pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A white paper has outlined a pathway that could allow Italy to realise the potential of digital therapeutics (DTx). The official journal of the Smith Kline Foundation, Tendenze Nuove, has published the paper entitled “Digital Therapeutics, an Opportunity for Italy” earlier this month. The book features insights and recommendations from 40 leading experts in the field, who hope that Italy will begin to follow in the footsteps of early adopters of digital therapeutics such as Germany, France and

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Outsourcing Pharma

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A new trial for the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine will investigate the efficacy of the vaccine in children aged six and over.

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Pharma Marketing Network

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It’s 2019, your plane is booked, your outfits for the next three days are all planned out and packed away in your suitcase. You have a list of all of the presentations you plan on attending during the three-day pharmaceutical conference in New Orleans, and all of your lines have been practiced in front of a mirror for when you go to interview some of the keynote speakers.

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Druggist

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Melatonin is a hormone that is released at night by the pineal gland located in the brain. Melatonin controls the sleep-wake cycle (24-hour cycle). In other words, melatonin acts as a biological clock that regulates sleep. Melatonin, therefore, can be used to promote and regulate sleep (Wagner et al., 1998). This post answers the question: Can you get melatonin over the counter in the UK?

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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.

That Frugal Pharmacist

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

I started to sell stickers about 8 months ago and I thought it was finally time to tackle how to make stickers to sell online in a blog post! I touched on it, though somewhat haphazardly when I discussed some of my 2020 side hustles. Since then, my custom sticker business has turned into a … How to Make Stickers to Sell, Easy Tools, and 3 Steps to Follow Read More ».

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Pharma Mirror

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Novartis announced the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has approved* Piqray®, an ?-specific class I phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PIK3CA) inhibitor, for the treatment of postmenopausal women, and men, with hormone receptor positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2-) negative, advanced breast cancer with a PIK3CA mutation in combination with fulvestrant after disease progression following an endocrine-based regimen.

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Outsourcing Pharma

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The founder of Andaman7âs leukemia diagnosis, and his sonâs experience with bone cancer, have helped inform the firm's tech and patient-centric approach.

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Pharma Marketing Network

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Moderator and Panelists: Amy Turnquist , EVP, Digital, eHealthcare Solutions (Moderator). Ryan Billings , U.S. Oncology Digital Marketing & Customer Experience at GSK. Desiree Priestley , Director, Patient Support Strategy & Insights at Otsuka America Pharmaceutical. Kristen Palmer Winters , Customer Experience (CX), Americas Hub, Digital & Commercial Innovation, Bayer.

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Pharma Times

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The data show 100% protection against severe disease, hospitalisation and death, greater vaccine efficacy with an inter-dose interval of 12 weeks or more, and the potential for reduced asymptomatic transmission

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Druggist

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

For many customers, ointment or cream for insect bites is the first line of rescue in stings management. In this post, I will review the best ointment or cream for insect bites available over the counter and from pharmacies. I will also discuss alternative options for insect bites, mainly the use of antihistamines. As with many of my previous posts, I will base my recommendations on the evidence (if possible) and draw a conclusion. .

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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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Pharma Mirror

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

NLP and social graphs are effective instruments to speed up investigator recruitment and ensure timely pharmaceutical product releases. Read how NLP can leverage the power of unstructured data and help find doctors-influencers that can substantially provide assistance to a clinical trial. Igor Kruglyak is a Senior Advisor at the global IT service provider Avenga and a 35+ year veteran executive of global key development and deployment projects.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Over the last year, we’ve noticed that “connectivity” doesn’t always equate to “connected” – and that’s just as true in the realm of clinical trials as it is in our personal lives. Amanda Barrell reports from a panel at the Patients as Partners Europe conference on remote clinical trials. Decentralised trials have been growing in popularity in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has served to accelerate that progress.

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Outsourcing Pharma

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

With pharma firms seeking solutions to get products in the hands of patients faster, one company believes blockchain technology could provide answers.

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Pharma Marketing Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Clinical is under the microscope. As the world focuses its lens on pharma, the opportunity and pressure is there to found a new era of agile, patient-centric clinical trials. Long-standing barriers to innovation are falling, digital transformation is accelerating, and new cultures in collaboration, and patient-centricity are rapidly growing. The conversations that are re-shaping the future of clinical are happening as we speak, Reuters Events Clinical 2021 is the new meeting place for US and EU

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Pharma Times

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Trial is sponsored by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

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Druggist

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Haemorrhoids (haemorrhoids), also known as piles, is a common condition that causes rectal symptoms. Today I will review the best haemorrhoids treatment in the UK. I will discuss the best haemorrhoids treatment over the counter in the UK (part one) and prescription-only options to treat piles (part 2). . Summary: . What are haemorrhoids? . Symptoms of haemorrhoids.

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Pharma Mirror

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Borja Guerra has been appointed new Sales & Service Director of Romaco Kilian in Cologne. The Romaco facilities in Bologna and Karlsruhe likewise have new Sales Directors: Massimiliano Cesarini and Ralph Augenstein. Romaco Kilian GmbH in Cologne has acquired a new Sales & Service Director. As of February 2021, Borja Guerra is responsible not only for the Sales & Service department but also for product and project management at the manufacturer of tablet presses for the pharmaceutical

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Shares in Swiss biotech AC Immune have risen sharply after it said a vaccine in development for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) hit the mark in a phase 1/2 trial. . ACI-35.030, partnered with Johnson & Johnson, is designed to stimulate the body to generate antibodies against tau protein, one of the factors though to play a role in the development of AD dementia.

