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Pfizer, AstraZeneca run it back in IDEA Pharma's annual innovation rankings

Fierce Pharma

Pfizer, AstraZeneca run it back in IDEA Pharma's annual innovation rankings kdunleavy Mon, 05/08/2023 - 10:21

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Is ChatGPT Healthcare’s Autopilot?

MedCity News

While human empathy will never be replaced, AI technologies and ChatGPT are providing new possibilities to help healthcare providers engage more efficiently with their patients and streamline administrative duties so physicians can focus more on their patients.

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As COVID vaccine sales plummet, BioNTech looks for new growth opportunities

Fierce Pharma

As COVID vaccine sales plummet, BioNTech looks for new growth opportunities zbecker Mon, 05/08/2023 - 11:02

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How to Ensure Quality and Reliability for At-Home Lab Tests

MedCity News

Ensuring Quality is the best first step any company, especially startups, can take steps toward preparing for future changes to LDT regulations. Hire and lean on your quality expert to formalize documents to meet requirements, find gaps in best practices, and utilize internal audits to verify standards are being followed.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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After production problems, Catalent delays earnings and plans to slash guidance

Fierce Pharma

After production problems, Catalent delays earnings and plans to slash guidance fkansteiner Mon, 05/08/2023 - 10:47

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Eisai Strikes Cancer Alliance to Line Up Potential Challenger to AstraZeneca Drug

MedCity News

Eisai gains an option to license a Bliss Biopharmaceutical drug that targets HER2, a cancer protein that has become a hot target for addressing several types of solid tumors. BlissBio could receive up to $2 billion in milestones and other payments.

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How One Company Is Tackling Medication Adherence

MedCity News

Mail order pharmacies like Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company and Amazon’s RxPass are gaining popularity. But they’re missing in-depth consultations with pharmacists. Aspen RxHealth is trying to fill this gap and sees itself as a potential partner for mail order pharmacies.

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Innovation in immuno-oncology: Leading companies in microbiota restoration therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the evolution of new treatment paradigms, and the gravity of unmet needs, as well as the growing importance of technologies such as pharmacogenomics, digital therapeutics, and artificial intelligence. In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Immuno-oncology in Pharmaceuticals: Microbio t a rest

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Immunotherapy Implant to Treat Pancreatic Cancer

Medgadget

Researchers at Houston Methodist have developed an implant that can provide localized and sustained release of immunotherapies to treat pancreatic cancer. Their device is tiny, at approximately the size of a grain of rice, and they have termed it a “nanofluidic drug-eluting seed” Pancreatic cancer is particularly difficult to treat, and current therapies have problems penetrating the tumor while resulting in significant side-effects elsewhere in the body.

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Leading innovators in anti-influenza antibody compositions for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the evolution of new treatment paradigms as well as the growing importance of technologies such as pharmacogenomics, digital therapeutics, and artificial intelligence. In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Anti-influenza antibody compositions.

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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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The Emotional Impact of Bariatric Surgery: Helping Patients Understand How to Protect Their Mental Health on Their Weight Loss Journey

MedCity News

Bariatric surgery is not a magical cure-all for poor self-esteem. Bariatric patients might find themselves struggling even more with their self-confidence after their surgery than before. Helping them understand the emotional impact it can have on their life can mentally prepare them for their transformation.

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Eisai signs agreement with Bliss Biopharmaceutical to develop BB-1701

Pharmaceutical Technology

Ei s ai and Bliss Biopharmaceutical have entered into a joint development agreement for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), BB-1701, to treat cancers. This deal also includes option rights for a strategic collaboration. The collaboration will help in further development of BB-1701 across the world and advance the ADC towards late stage of development. Currently, BB-1701 is being evaluated in Phase I/II trials in China and the US.

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L.A. Care, Health Net Commit $114M for Unhoused in LA County

MedCity News

L.A. Care Health Plan and Health Net’s commitment will help secure up to 1,900 housing units in the private rental market and fund field assessments to find those who need assistance with Activities of Daily Living (such as feeding and personal hygiene). It will also help pay for vacancy coverage, damage repair, trash services, greenspace, maintenance and pest control.

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Insulin prices have dropped — will Civica still be a disrupter in the field?

PharmaVoice

The nonprofit generics maker still sees a need for low-cost insulin despite recent moves by major drugmakers to slash the prices of their popular products.

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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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7 Methods to Help College Students Pave Their Way in Medical Sales

MedReps

College students who want to get into medical sales have several options. On top of majoring in business or marketing, as well as taking biology and other pre-med courses, they should get some experience in the field. Thankfully, there are some things that people who already work in the field can do to help college students get into medical sales. These seven suggestions are easy to do and will help them out quite a bit.

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AI Biotech Recursion Commits $88M to a Pair of Drug Discovery Acquisitions

MedCity News

Recursion Pharmaceuticals is acquiring two Canada-based artificial intelligence startups, Cyclica and Valence. The “biology-first company” says both deals build up its capability to apply AI to the chemistry side of drug discovery.

