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Can genetic data be a magic bullet for drug R&D?

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Drug development has long been an issue for the pharma industry, due to the expense and the high failure rate of potential treatments. Ben Hargreaves finds that the vast amount of genetic data that exists today could help provide a faster, more targeted way of developing new drug candidates.

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Gene therapy: a radical pharmaceutical revolution

European Pharmaceutical Review

In this Q&A, Karen Pinachyan, Head of Medical Affairs Europe at CSL Behring summarises key considerations for gene therapy drug development and the ideal approach for alleviating economic strain when advancing these modern treatments. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires a patient follow up period of at least 10-15 years.

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RFID: The future of smart labelling?

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pfizer was the first to use the tech, adding RFID tags to track a Viagra (sildenafil) shipment circa 2006. In recent times, suppliers have also chosen other systems that rely on blockchain and sensors to track drug supply and reduce the influx of counterfeit drugs. Why the use of RFID has fluctuated over the past decade?

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Securing every dose with an edible security technology for safe medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

The prevalence of fake drugs is a continually growing problem worldwide. Fake drugs can be categorised as substandard, falsified, counterfeit and diverted drugs, and the World Health Organization (WHO) broadly defines a counterfeit medicine as “one which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source.”

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Solving the taxing problems of taxanes?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Nevertheless, chemotherapy’s disadvantages, including substantial toxicities, combined with inconvenient hospital-based intravenous (IV) administration, impede patients’ ability to stay on treatment and their quality of life. tumour effects. The importance of taxanes in oncology.

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Learning from lecanemab: a breakthrough treatment

European Pharmaceutical Review

On 6 January, a milestone was achieved—lecanemab gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval via the Accelerated Approval pathway. What sets lecanemab apart from other Alzheimer’s treatments in the current drug approval space? We believe this is the reason why we were successful with this Clarity AD study.

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Bringing the patient voice into clinical trials with clinical outcome assessments

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Clinical outcome assessments can take years to generate but may pay big dividends in patient-focused drug development, centering the patient experience and potentially bolstering a product’s case with regulators and payers. Patient focused drug development in alopecia areata clinical trials.