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Pfizer's layoff campaign ramps back up with dozens of SF-area cuts expected next month

Fierce Pharma

The start of the new year doesn’t seem to have dulled the zeal of Pfizer’s global cost-cutting campaign, which has already left hundreds of jobs in its wake. | Come mid-February, Pfizer will lay off some 52 employees at a facility in South San Francisco, according to a recent Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act alert. The site is the former headquarters of Global Blood Therapeutics.

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Merck is on the lookout for more opportunities within immunology

Pharmaceutical Technology

At the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, Merck (MSD) indicated its eagerness to continue to establish its place in the immunological space.

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WuXi Biologics plays defense after US bill brands certain Chinese biopharmas as security threats

Fierce Pharma

New legislation aimed at blocking a group of Chinese biopharma firms from tapping into U.S. federal funding has sent shares tumbling in recent days. | New legislation aimed at blocking a group of Chinese biopharma firms from tapping into U.S. federal funding has sent shares tumbling in recent days. WuXi Bio, for its part, says it's not affiliated with the military in China.

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Clinical Trials Tech Firm Science 37 to Go Private at Fraction of Past $1B Valuation

MedCity News

Science 37 rode the trends of Covid-19 technologies and SPAC mergers to a more than $1 billion valuation. But revenue for the decentralized clinical trials software firm stopped growing, and it’s now going private valued at just $38 million.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Grifols files lawsuit against hedge fund for making 'false and misleading statements'

Fierce Pharma

Grifols has filed a lawsuit against Gotham City that accuses the hedge fund of manipulating "the value of Grifols’ stock for their own monetary gain.

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How Are Healthcare AI Developers Responding to WHO’s New Guidance on LLMs?

MedCity News

This month, the World Health Organization released new guidelines on the ethics and governance of LLMs in healthcare. Reactions from the leaders of healthcare AI companies have been mainly positive. However, one leader pointed out that fear or the risks associated with LLMs shouldn’t hinder innovation, and another noted that the guidance may have failed to mention a major topic.

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Pharmaceutical industry: 2023 in retrospect

European Pharmaceutical Review

N-Nitrosamines By far the biggest issue bedevilling industry during 2023 was the continuing N-nitrosamine contamination saga, which was covered in the third issue of EPR 2023. 1 Some five years after the initial NDMA (N-nitrosodimethylamine) contamination issue 2 initially affecting valsartan drug substance, then other active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), eg, sartans, ranitidine, metformin, etc; the toxic short alkyl chain N-nitrosamine issue appears, if not resolved, then well on the way t

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Ron Lanton, Partner, Lanton Law PLLC, Discusses New Drug Plus Pricing Models

Pharmaceutical Commerce

In an interview with Pharma Commerce Associate Editor Don Tracy, Ron Lanton, Partner, Lanton Law PLLC, discusses recent moves by CVS and Express Scripts to follow Mark Cuban's drug plus model.

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Grifols sues Gotham City over fraud allegations

pharmaphorum

Spanish drugmaker Grifols has hit back at hedge fund Gotham City Research, which claimed it had fraudulently manipulated its financial reporting, with a lawsuit filed in New York. The complaint has been brought against Gotham City and co-founders Daniel Yu and Cyrus de Weck, along with other defendants, and accuses them of being “predatory short sellers…who illicitly profit from their rigged short-and-distort schemes.

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Moderna leads the development of mRNA vaccines in infectious diseases

Pharmaceutical Technology

The rapid sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 and the subsequent development of mRNA vaccines led to the authorisation of the first of these vaccines in late 2020.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Instacart, DispatchHealth Team Up To Improve Food Insecurity

MedCity News

Instacart and DispatchHealth recently launched a partnership that allows DispatchHealth to provide food interventions to patients in need of nutrition support.

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Medicines for Europe calls for simpler SPC manufacturing waiver

European Pharmaceutical Review

According to Medicines for Europe, the Munich District Court’s Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) manufacturing waiver , issued in Germany in October 2023, is “in conflict” with the objectives of the waiver. The organisation and its members are “strongly concerned” by the court’s first judgement of the waiver. SPC manufacturing waiver Aims and challenges First enacted in 2019, the goal of the SPC manufacturing waiver is to enable the manufacture of medicines, under certain conditions, du

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Preparing Your Organization for AI in 2024: 10 Essential Elements of an Enterprise-Wide Strategy

MedCity News

When it comes to AI, the consensus is that healthcare organizations have an opportunity right now to take an enterprise-wide approach that encompasses everything from workforce to infrastructure to governance and beyond. Here are these ten essential elements of an enterprise-wide AI strategy for healthcare organizations.

