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CDC starts ‘Wild to Mild’ campaign to reverse falling flu vaccine use in key groups

Fierce Pharma

The CDC wants to reset expectations for flu vaccines to correct falling uptake. | The CDC wants to reset expectations for flu vaccines to correct falling uptake. After tracking declines in vaccine use in pregnant people and children, the health body has initiated its “Wild to Mild” campaign to raise awareness of the benefits of vaccination and encourage more people to get their shots.

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Babylon Health’s CEO ‘Should Spend Some Time With Elizabeth Holmes’

MedCity News

U.K. doctor David Watkins has been a public critic of Babylon Health for years, during which has received anonymous emails from Babylon employees saying that the company’s AI is a sham. After Babylon collapsed, a former employee also publicly declared that the AI engine was faulty. As a longtime skeptic of Babylon’s claims surrounding its technology, Watkins said that Ali Parsa, the company’s CEO, belongs behind bars.

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In warning letters, FDA tells 8 companies to stop selling illicit eye drugs

Fierce Pharma

Eight companies are finding themselves in hot water for allegedly churning out illicit eye drugs, the FDA said Tuesday. | The companies included in the warning letter sweep are: Boiron, CVS Health, DR Vitamin Solutions, Natural Ophthalmics, OcluMed, Similasan, TRP Company and Walgreens Boots Alliance.

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Developing an effective contamination control strategy

European Pharmaceutical Review

As part of The Future of Pharma/Biopharma Analysis 2023 , which took place on 28-29 June 2023, European Pharmaceutical Review ( EPR ) gathered an expert panel to discuss developing a modern contamination control strategy. The participants were: Dr Tim Sandle, Head of GxP Compliance at Bio Products Laboratory Limited (BPL) as moderator; Dr Edward Tidswell, Executive Director within the Microbiological Quality and Sterility Assurance organisation of Merck & Co; Frederic Ayers, Research Scienti

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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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Xspray, seeking FDA approval for its Sprycel competitor, settles patent lawsuit with BMS

Fierce Pharma

Xspray Pharma, before receiving an FDA slapdown in July, had expected to launch its competitor to Bristol Myers Squibb’s leukemia blockbuster Sprycel within the second half of 2023. | Xspray and BMS have settled patent litigation around their potential rivals Dasynoc and Sprycel, Xspray said Tuesday. The deal clears “all pending claims” and tees up a potential Dasynoc launch on Sept. 1, 2024, or potentially earlier under certain circumstances.

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How 4 Mental Health Firms Want the DEA to Handle Virtual Prescribing of Controlled Substances

MedCity News

Talkiatry, Array Behavioral Care, Iris Telehealth and Quartet Health sent a letter to the DEA asking for a special registration process that would allow for the prescribing of certain controlled medications via telemedicine.

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How Hospitals Should Manage Cybersecurity Risks, Per Baptist Health’s CIO

MedCity News

As health systems shore up their defenses against cybercriminals, they should openly communicate with their third-party vendors about data security risks and work together to actively manage those risks. That was some of the advice given by Aaron Miri, Baptist Health’s chief digital and information officer, during a Tuesday webinar.

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With multiple launches underway, Jazz names Renée Galá its next operations chief

Fierce Pharma

As Jazz Pharmaceuticals turns the page from its long-time growth driver Xyrem and leans on a trio of newer medicines for growth, its executive roster is undergoing some changes. | As Jazz turns the page from its long-time growth driver Xyrem and leans on a trio of newer medicines for growth, its executive roster is undergoing some changes.

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Frontiers Adopts CCC Ringgold Identify Database as its PID Solution

Copyright Clearance Center

September 12, 2023 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced Gold Open Access (OA) publisher Frontiers has adopted the industry-leading Ringgold Identify Database as its Persistent Identifier (PID) solution to help power its OA models by normalizing and disambiguating organization data.

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Neuro Startup Arialys Raises $58M for Privilege of Tackling Brain Inflammation

MedCity News

Avalon BioVentures unveiled new portfolio company Arialys Therapeutics. The startup’s lead program, an antibody from Astellas Pharma, is a potential treatment for anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (ANRE), a rare autoimmune inflammatory disorder.

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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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Implementing the future of mRNA therapeutics

European Pharmaceutical Review

The next generation of therapeutics has arrived: from simple design and development to theoretically unlimited targets, messenger RNA ( mRNA )‑based therapeutics offer a multitude of benefits. However, creating these innovative treatments harbours challenges. This article explores common developmental and design issues and how to mitigate difficulties before they occur.

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Healthcare Transformation: Boosting Data Quality, Tackling Burnout, and Charting the Future

MedCity News

This on-demand webinar explores the impact of poor data quality and methods to improve patient data quality. It highlights technology that can improve workflows to help reduce workforce burnout.

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AI to revolutionise drug development by 2026

European Pharmaceutical Review

Initial data from the CPHI Annual Report 2023, which provides insight from 250 global pharmaceutical companies, reveals that AI (artificial intelligence) is expected to transform every area of the industry, from drug discovery through to drug development , within the next 24-months. Data predicted that in 2030, more than half of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs will involve AI in their development and/or manufacturing.

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Walgreens, Pearl Health Strike Strategic Partnership To Advance Value-based Care

MedCity News

Through a new partnership with Walgreens, Pearl Health will work with primary care providers by offering its technology and data insights to help them better their care and transition to value-based payment models. Walgreens is then providing prescription fulfillment, medication adherence, immunization and diagnostic testing services.

