pharmaphorum
MARCH 19, 2021
DeepVerge has announced trial data showing its COVID-19 Microtox BT breath test can deliver accurate results in under 60 seconds, with a potential roll-out later this year if further tests support it. The company has already completed of the system that resembles a breathalyser in phase 1 and phase 2 studies with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the safety of laboratories.
Outsourcing Pharma
MARCH 25, 2021
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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Pharma Marketing Network
MARCH 30, 2021
Until the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world in early 2020, pharma had been pretty resistant to the idea of involving the end-customer, or the patient, into their business models. COVID-19 not only left pharma no choice but to take this challenge head on, it also paved the way for pharma to build extensive awareness of their brands, as several big names have been in the spotlight in the fight against COVID-19.
Pharma Mirror
MARCH 8, 2021
Likewise, it was demonstrated by actualizing high throughput screening in-vitro framework that the drug fenbendazole is successful, not just against standard non-small cell lung cancer, NSCLC, yet in addition against the KRAS-mutant malignancy which seems, by all accounts, aggressive, barely accessible by chemotherapy and very normal (thirty percent of total cases of NSCLS) in people. [1] It became continually challenging in targeting KRAS transformation bearing tumors in view of the unclear con
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.
Druggist
MARCH 23, 2021
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.
Fuld
MARCH 30, 2021
Christian Schena brings prolific relationship-building, sales consulting, lead generation, and business development experience to the firm. Boston, Mass. March 30, 2021 — Fuld + Company, a global competitive strategy consultancy, today announced the recent appointment of Christian Schena as Senior Director of Sales. In this role, he will leverage decades of experience in the sales consulting space to develop customized solutions for clients of Fuld + Company that are critical for market competit
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Outsourcing Pharma
MARCH 8, 2021
Valneva and Pfizer have initiated a Phase 2 study for their Lyme disease vaccine candidate: which is the only active Lyme disease vaccine in clinical development today.
Pharma Marketing Network
MARCH 1, 2021
[link]. Blockchain technology has become an increasing tool for life science organizations. How is this technology being implemented, and what value does it offer? Join Darshan Kulkarni as he talks with guest Jim Nasr about the function of blockchain, and how distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain are making an impact on healthcare. The post DarshanTalks: Blockchain & Information Technology</br> – March 1, 2021 appeared first on Pharma Marketing Network.
Pharma Times
MARCH 15, 2021
Review included available safety data from over 17 million people vaccinated in the EU and UK with COVID-19 jab
Druggist
MARCH 17, 2021
Lymecycline is one of the most commonly used oral antibiotics in the treatment of acne. I previously reviewed the use of different antibiotics, including lymecycline for acne. In today’s post, I will focus solely on the use of lymecycline in the treatment of acne. Summary of the post: What is Lymecycline? The legal classification of lymecycline.
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.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 23, 2021
“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
pharmaphorum
MARCH 25, 2021
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.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 10, 2021
There is no clear evidence that the UK’s £37 billion NHS Test and Trace programme (NHST&T) has an impact on the pandemic, according to a withering report from an influential committee of MPs. In its report the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) noted that Department of Health and Social Care justified the scale of the investment in part on the basis that an effective test and trace system would help avoid a second national lockdown.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 16, 2021
European regulators questioned the integrity of early batches of Pfizer/BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine, although the matter was resolved before approval, according to information leaked online following a cyberattack. As it conducted its analysis of the vaccine in December, the European Medicines Agency’s systems were targeted by unknown hackers. Following this, more than 40 megabytes of classified information from the agency’s review were published on the dark web and several journalists, including th
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pharmaphorum
MARCH 4, 2021
Radiologists in Europe could soon have help keeping children calm as they have MRI scans from Disney favourites like Micky Mouse, Winnie the Pooh and the Little Mermaid. Healthcare tech company Philips has teamed up with Walt Disney Corp to develop custom ambient animations – featuring some of the most-lived characters from Disney, Marvel and Star Wars shows – that can be played to children during the procedure.
Outsourcing Pharma
MARCH 3, 2021
The 2020 Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial recruited more than 44,000 participants and reached submission for emergency authorization in 248 days: showing unprecedented speed and agility in the context of a global pandemic. So what have been the learnings from the trial â and how could they be applied to vaccine development in the future?
