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Merck's Keytruda dealt another blow in prostate cancer but readies new challenge to AZ's Imfinzi

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Merck's Keytruda dealt another blow in prostate cancer but readies new challenge to AZ's Imfinzi aliu Wed, 01/25/2023 - 10:17

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How Will FDA Guidance Impact Decentralized Clinical Trials in 2023?

MedCity News

The agency’s goal is to spur a macro shift in clinical trials. The FDA is trying to tell these companies what it wants to be different in trials across the board with regards to digital health endpoints, the use of real-world data (RWD) as regulatory-grade data, and diversity in clinical trial inclusion.

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After years of back-and-forth, Gilead's CAR-T Yescarta sways England's cost watchdog NICE

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After years of back-and-forth, Gilead's CAR-T Yescarta sways England's cost watchdog NICE fkansteiner Wed, 01/25/2023 - 18:51

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Marriage of Artificial Intelligence & Biology Spawns RNA-Targeting Startup Atomic AI

MedCity News

Atomic AI combines artificial intelligence analysis with wet lab experiments to discover small molecules capable of drugging RNA. The startup, based on technology initially developed at Stanford, is backed by a $35 million Series A round of financing.

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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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As Scangos bids adieu, Vir taps Bayer dealmaker De Backer as its next CEO

Fierce Pharma

As Scangos bids adieu, Vir taps Bayer dealmaker De Backer as its next CEO fkansteiner Wed, 01/25/2023 - 11:09

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Can We Build a Trustworthy ‘AI’ While Models-As-A-Service (Maas) Is Projected To Take Over?

MedCity News

Model building is now simplified more than ever because of automation and tool intelligence achieved in model building. With a surplus of MLOps tools, users of all sizes and backgrounds are now focusing on model manufacturing. But the question remains – are all models usable?

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Healthcare Travel Cost Coverage Benefits Employees and Employers

MedCity News

Covering travel expenses is not an act of altruism for employers. It’s in their financial interest to have their workforce access the specialized care they need to feel better rather than consigning them to an inadequate care treadmill at the local hospital.

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Why Are Patients So Angry? Plus, Frontliner Tips for Health Leaders

Healthcare Success

It’s not your imagination. People really are ruder to each other these days. The pandemic, economy, political unrest, war, and continued uncertainty have taken—and continue to take—a toll on people’s mental health. These all contribute to stress, anxiety, frustration, and anger. And according to Harvard Business Review , frontline workers are taking the brunt of this unrest and aggression.

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Good Pay & Value Alignment Are What Workers Seek in Healthcare Jobs, Reports Say

MedCity News

Healthcare providers will continue having a difficult time retaining employees unless they make necessary changes, such as establishing pay increases and improving company culture. Healthcare ranked last for employee satisfaction with pay among 27 other industries, according to a recent report. A separate report found that many healthcare employees are leaving their jobs because their company’s mission no longer aligns with their values.

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4 Reasons Pharma’s Organizational Structures Are Not Built for Digital Transformation

PM360

Spurred into action by the pandemic, many pharma brands are undertaking or accelerating their digital transformations. While many have already moved to agile, technology-based approaches for HCP and DTC outreach, it’s time for us to assess our progress and consider a few tweaks to improve our approach. Five key areas impact digital adoption and effectiveness: Organizational Structures Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Omnichannel Marketing Strategy Creative Development and Deployment Medicare Cha

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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 Cybersecurity Solutions are Helping Curb America’s Opioid Crisis [Sponsored]

MedCity News

As healthcare organizations comply with the federal EPCS mandate, artificial intelligence and digital identity technologies should be utilized to detect, reduce, and remediate drug diversion.

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WHO urges supply chain to take action on contaminated medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

Regulators, medicine manufacturers and suppliers have been urged by the World Health Organization (WHO) to take action against contaminated medicines in the supply chain. This is based on recent incidents of over-the-counter cough syrups with high levels of diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol (EG). The lingering menace of diethylene glycol / ethylene glycol adulteration Over the past four months, cases from at least seven countries have been associated with over 300 fatalities in three o

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Record-breaking 16.3M People Choose ACA Marketplace Health Plans

MedCity News

This year’s ACA Marketplace enrollment represents a 13% increase, or 1.8 million people, from last year, according to CMS. There were more than 12.7 million returning consumers and more than 3.6 million new consumers.

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Automating – and optimising – HCP engagement to maximise commercial success

pharmaphorum

Life sciences marketing has rapidly evolved to mirror that of consumer retail. There are now more ways than ever to interact with customers, from traditional channels like email and phone calls to more modern approaches like social media and texting, and new ways to engage customers are emerging every year. So, how can companies maximise the effectiveness of customer engagement strategies when there are so many digital and physical mediums of interaction to choose from?

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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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After JPM, What Are the Legal Dealmaking Trends to Watch?

MedCity News

After another insightful conference this year, these are some of the key legal deal trends to expect from the health care and life sciences industries in 2023.

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DTx for women’s mental health – Woebot and postpartum depression

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Digital therapeutics company Woebot Health has announced enrolment of the first patient in a pivotal clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of WB001, an investigational therapeutic for postpartum depression (PPD), granted Breakthrough Device designation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2021. The double-blind, randomised, controlled trial will evaluate WB001, a Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) program for the treatment of mil

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Evvy Unveils Vaginal Healthcare Platform For Testing and Clinical Care

MedCity News

After launching an at-home vaginal microbiome test in 2021, Evvy its expanding its services. After taking a test, consumers can received personalized treatment, which may include prescriptions and one-on-one health coaching.

