Mon.Oct 10, 2022

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The digital therapeutics revolution is happening and Big Pharma is buying in — with caution

PharmaVoice

Companies like Pfizer, Novartis, Sanofi and BMS are diving into the world of digital therapeutics while recognizing the limitations of the young field.

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How the food allergy sector is benefitting from health tech’s recent boom

pharmaphorum

For the 32 million individuals in the US with food allergies, more research into symptoms, causes, and treatments has been long sought after, but historically underfunded. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which oversees disease research, has a total annual budget equivalent to $120 per person, with only $0.19 per person being spent on food allergy research.

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RNA therapies startup Ochre Bio lands $30M to take on chronic liver disease

MedCity News

Ochre Bio’s Series A financing will support development of RNA therapies for chronic liver disease. Longer term, the company aims to develop therapies that regenerate organs in patients, potentially avoiding the need for organ transplants.

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Patient insights data

PharmaVoice

While there are many sources of real-world evidence, there’s growing interest and focus on capturing patient generated insights to capture a more specific level of understanding for a given therapy.

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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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Top 4 Surgical Instrument Companies in the USA

Medico Reach

Surgical Instrument Companies are expanding steadily, with a considerable number of new companies joining the market every year. To distinguish them from their competitors, American medical and surgical equipment firms must provide high-quality, long-lasting medical instruments, build and maintain their reputation, and promote efficient and straightforward communication with consumers.

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NFTs: What This New Kid on the Blockchain Means for Healthcare

PharmExec

There has been a push to implement NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, across many verticals, but there is still much to learn about their potential uses in healthcare and its brands.

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How EmpiRx’s value-based model led to less drug spending on mental health, decreased opioid use

MedCity News

EmpiRx found in its data that pharmacy claims for behavioral health treatments increased 9.4% from 2020 to 2021. For antidepressants, utilization increased 12% during this time period, but per claim spend fell 1.8%. ADHD medications saw a 20.2% increase in utilization and a 9.1% decrease in per claim spend.

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New partnership may give MDMA an edge in the psychedelics space

PharmaVoice

While LSD and psilocybin steal the spotlight, drug developers are also exploring MDMA for a wide swath of neurological illnesses.

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Alternative care sites won’t make a difference unless these 2 priorities aren’t considered

MedCity News

Alternative care sites — defined as those outside a traditional doctor’s office — could potentially give millions of Americans access to more convenient and equitable healthcare. But that fantasy will only come true if alternative care sites build diverse care teams and prioritize care continuity.

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Sun Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd- Openings for Officer/ Sr. Officer in Quality Control/ Quality Assurance Departments- Apply Now

Pharma Pathway

Sun Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd- Openings for Officer/ Sr. Officer in Quality Control/ Quality Assurance Departments- Apply Now. Job Description. Openings for Officer/ Sr. Officer in Quality Control/ Quality Assurance Departments @ Sun Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. Departments: Quality Control/ Quality Assurance. Role: Officer/ Sr. Officer. Qualification: M.Sc/ B.Pharm/ M.Pharm.

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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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Medical Sales Training – Necessary or Not?

MedReps

Although some people arrive at the medical sales field after completing a college degree in a subject like biology, marketing, business or any combination of those three, others choose to take a different path. While you can’t necessarily walk right into a pharmaceutical company and end up as a sales rep without some experience, you certainly can jump right in after gaining some specialized training.

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Matangi Industries-Openings for QA/ Store & Dispatch/ Audit/ Export/ Business Development/ HR & Admin/ Project Head/ Sales/ EHS/ Electrician & Technician/ Shift In Charge/ SAP Manager-Apply Now

Pharma Pathway

Matangi Industries-Openings for QA/ Store & Dispatch/ Audit/ Export/ Business Development/ HR & Admin/ Project Head/ Sales/ EHS/ Electrician & Technician/ Shift In Charge/ SAP Manager-Apply Now. Job Description. Matangi Industries, Established in 1993, a star export house, focus on manufacturing and delivering profitable products for Clients.

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LifeArc and MRC launch toolkit to navigate medicines repurposing

PharmaTimes

Medicines repurposing offers new avenues for treating a range of common and rare diseases

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Sushen Medicamentos Pvt. Ltd. – Openings for Production / QA/ QC/ ADL/ Analytical Development/ Formulation Development / International Business Development-Apply Now

Pharma Pathway

Sushen Medicamentos Pvt. Ltd. – Openings for Production / QA/ QC/ ADL/ Analytical Development/ Formulation Development / International Business Development- Apply Now. Job Description. Openings for Production / QA/ QC/ ADL/ Analytical Development/ Formulation Development / International Business Developments @ Sushen Medicamentos Pvt. Ltd. Departments: Production / Quality Assurance/ QC/ ADL/ Analytical Development/ Formulation Development / International Business Development.

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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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Brainomix in collaboration with UK Government-funded NCIMI

PharmaTimes

Partnership will evaluate AI-powered technology in lung cancer care

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Beyond buzzwords: Making a practice of diversity, equity and inclusion

PharmaVoice

Watch Dr. Preeti Parikh, executive medical director at GoodRx, explain how she sees parallels between her mother’s challenges to promote health equity as a physician, and current diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) challenges in the workplace.

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Health Canada approves Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 booster

Pharmaceutical Technology

Health Canada has approved Pfizer ’s subsidiary Pfizer Canada and BioNTech’s bivalent Covid-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, as a 30?g booster shot for 12 years and above aged individuals. The regulatory approval for Comirnaty Original & Omicron BA.4/BA.5 booster dose is based on the clinical data obtained from the companies’ monovalent, Omicron BA.1-adapted bivalent vaccine.

