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Um, about that diabetes drug that helped patients lose weight

World of DTC Marketing

Yet the media has led with “diabetes drug leads to major weight loss” Will doctors inform patients? Wegovy’s most common side effects were gastrointestinal problems, including nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which 80% of patients reported, according to USA Today.

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A scientific approach to irrational consumer choices

World of DTC Marketing

” So, are we supposed to believe that better images in DTC ads lead to patients asking for an Rx? Ad recall is essential for CPGs, but for prescription drugs, the question that’s missing is “what action did it lead to? What people seem to be interested in are drug side effects vs. efficacy.

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Almirall/Lilly lebrikizumab offers potential long-term management of atopic dermatitis

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Minor side effects to long-term maintenance balance. Any clinical study seeks to achieve maximum results efficacy with minimal occurrence of side effects. However, side effects do happen. Regarding both common cold and headache, they are as well among the side effects reported for similar drugs.

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NICE to update endometriosis guidelines to improve diagnosis and surgical management

Pharmaceutical Technology

This marks the first update to NICE’s endometriosis guidelines since 2017, representing a huge milestone for patients and practitioners alike. This delay in diagnosis ultimately leads to disease progression and associated complications, such as chronic pelvic pain and infertility, which greatly affects the patients’ quality of life.

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Tackling the complex development landscape of pain medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

The current medications (opioid and non-opioid) often force the patients to make an unfortunate choice between efficacy and debilitating side effects, leading to a cycling through multiple different therapies and suboptimal treatment response. 2017; 6(S1):1–3. Neuropathic pain: The scope of the problem. Pain and Therapy.

Medicine 102
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Developing the EU’s first intestinal microbiota-based biologic

European Pharmaceutical Review

The specific representation of these events differed between the treatments, highlighting potential differences in side effect profiles that should be explored in further studies. 2017; 55(7):1998-2008. Adverse events were relatively low in both groups (2.22 percent for MBK-01 and 4.26 percent for fidaxomicin). J Clin Microbiol.

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Targeting tumours with novel radiopharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

Can you share an update on the clinical trial for your lead candidate? One aspect that is extremely promising about radiopharmaceutical therapeutics is that they do not give a patient the side effects that are commonly experienced with chemotherapy. References Meeting rising demands of a new radiotheranostic era. cited 2023Oct].