MedCity News
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Despite most insurer execs saying that digital transformation is a top priority, only 8% believe the majority of their staff embrace digital transformation, according to data from West Monroe.
Fierce Pharma
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
In the Big Pharma battle to treat obesity, Novo Nordisk sprinted to an early lead, but Eli Lilly is catching up quickly. | In the Big Pharma battle to treat obesity, Novo Nordisk sprinted to an early lead, but Eli Lilly is catching up quickly. Wednesday's FDA approval of Lilly's Zepbound to treat obesity closes the gap further. In addition, Lilly said it will charge 20% less than Novo for its obesity med in an attempt to provide increased access.
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David Bagga
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Medical device sales is a burgeoning market, with jobs that have an extremely high earning potential. In 2018, the average base salary of a medical sales representative was $92,698 Medical Device Sales Career Home Blog How to Break into Medical Device Sales… How to Get into Medical Device Sales Medical device sales is a burgeoning […] The post How to Get into Medical Device Sales appeared first on.
Salesforce
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
All marketers are under pressure to reduce costs and drive revenue, but healthcare marketers have the extra pressure of dealing with life or death. How do they balance those business demands while also keeping patients’ and members’ well-being as their top priority? It’s a tough job, but new technologies and healthcare marketing strategies are paving the way for stronger communications that benefit both the company and the people who need care.
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MedCity News
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission says more than 100 patents from 10 biopharma companies are improperly listed in the FDA’s official publication of approved products. Such listings delay generic competition, which reduces consumer choice and keeps prices high, the regulator said.
Fierce Pharma
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
In three years as the pharma chief at Roche, Bill Anderson executed a massive overhaul of the division, lopping off layers of management and recharting its course. | In three years as the pharma chief at Roche, Bill Anderson executed a massive overhaul of the division, lopping off layers of management and recharting its course. Now in his fifth month as CEO at struggling conglomerate Bayer, Anderson is focused on an even larger renovation, saying the company is on its way to a “radical realignme
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Copyright Clearance Center
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
November 7, 2023 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , a pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces Clinical Trial Registries, a new data connector for customers of the cloud-based software solution RightFind Navigate. The new data connector provides access to aggregated data from seven global clinical trial registries within a single personalized discovery tool that enables knowledge workers to find the latest clinical trial dat
MedCity News
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Available atopic dermatitis drugs work by blocking inflammation, but Triveni Bio is developing an antibody that addresses a root cause of the chronic condition. The startup is out of stealth to advance its lead program and a pipeline of other inflammation and immunology drugs.
Fierce Pharma
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Pfizer’s $3.5 billion cost-savings drive has made its way overseas. | The layoffs at Pfizer's Newbridge, Kildare, manufacturing site are the latest in the company's effort to save $3.5 billion by 2024 amid declining demand for its COVID-19 products.
European Pharmaceutical Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Positive results for a combination treatment using the first Fc-silent investigational monoclonal antibody in pivotal clinical trials that is designed to block and bind to the T-cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains (TIGIT), have been announced. The treatment is being evaluated in patients with upper GI adenocarcinomas. Domvanalimab plus the antibody zimberelimab and chemotherapy showed encouraging overall response rate and six-month progression-free survival (PFS) rate results in a preli
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PM360
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Award-winning health and wellness advertising agency AbelsonTaylor Group received the inaugural ACE Aspire Award for its employee Psychological Safety Initiative from the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA). The Award was presented yesterday at the HBA Annual Conference in Chicago. The HBA’s ACE (Advancement. Commitment. Engagement.) Awards recognize companies committed to ensuring that gender diversity and leadership opportunities for women are part of their organizational DNA.
MedCity News
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
My phone chimed with a notification, signaling the availability of a new CT test result in my online health portal. “Multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules measuring up to 8mm. May represent metastatic disease.” This was several weeks after my very first mammogram–which I underwent shortly after my 40th birthday–detected an anomaly on my left breast. I soon learned I had what are called “dense” breasts, which means I have compact breast tissue and typical imaging isn’t the best screening for me.
Fierce Pharma
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Pharma, you were warned. | Only two months after the Federal Trade Commission said it was eying a crackdown on improper patents listed by the FDA, the agency has filed challenges against more than 100 patents in the agency's Orange Book. The companies have 30 days to respond.
European Pharmaceutical Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Sandoz and Teva have become the first organisations to qualify for the new global Minimized Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) certification. This programme was developed by the British Standards Institute (BSI) to verify companies that are taking the necessary steps in ensuring responsible antibiotic manufacturing in the global supply chain, helping to lower the spread of AMR.
