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bluebird bio wins back-to-back landmark FDA approvals for first-in-class gene therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Spark Therapeutics’ Luxturna, indicated for inherited retinal disease (IRD), was the first gene therapy to be approved, in 2017, with a price tag of $850,000 for each eye. This highlights the FDA’s dedication to pursuing innovative, life-saving therapies for patients without any alternatives.

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Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug: What’s the price tag on hope?

World of DTC Marketing

At one point, Biogen was down as an innovative biotech company in Weston, Massachusetts. If the drug is approved you can bet that it’s going to carry a huge price tag. It could carry a price tag as high as $50,000-a-year per patient, according to drug analysts, adding billions of dollars to the nation’s health tab. .

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Grand Rounds January 26, 2024: Advancing the Safe, Effective and Equitable Use of AI in Healthcare (Mark Sendak, MD, MPP; Suresh Balu, MD, MBA)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

DIHI approaches this work through four pillars of innovation: implementation and health delivery science, health technology innovation, leadership and workforce development, and best practices development and dissemination. Key decision point 1 is procurement. There is a massive inequity and teams like DIHI are very rare. .

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Orphan drugs and where to launch them: The keys to Europe’s forgotten territories

Pharmaceutical Technology

The commercial investment required to research and develop an innovative drug, prove its safety and efficacy, and bring it to market is staggering. Most famously, the US passed its Orphan Drug Act in 1983, providing innovators with financial motivation to develop orphan drugs and meet the needs of these forgotten patients.

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Leading innovators in peptide nano-particle conjugates for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the evolution of new treatment paradigms, and the gravity of unmet needs, as well as the growing importance of technologies such as pharmacogenomics, digital therapeutics, and artificial intelligence.

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Grand Rounds October 27, 2023: Digital, Decentralized and Democratized: Lessons From The Yale PaxLC Trial (Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

PaxLC brings together many innovations including online screening, digital medical record review, e-consent, home-delivery of medications, local clinical blood draws, home-based biospecimen collection, online diaries and surveys, digital medical record outcomes, and participant-centricity, and return of results.

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Chocolate Shortage Looms Ahead of Easter 2024

XTalks

However, she emphasized, “Our strong marketing plans, innovation and brand investments will drive top-line growth and meet consumers’ evolving needs.” Despite these challenges, companies like Hershey remain optimistic, focusing on marketing, innovation and brand investments to drive growth.