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ABPI Issues Call to Improve UK Pharma
The head of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has issued a stark warning about the state of the UK’s pharmaceutical industry. In particular, concerns have been raised about the...
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Personalised Medicine: Pharma’s Golden Era?
A golden era of productivity awaits the pharmaceutical industry in 2020, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In an industry that seems to be dominated by headlines of job cuts and...
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Sanofi Campaign Targets Counterfeit Medicines
Passengers travelling via Air France this December will see an in-cabin movie made by Sanofi to raise awareness about the dangers of counterfeit drugs. According to Sanofi’s video, up to 10% of the...
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Microchips and Video Games: Innovations in Healthcare
Once upon a time in the world of healthcare, the only competition for a pharmaceutical company was other pharmaceutical companies. Times have changed. Pharma companies are now competing with many...
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When Will Pharmacogenomics Live up to its Promise?
In about 20 years and with a cost of around $10 billion. That’s the estimate given by researchers at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the US who used quantitative modelling to forecast how...
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Pharma’s Reputation in Decline
The pharmaceutical industry does not have a good reputation among patients and consumers. This may seem like an unfair situation given the fact that medicines produced by the pharmaceutical industry...
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Era of the Biosimilar: The Inevitable Change
Biosimilars. They bring cheap prices to patients and healthcare payers, but for biopharmaceutical companies, such products impact the sales of innovative biopharmaceuticals. The pros and cons of...
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Pharma’s Most Productive Innovators
Consultancy firm IDEA Pharma has released what it calls a ‘Productive Innovation Index’, which ranks pharmaceutical companies based on their ability to successfully commercialise new innovations. The...
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Unlicensed Medicines Woes in the UK
I’ve written frequently about the problem of counterfeit medicines in the United Kingdom and how the country’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is working to prevent these,...
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Daiichi Sankyo Faces Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
Six current and former female pharmaceutical sales representatives have filed a $100-million gender discrimination lawsuit against Daiichi Sankyo in a US district court. The company employs around 3000...
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