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Life-sciences pros believe in potential of AI, blockchain: survey

Outsourcing Pharma

A survey by the Pistoia Alliance indicates most professionals believe the tech can accelerate R&D, but companies are stymied by a skills gap and data bias.

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Gamification for patient care, medical education, and virtual engagement

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“Gamification” – adding game-like elements into non-game or real-world settings – has become a popular concept in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and event industries, especially as virtual engagement becomes more common during COVID-19. However, it is proving more than a mere buzzword. With diverse applications and approaches, it is quickly becoming a promising tool for patient adherence, chronic disease management, preventive medicine, rehabilitation, and paediatric care, as well as for medica

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22 ibuprofen alternative drugs you must know

Druggist

Ibuprofen is one of the most common drugs purchased over the counter in the UK. Ibuprofen prescribing decreased significantly in recent years due to the NHS strategy to minimise issuing of medicines that are available over the counter. In recent months, ibuprofen’s price went up significantly, with many shops and pharmacies being out of stock of ‘cheap’ ibuprofen.

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Digital Tools at the Center of Healthcare Digitalization

Pharma Marketing Network

Innovation During COVID-19 Fact Sheet. We compiled a fact sheet on innovations in digital publishing that sparked due to the pandemic and have since been soaring. . Get your complimentary copy of "The Publishing Industry: The Soar of Innovation During COVID-19 Fact Sheet". Name *. First. Last. Company Email *. Lead Source * Web Active Prospecting Sales Ad-Label Advertising - Offline Advertising - Online Advertising - Online - FocalPoint Advertising - Online - Mobile Advertising - Online - Trend

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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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MedVector introduces patient enrollment expansion solution

Outsourcing Pharma

The companyâs Prime-Control Technology is designed to help study teams expand their subject enrollment beyond the reach of their clinical trial sites.

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Health tech and digital transformation lessons from the NHS

pharmaphorum

In the year since the UK went into its first lockdown to limit the spread of COVID-19 the country’s health service has undergone an unprecedented digital transformation. . The NHS quickly scrambled to reduce face-to-face contact between patients and healthcare professionals, and manage demand for services that would soon be overstretched by dealing with the pandemic.

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Fewer New Drugs but Affordable Access for Existing Ones: The Big Elephant in the Room

Policy Prescription

Would you vote for legislation to lower drug prices that would lead to a five percent reduction in pharmaceutical innovation — yet simultaneously create a health system in which all Americans could afford the prescription drugs they need? That’s compared to the one we have now where a quarter of Americans struggle with drug prices. I would vote for it.

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Cancer research benefits from harnessing real-world data

Outsourcing Pharma

A leader from oncologist-founded trial tech specialists COTA shares how advanced data analysis can benefit cancer researchers and patients alike.

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Novartis’ radioligand therapy meets phase 3 prostate cancer trial target

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Novartis’ radioligand therapy Lu-PSMA-617 has met its target in prostate cancer, as its $2.1 billion acquisition of specialist pharma Endocyte looks to have been justified. . The big Swiss pharma added this drug to its pipeline after it swooped for Endocyte and so far it looks like a good piece of business, with potential blockbuster sales predicted for the drug if it makes it to market.

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How to Achieve and Maintain a Nice Smile

Pharma Mirror

One of the best gifts you can give to another person is a beautiful smile. Though it costs you nothing, it goes a long way in adding to others and you. It typically has a favourable effect on others, attracts people to you, and makes you approachable and likeable. A smile is very important. It is a part of your dressing and personality. Without a smile, you are incomplete, no matter how expensively and gorgeously dressed you are.

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Position Your Pharmacy for Expansion

Speaker: Chris Antypas and Josh Halladay

Access to limited distribution drugs and payer contracts are key to pharmacy expansion. But how do you prepare your operations to take the next step? Meaningful data: Collect and share clinical data regarding outcomes, utilization, and more Reporting: Limited distribution models require efficient tracking and reporting systems Workflows: Align workflows with specific pharma and payer contractual requirements For in-depth, expert insights on pharmacy expansion, watch this webinar from Inovalon.

