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Nothing to sneeze at: AstraZeneca donates thousands of nasal spray flu vaccines after Swiss pricing row

Fierce Pharma

Nothing to sneeze at: AstraZeneca donates thousands of nasal spray flu vaccines after Swiss pricing row. fkansteiner. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 13:27.

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Two Pharmacy Owners Plead Guilty in $18M Foreign Medicare Fraud Scheme

MedCity News

The scheme started in New York but became a complex international endeavor as the two men attempted to launder money received from fraudulent Medicare claims for cancer drugs during the pandemic.

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Takeda's Iclusig delivers a win in rare subtype of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Fierce Pharma

Takeda's Iclusig delivers a win in rare subtype of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. kdunleavy. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 10:29.

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LG, Amwell Launch New Healthcare TV Kit to Fight Burnout and Workforce Shortages

MedCity News

LG launched the first solution to come from its collaboration with Amwell. The product, called the Carepoint TV Kit 200L, is in beta testing but will soon be sold to hospitals to help clinicians virtually connect to patients’ rooms. Powered by Amwell’s Converge platform, the product is aimed at helping clinicians more easily engage with patients amid healthcare’s workforce shortage crisis.

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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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Amid Shingrix rebound, GSK vaccine marketing exec jumps ship to Valneva

Fierce Pharma

Amid Shingrix rebound, GSK vaccine marketing exec jumps ship to Valneva. fkansteiner. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 09:58.

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Evernorth Exec: Healthcare Access Will Be the Greatest Problem for Consumers and Employers

MedCity News

To combat this issue, Joan Harvey of Evernorth stressed the importance of an omnichannel care model that leverages both in-person and virtual care. She made these comments at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas.

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Jonathan Bush’s 3 Rules for Digital Health Startups to Follow Amid a Looming Recession

MedCity News

Jonathan Bush has three rules he thinks digital health startups should follow as the country prepares for a likely recession. They should ensure their technology accomplishes a task that healthcare stakeholders need fulfilled, be very clear about how they can make more money doing their job than their competitors, and find “people who are unhinged enough” to try their product.

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Meeting MSL training needs in an evolving landscape

pharmaphorum

As medical treatments become more complex, the role of the Medical Science Liaison (MSL) has never been more important. Healthcare professionals trust MSLs to keep them informed and up-to-date about the latest treatments, especially in fast-moving areas like oncology. But who keeps the MSLs up-to-date, and who makes sure they have the hard and soft skills necessary to be an effective partner for healthcare professionals?

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How Employers Can Help Correct the Reproductive Health Crisis

MedCity News

Following the Dobbs decision, it’s vital for employers to support their employees’ reproductive rights, executives from Planned Parenthood and Maven Clinic stressed at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas.

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4 pioneering social media campaigns in pharma this year

PharmaVoice

The key to a great social media campaign is often simplicity, and these pharma companies hit the nail on the head with unique strategies that aim to educate.

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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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Medicare Advantage Plans Need to ‘Win’ on Consumer Experience in 2023

MedCity News

With the elevation of member experience measures in Star Ratings, CMS is signaling a broader transformation in the role payers can and should play in the care delivery system.

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NICE to update endometriosis guidelines to improve diagnosis and surgical management

Pharmaceutical Technology

The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has agreed to update its guidelines on endometriosis diagnosis, surgical management, and surgical management when fertility is a priority. The decision came following a surveillance review led by NICE, which identified sufficient new evidence to support this update. This marks the first update to NICE’s endometriosis guidelines since 2017, representing a huge milestone for patients and practitioners alike.

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Is AI just hype or a real revolution in pharma? It’s complicated

PharmaVoice

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool and will likely augment many processes in biopharma — but it's still early days, and hype is rampant.

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Disrupting the standard of healthcare for Bangladesh: a pharmaphorum podcast extra

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In this mini episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh spoke with Sylvana Sinha, founder, chair, and CEO of Praava Health, Bangladesh’s fastest growing healthcare brand. Praava Health is a patient-driven company disrupting the standard of healthcare for Bangladesh’s 170 million citizens. No mean feat. Having heard Sylvana speak with other panellists at Frontiers Health 2022 in Milan, during the Tony Estrella-moderated discussion ‘Beyond video visits: How advanced telehealth

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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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NICE recommends new treatment for EGFR-positive lung cancer

European Pharmaceutical Review

Final draft guidance published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), recommends Mobocertinib (Exkivity), a new therapy that helps slow cancer growth in adults with epidermal growth factor receptor ( EGFR ) exon 20+ non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), who have already received platinum-based chemotherapy. The treatment , produced by Takeda helps to addresses a clear unmet clinical need, as there is currently no standard treatment for the disease.

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You get what you agree to, at least when it comes to the money under VPAS

pharmaphorum

Rising payment percentages under the Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access (VPAS) have been criticised despite (some in) the industry knowing that payment percentages in the range of 30% were not only possible, but predicted. Leela Barham argues that more transparency at a minimum is required next time around, should a VPAS style of agreement be agreed upon for 2024 onwards, and perhaps even a more radical re-think about how a deal is struck in the future.

