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Overuse of asthma inhalers linked to severe attacks; study

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Data from a massive real-world study of asthma patients has suggested that overuse of inhalers is widespread and leading to an elevated risk of severe exacerbations. The results from the SABINA registry programme in more than a million people with the respiratory disease show that 40% of patients were over-using short-acting beta agonist (SABA) inhalers, which are used on demand to open up the airways.

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Innovative Purdue research leads to FDA-approved prostate cancer treatment

Outsourcing Pharma

A renowned university researcher explains the path that laid the foundation and what the novel diagnostic and treatment means for prostate cancer patients.

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Reason behind the growth of PCD Pharma Franchise in India

Fossil Remedies

It is every entrepreneur’s dream to launch a business that earns a great profit. After all that is something, which everyone aims for. The pharma business has become one of the most popular businesses in the last 20 years. Why? It is because the pharma sector has done remarkably well. Also, it shows signs of good growth in the next few years. If you consider a few data facts, then the pharma sector today around 40+ Billion dollars , and in the next few years, it will cross even 100 Billion dolla

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Doctors and nurses produce roadmap to future-proof healthcare

Pharma Times

Report uses input from healthcare professionals to highlight training and support needs, while also warning about departures

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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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Irish wearables firm Kinesis bought by Linus Health

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University College Dublin spinout Kinesis Health Technologies, which has developed a range of wearable sensors to assess the physical capabilities of patients, has been bought by US company Linus Health for an undisclosed sum. The merger brings together Kinesis’ gait analysis tools with Linus’ digital brain health monitoring technologies, designed to spot diseases like Alzheimer’s before over symptoms develop.

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Ukraine war offers hard lessons for clinical research industry: H1

Outsourcing Pharma

A leader from the healthcare technology company discusses the conflictâs impact on the region and beyond and the need to better guard against interruptions.

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NHS to improve cancer treatment using Elekta software

Pharma Times

ProKnow was chosen to enable healthcare providers to benchmark treatment metrics against best practice and support clinical excellence

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ICSs – an opportunity to improve Patient & Market Access at a local level

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With the new Health and Care Bill edging ever closer to receiving Royal Assent, life sciences companies in the UK are preparing to navigate the most significant piece of NHS legislation in a decade. The new bill, which is expected to come into force on 1st July, will see Clinical Commissioning Groups replaced with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) as statutory bodies across England.

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FDA requests total of $8.4b for fiscal year 2023 budget

Outsourcing Pharma

The agency's requested funding for FY 2023, nearly 34% higher than for FY 2022, calls for investments in public health modernization and pandemic preparation.

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Benefits of Adopting Multichannel Marketing in Pharma

Pharma Mirror

It all started in March 2020 and it is now Jan 2022. We still can’t declare the COVID pandemic as “finished”. How has the pandemic impacted the field marketing activity of Pharma companies? What should the industry do to prepare for what will definitely be a new world, post-COVID? There were many analysts who, even before the pandemic, were saying that the role of Medical Representatives will reduce.

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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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Santen launches new educational eyecare site for patients in UK

Pharma Times

Digital health boost as new website focuses on dry eye disease, which currently affects one in four people across the UK

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Big pharma companies partner to form AI-based start-up

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Israel-based AION Labs and German independent research institute BioMed X announced its third global call for applications to form a new start-up company focused on using AI to design and optimise antibodies for targeted therapies. . Noga Yerushalmi, investment director at M Ventures (the venture arm of Merck), tells us how AION Labs was formed and aspires to help ease the pharma industry’s shared challenges by offering its vast resources a new start-up.

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Embracing clinical tech can benefit all stakeholders: IQVIA

Outsourcing Pharma

An expert from the clinical technology solutions provider discusses some of the top challenges associated with technology adoption, and how to tackle them.

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Pipelinepharma marketplace records quadruple growth over a single year

Pharma Mirror

The leading European pharmaceutical marketplace now hosts more than 85 000 CTD dossiers for finished dosage formulation products. Compared to 19 600 products at the start of 2021, the product offering has increased fourfold over a single year. As a response to increasing demand, Pipelinepharma will introduce biosimilar drugs into a separate category.

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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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My Rewarding Path as a Pharmacy Technician: A Reflection on Career Growth and Opportunity

McCreadie Group

April 2022 | Mindy Suttlemyre, BS, PhT I was honored to present “Off the Beaten Path: Exploring Opportunities for Technicians within IDS Pharmacy” at McCreadie Group’s 2021 Research Pharmacy Summit. When asked to be a speaker, I was working at The University of Utah/Huntsman Cancer Hospital IDS as the Lead Pharmacy Technician and was eager to. The post My Rewarding Path as a Pharmacy Technician: A Reflection on Career Growth and Opportunity appeared first on McCreadie Group Blog.

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Coaching Consistency

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Leading tennis players train two to three hours a day to prepare for tournaments and have daily coaching input to make them game ready. It’s a gruelling regime but the rewards are obvious. Competing at the top level in pharma sales could be developed by following in the fast footsteps of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Experts believe time spent practising delivery and messaging will reap dividends providing it is grooved into a sales force or medical science liaison (MSL) team’s schedule.

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Embracing Medical Career Transitions

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

Our lives are often divided into chapters, delineated by specific transition points. Much like blood flowing through our circulatory system, the trajectory of our lives can be turbulent at times while laminer at others. It can advance and progress, but can also be met with opposition and obstruction. It is in those watershed moments when we recall a notable difference, a growth.

