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STAT+: Drugmaker raises the price of an old chemo medicine tenfold amid persistent shortages

STAT News

Amid sporadic shortages of a drug that is essential in preparing patients for lifesaving, cancer-fighting treatments, one manufacturer has returned to the market — but is selling its medicine for 10 to 20 times the prices offered by the only other companies with available supplies.

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Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies in Healthcare

Roots Analysis

In order to effectively combat the problems related to counterfeit medicines, several companies have come up with innovative technologies to provide the necessary tools to manufacturers, healthcare professionals and patients to authenticate pharmaceutical products.

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RFID: The future of smart labelling?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry began using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in the early 2000s. Pfizer was the first to use the tech, adding RFID tags to track a Viagra (sildenafil) shipment circa 2006. Twenty years ago, the cost of implementing RFID tags and the ecosystem (software) was much more expensive than today.

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Revolutionizing Medicine and Public Health: The Emergence of Big Data in Healthcare

Roots Analysis

Velocity: Big Data needs to be handled promptly as businesses generate data at an unprecedented speed, driven by the growing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT), and technologies, such as RFID tags, sensors, and smart meters are used to deal with the high velocity of data in real-time. It is loosely arranged into categories using meta tags.

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Q&A: A decade on, what’s next for CAR-T therapies?

Pharmaceutical Technology

But access to these treatments continues to remain limited due to high price tags and variable availability across regions. We have the emergence of this new pillar of medicine, which is out of the lab and beyond clinical trials now. AZ: What is the ISCT doing to tackle supply and access-related obstacles in the CAR-T field?

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New to ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022: Tech Theatre supported by DDW

Drug Discovery World

will discuss The role of AI and Automation in Personalised Medicine: How can AI Help in the Post- Drug Discovery Process. Dr Anvar was a senior scientist before joining OKRA, serving as the principal investigator of preclinical personalised medicine. Dr Yahya Anvar, Head of Data Science, OKRA.ai

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A history of Pfizer

pharmaphorum

After the war, Pfizer continued to focus on industrial chemicals as much as medicines, producing the citric acid needed for the emerging soft drinks industry, fuelling brands like Coca Cola and Dr Pepper’s expansion in the 1880s. For all the latest Pfizer news follow pharmaphorum’s Pfizer tag.

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