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Social Media is dangerous for patients

World of DTC Marketing

Suppose you’re on Facebook or Instagram, and Meta has determined you may be interested in cancer treatments. In that case, you may have seen an ad for a dangerous cancer treatment, or one of the 20 or so others recently running from the CHIPSA hospital in Mexico near the US border, all of which are publicly listed in Meta’s Ad Library. They are part of a pattern on Facebook of ads that make misleading or false health claims targeted at cancer patients.

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Episode 91 – Your MedTech Social Media Reputation

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes. You would not want this to happen to your company. The motivation for this episode came to me as I read a post in a medically oriented private Facebook group where a doctor very professionally took a MedTech company to task for poor service. When I share more of the details in a moment, you will be as shocked as I was.

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How to find the right journal for your research (using actual data)

Clarivate

Want to help your research flourish? We share tips for using publisher-neutral data and statistics to find the right journal for your research paper. The right journal helps your research flourish. It puts you in the best position to reach a relevant and engaged audience, and can extend the impact of your paper through a high-quality publishing process.

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Biotech spotlight: Twist Bioscience aims to remove limits on drug discovery with DNA synthesis platform

PharmaVoice

As ‘the Amazon of DNA,’ Twist CSO, Aaron Sato, discusses the company’s breakthrough approach to DNA production and its expansion into drug development.

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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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Why obesity intervention needs to be a bigger part of chronic disease care

MedCity News

Obese patients are more at risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and mortality than patients who maintain a healthy weight, and obese patient who develop these chronic conditions usually have more complications. That is why providers and payers must integrate more weight loss strategies in chronic condition care, panelists argued at a Tuesday panel hosted by the Chamber of Commerce.

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Takeda’s Peter Schnack on digital’s role in driving innovation and improving patient outcomes

Dominic Tyer

Why digital and data should be available to everybody in a pharma commercial organisation

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Smart Jumpsuit Tracks Motor Development in Children

Medgadget

Researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland created a smart jumpsuit that can track toddler movements. The idea is to closely monitor motor development and identify any issues early, allowing for earlier interventions. Issues with motor development can be related to wider neurodevelopmental problems, and so tracking a young child’s activity can provide a window into their overall development.

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Metaverse in healthcare

MedCity News

Dr. Mona Flores, Global Head of Medical AI at Nvidia, will deliver the keynote talk kicking off the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference, scheduled for Wednesday, September 28, in Dallas and presented in collaboration with Health Wildcatters. Register today.

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Enabling the next wave of innovative drug therapies with speciality enzymes

Pharmaceutical Technology

Approximately 75,000 enzymes are thought to exist in the human body as vital catalysts for biochemical reactions or conversions. For hundreds of years, we have found myriad uses for microbial enzymes in manufacturing – from food, drink, and household products to a range of industrial applications. The pharmaceutical industry often relies on enzymes to perform a process known as biocatalysis, which facilitates the cost-effective and sustainable production of small molecule drugs at scale.

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The Creative Floor Awards Announce the 2022 Finalists

PM360

The Creative Floor Healthcare Awards has announced this year’s finalists. Entries have come from the U.S., South America, UK, EU, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, China, and the Middle East. The finalist companies include: Shaheed Peera, Founder of the Creative Floor Healthcare Awards said: “From the bottom of my heart and everyone at The Creative Floor, thank you to everyone who supports this amazing award show.

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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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Biopharmaceutical bioseparation systems market to value $20bn

European Pharmaceutical Review

According to recent market research , the global market for biopharmaceutical bioseparation systems, estimated to value $13 billion in 2022, is projected to grow to $19.6 billion by 2026, achieving a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2 percent. The analysts suggest the rising demand for biopharmaceuticals, equipment advancements and the pharma industry’s increasing focus on production efficiency are propelling growth in the global bioseparation systems market, as is the growing use of sin

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FDA rejection of Spero’s tebipenem ‘raises resistance threat’

pharmaphorum

The FDA’s decision not to approve Spero Therapeutics’ oral antibiotic tebipenem Hbr for adults with complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI) further increases the threat of antibiotic resistance, according to a GlobalData analyst. The FDA delivered a blow to Spero’s hopes of bringing the carbapenem to market in a complete response letter (CRL) delivered this week, which said another trial would be required to support approval.

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EC grants approval for Kite’s cell therapy to treat follicular lymphoma

Pharmaceutical Technology

The European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorisation for Gilead Sciences’ subsidiary Kite’s CAR T-cell therapy, Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel), to treat adults with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma (FL). . A CD19-directed genetically modified autologous T cell immunotherapy, Yescarta is indicated for FL patients who have received three or more previous lines of systemic therapy.

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Magnetic Steering System for Guidewires

Medgadget

Percutaneous coronary intervention is an incredibly useful technique to minimally invasively investigate and treat cardiac issues, such as blockages in the coronary arteries, but it requires a significant amount of skill to perform safely and effectively. Manipulating a guidewire through the tortuous vasculature is not for the faint hearted, with the possibility of perforating a vessel always near.

