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pharmafile | January 24, 2017 | News story | Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing |Â Â Pharmafocus, digital editionÂ
Inside this issue…
We cover as our lead story Theresa May’s plan for Brexit that places the life sciences industry at the forefront of her economic vision for a post-Brexit Britain. In news from across the pond, we also take a closer look at Barack Obama’s 21st Century Cures Act that will fund the ‘moonshot’ for finding a cure for cancer.
This month’s features…
We take a look at how big data analytics are rapidly finding a place within the pharmaceutical industry and what benefits these methods can introduce. Particularly, we focus upon how clinical trials and drug discovery could potentially be revolutionised, including hearing from IBM as to how they are changing the pharma landscape with IBM Watson Health.
In our second feature we investigate how pharmacovigilance practices are keeping pace with the development of technology – how important is the use of secondary data sources to prevent adverse drugs reactions, and how is social media use shaping the field?
In addition…
With us entering a new year, we spoke to four pharma industry leaders to gain insight into what lessons they learnt from 2016 and what they expect as the present year unfolds. Medica Packaging offers their insight into how consolidation of carton and leaflet supply may not necessarily improve efficiency and explores how independent suppliers may offer advantages.
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