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

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Novel vaccine delivers significant survival in lung cancer trial

European Pharmaceutical Review

A T-cell epitope cancer vaccine significantly improved overall survival in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared to chemotherapy, Phase III data published in Annals of Oncology has shown. The immunotherapy activating tumour specific T-cells, off-the-shelf, neoepitope-based vaccine Tedopi ® was evaluated in HLA-A2 positive patients with advanced or metastatic NSCLC in monotherapy in third line NSCLC with secondary resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors, in the Phase III clinical trial A

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An Ounce of Prevention Isn’t Enough To Treat Obesity

MedCity News

If we want to support people with obesity, the weight loss debate must stop conflating obesity prevention with obesity treatment. Instead, we should focus on the tools that best solve the needs of people where they are – just as we would for cancer or diabetes – by making the most effective treatments possible available.

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How breakthrough CAR-T cancer therapies could be made more widely accessible

European Pharmaceutical Review

CAR T-cell therapy is a form of immunotherapy that uses specially altered T cells to fight cancer. A sample of T cells is collected from the blood of a cancer patient, genetically engineered to produce chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) on their surface, and then expanded and reinfused into the patient. These new receptors enable the cells to latch onto a specific antigen on the patient’s tumour cells and kill them.

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The Expanding Role of Benefit Consultants as Employers Look to Navigate Change [Sponsored]

MedCity News

This new report sheds light on how the benefit consultants’ role has changed and details their perspective on the shifting employer healthcare landscape.

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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

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Microbiome therapy manufacturing facility completed

European Pharmaceutical Review

A new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for microbiome ecosystem therapies has now completed construction. MaaT Pharma, a company focusing on treatments for oncology, and French contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) Skyepharma formed a partnership in February 2022 to build the largest current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) facility, to date, for full ecosystem microbiome therapies in Europe.

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FDA approves Pfizer-BioNTech’s Omicron XBB.1.5-adapted Covid-19 vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US FDA has approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s sBLA for Omicron XBB.1.5-adapted monovalent Covid-19 vaccine, COMIRNATY 2023-2024 Formulation.

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Uncovering new frontiers in microbiology and EM

European Pharmaceutical Review

In this exclusive interview, industry experts Laure Pomares Voisin, Quality Director, Catalent Biologics and Tony Cundell Principal Consultant, Microbiological Consulting, share critical insights into the rapidly evolving landscape of pharmaceutical environmental monitoring and microbiology. They discuss the current challenges in rapid detection, adherence to newly revised EU Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)Annex 1 guidelines, and the importance of robust personnel training.

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Enzyme Treatment Strips Mucins from Cancer Cells

Medgadget

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new type of cancer therapy. The technology targets mucins, sugar-coated proteins that help cancer cells to metastasize and avoid the immune system. In particular, mucins enable cancer cells to survive free-floating as they travel through the blood during metastasis and can also trick immune cells into assuming that the cancer cell is not a threat.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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BioLineRx’s Aphexda receives FDA approval for stem cell mobilisation

Pharmaceutical Technology

BioLineRx has received the US Food and Drug Administration approval for Aphexda plus filgrastim to mobilise haematopoietic stem cells.

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Technique Creates Multilayered Tubular Cell Constructs

Medgadget

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have developed a new method to create multilayered tubes from cells. The technique could be very useful for recreating multilayered tubular constructs that are found in the body, such as the intestines and blood vessels. Accurately modeling such complex structures in the lab could open new doors in terms of medical research and may even pave the way for bioengineered intestinal or vascular constructs that are suitable for implantation in human patients.

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CancerVAX joins forces with UCLA to develop a universal CAR-T cell therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

CancerVAX plans to adapt its universal cancer vaccine platform to develop a universal CAR-T cell platform.

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A healthcare paradox: Drugs are too expensive but ‘easy’ to afford, Americans say

PharmaVoice

A new poll shows that Americans generally support several key IRA provisions, including Medicare price negotiations.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Salipro Biotech and Sumitomo Pharma collaborate for drug discovery

PharmaTimes

The research will aim to reveal the mechanism of action of a drug target candidate - News - PharmaTimes

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The Art of Subtle Selling: Why We Love to Buy and Detest Being Sold To

Contrarian Sales Techniques

A Universal Sentiment Ever found yourself excitedly making a purchase and then, moments later, felt like you were duped by a sales pitch? You're not alone. It's a curious quirk of human nature — we all love the thrill of acquiring something new, but there's an innate aversion to feeling like we've been 'sold to'. Over the years, I've pondered this dichotomy, and it's clear that the secret to great selling lies in understanding this sentiment.

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Endovascular Med Device Sales With Michael Clark

Evolve Your Success

Sales in the endovascular space is not just about products; it’s about saving lives one catheter at a time. In this episode, Samuel Adeyinka interviews Michael Clark , territory manager atTerumo Interventional Systems. From cath labs to catheters, they uncover the intricacies and rewards of this high-stakes industry. Michael shares his journey in the surgical division, revealing the inner workings of a cath lab, where Interventional Cardiologists navigate intricate procedures from dawn til

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From Person to Salesperson: The Heart of Authentic Selling

Contrarian Sales Techniques

The Inner Foundation How often have we heard the phrase, "It's just business"? While there's truth in separating personal emotions from professional dealings, there's another angle we often overlook. At the heart of every sale, every transaction, and every deal, there's a person. Not a strategy or a script, but a genuine individual. I've always believed that if we get the person right, the sales naturally follow.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud