October, 2023

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Four Unwritten Rules of Sales to Get to the Next Level

Integrity Solutions

One of the most common pathways into sales is… accidental. Many people find themselves taking a sales role almost as a layover en route to their “real” career. It’s the thing to do while they figure out what it is they actually want to do. And then a funny thing happens: They realize they like doing sales. Along the way, though, they often discover that there are many intangibles and unwritten rules of sales that are a huge factor in getting established and then to the ne

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Finding a Collaborative, Data-Driven Future for Pharma

MedCity News

The future of pharmaceutical innovation hinges on enhanced data discovery and collaboration. Through data sharing and collective effort, the pharmaceutical industry can accelerate the development of new therapies.

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UPDATED: Pfizer plans to shutter New Jersey site, discloses layoffs amid $3.5B cost-cutting drive

Fierce Pharma

Editor's note: This story has been updated with a comment from Pfizer. An earlier version of the story stated that nearly 800 jobs would be affected. | After plunging COVID revenues prompted Pfizer to embark on a cost-cutting crusade, more details about the company's savings efforts are coming into focus.

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Actor and epilepsy advocate Greg Grunberg wants the world to ‘talk about it’

PharmaVoice

The actor of “Heroes” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” fame is starring in another role as a patient advocate for people with epilepsy.

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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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LogiPharma USA 2023: Tracy Nasarenko Provides a Synopsis of “DSCSA—Final Checks to Have Before Deadlines.”

Pharmaceutical Commerce

In an interview at LogiPharma USA 2023 with Pharma Commerce Editor Nicholas Saraceno, Tracy Nasarenko, Sr. Director of Community Engagement for Pharmaceuticals, GS1 US highlights her “DSCSA—Final Checks to Have Before Deadlines.

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Life Sciences Innovation Day – Accelerating Digital Transformation Ambition

European Pharmaceutical Review

Schneider Electric, a leader in digital transformation, energy management and automation, has announced the speaker lineup for its exclusive event, Life Sciences Innovation Day – Accelerating Digital Transformation Ambition. Set at the world-renowned Silverstone F1 Racetrack on 18 October 2023, it promises to be a day of immersive insights and top rate networking.

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Health Equity Begins with Increasing Diversity in Clinical Research: AI Can Help

MedCity News

It’s critical that we address these examples of institutionalized bias and racism in how we approach clinical trials for drugs and devices. While it’s a daunting task, the path forward is surprisingly clear, and AI can be instrumental in the next step of overcoming unconscious biases inherent in clinical trial processes.

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With COVID sales in free-fall, Pfizer slashes revenue forecast by $9B and preps for major cost cuts

Fierce Pharma

As the coronavirus outbreak has shifted to the endemic phase, drugmakers have warned of a drop in demand for COVID-19 products, with the impact coming into focus during the fall vaccination season. | Pfizer has slashed its 2023 revenue projection by $9 billion because of declining demand for COVID products. The company now expects sales to reach between $58 billion and $61 billion, down from a prior range of $67 billion to $70 billion.

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Patient groups have become a powerhouse in R&D. Here’s a look at their impact.

PharmaVoice

“They have the money,” and they’re using it to influence drug development, according to the executive director of the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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Multilocation Healthcare Marketing: Minimum Daily Requirements

Healthcare Success

Do you want to compete in each of your local markets? Do you want to position your healthcare products and services where your target audience actively seeks them? If so, you need a custom digital marketing strategy and budget for each location. We like to call this budget the “minimum daily requirement.” Why is this so important? Unless you have a solid local strategy, your business will not show up online where and when it matters most.

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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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First-in-class phosphate absorption inhibitor approved by FDA

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved XPHOZAH ® (tenapanor), the first and only phosphate absorption inhibitor. Ardelyx’s first-in-class oral treatment is indicated to reduce serum phosphorus in adults with chronic kidney disease ( CKD ) on dialysis as add-on therapy in patients who have an inadequate response to phosphate binders or who are intolerant to phosphate binder therapy.

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Rescheduling Cannabis to a Schedule III Controlled Substance: A Regulator’s Perspective

PM360

On August 30, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made a recommendation to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that cannabis be moved from a Schedule I Controlled Substance to a Schedule III Controlled Substance under the federal Controlled Substances Act. While a great deal has been speculated about the potential impact of rescheduling on state licensed cannabis businesses, pharmaceutical companies, health plans, insurance companies, and federal agencies such as th

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How Mayo Clinic Is Approaching Generative AI Risk Mitigation

MedCity News

At HLTH, Mayo Clinic Platform President John Halamka gave a window into how his health system is mitigating generative AI risks. Some of the measures Mayo is taking include running analyses on how well algorithms perform across various subgroups and training models only on internal de-identified data.

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Merck’s Keytruda wins coveted FDA nod around surgery for early lung cancer—with a surprise

Fierce Pharma

Up until this point, immune checkpoint inhibitors have been allowed to treat early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) either before or after surgery. | Thanks to a new FDA approval for Merck's Keytruda, a continuous immunotherapy regimen around surgery is now available for patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. The drug's label already includes an overall survival win from a key trial.

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

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The FDA might yank cold medicines from shelves — and that could be just the beginning

PharmaVoice

Phenylephrine’s future is up in the air with an FDA committee saying it’s not effective and a class action lawsuit alleging false advertising. What comes next could have big repercussions.

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An Evolving ‘Opinion’ Landscape: New Paths—and Synergies—for Pharma KOLs & DOLs

PharmExec

Industry experts discuss the relationship between digital and traditional (key) opinion leaders and how companies are adjusting their strategies to harness the unique brand engagement benefits each role can provide in driving better patient outcomes.

