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Eisai hit with ransomware attack, launches investigation into possible data leaks

Fierce Pharma

Eisai is the latest drugmaker to be hit with a ransomware attack. | Eisai was the victim of a ransomware attack late Saturday night and is now working on response efforts, including the creation of a company-wide task force.

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Wearable Ultrasound for Deep Tissue Monitoring

Medgadget

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a wearable ultrasound system that can monitor deep tissues, as far as 16.5 cm (6.5 inches) below the surface of the body. Moreover, the team employed a machine learning algorithm to reduce the noise associated with movement, helping to obtain reliable readings while the wearer goes about their day.

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Novo Holdings, Gurnet Point team up to buy antibiotics maker Paratek for $462M

Fierce Pharma

Novo Holdings and Gurnet Point have added antibiotics maker Paratek Pharma to their fold in a biopharma M&A deal worth approximately $462 million. | Paratek's key selling point is its antibiotic, Nuzyra, which was expected to garner $500 million in peak sales at the time of its 2018 approval.

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Alkeus raises funds to launch Stargardt disease therapy gildeuretinol

Pharmaceutical Technology

Alkeus Pharmaceuticals has raised $150m in Series B financing to support the registration and launch of gildeuretinol (ALK-001) to treat Stargardt disease, a genetic cause of blindness in children and young adults. Led by Bain Capital Life Sciences, the financing round has also seen participation from Sofinnova Investments, TCGX and Wellington Management.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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FDA sets the stage for adcomm on Sanofi, AZ's RSV prospect later this week

Fierce Pharma

As GSK and Pfizer look to roll out their adult respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines later this year, Sanofi and AstraZeneca hope to join them on the market with an antibody designed to protec | As GSK and Pfizer look to roll out their adult RSV vaccines later this year, Sanofi and AstraZeneca hope to join them on the market with an antibody designed to protect infants.

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The Supreme Court Case of Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: What, if Anything, Does it Mean to Artificial Intelligence?

Copyright Clearance Center

The post The Supreme Court Case of Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: What, if Anything, Does it Mean to Artificial Intelligence? appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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CCC Hosts Q & A with Solo Corporate Librarian Jamie Hullinger

Copyright Clearance Center

On Wednesday, 14 June, CCC's Kevin Barrett will welcome Jamie Hullinger, solo corporate librarian of global medical technology leader Zimmer Biomet, for an informative 30-minute Q & A on navigating change and delivering value like a (solo information) pro.

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Inizio Launches Strategic Engagement Offering to Transform Customer Experiences

PM360

Inizio , a global commercialization partner dedicated to the health and life sciences industry, announced that Inizio Engage will now combine the strength, expertise, and proven track records of Ashfield Engage and The Creative Engagement Group (TCEG) into a unified global strategic, commercial, and creative engagement partner. Inizio Engage was initially announced as one of Inizio’s five business units when the organization formed in June 2022 from the combination of Huntsworth and Ashfield, bu

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New AMR certification launched for antibiotic manufacturers

European Pharmaceutical Review

A new global Minimized Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) certification has been launched to promote and demonstrate responsible antibiotic manufacturing in the global pharmaceutical supply chain. BSI, a UK standards body, developed the new certification to the Antibiotic Manufacturing Standard published in June 2022. Standard for antibiotic manufacturing to help combat AMR … Following this “ground-breaking standard” stated Courtney Soulsby, BSI Global Director for Healthcare Sustainab

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Oragenics secures CQDM funding for Covid-19 vaccine antigen development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Oragenics has secured funding from the Canadian bioresearch consortium CQDM to develop a variant-agnostic protein antigen for use in its Covid-19 intranasal vaccine. SynergiQC, the Quebec-based funding programme created by CQDM, has awarded the funding. The project is a partnership with Inspirevax and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). In March 2023, Oragenics and Inspirevax entered an exclusive global licence deal to develop the former’s lead intranasal Covid-19 vaccine candidate, N

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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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Small molecule treatment reduces risk of death by half in NSCLC

European Pharmaceutical Review

Eighty-eight percent of lung cancer patients were alive after five years after being treated with AstraZeneca’s small molecule treatment TAGRISSO ® (osimertinib) in a Phase III trial. This was compared to 78 percent of patients on placebo in the overall trial population. The adjuvant treatment was given to early-stage (IB, II and IIIA) epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated (EGFRm) non-small cell lung cancer ( NSCLC ) patients following a complete tumour resection with curative intent.

