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Could virtual reality become an essential tool for healthcare education?

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According to the World Health Organization, the world will need more than 40 million new doctors, nurses, frontline healthcare workers, and various other healthcare professionals by 2030. This has not escaped the notice of pharmaceutical companies looking to educate patients on topics, with which they may not have the most health literacy.

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Investing in biologics excellence

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“As pipelines shift towards biotechnology, all companies will have to decide between investing in expertise in-house and relying on the pre-existing technological platforms offered by experienced companies.”. The rise of biologics.

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Building CO2-neutral, defossilised supply chains for chemicals

European Pharmaceutical Review

All traditional small molecule pharmaceuticals include carbon building blocks – by definition, organic materials – which are then transformed via modern synthetic chemistry to assemble the complex and highly variable skeletons that the final target structures demand. So, when could the goal of a net zero pharmaceutical industry be achieved?

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A New Regulatory Approach to Drive Sustainable Medicines

ISPE

As such there’s a growing question of how the industry will improve the sustainability profile of its existing medicines and ensure that sustainability is designed into new medicines, such as products, with a reduced environmental risk, greener manufacturing technologies, and recyclable delivery systems and packaging. 9 December 2021.

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Sustainability: Corporate Ambition, Governance, & Accelerated Delivery

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Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” A collaborative mindset must prevail between pharmaceutical companies, suppliers, and regulators and include strategic partnerships that go beyond the pharmaceutical sector so we can move together to a more sustainable future. 1 United Nations.

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Challenges for Net Zero Carbon Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

ISPE

[link] A recent study published by My Green Lab 2 presented data from 74 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies tracking the change in scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon intensity (measured in tons of CO2 emitted vs. the company’s revenue in USD) since 2015. For pharmaceutical companies, purchased goods (e.g.,

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The impact of climate change on the pharma supply chain

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical companies need to be prepared to answer the call for increased demand and supply into new markets, ensuring the proper resources and logistics framework are in place. In addition, a paper published in 2019, concluded that the pharmaceutical industry produced 48.55