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CCC Releases AI-Enabled Affiliation Matching Software Powering Open Access Publication Modeling and Analysis for Publishers

Copyright Clearance Center

October 10, 2023 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , the leading provider of Open Access (OA) workflow solutions, announces new data import capabilities and AI-enabled affiliation matching in its OA Agreement Intelligence modeling and analytics tool that provides publishers with a 360-degree view of disambiguated publication data to build accurate, transparent institutional offers regarding OA.

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Europe’s pharmaceutical packaging market to value over $35bn by 2028

European Pharmaceutical Review

Europe’s pharmaceutical packaging and labelling market is projected to reach $35.78 billion in 2028, according to a report by Arizton. Having been valued at $27.04 billion in 2022, the pharmaceutical packaging and labelling market in Europe is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.78 percent up to 2028. Europe’s position in the global pharmaceutical packaging and labelling market The authors highlighted that Europe led the worldwide market at 27 percent in 2022.

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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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Is Medicare Advantage a Failed Experiment? Experts Debate

MedCity News

Enrollment in Medicare Advantage is increasing, but the program has been drawing scrutiny from the government. Can the program be saved? One expert believes Medicare Advantage is a failed experiment. Another thinks that while the program has its flaws, it shows tremendous potential.

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Gates Foundation spends $40M to boost mRNA vaccine production in Africa and beyond

Fierce Pharma

Following similar initiatives to bolster mRNA vaccine production and access in Africa, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing new funding to a clutch of drugmakers. | Following similar initiatives to bolster mRNA vaccine production and access in Africa, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing new funding to a clutch of drugmakers.

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Digital Learning Programs Webinar

Impetus Digital

Register for one of Impetus’ upcoming webinars between November 20-24: Digital Learning Programs with a Twist About the webinar Last year, we hosted a series of webinars on virtual learning programs. By popular demand, we are bringing them back in November, featuring all the new best practices, tips, and tricks that we’ve picked up in the last 12 months.

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3 Ways AI is Already Changing Advertising (and None Are Generative AI)

PM360

Everyone’s buzzing about generative artificial intelligence (AI), and it’s true that technology like ChatGPT is already having an enormous impact on advertising and marketing. But other AI tools that our industry has been using for years have changed the face of media planning and buying. The examples below share how we have been utilizing AI for our pharma clients.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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CCC to Host Virtual Town Hall on AI, Licensing, and the Path Forward

Copyright Clearance Center

October 3, 2023 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , a pioneer in voluntary collective licensing and leading information solutions provider to organizations around the world, will host a Town Hall via LinkedIn Live on “AI, Licensing, and the Path Forward” on Thursday, 12 October, 10:00 EDT/15:00 BST/16:00 CEST. CCC’s Vice President, General Counsel Catherine Zaller Rowland and a panel of legal experts including Prof.

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Starvation stress key in Micrococcus luteus cleanroom survival

European Pharmaceutical Review

A paper by Tim Sandle, Head of Microbiology, Risk Management and Sterility Assurance at Bio Products Laboratory Ltd has underlined the importance of proper cleanroom disinfection practices by elucidating on the robust survival mechanism of the bacterium Micrococcus luteus (M. luteus). As “one of the most abundant organisms on the outer layer of human skin” M. luteus is a common contaminant recovered from cleanrooms, according to Sandle.

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FDA Forms New Digital Health Advisory Committee to Cover Growing Role of Tech

MedCity News

The FDA’s digital health advisory committee will discuss technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual reality, and digital therapeutics as well as topics like decentralized clinical trials and patient-generated health data. Committee member nominations are due in December.

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As COVID sales crater, Pfizer takes $5.6B in inventory write-offs on Paxlovid, Comirnaty

Fierce Pharma

For Pfizer, several years of pandemic megaprofits have soured as overstocked COVID-19 drugs and vaccines take a major toll on the drug behemoth’s financials. | Pfizer's pandemic megaprofits have soured as overstocked COVID-19 drugs and vaccines take a major toll on the drug behemoth’s financials.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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Hyloris wins painkiller approval amidst amplified anti-opioid efforts

Pharmaceutical Technology

The FDA approved Hyloris’s non-opioid painkiller as the agency increases efforts to mitigate an opioid crisis.

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Navigating Shared Decision-Making in Healthcare: The Impact of Innovative Branding on Patient and Family Wellness

PM360

When it comes to healthcare decisions, patients are not the only ones calling the shots. Shared decision-making is a process where multiple parties work together to make decisions on testing, treatments, and care plans, among other things. This relationship between the patient and their provider is the backbone of modern healthcare, but we often overlook influential and extremely common stakeholders that medical brands sometimes miss: the patient’s family.

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CCC Hosts Annual ‘We Not Me’ Global Volunteering Event

Copyright Clearance Center

Oct. 31, 2023 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , a pioneer in voluntary collective licensing and leading information solutions provider, held its annual ‘We Not Me’ global volunteering event as part of a year-round charity initiative about demonstrating the power of individual action to build community and support the common good. CCC US-based staff collaborated with colleagues in various parts of the country including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Oregon, Washington, and California, serving

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Are we globally prepared for the next pandemic?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Echoes of the global health challenges we faced during the COVID-19 pandemic still linger as new variants emerge and COVID continues to make headlines. A question that continues to sit in the back of many people’s minds is what happens if there is another outbreak or global pandemic? Are we preparing and how ready are we for the next one? Vaccitech’s Chief Business Officer, Graham Griffiths, discusses key learnings in drug and vaccine development , the challenges of preparing for the unknown, an

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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