Fri.Sep 23, 2022

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Customer engagement and content strategies for pharma’s commercial operations

Dominic Tyer

Moving from the ‘new normal’ to the ‘next normal’ and beyond, the landscape for pharma’s commercial operations continues to shift, with all stakeholders beginning to adjust to a post-pandemic world

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Pfizer to deliver up to six million courses of Paxlovid to Global Fund

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pfizer has entered an agreement with Global Fund to deliver up to six million courses of its oral therapy, Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir tablets and ritonavir tablets), under the Covid-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM). The C19RM has been the main channel to support low- and middle-income nations in procuring Covid-19 therapies, personal protective equipment, tests and vital elements to bolster health systems.

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Face Mask Detects Respiratory Viruses, Alerts User

Medgadget

Scientists at Shanghai Tongji University in China have created a face mask that can alert the wearer to the presence of respiratory viruses in the surrounding environment, including the viruses behind COVID-19 and influenza. The mask includes aptamers, which are short sequences of DNA or RNA that can bind to protein targets. When viral particles bind to the aptamers, ion-gated transistors boost the signal so that the mask can sensitively detect small amounts of virus.

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Fat-shedding pill’s data lead to a $132M funding round for startup Rivus Pharma

MedCity News

Rivus Pharmaceuticals’ Series B round will finance ongoing clinical development of its lead drug, a pill that targets mitochondria to increase caloric expenditure. CEO Allen Cunningham said the new cash comes on the heels of results from a mid-stage obesity study treatment with the Rivus drug led to fat loss while also preserving skeletal muscle.

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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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PM360 Announces Winners of 2022 Trailblazer Awards

PM360

NEW YORK, NY, September 23, 2022: PM360 , a leading life sciences marketing industry trade publication, announced the winners of their 14 th annual Trailblazer Awards during an event held at Gotham Hall in New York City on Thursday, September 22, 2022. The awards recognize outstanding companies, CEOs, products, marketers, brand managers, and cutting-edge initiatives within the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostics industries.

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M&A mania: Employers are concerned about constant healthcare consolidation, expert says

MedCity News

Cheryl Larson, president and CEO of Midwest Business Group on Health, said employers are worried that the consolidation of healthcare companies will lead to higher costs for employers and patients. She made her comments following McKesson’s announcement that it has agreed to acquire Rx Savings Solutions, but declined to speak specifically about the deal.

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White matter could have more clues about Alzheimer’s than previously thought, Mount Sinai researchers say

MedCity News

Mount Sinai researchers published a study that could improve neuroscientists’ understanding of the progression of Alzheimer’s and other forms of cognitive decline. It proved that white matter may be a more important region to look at than was previously thought.

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Sun Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd- Walk In Interviews for Instrument Engineer Engineering/ Civil Engineer/ ITI Fitter/ Utility Operator On 24th Sept’ 2022

Pharma Pathway

Sun Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd- Walk In Interviews for Instrument Engineer Engineering/ Civil Engineer/ ITI Fitter/ Utility Operator On 24th Sept’ 2022. Job Description. Walk In Interviews for Instrument Engineer Engineering/ Civil Engineer/ ITI Fitter/ Utility Operator On 24th Sept’ 2022 @ Sun Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. Department: Engineering.

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Healthcare investor shares what he wishes more startups did

MedCity News

Parth Desai, a principal with Flare Capital Partners, is one of three investor judges taking part in the Pitch Perfect competition at the INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas September 28. He shares his perspective on the firm’s investment strategy, collaborating with startups, and more. Register today!

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Indoco Remedies Ltd.-Walk-In Interviews for Quality Assurance On 24th Sept’ 2022

Pharma Pathway

Indoco Remedies Ltd.-Walk-In Interviews for Quality Assurance On 24th Sept’ 2022. Job Description. Walk-In Interviews for Quality Assurance On 24th Sept’ 2022 @ Indoco Remedies Ltd. Company Name: Indoco Remedies Ltd. Department: Quality Assurance (AQA). Qualification: B.Pharma. Designation : Officer/ Sr. Officer/ Executive. Experience : 03 to 07 years.

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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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How a pediatric hospital’s rare disease sequencing system is unlocking the whole genome

MedCity News

Children’s Mercy is claiming to build “the most advanced genomic sequencing system in the world” through its novel use of 5-base sequencing. Since launching three years ago, the system has already provided 1,000 children with rare disease diagnoses based on its genome sequencing.

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Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd-Walk-In Drive for Quality Control Department On 27th  September 2022

Pharma Pathway

Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd-Walk-In Drive for Quality Control Department On 27th September 2022. Job Description. Company Profile: INTAS Pharmaceutical is a leading, vertically integrated global pharmaceutical formulation development, manufacturing, and marketing company. Intas is committed to challenging the unmet medical and societal needs through a comprehensive pharmaceutical value chain spanning across the world.

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Witnesses recount ‘dire conditions’ in nursing homes during Covid-19 in congressional hearing

MedCity News

A professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School shared research with the committee concluding that COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes were largely a function of where in the country a nursing home was located versus other specifics about the facility. .

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Emcure Pharmaceuticals-Walk-In Interviews for Quality Assurance (Injectable) On 25th Sept’ 2022

Pharma Pathway

Emcure Pharmaceuticals-Walk-In Interviews for Quality Assurance (Injectable) On 25th Sept’ 2022. Job Description. Emcure Pharmaceuticals, We are a fast-growing Indian Pharmaceutical company engaged in developing, manufacturing, and marketing a broad range of biopharmaceutical products globally. Emcure’s differentiated product portfolio lends and unparalleled competitive advantage establishing its presence in all major therapies in the domestic market.

