Sat.Aug 13, 2022 - Fri.Aug 19, 2022

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What to look for when hiring in pharma

World of DTC Marketing

The great resignation has not affected pharma because the jobs within the industry pay very well and most positions and employees like the benefit of having a steady job with good money. However, some pharma companies are having problems filling open positions, and when they do, they often find it wasn’t a good fit. Here are some things to consider to ensure you’re hiring good people.

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StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups

MedCity News

Check out new developments from Carrum Health, Sema4, Trulla, SpendMend, Monod Bio, and Evry Health.

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AR Headset Helps Surgeons Place Implants: Interview with Louie Vogt of Enovis Surgical

Medgadget

Enovis , a medtech company based in Delaware formerly known as DJO, recently announced the launch of ARVIS (Augmented Reality Visualization and Information System), an augmented reality technology that is designed to assist surgeons during implant placement in the hip and knee. The hands-free technology consists of an eyepiece that is mounted on a surgical helmet that provides the surgeon with real-time information about the position of an implant with respect to patient anatomy.

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Inventing the COVID vax pill: a matter of convenience and durability

PharmaVoice

Recent data from Vaxart’s phase 1 trial of its COVID-19 inoculation pill shows potential.

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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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Obesity: Is killing us all

World of DTC Marketing

The new Inflation Bill will not reduce healthcare costs in the U.S. Why? An analysis predicts that by 2030, 48.9% of adults in the United States will be obese, and 24.2% will be severely obese. Annual obesity-related medical care costs in the United States, in 2019 dollars, were estimated to be nearly $173 billion. Annual nationwide productivity costs of obesity-related absenteeism range between $3.38 billion and $6.38 billion.

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3 shifts in healthcare to expect from telehealth innovations in 2023

MedCity News

The telehealth industry will continue to drive innovation that helps bring telehealth more permanently and creatively into the care continuum. You’ll see device integration and be able to perform even more complicated tests, like dialysis, at home.

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Episode 95 – Digital Surgery with Jawad Ali, MD

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes. Do you know the 6 pillars of Digital Surgery? Many pre-surgical, surgical and post-surgical technologies that have been developed individually are now being brought together under the banner of Digital Surgery. What does this mean and what are these pillars? To help us with this is Jawad Ali, MD, a surgeon and community builder.

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Sorry, the Inflation Bill won’t lower healthcare costs

World of DTC Marketing

The Inflation Reduction Act’s health insurance subsidies and drug pricing reforms will improve health care affordability for Americans but won’t do a damn thing for our overall healthcare costs, which will keep rising. High drug and health care costs prevent millions of Americans from achieving total health. Nearly 1 in 2 American adults report difficulty affording health care costs.

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Motivo gains $14M to help match therapists with clinical supervisors

MedCity News

Motivo, an online platform connecting aspiring therapists with clinical supervisors, recently closed a $14 million Series A funding round. The platform, which has clinical supervisors who are licensed in all 50 states, has already helped more than 2,500 therapists obtain their licensure.

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MHRA approves Pluvicto® and Locametz® for prostate cancer

European Pharmaceutical Review

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted marketing authorisation for Pluvicto ® (lutetium [ 177 Lu] vipivotide tetraxetan), for the treatment of adult patients with prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have been treated with androgen receptor (AR) pathway inhibition and taxane-based chemotherapy or who are not medically suitable for taxanes.

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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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Valneva’s Lyme disease vaccine faces final clinical test in a sparse landscape

Pharmaceutical Technology

On August 8, Pfizer and Valneva announced the initiation of a Phase III study with their Lyme disease vaccine , bringing the prospect of an injection to prevent the condition disease one step closer to reality. VLA15 is the only vaccine for Lyme disease in clinical development, according to GlobalData, the parent company of Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Millennium hits a home run with DTC

World of DTC Marketing

Millennium Pharma’s ad and website for ENTYVIO touch all the bases with targeted patients. It shows that the team understands what it’s like for patients with severe ulcerative colitis. This is the kind of DTC that can help patients seek treatment. Empathy. Understanding what it’s like to live with health problems is the key to developing great DTC.

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Minnetronix commercializes its own product: a minimally invasive deep brain access port

MedCity News

Contract developer Minnetronix Medical recently developed and commercialized its own product: MindsEye, which it says is the first minimally invasive deep brain access port. The port addresses an unmet need in the neurology market — certain forms of stroke and cancer cause lesions that are deep in the brain, and removing them can be a very invasive and dangerous process.

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Bioengineered Cornea Restores Sight

Medgadget

Scientists at Linköping University in Sweden have developed a collagen-based corneal implant that can restore sight to blind patients with corneal disease. The breakthrough could pave the way for such patients to receive effective treatment for corneal disease without requiring a corneal transplant from a human donor. There is a shortage of donor corneas, so creating an off-the-shelf alternative could be very useful.

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

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A Saga of 75 years journey of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmatutor

A Saga of 75 years journey of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry. Look back of growth drive for Indian pharmaceutical industry after 75 years of independence and future roadmap. admin. Sun, 08/14/2022 - 18:21. Tags. Pharmapedia. Articles.

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Can we be serious about telehealth?

