Fri.Oct 13, 2023

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Amylyx's ALS drug Albrioza rebuffed by EU regulator—again

Fierce Pharma

Even as Amylyx’s ALS drug gains steam in the U.S. after a long-awaited FDA approval, the company is struggling with regulatory hurdles overseas. | Europe's drug regulator wasn't swayed by Amylyx's phase 2 data. The European Commission will make the final call on the drug's approval in the bloc by the end of the year.

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An Evolving ‘Opinion’ Landscape: New Paths—and Synergies—for Pharma KOLs & DOLs

PharmExec

Industry experts discuss the relationship between digital and traditional (key) opinion leaders and how companies are adjusting their strategies to harness the unique brand engagement benefits each role can provide in driving better patient outcomes.

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High-flying Novo Nordisk again dials up its 2023 sales and profit expectations

Fierce Pharma

The popular diabetes med Ozempic and its sister weight-loss drug Wegovy are boosting Novo Nordisk to new highs again and again. | The popular diabetes med Ozempic and its sister weight-loss drug Wegovy are boosting Novo Nordisk to new highs again and again.

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Pfizer Expands in Immunology With FDA Approval of New Ulcerative Colitis Drug

MedCity News

Pfizer’s new FDA-approved ulcerative colitis drug Velsipity comes from its $6.7 billion Arena Pharmaceuticals acquisition. The small molecule will compete against blockbuster Bristol Myers Squibb drug Zeposia, which addresses the same target.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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Eying Incyte's Opzelura, Leo Pharma shares data for JAK cream in hand eczema

Fierce Pharma

Back in February, Leo Pharma revealed that its JAK-inhibitor cream delgocitinib met its primary and secondary endpoints in a phase 3 trial in chronic hand eczema, putting pressure on Incyte’s appro | Back in February, Leo Pharma revealed that its JAK-inhibitor cream delgocitinib met its primary and secondary endpoints in a phase 3 trial in chronic hand eczema, putting pressure on Incyte’s approved topical Opzelura.

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Patient-Centric Digital Transformation: Rethinking Remote Monitoring for Comprehensive Care [Sponsored]

MedCity News

A recent webinar sponsored by AVIA Health and Seamless MD examined how health systems use remote patient monitoring beyond the usual chronic condition applications, including surgical prep and recovery, women’s health, and more.

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Enhancing Hiring at Healthcare Practices with Technology

MedCity News

The last few years, both during and after the pandemic, have been turbulent times for healthcare providers and patients alike. For now, although it appears that healthcare staffing shortages will continue, providers are not without practical strategies for attracting and retaining talent.

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Biopharma Stock Check: Market Review and Outlook

PharmExec

Exploring the pharma and biotech financing, M&A, and stock market pictures through the first half of 2023—and implications for the future, as market challenges continue to weigh heavily in senior management decision-making.

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4 Areas Within Digital Health That Will See Consolidation Next Year

MedCity News

At the HLTH conference last week, MedCity News’ editorial team interviewed 11 health leaders from a variety of organizations to get a sense of which areas within healthcare will see consolidation over the next 12 months.

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Follicular lymphoma BTK inhibitor recommended by CHMP

European Pharmaceutical Review

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended approval of BRUKINSA ® (zanubrutinib), a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor (BTKi), in combination with obinutuzumab. BeiGene’s anti-cancer treatment is indicated for adults with relapsed or refractory (R/R) follicular lymphoma (FL) who have received at least two prior lines of systemic therapy.

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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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Health Tech for Aging Population Punctuates HLTH 2023 [Sponsored]

MedCity News

Health tech to support care for seniors and track the progression of conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and heart failure were on display at HLTH 2023. The National Institute on Aging also added a startup boot camp leading up to HLTH.

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FDA lifts clinical hold on PepGen’s myotonic dystrophy type 1 candidate

Pharmaceutical Technology

The dose-selection Phase I trials for evaluating PepGen’s peptide-conjugated antisense oligonucleotide have been cleared to begin in the US.

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7 Hot Takes I Heard at HLTH

MedCity News

At HLTH 2023, I had dozens of conversations with providers, digital health investors, startup CEOs and other players in the healthcare industry. When I got home, I compiled seven refreshingly honest takes I heard from them while at the conference.

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A Blueprint for Balance

PharmExec

Stephen Rivera, vice president, global technical accounting advisory services and policy, Johnson & Johnson, capitalizes on his lively personality—and a courageous career journey—to bring people together to shape the future of biopharma.

