MedCity News
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Embracing the possibilities that AI unlocks, our commitment to seamlessly integrating AI into healthcare workflows reflects our belief that technology should melt into the background, empowering human caregivers to focus on delivering compassionate patient care.
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Alongside a historic approval for the first therapy utilizing the Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, the FDA has cleared a rival gene replacement therapy, also for sickle cell | Alongside a historic approval for the first therapy utilizing the Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, the FDA has cleared a rival gene replacement therapy, also for sickle cell disease (SCD).
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Clarivate
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Students and researchers can easily locate new sources of research on diverse topics with the enriched ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index, as well as easily showcase their work and monitor impact over time. An academic career can be rewarding, but also marked by high stress [1]. Today’s researchers are challenged to balance multiple priorities and deadlines – from securing adequate funding for their work, to meeting the demands of a full teaching workload — all while publishing r
PharmExec
DECEMBER 5, 2023
TAR-200 has a novel targeted releasing system for the treatment of patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-unresponsive high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are ineligible for bladder removal surgery.
MedCity News
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Researchers recently tested ChatGPT’s ability to answer patient questions about medication, finding that the AI model gave wrong or incomplete answers about 75% of the time. Providers should be wary of the fact that the model does not always give sound medical advice, given many of their patients could be turning to ChatGPT to answer health-related questions.
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Groundbreaking? Game-changing? Transformational? Historic? | Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have won an historic FDA approval for their sickle cell disease gene therapy Casgevy. The transformational treatment is a potential cure for the debilitating and life-threatening disease which affects more than 100,000 in the United States, most of them Black.
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PharmExec
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Experts from Hootsuite noted that the primary social media ROI concern for healthcare companies is the time and money it takes to maintain a multi-platform presence.
MedCity News
DECEMBER 6, 2023
CB Insights released a list of what it deems to be the 50 most promising digital health companies of 2023. The market research firm said that the startups on the list are working to improve four main aspects of healthcare: personalization, efficiency, equity and accessibility.
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 6, 2023
With an FDA approval in PNH, Novartis has gained its first nod for iptacopan, dubbed two months ago “a pipeline in pill," by analysts at ODDO BHF.
European Pharmaceutical Review
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Results from a world-first human trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine , has shown that a drug called baricitinib has promise as the first disease-modifying treatment of its kind for type 1 diabetes, that can be administered as a tablet. baricitinib… [demonstrated an ability to] preserve the body’s own insulin production and suppress the progression of type 1 diabetes in people who initiated treatment within 100 days of diagnosis” The researchers noted that baricit
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PharmExec
DECEMBER 8, 2023
FDA approval of bluebird bio’s Lyfgenia and Vertex Pharmaceuticals' and CRISPR Therapeutics’ Casgevy marks significant milestone in the treatment of sickle cell disease.
MedCity News
DECEMBER 5, 2023
I look at non-pharmacological approaches like digital therapeutics as having the potential to give someone like me living with chronic pain everything I need to make a healthy recovery: access to digital treatments and clinicians, to community, coaching, and navigation services.
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Three years on, Bristol Myers Squibb is bidding adieu to its top dealmaker. | Three years on, Bristol Myers Squibb is bidding adieu to its top dealmaker. Elizabeth Mily, who replaced BMS’ former M&A czar Paul Biondi back in 2020, is headed for the exit, the company confirmed Friday.
pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 7, 2023
AbbVie has announced its second major takeover deal in the space of a few days, offering $8.7 billion to buy central nervous system drug specialist Cerevel Therapeutics which spun out of Pfizer in 2018.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
PharmExec
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Arthritis, asthma, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, COPD, depression, and diabetes reach the highest recorded levels since the America’s Health Rankings Annual Report began tracking them in 1990.
MedCity News
DECEMBER 8, 2023
This week, two bipartisan members of the Senate Budget Committee launched an investigation into private equity and its impact on healthcare. They initiated the probe to get answers about “questionable financial transactions” that could be hurting care quality for patients at hospitals owned by private equity firms.