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Outsourcing Pharma

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A study by two trial technology firms reportedly indicates that decentralized trials are outperforming on-site in recruitment, retention and other aspects.

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Pharma Marketing Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As markets swell with digital content and HCPs become increasingly time-poor, your customer engagement strategy can no longer be driven by reach and frequency, but by the value added at every interaction and touchpoint. At Pharma Customer Engagement Europe (20-22 April, Virtual) leaders unite to develop hybrid field force models, measure true digital effectiveness, and optimize content to make holistic customer engagement the norm and surpass HCP needs.

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Pharma Times

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Jazz will add GW's plant-derived cannabinoid treatment Epidiolex to its roster

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

John Singer discusses the disbanding of Haven, the joint healthcare venture by Amazon, JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway, and the strategies that can help fix US healthcare. . “The market” was terrified when Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon and Jeff Bezos got together to disrupt healthcare three years ago with the launch of Haven – in response to that news, healthcare stocks comprising a significant chunk of the $3.5 trillion health economy in the United States shed billions in value overnight.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s well recognised that people with psoriasis can develop depression or anxiety, particularly in moderate or severe cases where a sizeable part of the body can have skin lesions. Now, drugmaker Almirall and digital health firm Happify are working on a tool to support mental health in these patients. Almirall is a specialist in psoriasis therapies with drugs like Skilarence (dimethyl fumarate) and Ilumetri (tildrakizumab), while Happify’s app is designed to drive away negative thoughts through

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The life sciences industry has an important role in the Irish economy, with sectors such as biologics booming across the country. Rory Mullen, head of biopharma at Ireland’s economic development agency IDA Ireland tells pharmaphorum why business is blossoming in the Emerald Isle. With an attractive corporate tax rate and the youngest workforce in the EU, Ireland continues to be a popular destination for life science companies to settle.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The UK government’s massive spending on the coronavirus pandemic response has been “rife with conflicts of interest”, says the opposition Labour Party, and an independent watchdog should be set up to oversee procurement contracts. That was the message delivered by shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves in a speech yesterday which claimed almost £2 billion of the £23.1 billion public sector spend on the pandemic went on contracts that were awarded to “Conservative friends and donors”

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As part of our Patients Insights series, the founder and CEO of Motherhood Understood shares her experience of postpartum depression, talks about the power of peer support, and explains what the wider healthcare community could do to play their part. Within days of giving birth to her first child, Jen Schwartz’s fairy tale view of motherhood lay in tatters at the foot of the bed she found it impossible to leave.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Medical charity Alzheimer’s Research UK has teamed up with artificial intelligence specialist Exscientia to find new drug treatments for the devastating neurodegenerative disease. . The alliance will see Exscientia work with the charity’s Oxford Drug Discovery Institute (ODDI) to find therapeutics that target the neuroinflammation associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), focusing in particular on the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Improving the Safety, Efficacy & Predictability of Monotherapy & Combinatorial Therapies to Fast-track the Discovery & Development of TNBC Treatments to Reach Patients in Need. This is the primary industry platform specifically dedicated to providing you insight into the latest developments of safe and efficacious blockbuster therapies to treat triple negative breast cancer.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Rob Wood has acquired a large minority stake in performance-io through a multimillion-pound deal that will see him join the specialist online performance marketing agency’s executive board. A former AstraZeneca director, Wood founded commercial and medical benchmarking firm STEM in 2007 before selling it to UDG Healthcare for £84 million in 2016. Since leaving that company he has invested in a number of disruptive technology-driven pharma service providers. performance-io ’s founder and CEO Matt

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Psychedelic medicine biotech MindMed is to acquire digital medicine and therapeutics startup HealthMode for around $32.2 million, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to speed up drug development. The move will also see ex-Pfizer digital medicine executive Dr Daniel Karlin join the MindMed executive team, along with former Google AI guru Bradford Cross.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The diplomatic row that broke out last week over the supply of AstraZeneca’s vaccine to Europe appears to have cooled after the UK pharma agreed to supply an extra nine million doses. At the end of last week, the European Commission was forced into an embarrassing U-Turn when it tried to impose restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines exported from the bloc.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A news agency is claiming that North Korea launched a cyber-attack on Pfizer in a bid to steal information about its BioNTech-partnered COVID-19 vaccine, citing South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS). The Yonhap agency said the revelation was made during a closed-door meeting of the intelligence committee of South Korea’s National Assembly.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Don’t panic – that’s the message from one ABPI code expert who tells Amanda Barrell it’s time to take stock and prioritise. Compliance managers have less than six months to rewrite processes and procedures in line with the updated ABPI code of practice before it becomes enforceable in July. But it doesn’t all have to be done at once, says Dr Rina Newton, managing director at code consultancy firm, CompliMed.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

New figures have confirmed that the UK’s biotech sector received a massive boost from the COVID-19 pandemic last year, with investment levels soaring to £2.8 billion ($3.8 billion) from a level of £1.3 billion in 2019. That makes 2020 a new record year for the sector, exceeding the previous investment high of £2.2 billion in 2018, according to the latest BioIndustry Association (BIA) and Clarivate report, and represents a 1,000% increase on 2012.

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