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Making things personal: Roche and personalised medicine
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Roche, feature, personalised medicine, pharmaAnn Costello, Global Franchise Lead, Centralised Solutions at Roche Diagnostics, discusses the increasing need for a personalised approach to patient …
Living with a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | KAT6A, feature, patient experience, pharma, rare diseaseVaila Morrison’s daughter Eilidh was born with the ultra-rare condition KAT6A. As a designer and architect by profession, Vaila told …
The patient is always right: Extracting the full value of PROMs
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | NHS, PROs, UK, feature, patient reported outcomes, patient-reported outcomes, pharmaPatient-reported outcomes measures are an invaluable tool in ensuring that the patient remains in the driving seat when it comes …
Diagnosing the drug supply: Exposing the bad practice of manufacturers in the developing world
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Cipla, Contamination, FDA, India, chin, compliance, manufacturing, pharma, regulation, valsartanThe world needs cheap generic drugs and Indian manufacturers offer a steady supply. However the quality of generics has been …
Darius Hughes, Head of Vaccines Business Unit UK, Pfizer
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Darius Hughes, Pfizer, Working Life, biotech, pharma, vaccines“Vaccines provide a unique opportunity to have a positive effect on hundreds of thousands of people” – Darius Hughes, Head …
Insider Interview: A roadblock for counterfeit drugs?
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Merck KGaA, blockchain, fake drugs, feature, pharmaDr Thomas Endress, Founder, and Dr Frederic Berkermann, co-?Founder, of a new technology being developed at the Merck Innovation Center …
Living with mal de debarquement syndrome
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | patient experience, pharma, rare diseasePolly Moyer reflects on her experiences living with the rare condition mal de debarquement syndrome, and discusses how connecting with …
Healthcare communications: Time to think differently with patient centricity
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Spink, patient centricity, pharmaPatient centricity, derived from the NHS-driven thinking “no decision about me, without me”, has been adopted by pharma to understand …
The Brexit ‘cliff edge’: How life sciences can survive
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | UK, brexit, pharmaCharacterised by a persistent lack of clarity and a political climate that has everyone guessing from week to week, Brexit …
The missing link: Blockchain in clinical data management
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Big Data, blockchain, data, data management, pharma, supply chainLouis Goss explores the potential uses for the much-hyped technology blockchain as a tool to tackle the data management challenges …
Implementing “the safest medicines system in the world”
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | feature, packaging, pharmaWith debates heating up over cooperation between European across the continent, Matt Fellows investigates the current state of packaging countermeasures …
Battling cervical cancer in the developing world
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Doctors Without Borders, Medecins sans frontieres; cancer, cervical cancer, malawi, pharmaThe non-profit humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, is well known for its work fighting on the …
Working Life: Monika Pocinkova, Vice President, HR Speciality Care, Ipsen UK & Ireland
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Working Life, feature, pharmaIpsen’s Vice President of HR Speciality Care discusses the path she has taken throughout her career, the cultural differences she …
Living with Scimitar syndrome
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | Scimitar syndrome, patient experience, pharmaKaty Baker has lived her entire life with the rare congenital heart defect Scimitar syndrome. She reflects on the system …
The global rise in antibiotic resistance threatens infection prevention and cure
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing | antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial resistance, feature, pharmaDr Bill Love, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Destiny Pharma, discusses the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the antibiotic …