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

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Healthier Together and philanthropic ventures in tropical disease

European Pharmaceutical Review

Europe’s Healthier Together initiative. The European Commission (EC) has launched the Healthier Together: EU Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) initiative to support EU Member States in reducing the burden of NCDs by addressing the leading causes of avoidable premature death in Europe and improving citizens’ health and well-being. The €156 million initiative identifies effective actions and the available legal and financial supporting tools across five main areas: cardiovascular diseases, di

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GSK hepatitis B hope bepirovirsen heads for phase 3 test

pharmaphorum

An antisense drug in development at GSK has shown further activity against hepatitis B virus (HBV) in a mid-stage trial, setting up a phase 3 assessment next year to see if it could offer a “functional cure” for the widespread disease. Interim results from the phase 2b B-Clear showed that bepirovirsen reduced levels of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and HBV DNA after 24 weeks’ treatment to below the lower limit of detection in people with chronic hepatitis B, raising hopes

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Magazine-How delays derailed Covid-19 vaccination in Africa

Pharmaceutical Technology

The latest issue of Pharma Technology Focus is out now. Read it for free on all devices. Some months after the first Covid-19 vaccines became available, the World Health Organization (WHO) set a target of vaccinating 70% of each country’s population by the end of June 2022. Global trends indicate that initially, a slow supply did not allow African countries, in particular, to stay on pace to meet this target, and now vaccination rates have even begun to slow down.

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Seven Strategies for Succeeding as a Small Fish in a Big Pond

PM360

The biotech sector has seen its fair share of unsettling dynamics over the past 18 months. From unprecedented growth to wavering confidence from investors, emerging biotech organizations have had to become both resourceful and creative. At the same time, Big Pharma and the medical device firms have turned around COVID-19 diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics at a stunningly impressive pace, in part due to decades of investment in the people and the scientific advances they pioneer.

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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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How should cleaning validation sampling locations be chosen?

European Pharmaceutical Review

A recent paper outlines a process that can be used to select and document worst-case sampling locations to validate cleaning processes. The article, published in the Journal of Validation Technology ( JVT ), presents the case study of a company undergoing an investigation and developing a strategy for identifying worst-case sampling locations on equipment, after a regulatory auditor asked for such a rationale and no written documentation could be provided.

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Merck launches accelerator programme for AI startups

pharmaphorum

Merck & Co is looking for startup companies applying artificial intelligence , machine-learning and other digital approaches to drug discovery and development for a new accelerator programme. The big pharma – known as MSD outside North America – is initially offering support to 12 companies though the newly-formed Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) and is now taking applications from would-be participants.

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AI hiring levels in the pharmaceutical industry rose in May 2022

Pharmaceutical Technology

The proportion of pharmaceutical companies hiring for AI related positions kept relatively steady in May 2022 compared with the equivalent month last year, with 39.3% of the companies included in our analysis recruiting for at least one such position. This latest figure was higher than the 39% of companies who were hiring for AI related jobs a year ago but a decrease compared to the figure of 43.6% in April 2022.

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Astellas pays Sutro Bio $90M to partner on cancer drugs that make cold tumors hot

MedCity News

Astellas Pharma has a new partner in the R&D of a type of cancer drug called an antibody drug conjugate (ADC). The Japanese pharma company reached across the Pacific Ocean to collaborate with Sutro Biopharma in a bet that Bay Area-based firm’s technology can deliver more powerful ADCs.

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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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Global Blood Therapeutics: driving innovation in sickle cell disease

European Pharmaceutical Review

Sickle cell disease – a rare, yet prevalent, genetic disease in Europe. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a devastating, lifelong blood disorder that occurs when someone inherits sickle cell genes from both parents. 1 It affects haemoglobin, a protein carried by red blood cells that delivers oxygen throughout the body. 2 SCD predominantly affects those whose ancestors are from sub-Saharan Africa but is also common in people of Hispanic, South Asian, Southern European and Middle Eastern ancestry. 3 Wh

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Study exposes lack of diversity in US cancer trials

pharmaphorum

Almost half (48%) of cancer clinical trials in the US have no Hispanic or Latin American subjects, and 42% have no black patients, according to a diversity analysis focusing on thousands of studies conducted in the past 15 years. The analysis – from a dataset that spans more than half a million patients – reveals once again the lack of inclusivity in clinical research, which undermines the ability of clinical trials to generate results that reflect the real-world situation in US cancer treatmen

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Pfizer seeks approval from US FDA for Covid-19 treatment

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pfizer has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval for Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir tablets and ritonavir tablets) to treat Covid-19 patients at increased disease progression risk. An inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro), Paxlovid is intended to be given orally. Due to the oral form, the therapy can be prescribed in the early infection stage to avert severe illness.

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How health systems can successfully manage and grow their provider networks with an EHR

MedCity News

Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the preferences and expectations of healthcare consumers have […].

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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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Pursuing new paths in targeted protein degradation drug development

European Pharmaceutical Review

DRUG DEVELOPMENT based on targeted protein degradation (TPD) has progressed rapidly since the publication in 2015 of three landmark papers 1-3 that highlighted important early-stage breakthroughs with drug-like molecules in this area of research. Since that time, the field has advanced to the point where there are now more than two dozen companies dedicated to working on the development of TPD drugs, some of which have advanced to later-stage clinical development.

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Bayer launches digital AI platform for radiology specialists

pharmaphorum

Bayer has stepped up the digital capabilities of its radiology business with the launch of artificial intelligence-based apps for X-ray, MRI and CT imaging. The cloud-hosted platform – called Calantic Digital Solutions – has tools to help radiologists detect and quantify disease lesions in medical images and select patients for treatment in order of priority, improving their productivity.

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Terumo and GenCure sign agreement for cell and gene therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies and BioBridge Global subsidiary, GenCure, have entered a new partnership agreement to expand and integrate cell and gene therapy manufacturing solutions. In a bid to meet the growing demand for automated and closed smart systems across the cell and gene therapy (CGT) industry, the companies entered the deal to merge technologies and capabilities.

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Novartis pays $100M to get Mallinckrodt’s ticket for a speedier FDA drug review

MedCity News

Novartis is acquiring an FDA priority review voucher from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. The $100 million price tag is in the neighborhood of the going rate for these vouchers, which grant a company a shorter regulatory review timeline for a drug that addresses a rare or neglected disease.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time