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Edible sensor delivers real-time antiretroviral dosage data

European Pharmaceutical Review

An innovative ingestible sensor technology tested in an interventional clinical trial provided HIV patients with real-time antiretroviral dosage data , enabling them to better control their infection. The drug regimen for 130 HIV patients was monitored by the Proteus Digital Health Feedback (PDHF) Information Technology system, which let patients know in real-time when a dose of medication had been taken.

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Health Innovators – Sai Shankar and Pierre Leurent

pharmaphorum

At Frontiers Health 2022, pharmaphorum Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock speaks with Sai Shankar and Pierre Leurent, co-presidents of Aptar Digital Health. They discuss their new partnership with Chiesi around disease management for asthma and COPD that was announced at Frontiers Health. Jonah also checks in with Pierre about how the Aptar Pharma – Voluntis acquisition is going one year in and discusses the emergence of the Aptar Digital Health unit that came out of that deal.

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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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How Jasper Engines Uses Map My Customers for an Effective Sales Follow-Up Process

Map My Customers

The success of your team’s sales efforts is directly impacted by how effective their sales follow-up process is. Deals rarely close in the first interaction. As a matter of fact, according to MarketingDonut , 80% of sales require at least 5 follow-up calls after the initial meeting and 44% of sales reps give up after 1 follow-up. As Map My Customers ’ Senior Enterprise Account Executive JT Rimbey describes, “a glaring weakness, specifically with outside field sales leadershi

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Industry body slams UK chancellor’s R&D tax credits plan for SMEs

pharmaphorum

A proposal in UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement to overhaul the R&D tax credits system – for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reduce what he described as “abuse and fraud” – has been criticised by industry organisations, including the BioIndustry Association (BIA). Hunt said in his address to Parliament today that he plans to cut the deduction rate for the SME scheme to 86% and the credit rate to 10% – from 130% and 14.5% respectively – and increase t

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CCC Wins Several Top Workplaces Cultural Excellence Awards

Copyright Clearance Center

The post CCC Wins Several Top Workplaces Cultural Excellence Awards appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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The future of clinical research in neurology must be driven by community voices

pharmaphorum

Strong patient partnerships are more important than ever. In the pursuit of a personalised future for neurological care, collaboration and co-creation should be at the forefront of all research and development. That way, everything we do for patients, we do with patients. By working directly with each distinct community, made up of people with a certain neurological variance, their families, supporters, and advocates, it is easier to gather different perspectives and address unmet needs.

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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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Could Astellas antibody be first-line treatment for gastric cancer?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Astellas Pharma Inc. announced patients with unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma, achieved significant progression-free survival (PFS) with Zolbetuximab, a first-in-class monoclonal antibody (mAb), in combination with mFOLFOX6 (oxaliplatin, leucovorin and fluorouracil) in a Phase III trial. The SPOTLIGHT trial ( NCT03504397 ) evaluated the efficacy and safety of Zolbetuximab, a chimeric IgG1 mAb, plus mFOLFOX6 compared to placebo with mFOLFOX6.

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How immersive audio can be a therapeutic tool: the pharmaphorum podcast

pharmaphorum

In this episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock chats with Howard Rose, head of health and wellness at Spatial about immersive audio: what it is, how it works, and how it can help in healthcare. Spatial creates immersive soundscape simulations that can be played from any speaker. They do work in the healthcare space, both enlivening healthcare spaces and in delivering therapies.

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Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry lays down new antibiotics mission

PharmaTimes

The challenge of resistant infections will require new antibiotics according to the ABPI

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Instead of Drug Spending Caps, Medicare Should Try Value-Based Contracting

PharmExec

New regulations may require regulators to explore new payment options.

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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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NICE recommends Pfizer’s Paxlovid on NHS

PharmaTimes

Therapy will be available on the NHS as a clinical treatment option for adults with COVID-19

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Reimbursement for Chronic Pain Management in the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: New Opportunities for Patients and Providers

Nixon Gwilt Law

As part of its ongoing effort to expand access to evidence-based treatments for acute and chronic pain and to improve the care experience for individuals suffering from pain, CMS introduced new CPT codes for Chronic Pain Management (“CPM”) services in the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (the “2023 MPFS”). The new CPM bundled payment covers integrated multimodal pain care that may include certain elements such as diagnosis, a person-centered plan of care, care coordination, medica

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Elemental Machines Raises $41M in Series B Funding to Fuel Growth

Legacy MEDSearch

Elemental Machines , a developer of the LabOps Intelligence Platform for labs around the world, has raised $41 million in a Series B funding round led by Sageview Capital and co-led by Omega Venture Partners, with continued participation from Gutbrain Ventures and Digitalis Ventures. “The support we have received from Sageview Capital, Omega Venture Partners, and our existing investors comes at the right time to drive our growth,” said Sridhar Iyengar, PhD, founder and CEO of Element

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NLP The New Technology of Achievement Review

Contrarian Sales Techniques

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a revolutionary technique that aims to improve the way people communicate and develop their skills. In " NLP: The New Technology of Achievement ", you'll learn how to apply this approach to improve your performance in various areas of life and business. Also, a new program that's designed to help you achieve your goals is included.

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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.