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BMS subcutaneous Opdivo clears first phase 3 trial

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Bristol-Myers Squibb is getting closer to offering a subcutaneous version of its cancer immunotherapy Opdivo to patients after it matched the current intravenous formulation in a head-to-head trial in kidney cancer.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Revised ISO guideline highlights toxicological evaluation of extractables and leachables

European Pharmaceutical Review

In the published in 2023, the process and requirements for toxicological risk assessment of medical device constituents is outlined. Also covered in the guideline are “the methods and criteria used to assess whether exposure to a constituent is without appreciable harm”. As highlighted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the process described in the standard is relevant to chemical characterisation, such as extractable data or leachable data ( E&L ), information obta

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GSK’s Omjjara EU-cleared for splenomegaly in myelofibrosis

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GSK has claimed EU approval of Omjjara for the treatment of splenomegaly or symptoms in adult myelofibrosis patients with moderate-to-severe anaemia

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Tonix closes in on the first new fibromyalgia drug in more than a decade

PharmaVoice

In addition to the chronic disease, the non-opioid drug may have applications in other painful conditions.

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Keytruda improves survival in early-stage kidney cancer

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MSD’s Keytruda is the first cancer immunotherapy to improve survival when used as adjuvant therapy in renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

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Optimizing Clinical Supply Strategy: Navigating Challenges & Finding Your Ideal Model

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Sanofi Tries Again With Cytokines, Inking R&D Alliance With Startup Synthekine

MedCity News

Sanofi and Synthekine will work together to develop cytokine therapies for inflammatory diseases. This new alliance comes as Sanofi is salvaging a different cytokine therapy that showed disappointing efficacy in Phase 2 after the pharma giant acquired it in a $2.5 billion deal.

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Ascidian launches first-ever clinical study of RNA exon editor for vision loss

Pharmaceutical Technology

An eye-catching milestone in hand, Ascidian will begin the Phase I/II STELLAR study of ACDN-01 for Stargardt disease in H1 2024.

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Pediatric Telehealth Startup Kismet Health Seeks to Improve Access to Care

MedCity News

In response to emailed questions, Kismet Health Co-founders CEO Dr. Cierra Gromoff and COO Christie Sander talked about why they started the business.

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Cell and gene therapies – top pharmaceutical industry trend to watch for 2024

Pharmaceutical Technology

The full potential of cell and gene therapies (CGTs) has not yet been discovered as these therapies promise life-changing treatments.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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Top 7 Healthcare Focus Areas for Mastering Modern CPQ Technology

MedCity News

While the term ‘CPQ’ — Configure, Price, Quote — might seem distanced from direct patient care, these tools are, in fact, pivotal for a modern, patient-centric healthcare system. Far from being just business-centric, CPQ tools are a fundamental component in the healthcare delivery chain.

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FDA starts swift review of tumour-agnostic use of Enhertu

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AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu could become the first therapy approved by the FDA for use in any HER2-positive cancer, regardless of its location in the body. The US regulator has started a priority review of the HER2-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) for the treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive solid tumours who have been treated previously or have limited treatment options.

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Bristol Myers Squibb’s Abecma recommended for EU approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

The EMA CHMP has recommended marketing authorisation for Bristol Myers Squibb’s Abecma for multiple myeloma.

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Orion licenses digital pain therapeutic from Newel Health

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Orion licenses digital pain therapeutic from Newel Health Phil.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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NHS delivers a further 5,000 permanent hospital beds

PharmaTimes

A total of 103,277 general and acute beds are now available to NHS patients

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FDA grants priority review for Daiichi Sankyo-AstraZeneca’s Enhertu

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US FDA has granted priority review to the sBLA for ENHERTU, a treatment developed by Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca for solid tumours.

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How MD Select Helps Pharma Companies Connect with Nurse Practitioners

Scott’s Directories

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are increasingly vital in providing primary care, managing chronic conditions, and prescribing medications. This growing influence presents a significant opportunity for pharmaceutical companies. However, reaching the right NPs can be a challenge.MD Select offers a robust solution with its comprehensive nurse practitioner directory , designed to bridge the gap between pharmaceutical companies and NPs.

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Navigating clinical trial operations in the era of collaboration

Pharmaceutical Technology

The upcoming OCT West Coast 2024 conference will feature experts talking about emerging techologies, clinical trial operations for pharma and medical devices, and patient participation in studies.

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Using Generative AI in Sales: Pros, Cons, and Considerations According to Sellers

Are your sellers unsure about using AI in their day-to-day workflows? Or are they eager to try but uncertain where to start? They might be asking: Which tasks are best suited for AI? How will using AI affect my relationship with my customers? With so many tools available, which ones are the most useful to me? To help answer these and other common questions about using AI during the sales cycle, we surveyed B2B sellers who were early adopters to get their insight and advice about how to use gen A