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The Momentum of Decentralized Clinical Trials: An Interview with R’Kes Starling

McCreadie Group

March 2021 | Jennifer Drabing, Senior Marketing Communications Manager McCreadie Group is proud to work with Reveles Clinical Services and privileged to sit down with its CEO and founder, R’Kes Starling, to discuss decentralized clinical trials. This blog, the first part of the interview series with R’Kes, focuses on the future of virtual trails, the.

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Online health communities connect patients, trial teams

Outsourcing Pharma

Health Union offers patients dealing with a range of conditions ways to connect with valuable information, research opportunities and each other online.

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Boris Johnson slammed for saying “greed” is behind UK vaccine success

pharmaphorum

Boris Johnson’s sense of humour seems to have got him into trouble again, at the most delicate of times. The Prime Minister reportedly told Conservative backbench MPs on a Zoom call that “capitalism” and “greed” was behind the success of the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, before backtracking after realising he had made a blunder and telling attendees to forget the comments.

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Two-month long CPhI Japan Connect to meet demand for pharma partnering in Japan

Pharma Mirror

The Japanese pharmaceutical market is preparing for renewed international growth and partnering. In response, CPhI Japan has opened a two-month long virtual event to meet demand from international pharma. Informa introduced CPhI Japan Connect – a new virtual platform for global professionals looking to grow pharma business in Japan – specifically to help its international audiences continue conversations, identify leads, and build new partnerships while international travel remains restricted.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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Roche’s Tecentriq improves disease-free survival in early lung cancer

Pharma Times

Tecentriq is approved in five lung cancer indications currently

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IQVIA expands reach of its decentralized trial solutions

Outsourcing Pharma

The company reports that its patient-centric virtual study technology currently is in use in more than 60 ongoing trials in over 40 different countries.

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COVID-19 underscores need to boost pharma manufacturing in emerging markets

pharmaphorum

For the past year, life science companies around the world worked at breakneck speed to develop and manufacture safe and effective treatments to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The scramble to produce vaccines and therapeutics and the challenges of getting these products to poorer countries underscores the growing importance of local pharma manufacturers for these emerging markets. .

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Medications For Akathisia

Med Ed 101

Akathisia is one of the most common symptoms associated with extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) due to antipsychotics. There are a few different medications that we can use for the management of akathisia. Here’s a good summary of akathisia. Prior to even considering medications for akathisia management, we need to remember that some antipsychotics carry a higher […].

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5 Reasons to Upgrade Your Pharmacy Management Software

Are you still using workarounds to manage your daily operations? To achieve peak performance, it's time to explore other options for specialty and infusion pharmacy software. Streamline pharmacy operations and improve clinical performance with automated processing, real-time data exchange, and electronic decision support. Download this helpful infographic to: Drive efficiency and patient adherence from referral receipt to delivery and ongoing care – all with our Pharmacy Cloud.

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Cambridge start-up PhoreMost raises £33m to progress PLK1 programme

Pharma Times

Lead ‘Allosteric PLK1’ asset will initially target brain cancer

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Collecting patient data challenging in evolving trial landscape

Outsourcing Pharma

Two experts from CRO Phastar talk about how trial professionals face new, ever-changing challenges regarding collecting and disseminating patient data.

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The Brexit deal; shot in the arm or kick in the teeth for the pharma sector?

pharmaphorum

The UK Government and EU Commission trumpeted their Brexit trade deal, struck at the end of December, as ‘comprehensive’, the ‘biggest yet’ But a closer inspection of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) renders these statements largely illusory for the pharma sector. While pharma companies grapple with the effects of Brexit, there are undoubtedly a number of ways that the TCA benefits the sector, while leaving significant issues unanswered.

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Cerelle vs Cerazette: Are they really the same?

Druggist

Cerelle and Cerazette are two brands of daily progestogen-only pill (POP), also known as mini-pill. In recent years prescribing of Cerazette in NHS decreased, in place of other brands, including Cerelle. Today I will discuss the reasons for this change and review different aspects of Cerelle vs Cerazette use. . Summary of the post: Cerelle vs Cerazette: are they the same?