pharmaphorum
MARCH 11, 2021
European safety regulators have launched an investigation into the safety of a batch of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, as countries including Denmark suspended its use as a precaution following reports of blood clots. Initial findings showed no issue with the shots suspended by Austrian authorities after a person was diagnosed with severe blood clotting and died 10 days after vaccination.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 9, 2021
Nearly 70% of HCPs are now digital natives, with no interest in going back to pre-COVID sales engagement methods. To thrive in this environment, pharma needs to move from ad-hoc and reactionary digital transformation to long-term ‘digital excellence’, says Veeva’s Sebastien Noel. COVID has seen pharma sales experience three years’ worth of digital transformation in the space of just a few months – but while the industry has embraced digital tools and techniques, most companies are still far from
pharmaphorum
MARCH 12, 2021
Sleep disturbances are a common feature for people with Parkinson’s disease, and a device developed to help people with insomnia is now being trialled to see if it can improve their sleep quality. . The SleepHub device – developed by Barkby group company Cambridge Sleep Sciences – is on the face of it a box and speakers that plays relaxing noises to help you fall asleep more easily, but is underpinned by a sound wave technology that its developer claims prompt the brain into the activity pattern
pharmaphorum
MARCH 9, 2021
A smartphone app that uses artificial intelligence to assess the sound of coughing has been launched in the UK, and according to its developer could be an early warning system for COVID-19 and other diseases of the lung. . Hyfe uses acoustic technology to track users’ coughing habits, gauging factors like volume, frequency, amplitude and context, whilst running in the background on an iOS or Android device.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 11, 2021
Canada’s Valence Discovery has joined a University of Montreal-led project to try to find new drugs to treat the involuntary movement complications that can accompany treatments for Parkinson’s disease. . The go-to treatment for the five million people worldwide with Parkinson’s is levodopa, which replaces the activity of the dopamine neurotransmitter dopamine that gets depleted by the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain in the disease.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 3, 2021
Rare disease families need to stand up and be counted if they want things to change said mum and advocate Christine Waggoner. She spoke to pharmaphorum as part of our Patients Insights series. Like many “rare disease mums”, Christine is an accidental advocate. After her daughter, Iris, was diagnosed with a rare disease at five, friends, family, and strangers donated so much to a research fund-raising campaign that she had to set up a non-profit to deal with it all.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 23, 2021
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.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 8, 2021
Austrian health officials have withdrawn a batch of Oxford University/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after two cases of severe coagulation, one of which was fatal. Both patients were treated from the same batch, codenamed ABV 5300, in the district of Zwettl. In a statement the Austrian Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) said a 49 year-old woman died as a result of severe coagulation disorders, while another women aged 35 developed a pulmonary embolism and is on the way to recovery.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 19, 2021
A host of companies are looking at cough apps to detect the presence of COVID-19. But one company called Hyfe wants to take the idea a step further and use them to detect future pandemics, reports Richard Staines. . The pandemic has seen a plethora of digital tools emerge to help manage patients remotely, with the ubiquitous use of smartphone technology allowing medics to monitor patients’ vital signs without risky face-to-face contact.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 24, 2021
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.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 3, 2021
Novavax hopes its COVID-19 vaccine could be filed in the US in the second quarter, following a potential approval from the UK regulator in the coming weeks. The timetable for approval from the FDA depends on whether the regulator accepts data from the company’s trial in the UK, which could set up a potential Emergency Use Authorisation. Following an upbeat Q4 results announcement CEO Stanley Erck told CNBC that discussions with the FDA are ongoing but the hope is that the regulator will accept t
pharmaphorum
MARCH 31, 2021
Germany and Canada have both slapped restrictions on the AstraZeneca vaccine, recommending its use only in older patients, because of concerns over a link with blood clots. The moves come after the country’s medicines regulator found 31 cases of a rare type of blood clot known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) in people who had received the vaccine produced by AZ.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 2, 2021
Clinical trial software facilitates clinical trials from conception to finish. For example protocol management, CRF design , metadata management, and the collection, analysis, and submission of compliant clinical study data to regulatory authorities. The aim is to get quality clinical products to the market faster. Traditionally spreadsheets have been used to record and manage all the various aspects of clinical trials.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 19, 2021
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pharmaphorum
MARCH 18, 2021
The demise of the pharmaceutical sales representative has been greatly exaggerated over the years. But in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an even greater need to re-examine the rep’s role. How can a field force evolve to deal with current challenges and be future-fit for the way we will be working in the post-pandemic world? The current restrictions on face-to-face meetings have exacerbated the trend of sales reps’ reduced access to healthcare customers.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 30, 2021
The government has continued its shake-up of UK health authorities with the creation of the Office of Health Promotion (OHP), which will focus on issues like obesity, mental and sexual health, and promoting physical activity. . The OHP will take over the health improvement remit currently the responsibility of Public Health England (PHE), and will “lead national efforts to improve and level up the public’s health,” according to the government.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 29, 2021
Akili has published data backing the efficacy of its childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) video game therapy EndeavorRx in the peer-review journal Nature Digital Medicine. . The results come from the STARS-Adjunct trial, an open-label study of EndeavorRx (AKL-T01) that supported approval of the app and video game combination in the US and Europe last year.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 25, 2021
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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