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New Prescription Migraine Drugs Aren’t Resonating with Patients—Here’s How Pharma Can Boost Uptake

PM360

These low adoption rates highlight the need for more migraine-drug awareness and suggest that pharma marketers should explore new strategies to boost patient uptake. Other influencing factors included more information on side effects (36%), drug cost (28%), and efficacy (28%). Migraine Is Widespread, But Expertise Is Limited.

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Novel oral chemotherapeutic holds potential for stomach cancer patients

European Pharmaceutical Review

There is an urgent need for more effective chemotherapy treatments with less severe toxicity and side effects. Irinotecan – also known by the brand name Campto/Camptosar ® (Pfizer Ltd.) – has proven to be an effective chemotherapy agent against several types of gastrointestinal cancer. About the author.

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Aiming for ‘Magic Bullets’ in Medicine: Are We Shooting Ourselves in the Foot?

Clarivate

A ‘magic bullet’ medicine that can cure a disease quickly and completely, [1] without deleterious side effects. [2] 6] As many pathogenetic targets have multiple physiological functions, highly specific ‘magic bullets’ may impact multiple cellular pathways simultaneously, causing unintended side effects.7