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MHRA publishes guidance on medicine regulation after Brexit

pharmaphorum

The UK’s medicines regulator has published long-awaited guidance on regulation of medicines and medical devices as the UK approaches the end of its Brexit transition period at the end of the year. Companies face significant changes in how the complex environment for medicines regulations will operate in 2021. “If

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The social media problem for healthcare

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: The Facebook whistleblower lawsuit can be summed up in one sentence: Facebook prioritizes engagement above all else because it leads to more profits even if that engagement containing inflammatory information. A year ago, Facebook was making a hard charge to get the pharma business.

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Seqster launches new cloud version of virtual trial data tool

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Healthcare technology firm Seqster has introduced a new version of its service that aims to help pharma companies work with patients’ data while on virtual clinical trials. The company adds that it has split data into two silos to prevent hackers from using it in the unlikely event of a breach. The new Seqster 7.1

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In the News: October Regulatory and Development Updates

Camargo

In October, Antares Pharma licensed Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ Nocdurna® (desmopressin acetate) sublingual tablet , which was approved in 2018 for the same indication as Noctiva and has a boxed warning highlighting the same risks. Presumably, Antares’ long-established 90-person urology sales force can achieve pull-thru of this drug product.

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The Brexit deal; shot in the arm or kick in the teeth for the pharma sector?

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The UK Government and EU Commission trumpeted their Brexit trade deal, struck at the end of December, as ‘comprehensive’, the ‘biggest yet’ But a closer inspection of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) renders these statements largely illusory for the pharma sector. The Medicinal Products Annex.

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Q&A: The IND Journey Phase I – Navigating Success

Advarra

The standard for the audit used depends on the type of vendor and would include the applicable regulations and ICH guidelines. The sponsor-initiated IND is conducted by a pharma company seeking commercial approval. The term drug substance and drug product are found in the NDA regulations 21 CFR 314.3,

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European Commission vs Big Pharma, or profit vs access?  

Drug Discovery World

The commission is looking to put more pressure on pharma companies to report such shortages, and to offer a drug’s marketing authorisation to another company before withdrawing it from the market. However, stakeholders should be aware that the leaked review contains no such analysis.