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How the patient voice is becoming vital for drug approval

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Rebecca Sanders from Lipodystrophy UK tells us how the patient voice helped convince NICE to approve a much-needed drug for this rare disease, and explores how regulators and pharma companies can help make patient involvement in HTA more impactful. This article appears in our free digital magazine Deep Dive: Market Access 2021.

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Arecor heads for London Stock Exchange with drug reformulation strategy

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Based in Cambridge, Arecor has proprietary formulation technology and plans to enter development partnerships and licence out drugs to big pharma companies, looking for milestone payments and royalties as they progress through the development process and on commercialisation.

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A history of the pharmaceutical industry

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The period between 1918 and 1939 was marked by two breakthroughs that presaged the arrival of the pharma industry as we know it today. The first was insulin – Frederick Banting and colleagues managed to isolate insulin that could treat diabetes, up until that point a fatal condition. George Merck on the cover of Time magazine.

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