July, 2014

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Patient Centered Trials - Your Thoughts Needed

Placebo Control

The good folks down at eyeforpharma have asked me to write a few blog posts in the run-up to their Patient Centered Clinical Trials conference in Boston this September. In my second article - Buzzword Innovation: The Patient Centricity “Fad” and the Token Patient - I went over some concerns I have regarding the sudden burst of enthusiasm for patient centricity in the clinical trial world.

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The future of the UK pharma market: A global context

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The global pharmaceutical market passes a significant milestone in 2014: reaching one trillion US dollars in total value. IMS Health forecasts the global market will see a compound average growth rate of between 4 to 7 percent in constant dollar terms to 2018, driven by two very different speed growth engines: at best low single digit value growth in the developed markets, contrasting with largely double digit growth in the power house pharmerging markets.