Tue.Oct 11, 2022

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Remote patient monitoring applications from cancer care to sleep [Sponsored]

MedCity News

In response to emailed questions, executives from Biofourmis, Force Therapeutics and Project Ronin shared products they’re developing in remote patient monitoring as part of the broader hospital at home trend.

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Video Games to Improve Cognition in Older Adults

Medgadget

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have developed a suite of video games that have been designed to improve cognition in older adults who are otherwise healthy. The games aim to recreate common activities, such as banging a drum or driving a car. They also include a sophisticated algorithm that automatically adjusts the game difficulty depending on how well someone is playing, helping to stop less skilled players from becoming overwhelmed and more skilled players from beco

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Hackers are exploiting the very security tools providers use to protect themselves, HHS warns

MedCity News

Cybercriminals are weaponizing the same tools that healthcare providers use to operate and maintain secure IT systems, HHS warned in a recent report. Providers can protect themselves by having a firm grasp of what their IT environment looks like, as this may help them spot any suspicious security tool commands.

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Novel Devices to Help Surgeons Sculpt a New Ear

Medgadget

At Johns Hopkins, clinical researchers have developed a set of surgical tools that allow them to more easily create a replacement ear for those born with malformed or missing ears. Currently, using cartilage harvested from the ribs, surgeons can create a new ear, but the process is difficult and requires some artistic talent to sculpt the cartilage into the right shape.

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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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5 steps to develop a dashboard to better manage your operations

MedCity News

How do organizations optimize and scale business intelligence? Here are five basic steps to consider when developing dashboards to assess your operational, financial and quality components within the care at home industry.

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AstraZeneca’s intranasal COVID vaccine fails first clinical test

pharmaphorum

An intranasal formulation of AstraZeneca’s widely-used COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria has failed at the first hurdle, after results from a phase 1 trial found it was unable to stimulate a strong immune response to the virus. The 30-subject study – funded by AZ and published in the Lancet journal eBioMedicine – tested two strengths of the current formulation of the vaccine administered as a nasal spray, with half the group receiving a second intranasal dose 28 days later, and half getting a reg

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Keeping it Simple

PharmExec

Bristol Myers Squibb commercial head Chris Boerner believes a straightforward formula is the best formula in advancing innovation and developing talent in today’s complex healthcare climate—an approach he roots in authenticity and “not over engineering,” whether tackling business or culture.

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Capital Blue Cross to bring low-cost pharmacy option to members and non-members in 2023

MedCity News

It is Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company’s first collaboration with a health plan. The pharmacy company will not be replacing Capital Blue Cross’ existing pharmacy benefits manger, but instead will be an additional option for members to choose.

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At the Heart of Pharma: ESG has Arrived as a Central Strategy

PharmExec

Pharma supply chains are no longer hidden beyond the reach of ESG agendas, making it important for companies to accelerate adoption of new manufacturing processes and environmental technology.

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Report: Employers are searching for alternative retiree healthcare benefit options

MedCity News

Almost 40% of employers made changes to their retiree healthcare benefits in the last three years, while another 63% plan to in the next three three years, the Willis Towers Watson survey found. Some are looking to replace their traditional group plan offerings with individual insurance through a private marketplace.

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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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Wellcome funds work on regulating digital mental health tools

pharmaphorum

An explosion of digital mental health tools being offered for sale has presented regulators with a problem – how should they be classified and assessed for safety or efficacy? Wellcome has provided funding in the UK to help answer that question. The healthcare charity is providing £1.8 million (around $2 million) in financial support for UK health technology assessment (HTA) agency NICE and medicines regulator MHRA to develop guidance on “appropriate, risk-proportionate regulation of digit

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A biologic’s efficacy in a pill: Dice posts first human data for oral psoriasis med

MedCity News

Dice Therapeutics reported the first human data for its oral psoriasis drug designed to hit the same pro-inflammatory protein blocked by blockbuster antibody drugs from Novartis and Eli Lilly. The potential for Dice’s pill to offer a competitive oral alternative pushed the biotech’s stock skyward by nearly 80%.

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Centering Caregivers

Impetus Digital

A version of this article was previously published on PharmaPhorum. By now, we’re all (hopefully) getting accustomed to the concept of “patient-centricity.” However, another commonly overlooked but equally important group of healthcare stakeholders is caregivers. These are people–mostly women–who dedicate themselves to supporting the patient throughout their disease or treatment journey.

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How medtech can crack the patient engagement conundrum and transform the patient experience [Sponsored]

MedCity News

A look at how tapping real world evidence from medical devices and patients could be a game changer, improving patient-clinician communication, supporting earlier interventions and helping patients manage their condition.

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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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Harnessing the creative energy of California, Alto is advancing a novel approach to psychiatric meds

PharmaVoice

After making the leap from academia to the world of biotech, CEO Dr. Amit Etkin is hoping to shift the treatment paradigm for neurological conditions.

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Bill mandating electronic prior authorizations may not improve care quality

MedCity News

A bill mandating electronic prior authorization for Medicare Advantage plans has passed the House of […].

