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Protecting public health: Is real-world evidence the key?
April 8, 2019Business 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 …
How I learned to stop worrying and love the placebo effect
April 1, 2019Business 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 …
Working Life: Dr Paul-Peter Tak, ex-Senior Vice President, Development Lead and Chief Immunology Officer at GSK, Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering
March 28, 2019Business 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 …
Conducting internal investigations within a pharmaceutical business
March 25, 2019Business 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 …
Breathing life into COPD research
March 21, 2019Business 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 …
Patient Experience: Living with two rare diseases
March 18, 2019Business 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. …
PV futures: Pharmacovigilance as a solution to the challenges of tomorrow
March 11, 2019Business 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 …
The cutting edge of cancer research
March 4, 2019Business 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 …
Solving the drug development problem
February 11, 2019Business 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 …
Repurposed drugs: The Supreme Court deals a blow to patentees
January 31, 2019Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Supreme Court, drug repurposing, feature, patents, pharma
Second medical use patents protect the discovery that an existing drug is effective to treat a new condition. But, following …
Insider Interview: The diabetes/mental health connection
December 3, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Insider Interview, Type 1 diabetes, World Diabetes Day, diabetes, feature, mental health, pharma
Michael Connellan, Head of External Affairs at the type 1 diabetes charity JDRF, discusses the results of a recent survey …
Rising to the challenge of delivering therapeutic discovery for mental disorders
November 15, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NIHRm, Oxford, R&D, feature, investment, mental health
Professor Matthew Hotopf, Director of NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, and Professor John R Geddes, Director of NIHR Oxford Health …
Not so crystal clear: The EU’s clinical reporting problem
October 29, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EBM Datalabs, clinical trial transparency, clinical trials, feature, pharma, transparency
With shocking new findings revealing that around half of all clinical trial results in Europe go unreported, Matt Fellows explores …
AI, big data: Making a case for faster drug discovery
October 15, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AI, Big Data, feature, healthcare, research
They’re two of the biggest buzzwords getting professionals excited across pharma – Anjali Shukla explores the ways in which AI …
Working Life: Jean-Christophe Tellier, CEO of UCB Pharma
September 24, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing UCB, Working Life, feature
Just as his company announced robust H1 2018 financials, UCB’s Jean-Christophe Tellier spoke to Pharmafocus to share his experiences of …
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