PharmExec
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Due to a higher than anticipated demand, Sanofi is carefully managing distribution of 50 mg doses of Beyfortus in the private market to fulfill existing orders and provide equitable access to remaining doses for the vaccine that protects infants against respiratory syncytial virus.
MedCity News
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Ventyx Biosciences is stopping work on its lead drug candidate in plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Despite achieving the goals of its Phase 2 test in psoriasis, the results are short of those achieved by big pharmaceutical companies with molecules that address the same target.
Fierce Pharma
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
History may repeat for Vertex Pharmaceuticals in the U.K., where a new decision by the country’s cost-effectiveness gatekeeper threatens to spark another dispute over the cost of lifesaving cystic | Last week, the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence unveiled draft guidance that acknowledged the effectiveness of Vertex’s cystic fibrosis drugs Trikafta, Symkevi and Orkambi.
European Pharmaceutical Review
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
US researchers have developed the Geometric Viability Assay (GVA), which has been shown to be a fast, cheap and sustainable method for counting microorganisms. Since it is 36 times faster than conventional methods, uses 15 times less plastic, and is low cost, Geometric Viability Assay could “replace existing viability assays and enable viability measurements at previously impractical scales”, the paper noted.
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Eversana Intouch
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Back in 2003, drugs from large pharma companies made up 36% of the late-stage R&D pipeline. By 2018, that share had fallen by about half. Meanwhile, the number of companies launching their first drug during the decade preceding 2018 more than tripled. These data are astonishing, given the perception that Big Pharma is the main driver of biopharma innovation.
MedCity News
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
CMS finalized updates to its physician fee schedule for 2024, as well as finalized the rule for next year’s Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS). Provider groups are displeased with the updated rules, arguing that both physicians and provider organizations need more monetary relief than what the agency is offering.
Fierce Pharma
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
At the start of its first-ever conference call to present its quarterly numbers, Krystal Biotech CEO Krish Krishnan was quick to point out that the company’s positive earnings for the third quarter | Krystal Biotech's launch of Vyjuvek, the world's first topical gene therapy, has been so promising that analysts with Evercore ISI increased their 2024 sales projection to $273 million.
European Pharmaceutical Review
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Novo Nordisk has announced plans to invest over 42 billion Danish kroner (nearly £5 billion) starting in 2023, to expand its manufacturing facilities in Kalundborg, Denmark. According to the pharma company , the financing will add to global capacity: from manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) through to packaging. Most of the investment will be focused on API capacity.
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PharmExec
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Tirzepatide (Zepbound; Eli Lilly and Company) is expected to be available in the United States by the end of 2023 with a list price of $1,059.87.
MedCity News
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
People with obesity should be offered a range of suitable treatments as well: behavioral, nutrition, exercise, medication and surgery, through a coordinated and holistic approach under one roof, with a care coordinator. Like cancer, obesity is a heterogeneous disease and recommendations and responses to all treatment modalities will be heterogeneous as well.
Fierce Pharma
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Thanks to a Takeda approval Thursday, patients now have a drug to tackle a rare inherited blood clotting disorder. | The FDA has given a green light to Takeda’s Adzynma, the first recombinant protein product as a preventative or on demand enzyme replacement therapy in adults and kids with congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
European Pharmaceutical Review
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
A paper published by Research Square has described a rapid, simple, accurate and precise high-performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detection (HPLC-DAD) method for levofloxacin determination in liquid pharmaceutical formulations. The effectiveness of levofloxacin can be impacted by its stability in pharmaceutical formulations. This impacts the effective concentration of the drug, Mohammed et al. noted.
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PharmaVoice
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
A gene editing therapy developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics can mute sickle cell disease’s most damaging symptoms. Yet treatment may not be as simple as its dramatic benefit makes it seem.
MedCity News
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Medicare needs to incentivize providers by reimbursing them for identifying and addressing social determinants of health. Doing so will ultimately improve patient health outcomes and simultaneously save risk-bearing organizations money.
Fierce Pharma
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
While Biogen CEO Chris Viehbacher seems satisfied with the company's third-quarter financial metrics, the main question at the drugmaker isn’t so much how the company’s doing now, but what its plan | While Biogen CEO Chris Viehbacher seems satisfied with the company's third-quarter financial metrics, the main question at the drugmaker isn’t so much how the company’s doing now, but what its plans are for future growth, he said on a call with investors.
European Pharmaceutical Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
It has been more than three months since the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the European patent with unitary effect (unitary patent) came into full force on 1 June 2023, adding a new layer of options to the existing European patent system of national courts and European patents. The unitary patent is a new, single pan-European right protecting an invention, which prohibits anyone but the owner or their licensee from using that invention in all participating EU Member States.
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