World of DTC Marketing

If you follow the hype around telehealth, you would think it will save healthcare. Telehealth does have a future as PART of healthcare, but it won’t replace the benefit of seeing a patient in person and being able to diagnose a health problem. There it is again. According to Healthcare Transformers, “ use of telehealth climbed more than 154% in late March 2020, compared with the year before, and a 2020 survey found 76% of patients would be interested in using it.

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Robotics and automation are the future of healthcare

MedCity News

Advanced technologies, such as AI-guided robotics and automation, offer a potential solution to the provider shortage by freeing healthcare professionals from repetitive and time-consuming tasks and allow clinicians to focus on tasks that require a specialized touch.

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Wearable Tracks Mental States

Medgadget

Researchers at New York University have created a wearable system that can measure electrodermal activity, a property of the skin that is influenced by mental states, such as stress or excitement. The system is called Multimodal Intelligent Noninvasive brain state Decoder for Wearable AdapTive Closed-loop arcHitectures (MINDWATCH) and it can assess electrodermal activity by measuring skin conductance.

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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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Copper coated surfaces found to reduce COVID-19 transmission

European Pharmaceutical Review

Research suggests copper (Cu) and silver (Ag) coated surfaces display significant differences in antiviral properties and that while copper is effective at reducing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; the cause of COVID-19) transmission, silver is not. As a result of corrosion, both copper and silver release positively charged ions into their environment, which can prevent bacterial growth or kill off the cells completely.

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FDA grants swift review to Lynparza in first-line prostate cancer

pharmaphorum

AstraZeneca and Merck & Co’s PARP inhibitor Lynparza is already used to treat prostate cancer associated with a specific genetic mutation, but could see its use broadened if a new marketing application is approved by the FDA. The US regulator has started a priority review of Lynparza (olaparib) in combination with abiraterone and prednisone or prednisolone as a first-line treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) based on the results of the PROpel trial.

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Better late than never? Axsome depression drug is approved a year after FDA delay

MedCity News

The FDA has approved Axsome Therapeutics drug Auvelity as a treatment for major depressive disorder in adults. The regulatory decision makes the twice-daily pill the first new oral drug approved to address a novel depression target in more than 60 years.

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The next generation of Web of Science Researcher Profiles

Clarivate

From today, we’re pleased to announce that Web of Science Researcher Profiles is improved with new features for tracking your publications, citation metrics, peer reviews and journal editing, all in one place – making it the one-stop destination for managing your academic profile and demonstrating your expertise. We have created the next generation of the Web of Science Researcher Profiles by incorporating the best features of Publons and ResearcherID.

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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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Right under our noses: Could COVID-19 vaccines be better as nasal spray?

PharmaVoice

Nasal vaccines under development by Codagenix, Xanadu Bio and others have the potential to finally help reduce virus transmission and breakthrough infections.

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Endo files for bankruptcy as it agrees opioid settlement

pharmaphorum

Endo International is the latest drugmaker to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in connection with opioid litigation in the US, after agreeing a $6 billion deal with creditors that includes an offer to settle outstanding lawsuits. The Ireland-domiciled company is struggling under the weight of around $8 billion in debt, and has been hamstrung by costs associated with fighting thousands of suits that accuse it of wrongdoing in its marketing and promotion of painkiller Opana ER (oxymorphon

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‘Every state should be taking advantage’: 3 states extend postpartum Medicaid/CHIP coverage

MedCity News

Hawaii, Maryland and Ohio are the latest to join in extending postpartum Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage for 12 months after pregnancy. In total, 21 states have adopted an extension.

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UK approves Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

European Pharmaceutical Review

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved an updated version of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, that targets two coronavirus variants as a booster. The regulator confirmed that the vaccine meets its standards of safety, quality and effectiveness. The decision was also endorsed by the government’s independent expert scientific advisory body, the Commission on Human Medicines, after a careful review of the evidence.

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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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The PM360 Trailblazer Awards 2022 Finalists

PM360

The finalists are in for PM360’s 14 th annual Trailblazer Awards. The Trailblazer Awards were established in 2009 to recognize and honor outstanding companies, marketers, marketing teams, brand managers, and initiatives that have demonstrated innovation and achieved incredible results in the life sciences. The Trailblazer Awards honor achievements in eight overall categories, including Companies of the Year, Marketer of the Year, Marketing Team of the Year, Lifetime Achievement, Brand Champion

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GSK gets June 2023 FDA decision date for momelotinib

pharmaphorum

The clock is now ticking on the FDA’s review of GSK’s momelotinib for myelofibrosis patients with anaemia – the centrepiece of its $1.9 billion acquisition of Sierra Oncology which completed last month. The US regulator is due to make a decision on momelotinib by 16 June, 2023, on the basis of phase 3 results reported in January, said GSK.

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Report: 14% of physicians drinking, using controlled substances on the job

MedCity News

There are high levels of substance use and dangerous mental health stigma among healthcare workers, according to a report released by addiction treatment organization APN. Its CEO said the most effective way to decrease stigma about seeking mental health treatment is to look at healthcare as inclusive of mental health.

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3 ways pharma can prep for Biden’s sweeping drug pricing policies

PharmaVoice

Now that Medicare will be able to negotiate drug prices under the Inflation Reduction Act, the industry can expect to see some changes. Here are some tips on how to navigate the changing tide.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time