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The current pharma business model is unsustainable

World of DTC Marketing

In pharma, growth depends on new products with hefty price tags when over 80% of voters want lower costs for their prescription drugs. According to JAMA , “in a cross-sectional study, between May 1, 2016, and May 31, 2021, there were 207 cancer drug approvals in oncology and malignant hematology. ” The U.S.

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Bacteria Tag Team Tumors with T Cells

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The approach could enhance CAR T cell therapy in solid tumors, which hasn’t worked as well as CAR T cell therapy for blood-borne cancers to date. While this approach has worked reasonably well in blood-borne cancers, such as leukemia, it has proven more difficult to target solid tumors.

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After a slow start for expensive CAR-T therapies, drug developers revisit oral therapies for blood cancer

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There’s been huge progress in treatments for blood cancer in recent years – but drawbacks of expensive CAR-T cell and injected antibody therapies have led drug developers to look at novel oral therapies as patient-friendly alternatives. Of these patients, seven have been treated at the recommended phase II dose (RP2D) and regimen.

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Cartherics grants licence for CTH-004 to Shunxi

Pharmaceutical Technology

Under the deal terms, Shunxi will have licence to develop, manufacture, and commercialise CTH-004 to treat several solid tumours including ovarian cancer in Greater China, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, and Macao. In animal models of ovarian cancer, it demonstrated promising results.

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Cannabinoids receptors: popular preclinical target but banned in 137 countries

Pharmaceutical Technology

Cannabinoid receptors are a popular therapeutic target for cannabinoid-based drugs in the treatment of pain, neurological disorders and inflammation, according to GlobalData’s Pharma Intelligence Centre Drugs database. This is closely followed by CB2 receptors in second place.

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You can’t afford to get cancer

World of DTC Marketing

OPENING: American cancer patients spent more than $21 billion on their care in 2019. As cancer survival rates rise, so do the price tags of life-saving treatments. Some cancer patients may face out-of-pocket costs of nearly $12,000 a year for one drug. What makes cancer such a financial killer?

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What Tech Trends Do Life Sciences Marketers Need to Know About?

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Another capability made possible by fine-tuning is the enhancement of content tagging. Content tagging has always been a labor-intensive task. Auto-tagging ensures that the right content efficiently reaches the right customers. Fine-tuning models can target domains and generate prompts to tag the content into relevant topics.