned bonuses, vacations, massages, or wellness apps are offered to employees, if they step into a damaging environment every day, nothing will meaningfully change. We must definitively and mercilessly confront the oppressive systems and circumstances in which they work.

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The New Clinical Trial Supply Chain: Resilient, Flexible, and Patient-Centric

The global landscape of clinical trials is rapidly changing as studies become more complex. An increasing number of sponsors are seeking enhanced flexibility in their supply chains to address a variety of clinical supply challenges, including patient demand and reducing delays. Demand-led supply and direct-to-patient distribution are next-generation solutions that are helping to meet these growing needs, allowing for more streamlined processes and patient-centric studies.

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Trademark: What’s In it for You?

Copyright Clearance Center

The post Trademark: What’s In it for You? appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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Ginkgo to acquire Zymergen for $300m

Pharmaceutical Technology

Ginkgo Bioworks has signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of biotechnology company Zymergen in an all-stock deal worth nearly $300m. According to the agreement, 5.25% of the pro forma merged business will be owned by the stockholders of Zymergen following the acquisition. The deal to combine two complementary companies with identical visions is anticipated to expedite the development of the innovative horizontal synthetic biology platform of Ginkgo.

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Discovery Life Sciences Acquires AllCells

PharmaTech

Discovery Life Sciences’ acquisition of AllCells is intended to bolster its cell and gene therapy products and services.

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North America is seeing a hiring boom in pharmaceutical industry fintech roles

Pharmaceutical Technology

North America was the fastest growing region for fintech hiring among pharmaceutical industry companies in the three months ending May. The number of roles in North America made up 18.2% of total fintech jobs - up from 0% in the same quarter last year. That was followed by Europe, which saw a 2.3 year-on-year percentage point change in fintech roles.

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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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The Reach Of The Medical Device Distributor With Eric Anderson

Evolve Your Success

In this day and age, when you need information, you only have to search for it. If you want to put something out, post it online. The world is now within reach, and all you need to do is put your hand out. In this episode, Eric Anderson talks about how social media provides a marketing avenue for both medical practitioners and sales professionals or distributors.

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NewAmsterdam Pharma enters merger deal with Frazier Lifesciences

Pharmaceutical Technology

NewAmsterdam Pharma has signed a definitive business combination agreement with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Frazier Lifesciences Acquisition (FLAC). The SPAC is sponsored by a Frazier Healthcare Partners affiliate. The deal will make NewAmsterdam Pharma a publicly listed company focusing on oral treatments for cardiometabolic diseases.

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Realising the promise of cancer vaccines

pharmaphorum

For years, the promise of therapeutic cancer vaccines has intrigued researchers working in the oncology space. And for good reason. The concept of pre-emptively training the immune system to increase the frequencies of tumour-reactive T cells could be game-changing for cancer patients worldwide. Preventative vaccines have already proven to be highly effective against certain cancer types.

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Fireside Chat with Dr. Tom Sawyer, CFO at Cognetivity Neurosciences

Impetus Digital

Register for Impetus’ upcoming live webinar on August 10, 10-11 AM ET: A Fireside Chat with Dr. Tom Sawyer, CFO at Cognetivity Neurosciences. About the webinar. Dr. Tom Sawyer , CFO at Cognetivity Neurosciences , will sit down with Impetus Digital’s Co-founder & CEO Natalie Yeadon to discuss the benefits of AI-driven dementia detection technology for patients, health care providers, and clinical research.

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Clinical Supply Strategies for CROs

When a CRO is bidding on a project where clinical supplies will be one of the aspects to manage on behalf of the client via a partner, leveraging the expertise of a chosen clinical supply partner can be a valuable resource in demonstrating the CRO’s understanding of and ability to deliver upon critical drug-supply related aspects of the project, and ability to hit key milestones such as FPI for their client.