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The digital transformation of pharma’s physician engagement strategies

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In doing so it’s compounded pre-existing pressure with pharma, where schedules are shrinking and policies are often already restrictive enough to build barriers for effective physician engagement. The threat of disease spread and other risk factors from COVID-19 have only compounded this. and Israel.

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Mass spectrometry software can link different data types

European Pharmaceutical Review

Integrative workflows combining IMS data from LC-MS and MS imaging enable large-scale metabolomics and lipidomics research by spectral preprocessing, feature detection and various options for compound identification for thousands of samples in parallel. The latest advances in the MZmine 3 have been published in Nature Biotechnology.

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Preventing fungal contamination in pharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

In a review on fungal-contaminated compounded pharmaceuticals and medical devices, researchers have described how the contamination of these products can be due to breaches in sterile compounding procedures. Ahmed et al.

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The lingering menace of diethylene glycol / ethylene glycol adulteration

European Pharmaceutical Review

2 The issue arose because sulfanilamide is an extremely bitter tasting drug and to taste-mask the elixir formulation for use in children, the compounding pharmacist used EG as it was a good solvent, sweet-tasting and cheap. 5 Both compounds are limited to ≤0.1 USP-NF Propylene Glycol Monograph: USP43-NF38, 2010, 3753.

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Establishing quality assurance in personalised preparations

European Pharmaceutical Review

A paper published in Pharmaceutics has proposed how a personalised preparation quality assurance programme can achieve this when these products are developed in compounding laboratories. It requests that compounding laboratories adhering to the programme send samples of it. PACMI selects a drug on a quarterly basis.

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Ethnopharmacology: traditional medicine and modern drug discovery

Pharmaceutical Technology

For example, a widely referenced study from 2012 reported that up to 50% of approved drugs between 1981 and 2010 were directly or indirectly from natural products, while according to the WHO, 11% of drugs considered basic or essential originated from flowering plants.

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NICE rejects Orchard’s gene therapy for rare childhood disease MLD

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MLD is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a deficiency in the ARSA gene coding for the enzyme arylsulfatase-A, which allows sulphatide compounds to build up in the body. Orchard has already offered a confidential discount on the therapy.