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AbbVie sucks

World of DTC Marketing

market until next year, with the pharmaceutical company announcing Tuesday a settlement with the Iceland-based Alvotech. billion last year, the highest total for any pharmaceutical product and they will do anything to keep that money. Sales of Humira earned AbbVie $20.7

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Global comparator data signal “alarm bells” for UK Government, says APBI

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Of all products approved by the European Medicines Association (EMA) between 2017 and 2020, 68% are currently available in England, a figure that stands at 54% in Scotland. In addition, the median time between regulatory approval and the first patient receiving a first dose was 247 days in 2020 – an increase of 25 days since 2018.

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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Patents are often described as the ‘lifeblood’ of pharmaceutical companies. 1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment. 2020-02-24.

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Can holograms help in the frontline fight against pharmaceutical counterfeiting?

European Pharmaceutical Review

The European Union Intellectual Property Office/ Europol joint report confirms that counterfeit pharmaceuticals continue to be a big problem across the European Union zone and a substantial threat for most, if not all, member states. Counterfeit medicines and medical supplies can also cause significant harm to people, the report said.

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Global pharma confidence highest on record, shows CPhI Pharma Index

European Pharmaceutical Review

It found in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, confidence dipped significantly, however scores have risen globally in the past two years. It is also very encouraging that… we see such optimism for pharmaceutical production next year,” commented Adam Andersen, Executive Vice President of Informa Markets.

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RFID: The future of smart labelling?

Pharmaceutical Technology

She continues: “Whether a vendor has a cloud-based registry, system, or database, it’s crucial that pharmaceutical companies who pre-tag for RFID systems use accepted, recognized global standards to encode drug data so products can be read by any system, just like the GS1 barcodes that are on every pharmaceutical product today.”

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Pfizer secures rights for RSV therapeutic candidate sisunatovir in China

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2020, LianBio and Pfizer partnered to develop and commercialise transformative pharmaceutical products in Greater China. This deal excludes sisunatovir’s development and commercialisation rights in Mainland China, Singapore, Macau, and Hong Kong, which were previously licensed to LianBio in March last year.