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Knitted Glove Massages the Hand to Treat Edema

Medgadget

A team of medical engineers at Cornell University has developed a knitted glove that is designed to treat hand edema, where fluid accumulation leads to swelling in the hands. The condition can make it difficult for patients to perform daily activities, and current treatment often involves receiving a manual edema massage performed by a trained healthcare worker.

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Enzyme replacement therapy approved for Fabry disease

European Pharmaceutical Review

A marketing authorisation for PRX-102 (pegunigalsidase alfa) , the first Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)ylated enzyme for Fabry disease, has been granted by the European Commission (EC). The approval follows the European Medicines Agency (EMA) human medicines committee’s recommendation of the enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) in February 2023. CHMP recommends first pegylated enzyme for Fabry disease… The PEGylated enzyme replacement therapy Chiesi Global Rare Diseases and Protalix BioTherapeutics, In

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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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Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Using Simple Microscope and Smartphone

Medgadget

Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a simple and rapid technique to assess the antibiotic susceptibility of bacterial samples. At present, this is time consuming and inefficient, often leading to disease progression while patients await lab results. This new approach involves a simple optical microscope and a video camera, such as those commonly found in smartphones.

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5 Common Domperidone Combinations and Their Uses

Teachntest

5 Domperidone Combinations and Their Uses Digestive problems are some of the most common health issues faced by people worldwide. From acid reflux to heartburn, bloating to constipation, these problems can cause severe discomfort and impact our daily lives.

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Leading innovators in anti-viral antigen-based compositions for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the evolution of new treatment paradigms, and the gravity of unmet needs, as well as the growing importance of technologies such as pharmacogenomics, digital therapeutics, and artificial intelligence. In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Anti-viral antigen-bas

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7 Best Sales Forecasting Software (Including Key Features)

Spotio

Looking for the best sales forecasting software? Read on. Sales forecasting software is an essential piece of technology for sales teams and business leaders. Previously, Excel spreadsheets were the go-to tool for tracking and predicting sales. Nowadays, businesses prefer the reliability and accuracy of sales forecasting tools to provide real-time insights and trends in sales data.

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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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Three Sales Compensation Pitfalls to Avoid for a Rare Disease Product Launch

The Marketing Advantage

May 9, 2023 Since the Orphan Drug Act was passed in 1983, the number of products being researched and approved for rare and orphan diseases has increased dramatically, offering hope and life-saving treatments for the millions of patients affected by these often under-served conditions. In fact, over half of recent novel drug approvals were for rare diseases.

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New QSAR Model for Predicting Blood Brain Barrier Permeability

PharmaTech

These models are useful in predicting whether an unknown substance of abuse can permeate the BBB to produce effects predicted by the Public Health Assessment via Structural Evaluation (PHASE) approach.

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The Changing Prescriber Communications Dynamic: Q&A with Caleb Costa, Chief Customer Officer at InCrowd

PharmExec

Explore the changing dynamics of healthcare professionals' communication preferences in a post-pandemic world, as Pharm Exec's Fran Pollaro has a no frills discussion about InCrowd's latest insights with chief customer officer Caleb Costa.

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FDA completes inspection of Nexus’ manufacturing facility in US

Pharma Leaders

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has successfully inspected Nexus Pharmaceuticals’ pharmaceutical manufacturing facility located in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, US. The inspection will allow the company to commence commercial operations at the three-storey, 84,000ft² manufacturing facility. Nexus Pharmaceuticals stated that the regulatory approval process validates facilities’ compliance with stringent quality and safety standards.

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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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Leading innovators in anti-inflammatory anaesthetics for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the evolution of new treatment paradigms, as well as the growing importance of technologies such as pharmacogenomics, digital therapeutics, and artificial intelligence. In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Anti-inflammatory anaesthetics.

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FDA Sends Novo Nordisk Complete Response Letter for Hemophilia Drug Concizumab

Pharma Leaders

The FDA sent a complete response letter (CRL) to Novo Nordisk on April 24, requesting more information on the company’s hemophilia drug concizumab, the company announced in its first quarter earnings report. In August 2022 the company submitted concizumab, an anti-tissue factor pathway inhibitor antibody, for regulatory approval for treatment of hemophilia A and B with inhibitors.

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Leading innovators in zinc-finger nucleases for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the evolution of new treatment paradigms, and the gravity of unmet needs, as well as the growing importance of technologies such as pharmacogenomics, digital therapeutics, and artificial intelligence. In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Zinc-finger nucleases.

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Building a business through economic uncertainty: tales from the biotech trenches

Clarivate

Timing is everything. That was the overarching sentiment from the experienced group of biopharma leaders that formed the panel discussion chaired by Mike Ward, Clarivate Global Head of Life Sciences and Healthcare Thought Leadership, at this year’s AngloNordic Life Science conference. The ‘If I Knew Then What I Know Now’ panel has for 15 years been a staple of the annual conference , which brings together biotech companies and investors in London for networking, company presentations and plenar

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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.