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How to Transition From Nursing to Medical Sales

MedReps

Nurses seemingly have a leg up when it comes to branching into medical sales. After all, they have plenty of medical knowledge and know what certain medications do, which devices to reach for in certain circumstances and more. However, is it really that easy to go from one job to another? After all, medical sales seem like a very different animal from nursing.

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New initiative will calculate carbon footprint of clinical trials

European Pharmaceutical Review

The Pistoia Alliance, a non-profit advocating R&D collaboration in life sciences, has launched the Clinical Trials Environmental Impact Community of Interest (CoI) , a collaborative initiative that aims to calculate the carbon footprint of centralised and decentralised clinical trials, enabling a standard that companies can use to calculate a clinical trial’s carbon impact.

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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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Frontiers Health Steering Committee spotlight – Paul Tunnah

pharmaphorum

As the Frontiers Health 2022 conference in Milan on 20th to 21st October draws ever nearer, pharmaphorum has been catching up with members of the event’s Steering Committee to find out more about what drives both them and the event itself. This time, Paul Tunnah – pharmaphorum’s very own founder and chief content officer and managing director UK at Healthware Group – discussed healthcare’s digital transformation (this year’s guiding theme) and his own journey into the digital space.

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Are strategic partnerships the winning model for outsourcing?

European Pharmaceutical Review

The study produced by the University of Cambridge has indicated that pharmaceutical companies are increasingly leaning away from one-time transactions with contract research organisations (CRO), to preferred providers and multi-year strategic partnerships. Using survey data, the research identified that 25 percent of outsourced projects are contracted to transactional service providers, 50 percent are conducted with preferred providers and the remaining 25 percent are managed through strategic p

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Indoco Remedies Ltd.-Walk-In Interviews for Quality Assurance /QC/ Production/ Packing On 14th Oct’ 2022

Pharma Pathway

Indoco Remedies Ltd.-Walk-In Interviews for Quality Assurance /QC/ Production/ Packing On 14th Oct’ 2022. Job Description. Walk-In Interviews for Quality Assurance /QC/ Production/ Packing On 14th Oct’ 2022 @ Indoco Remedies Ltd. Company Name: Indoco Remedies Ltd. Department: Quality Assurance (AQA) /QC/ Production/ Packing. Qualification: B.Pharma/ B.Sc/ M.Sc/ ITI/ 10+2.

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Positive results from trial of Arecor’s insulin candidate AT247

PharmaTimes

Therapy demonstrates significantly accelerated insulin absorption and early exposure

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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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Understanding Sales Software Categories and How They Can Help Sales Teams

Map My Customers

There’s no doubt that the business environments we operate in now are digital-heavy and packed with more-informed consumers. That is why one of the most essential weapons of today’s successful sales teams is sales software. So, if your team is not optimizing their effectiveness through the use of technology, they will be left behind by the competition that is.

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AlzeCure demonstrates disease-modifying effects of NeuroRestore ACD856

PharmaTimes

Data from the study shows that ACD856 has a potential neuroprotective effect in a cellular mode

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Citius Pharmaceuticals sees golden opportunities in late-stage specialty assets

PharmaVoice

CEO Leonard Mazur explains how the company’s hoping to unlock the potential of its varied pipeline.

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Discerning Dealmaking: Caution Flag Still Raised in Biopharma M&A Race

PharmExec

Big pharma’s finicky appetite for M&A comes as valuations of sellers soften. Though the pace of deals has picked up some, predicting just how long both sides will hold tight remains difficult.

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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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Stalicla signs licence deal for Evgen Pharma’s lead asset SFX-01

Pharmaceutical Technology

Swiss biotech company Stalicla has signed a licensing deal with Evgen Pharma for the latter’s lead asset, SFX-01, in neurodevelopmental disorders and schizophrenia. Under the deal, Stalicla will gain the global rights of SFX-01 as a potential treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), while Evgen will retain SFX-01’s worldwide rights for all other indications.

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The Challenges of B2B Medical Marketing

Scott’s Directories

The healthcare sector is becoming more attractive in terms of investment for B2C and B2B companies as the sector is increasingly expanding. While other sectors show expansion and contraction phases as they follow general market trends, the healthcare sector doesn’t. It guarantees insignificant loss and stable growth as it positions itself against market trends regardless of the phase.

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A Day In The Life Of A Pain Clinical Specialist With Holly Frankenberg

Evolve Your Success

Those not that well-versed in medical sales tend to confuse a sales representative with a clinical specialist. They may be working hand-in-hand, but their responsibilities largely differ from each other. Shedding light on this with Samuel Adeyinka is Holly Frankenberg , who provides a glimpse into her career as a clinical pain specialist. Holly talks about the necessary characteristics to succeed in this position, her experiences working with sales reps and other healthcare providers, her bigge

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Why Your Healthcare Website Needs to be Accessible

LEVO Health

With approximately 61 million Americans living with a disability and attention spans getting shorter, it’s more crucial than ever for healthcare organizations to have an accessible ADA-compliant website. If your website is user-friendly and accessible, you’re more likely to engage potential patients, leading to increased conversions and ROI.

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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.