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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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How Nemours Children’s Is Working to Solve the ‘Horrendous’ Youth Mental Health Crisis

MedCity News

If you could only do one thing to improve the health of children in the U.S., it would have to be in the behavioral health sphere, Nemours Children’s Health CEO Lawrence Moss declared at HLTH. The state of youth mental health has reached a crisis point in the U.S., and Moss’ health system is working hard to address this. Some of its efforts include embedding behavioral health into primary care and deploying behavioral health workers in schools.

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What Does the Metaverse Mean to Pharma?

PM360

Is the metaverse a worthwhile investment for pharma? Is the metaverse even a worthwhile investment for Meta? In July, Meta’s second-quarter earnings report revealed its Reality Labs unit, which is responsible for developing its virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies, lost $3.7 billion—and $21.3 billion in total over the last year.

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Study reports rapid method for microbial contaminant detection

European Pharmaceutical Review

A paper published in Pharmaceuticals has reported the first demonstration of the possibility of using fluorescent optical respirometry (FOR) to detect aerobic bacteria in selected sterile pharmaceutical products. Rapid , real-time measurement of living aerobic microorganism cells was achieved using the fluorescent sensor tris-[(4,7-diphenyl-1,10 phenanthroline)ruthenium(II)] dichloride (Ru(DPP) 3 Cl 2 ).

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How Pharma Companies Can – And Should – Improve Social Determinants of Health

Eversana Intouch

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the non-medical factors that affect people’s health. They can include the conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age 1,2 — as well as factors like economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems. 1 Why are SDOH important?

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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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FDA fast tracks MimiVax’s glioblastoma vaccine SurVaxM

Pharmaceutical Technology

The Phase IIb SurVaxM vaccine study will enrol 265 patients and has an estimated completion date in Q2 2024.

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UCL researchers recommend AI language models for schizophrenia diagnosis

PharmaTimes

Automated analysis of language could help diagnose and assess psychiatric conditions - News - PharmaTimes

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Amneal partners with mAbxience for denosumab biosimilars

Pharmaceutical Technology

Amneal adds Prolia and Xgeva biosimilars to its oncology portfolio which already has three biosimilars products launched in the US.

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UKRI awards three projects £25m for vaccine development

PharmaTimes

The projects will support the development of new and longer-lasting vaccines - News - PharmaTimes

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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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Hall Leaves ALA, Napack Exits Wiley

Copyright Clearance Center

Tracie D. Hall was a prominent spokesperson for the freedom to read, well-known for her mantra “free people read freely.

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Media Retrenchment Is Opening a Window for Pharma to Rethink Ad Spend

PM360

For the next 12 to 24 months, the media landscape is set to drastically change and pharma marketers can’t miss this hidden opportunity. If you are a challenger brand in the midst of defining yourself, leap-frogging your competition, and cementing yourself as king of the jungle, this is the type of opportunity that comes around, once, maybe twice in a career.

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AGC Biologics Unveils Completed pDNA and mRNA Expansion Project

Pharmaceutical Commerce

CDMO’s Heidelberg facility will house the newly-completed manufacturing line.

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What Tech Trends Do Life Sciences Marketers Need to Know About?

PM360

To discover how technology is affecting the jobs of life sciences marketers we turned straight to the source—our readers. We asked them about three key areas: How can they best utilize the power of artificial intelligence (AI) immediately? What technology will have the biggest impact on the industry within the next three years? Will Big Tech’s moves within healthcare force the industry to change how it operates?

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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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Lilly to file mirikizumab in Crohn’s after FDA colitis snub

pharmaphorum

Lilly to file mirikizumab in Crohn’s after FDA colitis snub Phil.

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Streaming Engagement: The Unique Opportunities in Connected TV

PM360

Last year was historic for the television industry. Why, you ask? In 2022, every streaming service backed by a major U.S. network embraced an ad-supported subscription option. While this feels just as momentous as the first TV ad’s debut in 1941, it shouldn’t be surprising. According to Samba TV , ad-supported subscriptions (AVOD) are the fastest growing category in Connected Television (CTV), and they’re closely followed by free ad-supported television (FAST), which one in three U.S. consumers

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Santhera closes on first approval for DMD drug vamorolone

pharmaphorum

Santhera closes on first approval for DMD drug vamorolone Phil.

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Healthcare Watch October 2023

PM360

Doctor Docs: Targeting Trust Between Pharma and HCPs A new study shows the crucial link in pharma marketers’ digital engagement strategy with HCPs is in jeopardy—trust. Graphite Digital’s newest whitepaper reveals the daily experiences with and current perceptions of HCPs across the U.K., U.S., and France regarding pharma-provided digital platforms.

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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.