Sat.Dec 30, 2023 - Fri.Jan 05, 2024

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Enhancement, Efficiency, Equity, and Engagement: Four Trends Shaping Clinical Trials in 2024

ACRP blog

Historically, patient recruitment and retention have been pressing issues within the clinical trial space. Eighty-five percent of trials fail to recruit enough patients, while 80% are delayed due to other factors like participant dropouts. These high rates are influenced by financial, emotional, and logistical barriers to participation, such as geographic location and travel-related costs, which prevent patients from enrolling in trials and accessing life-changing medicine.

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10 clinical trials to watch in the first half of 2024

Bio Pharma Dive

A non-addictive pain pill faces its definitive test, while study results in ALS, a rare heart disease and lung cancer could have far-reaching implications.

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Why amplifying the patient voice is crucial to clinical trial success

pharmaphorum

Amplifying the patient voice is essential for the success of clinical trials. Learn why it is crucial for patient engagement, recruitment, and overall trial success, and how it can address challenges such as transportation and financial barriers.

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Expert analysis: the latest in HIV research and clinical trials 

Pharmaceutical Technology

A new report from Novotech delves into the multifaceted landscape of HIV, focusing on its impact, treatment, and global initiatives.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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Patients want access to clinical trials — here's how to give it to them

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While the primary goal of clinical trials is to help identify potential new treatments that improve people's health and save lives, it's the unfortunate truth that the patient experience is often not prioritized. This discrepancy becomes evident in industry findings, highlighting a substantial disparity between the services patients want from pharmaceutical companies compared to what they actually receive.

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Precision in practice: GenAI in clinical trials

pharmaphorum

Explore how GenAI is revolutionising clinical trials by bringing precision and innovation to the development of therapies. Learn how this technology is improving patient outcomes and advancing the field of clinical research.

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MRI Machines Are Perfectly Safe. But Never Do The Following Things.

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

A 57-year-old woman from Wisconsin recently sustained a rather unfortunate injury to her buttock. She had attended the hospital for an MRI ( magnetic resonance imaging) scan and had entered the machine with a concealed firearm. The machine’s powerful magnet caused the gun to discharge.

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Artificial intelligence in medical imaging revolutionizing diagnostics: Chandra Ganjoo

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Medical imaging has revolutionized diagnostics with artificial intelligence (AI) providing the unprecedented accuracy for fast detection and personalized patient care. The year 2023 for India’s medtech industry characterized by resilience, innovation, provided push toward enhancing healthcare accessibility and quality amid global health challenges.

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A new startup from Feng Zhang and an ex-Illumina executive zeroes in on the epigenome

Bio Pharma Dive

Moonwalk Biosciences, the latest biotech cofounded by the gene editing scientist, joins other startups aiming to alter gene expression without changing DNA.

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AbbVie and Umoja to develop new CAR-T therapies for cancer

Pharmaceutical Technology

AbbVie and Umoja Biopharma partnered for the development of in-situ CAR-T cell therapy candidates for oncology targets.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

White paper that delves into the complex topic of Decentralized Clinical Trials and how to master them within the confines of FDA Regulations

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FD-AID, LLC Announces Expansion of Services to India’s Pharmaceutical Sector

Pharma Mirror

New Delhi, India – FD-AID, LLC, a distinguished leader in pharmaceutical quality and compliance solutions, proudly announces its entry into the Indian pharmaceutical market. Spearheaded by a former US FDA Investigator and seasoned pharmaceutical executive, FD-AID is uniquely positioned to bring a wealth of expertise and insight to India’s rapidly growing pharmaceutical industry.

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Shock Result Reveals The Fruit You May Want to Leave Out of Smoothies

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

The next time you make yourself a berry smoothie, you might want to hold off on the banana. Sure, this fruit is full of potassium and makes a drink deliciously thick and creamy, but according to researchers from the University of California Davis (UCD), there’s something in bananas that might overpower the antioxidants in berries.

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Allogene to shift strategy in bid to reposition CAR-T

Bio Pharma Dive

The company plans to restructure and will start a new late-stage study testing whether its “off-the-shelf” therapy can boost cure rates when used early on.

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Magazine: Pharma’s path to Net Zero: Targeting Scope 3 emissions

Pharmaceutical Technology

In this issue: Pharma’s efforts to curb Scope 3 emissions, understanding European Pharmaceutical legislation, and looking back at the pharma industry’s performance in 2023.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Truth or Myth: How Accurate Are Home DNA Test Kits?

Pharma Mirror

The popularity of at-home DNA testing is soaring in popularity and uses. When someone seeks information about paternity or genetic diseases without visiting a doctor’s chamber or laboratory, the best alternative is the at-home DNA test kit. Unless and until the paternity tests are not for legal cases, at-home test kits are an ideal choice. The question which concerns everyone is, ‘are home DNA test kits accurate?’.