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Cancer Research UK launches new ‘cancer tech accelerator’ programme

Pharma Times

New initiative aims to help researchers translate their ideas into innovations for cancer patients

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Amgen v Sanofi ruling: It is time to kiss goodbye to broad, functional patent claims for antibodies

Outsourcing Pharma

A US courtâs recent decision to find in favor of Sanofi and invalidate Amgen's broad antibody patent claims has biotech manufacturers concerned about how to preserve their IP.

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Pfizer begins clinical trials of COVID-19 antiviral pill

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Pfizer has begun clinical development of an antiviral pill against COVID-19, which could be prescribed to patients at the first sign of infection. The company was the first to get a vaccine approved against the disease with BioNTech and is now aiming to make a pill that could prevent it escalating once patients are infected. Being able to manage coronavirus infections and prevent hospitalisations and death would have huge benefits for wider society as well as patients after more than a year of l

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Shock as AstraZeneca’s charismatic cancer R&D chief José Baselga dies

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AstraZeneca is mourning the loss of one of its top scientists after eminent cancer researcher José Baselga passed away at the age of just 61. . Baselga was a heavyweight in oncology research, pursuing a career that saw him serve as physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in the US and also hold the position as president of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) before joining AZ to lead the drugmaker’s cancer R&D in January 2019.

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Cancer services should be rebuilt after COVID disruption, experts say

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There is a pressing need for a joined-up cancer strategy to reverse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the UK’s pharma industry. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry ( ABPI) report said that the UK must be more ambitious with its cancer strategy if it is to compete with the leading nations across Europe.

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AI drug discovery player 1910 Genetics debuts with $26m war chest

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There’s a new kid on the block among companies using artificial intelligence in drug discovery, after 1910 Genetics launched today with $26 million in financing. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup claims it is the only biotech launched so far that will use AI to design both small-molecule drugs and protein therapeutics, coupled with automated biological testing to speed up drug development and reduce costs.

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The hidden danger of isolated congenital asplenia

pharmaphorum

TEAM 4 Travis is an advocacy group with one objective – to ensure it doesn’t take an autopsy to diagnose isolated congenital asplenia. As part of our Patient Insights series, founder Allison Bones tells us why she is determined to stop history repeating itself. When Travis Bones died just days after his fourth birthday, his family had no idea he had a rare birth defect that had left him without a spleen – and extremely vulnerable to infection.

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Solving the “information challenge” of rare disease diagnosis

pharmaphorum

Getting a diagnosis is often the biggest challenge facing a rare disease patient in the UK. We take a look at efforts from charities, the government and digital innovators to boost awareness of rare conditions among GPs and make the clinical pathway smoother for patients. There are more than 150,000 people living with a rare neurological condition in the UK, which taken together means that these conditions aren’t actually that rare at all – and that’s just for one slice of the wider rare disease

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Regeneron’s antibody cocktail cuts COVID hospitalisation in large trial

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Regeneron has posted findings from a large trial of its COVID-19 antibody cocktail showing the therapy reduced risk of hospitalisation or death by 70%. The US pharma said that the results were a landmark as they “conclusively” demonstrated that REGEN-COV (casirivimab+imdevimab) can significantly reduce death in an outpatient setting. Data from the phase 3 trial will also be used to convert an Emergence Use Authorisation into a permanent licence, Regeneron said.

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COVID-19 drives Boehringer’s R&D spend to record level in 2020

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Boehringer Ingelheim invested €3.7 billion on R&D last year, the highest spend in its history, as it mobilised its scientists to seek out new therapies for COVID-19. . Not all those efforts have been successful. Boehringer abandoned BI 764198, an inhibitor of TRPC6 in phase 2 for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 earlier this month.

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Doubts emerge over AZ’s ‘outdated’ US vaccine trial data

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AstraZeneca has been rebuked by a US health authority after a trial monitoring board said data published from a large study of its COVID-19 vaccine may be out of date and may not give a representative view of its efficacy. The company’s share price ticked down after the statement on Monday from the US National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).