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Orphan drugs and where to launch them: The keys to Europe’s forgotten territories

Pharmaceutical Technology

Due to the high price tags associated with these speciality medicines, innovators have naturally favoured big markets with high GDP such as the US and EU-5 (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the UK). “The Go-to-market strategies. The choice of where to launch an orphan drug is an important and difficult decision.

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Omicron Designated as a Variant of Concern by WHO: What We Know About It So Far

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The technical advisory group on SARS-CoV-2 virus evolution (TAG-VE) met on Friday to discuss B.1.1.529, So far cases of the variant have been reported in Belgium and Israel too, and it is likely present in other countries as well, so it’s probably only a matter of time before it’s officially detected in other places.

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A history of Johnson & Johnson

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It was in 1961 that Belgium’s Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. For all the latest pharma news on Johnson & Johnson, follow pharmaphorum’s J&J and Janssen tags. These two acquisitions enabled the company to gain a significant presence in the field of pharmaceutical medicines for the first time. The joining of Janssen.

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Risk sharing agreements soar as market access risk increases

Pharmaceutical Technology

In some cases, she said, “[drug] innovation would have been otherwise hindered by their price tag alone”. Watt explained that for newer, first-in-class drugs these types of agreements can also give healthcare systems safety in their decisions to approve certain drugs. Click here to watch this webinar and access the presentation.

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The “Medical Bypass”: new drugs to strike obesity

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company’s weight loss drug Saxenda (liraglutide) won an approval for chronic weight management in December 2014, and Wegovy (semaglude) got the same tag in 2021. Novo Nordisk is another company leading the charge in this field. In a Phase II study, CagriSema achieved a numerically higher body weight reduction of 15.6% compared to a 5.1%

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The “Medical Bypass”: new drugs to strike obesity

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company’s weight loss drug Saxenda (liraglutide) won an approval for chronic weight management in December 2014, and Wegovy (semaglude) got the same tag in 2021. Novo Nordisk is another company leading the charge in this field. In a Phase II study, CagriSema achieved a numerically higher body weight reduction of 15.6% compared to a 5.1%

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