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Popular Type 2 Diabetes And Weight Loss Drug May Protect Against Colorectal Cancer

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

A drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes could also effectively protect against colorectal cancer (CRC), based on a new analysis by researchers in the US. The drug in question is a class of medications known as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists – more easily referred to as GLP-1 RAs.

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FDA authorizes Florida to import drugs from Canada

Bio Pharma Dive

The clearance is a major shift for the agency, which described its decision as a “first step” in allowing Florida to bulk purchase lower-cost Canadian medicines.

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Pfizer receives Health Canada approval for haemophilia B therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pfizer Canada has received Health Canada approval for gene therapy Beqvez (fidanacogene elaparvovec) for the treatment of haemophilia B.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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January 2, 2023: NINR Announces Funding Opportunity to Address Social Needs Through Healthcare-Community Partnerships

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) has published a funding opportunity for research to develop and expand interventions and programs that leverage existing or create new healthcare-community partnerships to address unmet social needs among individuals and families and adverse social determinants of health within communities—especially in populations that experience health disparities.

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A Nutritionist Reveals The Secret to Making Friends With Salad

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Do you hate salad? It’s OK if you do, there are plenty of foods in the world, and lots of different ways to prepare them.

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FDA ends busy year with three drug rejections

Bio Pharma Dive

Amgen had its bid for full approval of the cancer drug Lumakras turned back by the agency, which also issued complete response letters to Zealand Pharma and Merck & Co. in December.

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Boehringer reinforces interest in NASH with new $2bn deal  

Pharmaceutical Technology

This collaboration comes six years after the German company Boehringer signed two agreements to develop treatments for NASH.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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Millions of doses of Pfizer's Paxlovid will go to waste in UK, EU as COVID demand plummets

Fierce Pharma

On the heels of a major Paxlovid inventory write-off in the United States, many more doses of Pfizer's COVID-fighting antiviral are going to waste overseas. | At the end of November, more than 1.5 million courses of Pfizer’s Paxlovid had expired unused in European countries, analysts at Airfinity said in a new report. The total tally of expired doses in Europe is expected to hit 3.1 million by the end of next month, representing a value of $2.2 billion.

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DDCDA devises strategies to differentiate their service with improved customer experience

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Dharwad District Chemists & Druggists Association (DDCDA) is devising strategies to differentiate their service with improved customer experience. These span attention to details like patient education to manage their medication, ensure fair business practices in pricing and dispensing medicines efficiently among others.

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Lilly launches online service for home delivery of weight loss drug

Bio Pharma Dive

The new program, dubbed LillyDirect, will help patients connect with telehealth providers and deliver medicines like the company’s obesity treatment Zepbound.

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Novartis allies with Voyager to develop gene therapies in $1.3bn deal

Pharmaceutical Technology

Novartis will pay Voyager $100m upfront and up to $1.2bn in milestone-based payments and royalties on net sales.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

This new white paper defines and details the impact of Decentralized Clinical Trials on the Pharmaceutical industry and how the impact can be measured along with steps companies can take to ensure adoption.

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Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly's weight-loss drugs under FDA scrutiny for suicidal thoughts, hair loss

Fierce Pharma

Use of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly’s popular diabetes and weight loss drugs come with warnings about a rare intestinal blockage condition called ileus, which can be life threatening. | Use of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly’s popular diabetes and weight loss drugs come with warnings about a rare intestinal blockage condition called ileus. Could cautions about more common side effects soon be added to the labels of popular treatments such as Novo’s Ozempic and Lilly’s Mounjaro?

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Navigating regulatory affairs in biopharma industry requires skilled talent pool: Expert

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Navigating regulatory affairs in the biopharma industry requires a skilled talent pool, according to Benjamin James, HR Leader, Asia-Pacific, Cytiva Lifesciences – a global life sciences (biopharma) company. He cited Cytiva’s Global Biopharma Resilience Index (GBRI), which reveals a decline in overall talent pool resilience, with the score dropping from 6.27 in 2021 to 5.

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An unusual drugmaker raises north of $100M for ecstasy-based PTSD therapy

Bio Pharma Dive

Lykos Therapeutics, formerly known as MAPS Public Benefit Corp., recently submitted its MDMA capsules for FDA approval, following two positive studies.

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Gene Therapy to Target CD19 and CD22 for Refractory and Relapsed B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by China Immunotech (Beijing) Biotechnology for B-Cell Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia): Likelihood of Approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

Gene Therapy to Target CD19 and CD22 for Refractory and Relapsed B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia is under clinical development by China Immunotech (Beijing) Biotechnology and currently in Phase I for B-Cell Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia).

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.