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Immutep’s LAG-3 drug ‘dramatically undervalued,’ says analyst

pharmaphorum

Australian biotech Immutep’s LAG-3 checkpoint inhibitor eftilagimod alpha (efti) may not be the first drug in the class to reach the market, but is a strong contender and, according to at least one analyst, is on course for multibillion-dollar peak sales. Immutep claimed fast-track status from the FDA for efti last week as a combination therapy alongside Merck & Co’s PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for previously-untreated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), based on the

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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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Lucidity Introduces Autonomous Storage Orchestration Solution

Pharmaceutical Technology

Concept: Indian software development startup Lucidity has launched an autonomous storage orchestration solution called Lucidity Auto-Scaler to keep cloud block storage neat, tidy, and cost-efficient. Lucidity claims its no operations (NoOps) orchestration layer can make a company’s cloud block storage 70% cheaper and 10 times faster, without any code changes.

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Ipca Laboratories Ltd- Openings for Quality Control-Micro -Officer/ Executive- Apply Now

Pharma Pathway

Ipca Laboratories Ltd- Openings for Quality Control-Micro -Officer/ Executive- Apply Now. Job Description. Openings for Quality Control-Micro -Officer/ Executive @ Ipca Laboratories Ltd. Quality Control-Micro -Officer/ Sr. Officer (Only Experienced Candidates only). Qualification: BSc/ M.Sc Microbiology. Experience: 06 to 08 years. Post -1- Officer/ Executive.

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Successful Phase 1 Adaptive Trials: Through the Lens of Clinical Operations, Formulation Development, and Regulatory Compliance

PharmaTech

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 11am EDT | 10am CDT | 8am PDT Learn how integrated formulation and clinical manufacturing expertise, as well as strategic partnerships between CDMOs and CROs, can help achieve flexible and efficient first-in-human studies, fast development of challenging molecules, and reduced clinical development timelines and costs, all while increasing success rates.

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How Motivation and Positive Attitudes Get Salespeople Through Tough Times

Contrarian Sales Techniques

“Positive attitudes allow salespeople to benefit from motivation but they can’t nurture positive attitudes without strong motivation. These two are strongly related and mutually beneficial.” The statement above is taken from this article. You also can find more articles about motivation here and there. What Is Positive Attitude? To put it simply, positive means good and you can say it is the opposite of negative.

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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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ESMO 2022: Ten key takeaways on Europe’s top oncology event

Clarivate

Clarivate oncology experts share key takeaways from the 2022 ESMO Congress and their expected impact on the drug treatment landscape and patients. As part of the Drugs to Watch program, Clarivate experts use proprietary data sources, landscape and event monitoring and deep market knowledge to identify key drug developments expected to have a significant impact on patients and markets.

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Boost for Merck as Acceleron drug clears key phase 3 hurdle

pharmaphorum

Merck’s $11.5 billion deal to acquire Acceleron last year hinged on the promise of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) candidate sotatercept, which has just hit the spot in a much-anticipated phase 3 trial. The results of the STELLAR trial showed that the activin receptor type IIA-Fc (ActRIIA-Fc) fusion protein achieved a significant increase in exercise capacity measured using the six-minute walking test in PAH patients when added to stable background therapy, hitting its primary object

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Innovare Labs-Openings for AQA/ TSD/ EHS/ Engineering/ Maintenance- Apply Now

Pharma Pathway

Innovare Labs-Openings for AQA/ TSD/ EHS/ Engineering/ Maintenance- Apply Now. Job Description. Openings for AQA/ TSD/ EHS/ Engineering/ Maintenance Departments @ Innovare Labs. Departments: AQA/ TSD/ EHS/ Engineering/ Maintenance. Designation: Executive/ Sr. Executive/ Officer/ Shift-In Charge. Qualification : M.Sc/ B.Sc/ B.Pharm/ M.Pharm/ B.Tech/ ITI/ Diploma.

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China’s NMPA approves selpercatinib NDA to treat lung and thyroid cancers

Pharmaceutical Technology

The China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved Innovent Biologics ’ new drug application (NDA) for selpercatinib to treat lung and thyroid cancers. Selpercatinib obtained the approval to treat adults with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a rearranged during transfection (RET) gene fusion.

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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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Lincoln Pharmaceuticals Ltd-Openings for QMS (QA) Department- Apply Now

Pharma Pathway

Lincoln Pharmaceuticals Ltd-Openings for QMS (QA) Department- Apply Now. Job Description. Openings for M.Pharm/ B.Sc/ M.Sc in QMS (QA) Department @ Lincoln Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Department: QMS (QA). Qualification: M.Pharm/ B.Sc/ M.Sc. Experience: 07 to 08 years. Skills: . To review change proposal and handle other change control. To investigate market complaint, identify root cause.

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COVID-19 health concern increases in September: Poll

Pharmaceutical Technology

The health concern over COVID-19 in September 2022 increased by two percentage points to 24.5%, compared to 22.3% recorded in August 2022 , shows the COVID-19 concern index, which is measured by responses to an ongoing poll Verdict launched in March 2020. The poll has been tracking how the concerns over coronavirus have been changing over time. The poll asked how concerned the respondents were about the spread of coronavirus and included five options to choose from - very concerned, slightly con

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Trends in Behavioral and Mental Health Treatment Since the Start of the Pandemic

Pharmacy Times

New research finds that mental health has replaced COVID-19 as the top health concern among Americans, but deeper analysis needs to be done into whether depression and anxiety are truly becoming more widespread.

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Onyx Health Goes for International Growth with New Managing Director

PharmExec

New managing director Trevor Pill has been passed the company's helm from founder Karen Winterhalter.

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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.