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Working Life: Dr Todd Hobbs, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Novo Nordisk

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Novo Nordisk, Working Life, feature, pharma

Novo Nordisk’s VP and CMO discusses his leap from family medicine into the pharma industry, his biggest achievements, and how …

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Medical cannabis: A green light for patients in need?

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Insider Interview, Medical marijuana, cannabis, feature, pharma

Spinnaker Opportunities announced in February it had reached a preliminary agreement to acquire cannabis oil-focused research firm Kanabo Research and …

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Living with a rare chromosome disorder

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Inv Dup Del 8p, feature, patient experience, pharma

Rebecca Pender’s daughter Hannah lives with the ultra-rare condition Inv Dup Del 8p, a genetic arrangement that affects just 80 …

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Protecting public health: Is real-world evidence the key?

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | feature, pharma, real world data, real world evidence, real-world data, real-world evidence

In often tough regulatory climates and with threats to public health are growing in sceptical corners of society, the need …

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How I learned to stop worrying and love the placebo effect

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | clinical trials, feature, pharma, placebo effect

Louis Goss talks to Harvard Medical School placebo expert Dr Ted Kaptchuk in asking what the placebo effect means for …

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Working Life: Dr Paul-Peter Tak, ex-Senior Vice President, Development Lead and Chief Immunology Officer at GSK, Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | GSK, Working Life, feature

Dr Paul-Peter Tak, ex-Senior Vice President, Development Lead and Chief Immunology Officer at GSK, Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering.How did …

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Conducting internal investigations within a pharmaceutical business

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Reed Smith, feature, internal investigations, pharma

Though often necessary, internal investigations are seldom smooth or easy. Rosanne Kay, Partner at law firm Reed Smith, outlines a …

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Breathing life into COPD research

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | COPD, GSK, feature

Alison Hollands, Vice President, Respiratory, UK Pharmaceuticals at GlaxoSmithKline, addresses the importance of implementing the latest approaches to treating COPD …

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Patient Experience: Living with two rare diseases

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Wyburn-Mason Syndrome, acromegaly, feature, patient experience, pharma, rare disease

Dan Jeffries was diagnosed with the ultra-rare condition Wyburn-Mason syndrome at a young age, leaving him blind in one eye. …

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PV futures: Pharmacovigilance as a solution to the challenges of tomorrow

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | drug safety, feature, pharma, pharmacovigilance

Louis Goss asks what the future might hold for the safety of pharmaceuticals and looks into why crucial pharmacovigilance practices …

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The cutting edge of cancer research

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Cancer, feature, oncology

While immunotherapies continue to be the darling of the industry, new, innovative and sometimes seemingly fantastical research is emerging that …

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Working Life: Nicola Redfern, UK General Manager, bluebird bio

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Bluebird Bio, Interview, Working Life, pharma

How did you find your way into the pharma industry? Was it always an aspiration of yours? My mum worked …

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Living with melanoma after surgery

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Cancer, melanoma, patient experience, pharma

Dr Elizabeth Walmsley was left lost when she received her melanoma diagnosis. Thankfully, through perseverance and the advice of friends …

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Beating the flu

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | flu, influenza, pharma, seqirus

On 14 January, the European Commission issued marketing approval for Flucelvax Tetra, the first cell-based, quadrivalent influenza vaccine. Pharmafocus spoke …

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Solving the drug development problem

Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | AI, drug discovery, feature, pharma, pistoia alliance

Excitement is building for the potential of AI in just about every field, but how can it address pharma’s unique …

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