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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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AccessHope strikes up new partnership to expand cancer expertise for employers

MedCity News

AccessHope’s new collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is the fifth of its kind for the cancer benefits company. AccessHope will be able to offer its employer members access to Fred Hutch’s cancer expertise through the partnership.

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LumiraDx Partners with British In Vitro Diagnostics Association

PharmaTimes

Link up will involve reporting on role of rapid diagnostics in taking on antimicrobial resistance

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Judge OKs vertical merger despite rare challenge from DOJ to prevent “anticompetitive” practices

MedCity News

Combining the two companies may give UnitedHealth unfair access to its competitors data that is operated by Change Healthcare, the DOJ warned it its complaint, but a DC judge has blocked the complaint.

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For Banned Books Week 2022, A Record Year

Copyright Clearance Center

The post For Banned Books Week 2022, A Record Year appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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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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Frontier Direct Care taps Flume Health to launch new health plan

MedCity News

Through this health plan — expected to become available October 1 — members will have access to Frontier’s primary care services, as well as hospital visits, prescription drugs and other needs. Flume will handle the administrative hassles of designing the plan.

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Merck obtains favourable US court ruling on sitagliptin patent lawsuit

Pharmaceutical Technology

Merck (MSD outside of North America) has reported that it received a ruling in favour of the company from the US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia in a patent infringement suit against Viatris linked to sitagliptin. Sitagliptin is an active ingredient in the Januvia, Janumet and Janumet XR therapies. The suit involved two Merck patents.

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Lyfegen raises $8M for its value-based drug contracting platform

MedCity News

Lyfegen, a startup that provides software for value-based drug contracting, recently raised $8 million in an oversubscribed Series A financing round. With the new funds, the company — which is based in Switzerland and New York — plans to expand its presence in the U.S., where drug costs are the highest in the world.

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MSD’s pembrolizumab therapy gets NICE approval

PharmaTimes

1,500 people set to receive new skin cancer treatment that reduces the risk of it returning

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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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Drug developers look at innovative mechanisms to tackle dry eye syndrome

Pharmaceutical Technology

Dry eye syndrome (DES) is an indication whose mainstay treatment has been dominated by Allergan’s Restasis (cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion 0.05%) ever since its launch in 2003 in the US. While a handful of therapies have launched since then, late-stage pipeline therapies that are currently in development reveal that drug developers are exploring a broad set of mechanisms of action (MOAs), many of which are innovative, to tackle DES.

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Curebase & Meru Health unite for app-based mental health trial

pharmaphorum

On Tuesday, Curebase announced a three-year clinical trial partnership with Meru Health, the study looking at the effectiveness of the latter’s 12-week treatment program, developed to reduce depression in primary care patients. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), almost 1 in 5 adults in the US live with a mental health disorder and only half of those have access to treatment.

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Micro Incentives: Enabling Value-Based Outcomes Outside of VBC Contracts

Clarify Health

A well-designed micro-incentive program can drive high-quality, cost-conscious care by rewarding a physician or healthcare provider for taking a specific action. Behavioral science shows that micro-incentives can and do work. But, how do you get started with implementing them? It’s well-accepted that value-based care (VBC) provides a pathway to more affordable, efficient, and higher-value healthcare.

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AZ and Ionis’ PCSK9 cholesterol drug will not move to phase 3

pharmaphorum

AstraZeneca has taken the decision not to move a PCSK9-targeting antisense drug licensed from Ionis into a phase 3 programme, removing a competitor to Novartis’ rival therapy Leqvio. Like Leqvio (inclisiran), AZD8233 is designed to offer long-term suppression of PCSK9 to reduce levels of LDL-cholesterol in the plasma, with once-monthly subcutaneous dosing that compares unfavourably to Novartis’ drug, which only needs to be given twice a year following two initial doses given three mo

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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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Patient growth strategies for optimizing volume and value

Clarify Health

Our team connected with marketing and strategy leaders across dozens of leading healthcare organizations at SHSMD’s Annual Connections Conference. Across the 4-day conference, we heard sessions on topics ranging from service line marketing to current challenges with ASC data visibility to shifts in provider recruitment & retention trends. While these session topics may seem siloed at first glance, the uniting principle we found was a focus on developing highly effective, patient-centric stra

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Lilly bags label extension for RET drug Retevmo in US

pharmaphorum

Eli Lilly’s tissue-agnostic cancer drug Retevmo has just had its eligible patient population increased in the US. The FDA has granted accelerated approval the RET inhibitor for all adults with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumours with a RET fusion mutation, two years after giving it a green light for RET-positive thyroid and lung cancers.

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Micro Incentives: Enabling Value-Based Outcomes Outside of VBC Contracts

Clarify Health

A well-designed micro-incentive program can drive high-quality, cost-conscious care by rewarding a physician or healthcare provider for taking a specific action. Behavioral science shows that micro-incentives can and do work. But, how do you get started with implementing them? It’s well-accepted that value-based care (VBC) provides a pathway to more affordable, efficient, and higher-value healthcare.

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Marksans Pharma Ltd- Openings for Freshers in Production/ Softgel -Apply Now

Pharma Pathway

Marksans Pharma Ltd- Openings for Freshers in Production/ Softgel -Apply Now. Job Description. Openings for Freshers in Production/ Softgel -Officers/ Operators @ Marksans Pharma Ltd. Production/ Softgel Officers. (Tablet / Semisolid/ Liquid). Experience: 01 to 04 years. Qualification: B.Pharm/ M.Pharm/ B.Sc/ M.Sc. Handling of BMR, Area. Production/ Softgel Operators.

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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.