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Our abysmal health care system

World of DTC Marketing

According to a 2021 study , 1.1 million deaths—including one in two of those under 65, thanks in large part to our abysmal health care system—”would have been averted if the U.S. had the mortality rates of other wealthy nations. One in three GoFundMe campaigns is now for healthcare-related costs, and it’s getting worse. The passage of the Inflation Control bill is an excellent first step in limiting high drug costs, but our healthcare system is still built for profit at the expense

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Dismay as UK ‘drags its heels’ on AZ’s COVID antibody Evusheld

pharmaphorum

Half a million people in the UK with conditions like blood cancer that prevents them being protected from COVID-19 vaccines are facing another winter shielding, because the government has shelved plans to offer treatment with AstraZeneca’s antibody therapy Evusheld. That’s the position of multiple patient organisations, clinicians and medical groups, who have criticised the Department of Health’s decision to defer procurement of Evusheld supplies until cost-effectiveness agency

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The potential of virtual reality-based therapy for serious mental disorders

Pharmaceutical Technology

In June this year, it was announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted UK-based OxfordVR a breakthrough device designation for its gameChangeVR treatment to deliver immersive cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to people suffering from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. The FDA’s breakthrough device programme is for medical devices or device-led combination products that provide more effective treatment or diagnosis of diseases.

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AI Opens Door To Improving Patient Experience

PharmExec

The technology is not just about digital enablement anymore.

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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 DTC isn’t, and is, marketing

World of DTC Marketing

CPG marketers are trying to maintain market share amid price increases and smaller product sizes, leading to a more significant jump in consumerism. But, in pharma marketing, the changes affect every product category. Consumers share more information online than ever as inflation cuts into their disposable income. I’ve seen posts on everything from opinions on detergents to the best and more inexpensive ice cream.

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Digital health app linked to better outcomes in heart failure

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A study of a mobile health app used to support patients hospitalised with heart failure has concluded that it provided a modest improvement in quality-of-life scores, as well as better clinical outcomes. The finding comes from the large-scale CONNECT-HF cluster study, which looked at various patient engagement and education interventions to see if they could help patients with heart failure do better after discharge from hospital.

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The Silver Lining Of Innovation in Genetic Medicine

PharmExec

Failed efforts do not overshadow field’s progress, resolve.

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What’s the most significant change in DTC?

World of DTC Marketing

Consumers have changed their shopping behavior due to the pandemic, and some of those changes are relevant for pharma marketers. The days of someone seeing an ad for a prescription drug and rushing to ask their doctor about it have replaced the quest for more information, usually online. CPG brands have finally admitted that consumers are changing how they purchase products and brands.

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FDA grants Fast-Track status for Relmada’s major depressive disorder therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast-Track designation to Relmada Therapeutics’ REL-1017 as a single agent to treat major depressive disorder (MDD). A new chemical entity and NMDA receptor (NMDAR) channel blocker, REL-1017 acts on hyperactive channels while preserving physiological glutamatergic neurotransmission. Presently, the therapy is being analysed in late-stage studies.

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Analysis: What CVS Health’s interest in primary and home care means

MedCity News

An expert industry observer said CVS Health’s move into primary care is both offensive and defensive, but perhaps more importantly a natural evolution of a company with such a large healthcare footprint.

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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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The Price of Innovation: ‘Paying for a Cure’ Remains Costly Proposition

PharmExec

Curative-type therapies offer great hope in further transforming treatments for cancer and other diseases, but addressing the economics of these products—and ultimately the cost-benefit equation—is daunting. What is being done to smooth the path for pricing and reimbursement?

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Pharma Distribution: Carving New Ground

Pharmaceutical Commerce

Pharmaceutical distribution today is anything but monolithic. While companies in this space are grappling with issues ranging from inflation and supply chain disruption to workforce scarcity and DSCSA implementation, there’s still plenty of room for smaller players to stake out part of the terrain to call their own.

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Woman of the Week: COTA’s Miruna Sasu

PharmaVoice

Miruna Sasu is on a mission to use real world data to help wipe out cancer. She believes this audacious goal is within reach, and as president and CEO of COTA, she is inspiring her team to create a “path to care” for oncology patients.

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Worried about long Covid? Support primate research

MedCity News

Nonhuman primates will be critical to our efforts to understand the long-term effects of Covid-19. Yet scientists conducting critical research have faced harassment and threats.

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

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A World of Opportunity

PharmExec

Marie-France Tschudin, president, innovative medicines international, and chief commercial officer at Novartis, taps into life lessons to help bring therapies to people in novel ways­.

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CCC Now Offering Subscriptions to the JAMA Network and The New England Journal of Medicine Through RightFind

Copyright Clearance Center

August 9, 20 22 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is now offering subscriptions to select publishers including the JAMA Network and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) through CCC’s advanced content workflow solution, RightFind , to meet the needs of researchers in organizations with fewer than 500 employees.