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Give it a go! (Kerry’s Ice Hockey)

NF2 BioSolutions

– Everyone’s journey with NF2 is different. No 2 cases are the same. The biggest problem we face is the ‘unknown’ and never knowing what’s around the corner for us. After being diagnosed and going through a whirlwind of emotions. I decided to start looking into new activities/hobbies to try, looking for something physical so that I could try and keep my body strong and active. – – Ice hockey is something that I’d always wanted to try, but was never

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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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Beyond Next Best Action: Achieving Omnichannel That Works

Pharma Marketing Network

Pharmaceutical companies have been successful for decades with a siloed marketing strategy. Rep-led field engagement, television advertising, and digital marketing have all been planned, executed, and measured separately, but customer expectations are changing fast. With the pandemic and the shift to mobile devices, customers are demanding more convenient and seamless ways to interact with pharma companies.

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CHMP backs J&J’s myeloma CAR-T therapy Carvykti

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Johnson & Johnson is in course for approval of its multiple myeloma CAR-T therapy Carvykti in the EU the next few weeks, after getting a green light from the EMA’s human medicines committee. The CHMP recommended conditional approval for Carvykti (ciltacabtagene autoleucel or cilta-cel) as a treatment for adults with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least three prior therapies and whose cancer is worsening.

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New liquid filling machine for sterile ophthalmic products – Oftalmica by Romaco Macofar

Pharma Mirror

Karlsruhe/Germany, Romaco Macofar’s Oftalmica was specially developed for aseptic filling of sterile eye drops, nasal sprays and injectables. Meeting all GMP requirements for safe processing of highly viscous, oily and foaming liquids, the machine additionally offers fast format changes and short cleaning times. The Oftalmica is Romaco Macofar’s latest technology for aseptic filling of sterile eye drops.

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Roche, BMS to partner on personalized solutions for cancer patients

Outsourcing Pharma

The companies plan to work on developing personalized care solutions via digital pathology to come up with treatment options for patients with solid tumors.

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Ep. 20: Cultural Competence For Global Marketing

Pharma Marketing Network

Tune in to this episode of the Pharma marketing Podcast, with our guest Wendy Pease, President of Rapport International and the author of The Language of Global Marketing for a conversation on why pharma should be thinking global from the start, addressing how to keep a consistent brand globally, and the many things that need to be considered when curating your global market.

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Roche hit by failure of TIGIT drug tiragolumab in lung cancer

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Roche has suffered a setback with its much-anticipated pairing of anti-TIGIT antibody tiragolumab and PD-L1 inhibitor Tecentriq in small cell lung cancer (SCLC), in a blow to its ambitions in combination cancer immunotherapy. The SKYSCRAPER-02 showed that the combination of the two drugs given on top of chemotherapy was unable to improve progression-free survival versus Tecentriq (atezolizumab) plus chemo in extensive-stage SCLC – a notoriously hard-to-treat form of lung cancer.

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Majority of Patients Treated with Lebrikizumab Achieved Skin Clearance in Pivotal Phase 3 Atopic Dermatitis Studies

Pharma Mirror

BARCELONA, Spain, More than 50 percent of patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD) experienced at least 75 percent reduction in disease severity (EASI-75*) at 16 weeks when receiving lebrikizumab monotherapy in the ADvocate program, Almirall S.A. (BME: ALM) announced today at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Annual Meeting. Lebrikizumab, an investigational IL-13 inhibitor, also led to clinically meaningful improvements in itch and other important patient-reported outcomes

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Nipah research to support vaccine development

Outsourcing Pharma

A new study will seek to understand the bodyâs response to the Nipah virus in order to support development of vaccines.

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Parsortix system identifies key drug targets in cancer metastasis

Pharma Times

Study demonstrates ability of the Parsortix system to isolate circulating tumour cells, targeting the metastatic spread of cancer

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Vaccine equity: how the pandemic demonstrated global health inequality

pharmaphorum

With the rapid onset of the pandemic, the race to develop a viable vaccine quickly became a race to secure access to the developed vaccines. In this article, Ben Hargreaves examines how wealth determined the winners and what is now underway to help lower-income countries gain access to the available vaccines. At the beginning of the pandemic, there were two principal issues facing producing an effective vaccine: how can one be quickly developed, and how can production meet global demand?

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DOJ Investigates $250 Million in U.S. Sales of Counterfeit Drugs Using Fake DSCSA Pedigrees

Policy Prescription

The U.S. Department of Justice, according to Seeking Alpha , is investigating the sale and distribution of counterfeit drugs in the U.S. that may have amounted to a quarter-billion dollars. The investigation comes about two months after The Wall Street Journal reported on a lawsuit filed by Gilead Sciences alleging a massive breach in the U.S. drug supply chain consisting of $250 million in counterfeit HIV drugs that were sold throughout the U.S. from licensed pharmacies to American patien

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UCB’s Fintepla oral seizure treatment receives FDA approval

Outsourcing Pharma

The drug has received the agencyâs seal of approval to treat seizures associated with difficult-to-treat seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

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NICE recommends flash devices to type 1 diabetes patients

Pharma Times

New technology could reduce finger pricking by 50% while also providing patients with continuous data about blood sugar levels

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Amazon gathers Thread in decentralised trials alliance

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Amazon’s latest push into the healthcare arena is focusing on one of the top new trends in clinical research – the shift towards decentralised trials. Amazon Web Services has teamed up with Thread, a US technology company that has developed a decentralised clinical trials (DCT) platform based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, to enhance and scale up the technology.

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Constipation Management – Reducing Polypharmacy Case Study

Med Ed 101

In the case below, I discuss constipation management and how to reduce polypharmacy by targeting medications that cause this adverse effect. KE is a 77-year-old male with a history of GERD, pruritis, insomnia, low back pain, and recent knee replacement. Constipation has been a major problem for this patient and he is taking numerous laxative […].

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