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U.S. Health Officials Question AstraZeneca Vaccine Trial Results

NY Times

According to federal officials, an independent panel of medical experts said the promising results announced by the company on Monday may have relied on “outdated information.”.

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Gamification for patient care, medical education, and virtual engagement

pharmaphorum

“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

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Life-sciences pros believe in potential of AI, blockchain: survey

Outsourcing Pharma

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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“Can You Hear Me?” – The (Hopefully) Coming Transition from Virtual Meetings

Eye on FDA

Today, FDA published notice in the Federal Register of an upcoming meeting of the Arthritis Drugs Advisory Committee that will be held May 6. The meeting will be held virtually. Last year when the pandemic reality started setting in, like everyone else FDA had to change operations – in some cases shutting down or curtailing activities altogether and moving others to a virtual stage.

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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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AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Found to Be 79% Effective in U.S. Study

NY Times

The company is preparing to apply for emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. But the shot may not be needed in the United States.

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Health tech and digital transformation lessons from the NHS

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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.

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MedVector introduces patient enrollment expansion solution

Outsourcing Pharma

The companyâs Prime-Control Technology is designed to help study teams expand their subject enrollment beyond the reach of their clinical trial sites.

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Some Nations Could Wait Years for Covid Shots. That’s Bad for Everyone.

NY Times

While richer places, such as the U.S., hope to vaccinate most of their citizens within months, poorer countries, like Kenya, expect to reach just small fractions of their populations in that time.

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Novartis’ radioligand therapy meets phase 3 prostate cancer trial target

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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.

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Relugolix shows potential long-term benefit in women with uterine fibroids

Pharma Times

Study compared women who continued on relugolix combination therapy with women who discontinued treatment

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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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Cancer research benefits from harnessing real-world data

Outsourcing Pharma

A leader from oncologist-founded trial tech specialists COTA shares how advanced data analysis can benefit cancer researchers and patients alike.

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AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Found to Be 79% Effective in U.S. Study

NY Times

The vaccine maker is preparing to apply for emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. But the vaccine may not be needed in the United States.

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Boris Johnson slammed for saying “greed” is behind UK vaccine success

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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.

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FDA nod for Kiniksa’s Arcalyst in recurrent pericarditis

Pharma Times

Recurrent pericarditis is an autoinflammatory cardiovascular disease

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New patent for Cubist Pharms drug ZERBAXA

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for ZERBAXA Zerbaxa is a drug marketed by Cubist Pharms Llc and is included in one NDA. It is available from one supplier. There are twelve…. The post New patent for Cubist Pharms drug ZERBAXA appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Cache of 29 Million AstraZeneca Doses in Italy Raises E.U. Suspicions

NY Times

The company has been at loggerheads with the bloc over vaccine supply shortages and faces stringent export restrictions.

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Cancer services should be rebuilt after COVID disruption, experts say

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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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Cambridge start-up PhoreMost raises £33m to progress PLK1 programme

Pharma Times

Lead ‘Allosteric PLK1’ asset will initially target brain cancer

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Digital Tools at the Center of Healthcare Digitalization

Pharma Marketing Network

Innovation During COVID-19 Fact Sheet. We compiled a fact sheet on innovations in digital publishing that sparked due to the pandemic and have since been soaring. . Get your complimentary copy of "The Publishing Industry: The Soar of Innovation During COVID-19 Fact Sheet". Name *. First. Last. Company Email *. Lead Source * Web Active Prospecting Sales Ad-Label Advertising - Offline Advertising - Online Advertising - Online - FocalPoint Advertising - Online - Mobile Advertising - Online - Trend

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Online health communities connect patients, trial teams

Outsourcing Pharma

Health Union offers patients dealing with a range of conditions ways to connect with valuable information, research opportunities and each other online.

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Shock as AstraZeneca’s charismatic cancer R&D chief José Baselga dies

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AstraZeneca is mourning the loss of one of its top scientists after eminent cancer researcher José Baselga passed away at the age of just 61. . Baselga was a heavyweight in oncology research, pursuing a career that saw him serve as physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in the US and also hold the position as president of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) before joining AZ to lead the drugmaker’s cancer R&D in January 2019.

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EMA accepts Astellas/Seagen’s enfortumab vedotin for review

Pharma Times

Marketing authorisation application is seeking approval for advanced urothelial cancer

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Supply Isn’t the Only Thing Stymying Europe’s Vaccine Rollout

NY Times

Bureaucratic inertia, a diffusion of responsibility and logistical problems have seriously undercut vaccination efforts. In Italy, it’s the older population that bears the brunt.

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IQVIA expands reach of its decentralized trial solutions

Outsourcing Pharma

The company reports that its patient-centric virtual study technology currently is in use in more than 60 ongoing trials in over 40 different countries.

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The hidden danger of isolated congenital asplenia

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TEAM 4 Travis is an advocacy group with one objective – to ensure it doesn’t take an autopsy to diagnose isolated congenital asplenia. As part of our Patient Insights series, founder Allison Bones tells us why she is determined to stop history repeating itself. When Travis Bones died just days after his fourth birthday, his family had no idea he had a rare birth defect that had left him without a spleen – and extremely vulnerable to infection.

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Roche’s Tecentriq improves disease-free survival in early lung cancer

Pharma Times

Tecentriq is approved in five lung cancer indications currently

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José Baselga, Who Advanced Breast Cancer Treatments, Dies at 61

NY Times

He was a top executive at Memorial Sloan Kettering before resigning over payments from health care companies. He went on to lead cancer research at AstraZeneca.

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Amgen v Sanofi ruling: It is time to kiss goodbye to broad, functional patent claims for antibodies

Outsourcing Pharma

A US courtâs recent decision to find in favor of Sanofi and invalidate Amgen's broad antibody patent claims has biotech manufacturers concerned about how to preserve their IP.

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Doubts emerge over AZ’s ‘outdated’ US vaccine trial data

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AstraZeneca has been rebuked by a US health authority after a trial monitoring board said data published from a large study of its COVID-19 vaccine may be out of date and may not give a representative view of its efficacy. The company’s share price ticked down after the statement on Monday from the US National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

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‘Formal review’ of GP access arrangements needed, says Healthwatch

Pharma Times

UK-based charity conducted a review of GP access between April 2019 and December 2020

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Why Supply Isn’t the Only Thing Stymying Europe’s Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout

NY Times

Bureaucratic inertia, a diffusion of responsibility and logistical problems have seriously undercut vaccination efforts. In Italy, it’s the older population that bears the brunt.

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Collecting patient data challenging in evolving trial landscape

Outsourcing Pharma

Two experts from CRO Phastar talk about how trial professionals face new, ever-changing challenges regarding collecting and disseminating patient data.

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COVID-19 drives Boehringer’s R&D spend to record level in 2020

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Boehringer Ingelheim invested €3.7 billion on R&D last year, the highest spend in its history, as it mobilised its scientists to seek out new therapies for COVID-19. . Not all those efforts have been successful. Boehringer abandoned BI 764198, an inhibitor of TRPC6 in phase 2 for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 earlier this month.

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Report urges pharma companies to utilise synthetic data in clinical trials

Pharma Times

Report outlines two cases for using synthetic data in the clinical trial process

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Drug Prices Are High Thanks to Research That Americans Pay For

NY Times

The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t want things to change, but Americans can have both lower prices and innovation.