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Grand Rounds May 12, 2023: Design and Pragmatic Trial of COACH: A Patient Portal/EHR Information System for Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Hypertension (Richelle J. Koopman, MD, MS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The team’s goals were to design for the primary care setting because 85% of hypertension care is in this setting. Later this year, the study team will launch the COACH trial, a pragmatic clinical trial with 550 adult primary care patients with uncontrolled hypertension who are portal users.

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You can’t afford to get cancer

World of DTC Marketing

OPENING: American cancer patients spent more than $21 billion on their care in 2019. As cancer survival rates rise, so do the price tags of life-saving treatments. But only a quarter of those experiments was able to be reproduced , the team reports in two papers published December 7 in Life.

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Novartis’ $2 Million Gene Therapy Zolgensma Shows ‘Remarkable’ Results and Offers Hope for Children with SMA

XTalks

Prior to Zolgensma, treatments could only help manage symptoms and attempt to improve quality of life. With a price tag of over $2.5 Type I SMA patients present with muscle weakness that is evident at birth or in the first few months of life. The complex is important for the maintenance of motor neurons.

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Oslo Medicines Initiative asks how to balance innovation incentivisation with security of access

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And the bottom line is that the patient may not receive a medicine that could save or substantially improve his or her life.”. This evolution is leading to additional health benefits and health gains, but they are accompanied by major concerns, as very high price tags raise questions about their affordability.”. WHO is OMI?

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New Rare Disease Drugs and Research Advancements

XTalks

Developed by Reata Pharmaceuticals, which Biogen acquired later that year, it is the first and only treatment for the condition, which is classified as an ultra-rare neuromuscular condition that damages the nervous system to affect movement. Sarepta hopes to clarify Elvidys’ effectiveness in older children in a confirmatory trial.

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Pharma By The Numbers: A Retrospective Look at the Industry and 20 Years of Xtalks History

XTalks

In October 2022, Xtalks celebrated two decades of bringing diverse stakeholders in the life science industry together through first holding physical events, then soon after, hosting exclusively online events. Two years later, Sanofi dwarfed the Pfizer-Pharmacia acquisition by buying out fellow French drugmaker Aventis for $65 billion.

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The Pharma Data

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