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Samsung Biologics recognised for sustainable growth

European Pharmaceutical Review

The Frost & Sullivan Institute stated that it is proud to present Samsung Biologics with the 2022 Enlightened Growth Leadership Award for not only demonstrating growth excellence but also social responsibility. In announcing the award, the Institute asserted that it “believes that all organisations must either create or become part of a solution that addresses threats to humanity,” highlighting Samsung’s strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainability initiatives the rea

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American Hospital Association turns up the heat on commercial insurers in scathing report

MedCity News

Commercial insurers’ practices, such as prior authorization and white bagging, are needed to reduce costs for patients, said Kristine Grow, senior vice president of communications at AHIP.

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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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Pfizer vaults into sickle cell market as GBT deal confirmed

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Pfizer’s reported interest in acquiring sickle cell disease specialist Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT) has been confirmed, with the $68.50-per-share deal valuing GBT at $5.4 billion. As we reported this morning, the deal gives Pfizer already-approved SCD therapy Oxbryta (voxelator) – which industry watchers reckon could see a dramatic uptick in sales with Pfizer’s marketing muscle – plus a phase 3 antibody candidate, a phase 1 follow-up to Oxbryta that could offer improved dosing.

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Ultrasound Sticker for 48 Hours of Imaging

Medgadget

Engineers at MIT have created an ultrasound patch that can provide long-term ultrasound imaging of internal organs and structures. The device contains a rigid piezoelectric probe array and uses an underlying layer of elastomer-covered hydrogel in lieu of the gel applied to the skin during conventional ultrasound procedures. At just the size of a postage stamp, the ultrasound patch is highly portable and less expensive than conventional ultrasound technologies.

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US FDA approves Daiichi Sankyo-AstraZeneca’s Enhertu for lung cancer

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca ’s Enhertu (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) to treat unresectable or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in adults. The treatment is indicated for such patients whose tumours have activating HER2 (ERBB2) mutations and previously received systemic therapy. .

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New Versant Ventures startup goes ‘gutless’ for next-generation gene delivery

MedCity News

Vector BioPharma has launched from the biotech startup incubator of Versant Ventures, which is backing the company with a $30 million Series A financing. Vector is developing virus-like particles with the capability to deliver large payloads of genetic medicines to a wide range of tissues.

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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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AI tissue analysis enables rapid discovery of drug candidates

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AI could address the most significant issue in drug discovery, finds Ben Hargreaves, and also offers the potential to use tissue samples to create precision medicine for specific patient groups. The scale of the challenge. Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, according to the World Health Organization.

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DNA-Based Nanorobot Interacts with Live Cells

Medgadget

Researchers at INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) in France, and collaborators, have developed a DNA-based nanorobot called the Nano-winch. The tiny creation is made using DNA molecules and a “DNA Origami” approach. The tiny robot is so small that it can land on a cell surface and interact with ‘mechanoreceptors’ that the cell uses to sense mechanical forces acting on it.

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Two Key Questions About Adherence/Compliance in 2022

PM360

PM360 asked life sciences industry experts with knowledge about improving adherence to medication to share the latest trends and approaches being used and to tell us how better data and monitoring can help solve this issue. Specifically, we wanted to know: What are the current biggest trends in how the life sciences industry is approaching ways to improve medication adherence?

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Medicaid/CHIP enrollment rose 23.9% during the pandemic, KFF report shows

MedCity News

The increases in enrollment are likely because of changes in the economy, policy changes like Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act and the temporary continuous enrollment requirement from the Family First Coronavirus Response Act, the report said. .

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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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GSK, Sanofi and Haleon ‘facing billions of dollars in Zantac liability’

pharmaphorum

GSK, its consumer health spin-off Haleon and Sanofi could be on the hook for billions of dollars in potential damages over Zantac, a gastrointestinal drug pulled from the market in 2020 after it was linked to cases of cancer. That’s the conclusion of analysts at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and UBS, who have all issued research notes drawing attention to the issue, which has remained largely off the radar since sales of Zantac (ranitidine) were halted.

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AstraZeneca-Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu gets US FDA approval for breast cancer

Pharmaceutical Technology

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo ’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has received expanded approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat adults with unresectable or metastatic HER2-low (IHC 1+ or IHC 2+/ISH-) breast cancer. The treatment is indicated for patients who have previously received chemotherapy in the metastatic setting or recurred during or within six months of receiving adjuvant chemotherapy.

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Regions On Rise: Life Sciences Across US

Pharmaceutical Commerce

Exploring the competitive and unique offerings in three of the US’s lower-cost economic development regions—and how success in these areas has been boosted by COVID.

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Employees want help with their health benefits, survey finds

MedCity News

Many employed Americans misunderstand their health insurance plans, and 72% want someone to just tell them what the best plan is for their specific needs, the survey found.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time