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WCLC: Tagrisso's chemo combo shows edge, but AstraZeneca thinks monotherapy remains king in lung cancer

Fierce Pharma

AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso is the standard of care in newly diagnosed, EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). | AstraZeneca hopes to offer patients with first-line, EGFR-mutant lung cancer a new option in the combination of Tagrisso and chemotherapy. But the lack of a patient survival showing raises some questions for the combo.

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HHS Issues Proposal Bolstering Nondiscrimination Protections For People With Disabilities

MedCity News

HHS released a new proposed rule to update nearly 50-year old regulations protecting people with disabilities from discrimination while seeking healthcare. With its new proposal, HHS is amending the regulations to be clearer in their language, as well as more aligned with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act and amendments to the Rehabilitation Act.

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Danco takes mifepristone restrictions lawsuit to the Supreme Court

Fierce Pharma

The legal kerfuffle over the FDA’s 2000 approval of Danco Laboratories’ abortion pill mifepristone, also known as Mifeprex, is heading to the Supreme Court. | Friday, Danco Laboratories asked the Supreme Court to overturn a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling that would severely limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

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Mercer: Cost of Health Benefits To Jump 5.4% in 2024

MedCity News

Employers expect health benefit costs to increase 5.4% per employee on average in 2024, new data from Mercer shows. This is due to inflationary pressures and health system consolidation.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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Fierce Pharma Asia—Astellas' brief IRA fight; Otsuka's psychedelic buy; Takeda's court loss

Fierce Pharma

Three Japanese pharma companies lead our news stories from Asia this week. Astellas has abandoned its challenge against the Inflation Reduction Act. | Astellas has abandoned its challenge against the Inflation Reduction Act. Otsuka bought a Canadian psychedelic biotech. And Takeda is ordered to pay AbbVie nearly $480 million because of a manufacturing hiccup.

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New Product Planning: The Function's Evolution in Pharma

PharmExec

With an organization's future commercial success under its remit, the NPP function has rapidly progressed to a prominent role in the biopharma industry—but evidence-generation strategies must evolve with an eye toward emerging trends and technologies.

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Brainomix’s e-Lung enters TIPAL trial

PharmaTimes

The company will use its AI technology during a sub-study to analyse the effect of lansoprazole - News - PharmaTimes

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A New Era of Ethical Leadership

PharmExec

Lisa LeCointe-Cephas, SVP, chief ethics and compliance officer and office of general counsel, human health, Merck, uses her unique style of leadership—stop, drop, and roll—while elevating voices that need to be heard.

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AMO Pharma reveals data from myotonic dystrophy study

PharmaTimes

Clinically significant results have emerged from trial evaluating the company’s AMO-02 candidate - News - PharmaTimes

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Eloxx moves ahead with plans with gene therapy for rare kidney disorder

Pharmaceutical Technology

Eloxx has submitted an IND for a pivotal trial to study its Alport syndrome therapy ELX-02 following a positive Phase II data readout.

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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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Judge Blocks Texas “Book Rating” Law

Copyright Clearance Center

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking HB 900, the controversial “book rating” law from taking effect in Texas.

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Digital dilemma in UK’s life sciences job market

Pharmaceutical Technology

In this issue: Digital jobs in UK life sciences, generative AI changes drug discovery, and how robotics is impacting gene therapy manufacturing.

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Leveraging PAT for environmental monitoring in light of Annex 1

European Pharmaceutical Review

The section on environmental monitoring (EM) in Annex 1 states that “The adoption of suitable rapid or automated monitoring systems should be considered by manufacturers in order to expedite the detection of microbiological contamination issues and to reduce the risk to product”. 1 This article therefore considers some of the possible systems that can be applied in EM.

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EC expands indication approval for Merck’s Ebola vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

The European Commission granted expanded indication approval for Merck’s Ebola vaccine, Ervebo, to include children aged one year or above.

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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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MHRA releases its CTA application performance metrics

European Pharmaceutical Review

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has provided data on its assessment of clinical trial authorisation (CTA) applications and substantial amendments for the period August 2022 to September 2023. Part of the main data highlighted included the performance metrics for regulatory CTA applications. In August 2023, the MHRA assessed 116 clinical trial authorisation (CTA) applications, its presentation revealed.