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 7, 2023
When it comes to manufacturing cell therapies, it's often said that the "process is the product." But churning out these complex, individualized drugs has routinely tripped up even the industry's l | In recent months, Novartis has faced scrutiny from the FDA over Kymriah production shortfalls, a newly posted letter shows. The company says it's working to address the situation.
pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Roche has agreed a deal to acquire US biotech Carmot Therapeutics that if consummated will thrust it into the increasingly competitive market for incretin-based therapies for diabetes and obesity. The Swiss pharma group has agreed to pay $2.7 billion upfront in cash when the deal closes, with shareholders in the US company also in line for up to $400 million if the drug programmes covered by the agreement meet various milestones.
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What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.
European Pharmaceutical Review
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The European Commission (EC ) has authorised ZILBRYSQ ® (zilucoplan)▼ as the first once-daily subcutaneous (SC), targeted peptide inhibitor of complement component 5 (C5) inhibitor for generalised myasthenia gravis ( gMG ). It is also the only C5 inhibitor approved for self-administration by adult patients who are AChR antibody-positive with this disease.
MedCity News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Healthcare has traditionally been built around the convenience of the provider and not the patient. Worse, it tends to treat all patients the same regardless of the condition they are trying to manage. If we want to improve medication compliance, we have to make access, support, and most importantly financial assistance a priority.
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 5, 2023
As Johnson & Johnson places a magnifying glass on its pharmaceutical business, the focus for the remainder of the decade rests on the shoulders of some 25 new and upcoming drugs.
PharmaTech
DECEMBER 8, 2023
This collaboration will combine BigHat Biosciences’ AI/ML-guided Milliner platform with AbbVie's expertise in oncology and neuroscience to develop next-generation antibodies.
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European Pharmaceutical Review
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Results from Geron’s Phase III IMerge trial evaluating its first-in-class investigational telomerase inhibitor imetelstat, have shown long-term and durable response in participants with a rare haematologic malignancy. Efficacy of the treatment was compared to placebo in patients with lower risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) relapsed/refractory or ineligible for erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESAs).
MedCity News
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Looking back 20 years, when fewer than 18% of physician practices used electronic health records, few experts would have anticipated how information technology has changed healthcare. Thanks to IT, the volume and types of data generated and the speed at which they can be analyzed are vastly different than decades ago.
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 3, 2023
As AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and BeiGene are battling it out in the same BTK inhibitor market, Eli Lilly is trailblazing a new path for the blood cancer drug class. | As AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and BeiGene are battling it out in the same BTK inhibitor market, Eli Lilly is trailblazing a new path for the blood cancer drug class with an accelerated approval in post BTK/BCL-2 chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Professor Timothy Mackey talks about the recent reports of fraudulent Ozempic pens and the challenges in chasing drug counterfeiters.
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European Pharmaceutical Review
DECEMBER 5, 2023
With the UK set to become an associated country to Horizon Europe on 1 January 2024, the political agreement on UK’s association to Horizon Europe has been adopted. Now, this final step in the process has been implemented by the EU-UK Specialised Committee on Participation in Union Programmes (SCPUP), the European Commission (EC) has announced. The programme is the EU’s key funding initiative for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion for 2021-27.
MedCity News
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Canopy has emerged from stealth as a startup focused on protecting healthcare staff from increasing levels of violence. The company’s product, called Canopy Protect, involves wearable monitors that healthcare staff can press when they feel threatened, as well as a system that allows a hospital to monitor all physical areas of the organization.
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Merck and Eisai’s combo of Keytruda and Lenvima has missed the mark yet again, rounding out a year of multiple trial flops for the pairing. | The combo missed both endpoints in a phase 3 study in certain patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma, adding yet another entry to a long list of recent trial failures.
Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Japan has granted approval for the sBLA of Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) for Abecma to treat relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM).
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
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