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Cipla Limited – Walk-In Drive for Multiple positions On 29th Jan’ 2023

Pharma Pathway

Cipla Limited – Walk-In Drive for Multiple positions On 29th Jan’ 2023 Job Description Company Profile Cipla Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Mumbai, India. Cipla primarily develops medicines to treat respiratory, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes, weight control and depression. Cipla Limited – Walk-In Drive for Multiple positions -Sterile Manufacturing Officers/ Sterile Manufacturing Operators/ OSD Production/ Quality Positions: Sterile Manuf

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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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Healthcare Hires of Note [Sponsored]

MedCity News

Check out executive hires from SnapNurse, Almaden Genomics, Dr. Evidence, Healthy.io, Wheel, and Sage Bionetworks.

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Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine sales forecast slashed amidst strong competition

Pharmaceutical Technology

It was an exceptional year for Moderna’s vaccine Spikevax, with forecast sales of $19.5bn in 2022. Despite this, Spikevax’s average annual sales forecast has plummeted by 23% between H1 and H2 2022 according to GlobalData’s Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Sector Forecast reports, due to increasing competition from Pfizer’s Comirnaty, Novavax’s Nuvaxovid, and Covid-19 therapeutics.

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The True Cost of Unaffordable Healthcare

MedCity News

It’s no secret that healthcare in the United States has become unaffordable.

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Automated insulin dosing app Tidepool Loop FDA-cleared

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The 501(c)3 non-profit Tidepool, which seeks to empower the next generation of innovations in diabetes management, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Tidepool Loop, an automated insulin dosing app intended for the management of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in those six years old and above. Tidepool, an open-source diabetes non-profit founded in 2013 and driving community-led innovation, has thus made a reality the patient-led project, Tidepool Loop – the first iPho

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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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Alvotech-Bioventure’s AVT02 approved in Saudi Arabia for manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

The Saudi Food & Drug Authority (SFDA) has approved the manufacturing and distribution of Alvotech and Bioventure’s AVT02 (adalimumab). The monoclonal antibody AVT02 is the approved biosimilar for AbbVie ’s Humira (adalimumab). Humira is commonly indicated to treat rheumatoid arthritis as well as many other inflammatory diseases. AVT02, which inhibits tumour necrosis factor, will be marketed as Simlandi in Saudi Arabia.

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Information Seeking & Consumption Study Results to be Announced Next Wednesday on CCC Webcast

Copyright Clearance Center

The post Information Seeking & Consumption Study Results to be Announced Next Wednesday on CCC Webcast appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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Compliance and the Pharmaceutical Sales Rep: Navigating the Regulatory Landscape

Contrarian Sales Techniques

When I first started working as a pharmaceutical sales representative, I didn't fully understand the importance of compliance with regulatory requirements. But as I progressed in my career, I came to see just how vital it is to the job. Regulatory requirements such as HIPAA and FDA regulations are put in place to protect patient's safety and ensure that all sales and marketing efforts are compliant.

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Poxel’s PXL770, PXL065 molecules receive EC orphan drug designation

Pharmaceutical Technology

French biopharmaceutical firm Poxel has received orphan drug designation (ODD) from the European Commission (EC) for its molecules PXL770 and PXL065 to treat adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). The latest move follows a positive opinion issued by the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP). PXL770 is a new, first-in-class direct activator of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK).

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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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A Day in the Life of a Medical Sales Rep: The Challenges and Rewards of Helping Improve People's Lives

Contrarian Sales Techniques

As a medical sales rep, I spend my days traveling from hospital to hospital, meeting with doctors and pitching the latest medical technologies. It's a tough job, but I love it because I get to help improve people's lives. Plus, the commission isn't bad either! Being a medical sales rep is not for the faint of heart. We are on the front lines of the healthcare industry, introducing doctors and other healthcare professionals to new medical technologies and treatments.

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PROTACs show promise for cancer treatment

Pharmaceutical Technology

Development of PROTACs (PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras) has advanced fairly rapidly as excitement grows over their potential to selectively degrade proteins that are involved in various diseases, including cancer. PROTACs are a type of heterobifunctional degrader that offers multiple advantages over traditional small molecules. They provide a higher ability to regulate protein levels and can affect the non-enzymatic function of the protein while also providing an alternative to targeting drug-re

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Big Bad Pharma or an Opportunity for Change: A Sales representative's Perspective

Contrarian Sales Techniques

Martin Shkreli, also known as "Pharma Bro," is a former pharmaceutical executive who came to public attention in 2015 when his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, raised the price of a life-saving drug called Daraprim by more than 5,000%. This sparked widespread public outrage and led to increased scrutiny of the pharmaceutical industry's pricing practices.

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FDA advisors back Cidara antifungal rezafungin

pharmaphorum

An FDA advisory committee has recommended approval of Cidara Therapeutics’ once-weekly antifungal therapy rezafungin, setting it up to become the first new option for severe infections caused by Candida species in a decade. The panel voted 14 to 1 that the benefits of Cidara and Melinta Therapeutics’ once-weekly echinocandin drug outweighed its risks as a first-line treatment for candidemia and invasive candidiasis in adults who have limited or no alternative treatment options.

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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.