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NICE recommends Lilly’s tirzepatide to treat T2D

Pharmaceutical Technology

The UK NICE has recommended Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide for the treatment of adult patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes.

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GoodRx Surpasses $500M in Savings for Americans with Diabetes

PM360

First, some good news about diabetes. GoodRx is a leading resource for people with diabetes to find prescription savings and information, having helped almost 2.5 million Americans save more than $500 million on diabetes treatments to date. By offering invaluable access to affordable diabetes medicines and glucose monitors, accurate and digestible information about treatment options, and thorough research on diabetes and insulin prices, GoodRx is making it easier for people to afford their medic

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FDA Establishes Stabilization Period for Updated DSCSA Compliance Policies

PharmaTech

The new policy will require trading partners to supply, accept, and manage all documentation of product and ownership of prescription drugs electronically.

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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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Increased Vitamin D Intake Can Decrease Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety

Pharmacy Times

Although findings indicate a relationship between vitamin D and mood disorders, further research is needed to clarify efficacy of specific vitamin D levels, as well as supplement dose and form.

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More Than Just A Title: The Person Behind The Sales Tag

Contrarian Sales Techniques

The Essence of Identity Have you ever been introduced at a party and immediately been labeled by your profession? "This is Jamie, the salesperson." It's a common occurrence, but it made me ponder deeply. Before I don the badge of 'salesperson', I am first and foremost a person, complete with dreams, experiences, and stories that have nothing to do with my career.

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Aquedeon Medical, Inc. Receives FDA IDE Approval for the Duett Vascular Graft System

Legacy MEDSearch

Aquedeon Medical, Inc., a Silicon Valley pioneering medical device company specializing in novel cardiothoracic solutions, is pleased to announce a significant milestone following receipt of FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval to conduct a staged pivotal clinical trial for its Duett Vascular Graft System in the United States. The study will be initiated in the second half of 2023, enrolling up to 20 patients at up to 5 clinical sites for the first stage of the trial.

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Hope for the UK clinical trial landscape but it requires a lot of work

Pharmaceutical Technology

The Arena International Outsourcing in Clinical Trials UK and Ireland discussed how the UK’s clinical trial landscape has taken a hit and what improvements are needed to make it a more viable country for research.

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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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PM360’s 2023 ELITE 100 Event

PM360

Each year industry leaders, pharma innovators, colleagues, and friends gather at the PM360 ELITE Awards Event to celebrate those 100 individuals that have had an impact on the life sciences as Disrupters, Environmental Champions, Patient Advocates, Philanthropic Heroes, and much more. The 2023 ELITE 100 features people working in all aspects of the life sciences who are making a real difference across the many sectors of healthcare, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and diagnostics.

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In advocates’ ongoing push for superbug funding, ‘$6 billion is nothing’

PharmaVoice

The PASTEUR Act is likely heading for another legislative blow, but advocates say they see a future for the mechanism to fund the battle against antimicrobial resistance.

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Record number of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) designations awarded in 2022

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2022, global regulatory authorities awarded a record ten review designations for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-indicated drugs.

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Study: Financial Incentives Increases PrEP Initiation, Adherence for HIV

Pharmacy Times

Applying novel and effective behavioral economics for pre-exposure prophylaxis dissemination programs could help to tailor the programs to the populations and settings of high HIV burden areas.

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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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Otsuka and ShapeTX to develop gene therapies for eye diseases

Pharmaceutical Technology

Otsuka Pharmaceutical has entered a partnership with ShapeTX for the development of gene therapies to treat ocular diseases.

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Research Identifies Defined Subtypes of Follicular Lymphoma, Marginal Zone Lymphoma

Pharmacy Times

Correctly diagnosing specific follicular lymphomas and marginal zone lymphomas requires knowledge of the clinical context, including the site of involvement, age, and clinical presentation.

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Subcutaneous drugs grant a new lease on life to checkpoint inhibitors

Pharmaceutical Technology

The PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor landscape is at the precipice of change with the approval of Roche’s subcutaneous formulation of Tecentriq.

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Point-of-Care Test Reagents Could Aid Risk Assessment for In-Home Care of Older Adults

Pharmacy Times

In addition to improving risk evaluation in older adults at home, point-of-care testing may help clinicians manage patients with dementia who cannot communicate and those living in depopulated areas.

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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.