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How AI Can Alleviate Clinician Burnout, Per a GE HealthCare Exec

MedCity News

Many experts think technology will help mitigate healthcare’s burnout crisis and workforce shortage, but the healthcare industry still has a lot to figure out when it comes to choosing which tools to deploy and getting its workers on board with these new tools, according to a new report from GE HealthCare.

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Medical Sales Reps Want Recruiters to Stop Making These Mistakes

MedReps

In order to find the best candidates for medical sales jobs, many companies turn to recruiters. They hire these recruiters to keep an eye on social media sites, LinkedIn and job boards in order to find workers who might be able to step into the jobs that need to be fulfilled. However, not all recruiters are created equally and some make mistakes that can lead to candidates being turned off by the company or even turned down for the job despite being qualified for it.

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FarmboxRx Launches Program To Support Those Battling Food Insecurity

MedCity News

FarmboxRx’s new program, called Feed by FarmboxRx, will supply 200 people affected by SNAP cuts with one box of mixed fresh produce and one box of pantry items each month for six months. They’ll also receive educational materials on how to prepare the food.

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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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Temperature Feedback for Prosthetic Limbs

Medgadget

Engineers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a new technology that can provide temperature feedback for amputees using a prosthetic limb. Excitingly, the device makes it feel as if the temperature sensation is experienced in the phantom limb, providing a realistic experience of touching something cold or hot with the missing limb.

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What if Pilotitis Is Just Part of Strengthening Your Innovation Immune System?

MedCity News

Pilotitis, a term commonly used in digital health to describe the tendency to launch numerous small-scale pilot projects without committing to or scaling pilots to full scale implementations. But while painful for many, it can also be a valuable tool for organizations and validate new ideas, build organizational resilience, build a culture of quantifying success, learn how to activate data, and actually improve clinical, organizational and innovation-related outcomes.

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Biocomposites embraces NanoBone technology following acquisition of Artoss GmbH

PharmaTimes

The structure of NanoBone triggers bone-forming systems while also aiding rapid bone healing - News - PharmaTimes

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BCBS Massachusetts Sees Mental Health Spending Double Since Start of Covid-19

MedCity News

In response to the growing mental health need, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has grown its mental health provider network by 50% over the last five years to more than 18,000 clinicians.

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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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New COVID-19 vaccine successfully tested

PharmaTimes

Rocketvax and Basel University therapy uses a modified coronavirus that activates an immune response - News - PharmaTimes

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It’s Time for Nursing To Return to Its Roots

MedCity News

Many physicians, podiatrists, psychologists, and occupational and physical therapists are able to take advantage of the ability to be an independent contractor with little scrutiny. Those who oppose it when it comes to nursing fail to see nurses as anything but a tax classification; they don’t understand that trying to corral nurses back into a system of work that does not work for them will only intensify the nursing shortage by exacerbating the flight from the workforce.

