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Akili hires gaming guru Jon David as chief product officer

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Gaming industry veteran Jon David, responsible for highly-downloaded mobile games, including the Bejeweled and Plants vs Zombies franchises, has moved into the digital health arena by taking a senior position at Akili Interactive Labs. As Akili’s chief product officer, his role will be to make sure that the company’s game-based therapies are as engaging as “high-end entertainment,” ensuring that they are fun to play, as well as therapeutically effective.

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Routes into microbiology – how apprenticeships help

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Everyone wants to know where they come from, and microbiologists are no different. But were we grown in a petri dish. The post Routes into microbiology – how apprenticeships help appeared first on Pharmig.

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Latest ABPI code breaches reveal the risk of ‘likes’ on LinkedIn

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AstraZeneca (AZ), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Sanofi, Allergan and Britannia Pharma have been reprimanded for running advertisements that breached the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry (APBI) code of practice. Complaints upheld by the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) include two against AZ and Allergan – now part of AbbVie – related to promotion of medicines on social media sites, including LinkedIn.

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Sisram Medical Ltd Announces 2021 Record Annual Results

Pharma Mirror

HONG KONG, Sisram Medical Ltd (the “Company” or “Sisram”, stock code: 1696.HK; together with its subsidiaries referred as the “Group”), a global consumer wellness group, featuring a never-before-seen synergistic ecosystem of business building blocks and consumer-focused branding, ranging from medical aesthetics capital equipment, via injectables therapy, aesthetic dentistry, personal care and more, today announced its audited consolidated annual results for th

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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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Merck fights back against Roche in adjuvant lung cancer therapy

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Merck & Co’s Keytruda is poised to move even earlier in the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after showing efficacy when used to prevent the cancer returning after surgery to remove it in a phase 3 trial. The results of the KEYNOTE-091 trial showed that Keytruda (pembrolizumab) reduced death or disease recurrence by 24% compared to placebo when used as adjuvant therapy after surgery in an all-comer NSCLC population regardless of PD-L1 expression.

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Finalists announced for the 2022 International Clinical Researcher of the Year

Pharma Times

With the significant increase in entries this year, the competition to name the finalists proved incredibly tough. The International Clinical Researcher judging panel, however, have made their decisions and the finalists have now been announced.

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Scientists identify two more hybrid variants alongside Deltacron

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The hybrid of Delta and Omicron, known as ‘Deltacron’, has been identified in France, Denmark and the Netherlands

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AstraZenca’s antibody cocktail Evusheld receives MHRA authorisation

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Approval is significant as waning restrictions present significant threats to many immunocompromised people across the UK

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