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Urine Test for Parkinson’s Disease

Medgadget

Scientists at Purdue University have developed a urine test for early-stage Parkinson’s disease. The technology involves isolating extracellular vesicles of neural origin from urine samples and then assessing the proteins within the vesicles to detect biomarkers of the disease. The researchers have called their technology “EVtrap” (Extracellular Vesicles total recovery and purification) and it involves using magnetic beads to concentrate extracellular vesicles in urine, before subsequent proteom

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Emerging Trends in the Pharma Industry: Drug Development, Sustainability, and Digitalization

PharmaTech

Webinar Date/Time: Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 at 8am EDT | 1pm BST | 2pm CEST | 5am PDT Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 at 8am EDT | 1pm BST | 2pm CEST | 5am PDT Thursday, June 29th, 2023 at 8am EDT | 1pm BST | 2pm CEST | 5am PDT

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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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LGBTQ+ In The Medical Sales Workforce With Trevor Boylston

Evolve Your Success

Diversity is not just a goal; it’s a catalyst for innovation, progress, and the transformation of the medical sales industry. Welcome to another exciting episode of the Medical Sales podcast! To celebrate Pride Month, Samuel Adeyinka interviewed a remarkable guest named Trevor Boylston. Trevor stands out as a pivotal figure in the medical sales industry by using his voice to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community.

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11 Practical Direct Sales Tips

Spotio

Are you in the direct sales game? Would you like to close more deals, drive more revenue, and earn bigger commission checks? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, we share 11 practical direct sales tips. Once you implement them, you’ll achieve more success and become the sales superstar you’ve always wanted to be. Sound interesting?

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Clarify Health Launches Generative Artificial Intelligence, Clara

Clarify Health

Innovation will accelerate insights into influenceable behaviors that reduce costs and improve outcomes. San Francisco, CA (June 6, 2023) – Clarify Health , an an innovative leader in healthcare analytics and value-based payment solutions, is thrilled to announce the closed beta launch of its revolutionary generative artificial intelligence (AI), Clara.

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CCC Explores Standards Development With a Panel of Experts

Copyright Clearance Center

Andrew Robinson summarizes a recent CCC webcast in a blog post. He writes the following: In early May, CCC hosted 'Workflow of the Future: Sustainable Business Models,' the fifth event in a series designed to help facilitate important conversations on critical topics related to standards, including sustainability.

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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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Cardinal Health Announces the Merger of its Outcomes Business into Transaction Data Systems and Related Partnership

PM360

Cardinal Health announced it has signed a definitive agreement to contribute its Outcomes business to Transaction Data Systems (TDS), a portfolio company of BlackRock Long Term Private Capital and GTCR, in exchange for a minority stake in the combined entity. Under the terms of the agreement, Cardinal Health’s pharmaceutical segment CEO, Debbie Weitzman , will be appointed to the TDS board of directors.

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Who’s posting what? Big Data related social media posts increased by 11% in the pharma industry in Q1 2023

Pharmaceutical Technology

The global pharma industry experienced an 11% rise in social media posts on big data in Q1 2023 compared with the previous quarter, with the highest share accounted for Eli Lilly and Co, according to GlobalData’s analysis of social media posts. The big data landscape is rapidly evolving and pharma companies are increasingly integrating big data analytics into their value chains.

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Artelon, Inc.’s FlexBand®, FlexPatch®, and FlexBand Plus® earn FDA Clearance for Ligament Reinforcement

Legacy MEDSearch

Artelon Inc., announced today U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance of FlexBand®, FlexPatch®, and FlexBand Plus® for ligament repair surgery in addition to tendon repairs*. This new clearance expands the indications for these products to now include reinforcement of medial, lateral and ulnar collateral ligaments, spring ligaments, deltoid ligaments, and extra-articular ligaments in the ankle, knee, and other joints around the body.

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Clarify Health Launches Generative Artificial Intelligence Co-pilot Clara

Clarify Health

Innovation will accelerate insights into influenceable behaviors that reduce costs and improve outcomes. San Francisco, CA (June 6, 2023) – Clarify Health , an innovative leader in healthcare analytics and digital solutions, is thrilled to announce the closed beta launch of its revolutionary generative artificial intelligence (AI) co-pilot, Clara. This groundbreaking technology is set to empower healthcare delivery organizations to access insights into influenceable behavior changes that matter

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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.