Views & Analysis | Perspectives on pharma industry issues

Patients

Maintenance: The underexamined half of the GLP-1 story

GLP-1 treatments have historically had an exit problem, as appetite suppression stops when the medication stops.

Oncology

pharmaphorum podcast Episode 276, Irina Babina, Concr

Getting predictive technologies to patients, with Concr

Dr Irina Babina, CEO of oncology R&D platform Concr, discusses how current regulatory frameworks were built for static diagnostics.

R&D

Concept of AI overview of patient in clinical trial

How AI simulation could help de-risk obesity and cardiometab...

AI life sciences models allow researchers to explore different patient populations, protocols, and development strategies before a study starts.

Sales & Marketing

Accelerating growth through strategic investment in healthca...

CEVA FORPATIENTS at Rockingham, UK will offer the healthcare supply chain a new, sustainably designed multi-user site.

R&D

Alzheimer's research is moving toward more selective targets

As we mark World Alzheimer’s Day, it is worth reflecting on the progress made in recent years.

Articles

E-health throws the struggling pharmaceutical industry a lif...

Sarah Hanson shares her thoughts on the fast-growing e-health sector, looking at data protection and the medical device regulatory system. The pharmaceutical industry is going through a time of dramatic change. Once confident in the long-standing blockbuster...

Articles

The question is CME, or not CME?

Jack Torr discusses the merits of implementation of CME programmes in early phases of drug development. In fact CME in Europe was in place some three hundred years before Shakespeare amended this line for Hamlet in about 1600...

Articles

Spotlight on...meningitis

Sue Davie provides us with an overview of meningitis, looking at the treatments available for patients today and how pharma can continue to help by developing new vaccines for the future. Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. There are many different...

Sales & Marketing

Accelerating growth through strategic investment in healthca...

CEVA FORPATIENTS at Rockingham, UK will offer the healthcare supply chain a new, sustainably designed multi-user site.

Sales & Marketing

The patient communication crisis pharma can no longer ignore

Industry's significant investments in patient engagement are only effective if patients trust the communication enough to answer in the first place.

Digital

Pharma brands face golden opportunity to extend supply chain...

People are ready for technology that verifies authenticity and provides helpful information directly from the medicinal product itself.

Digital

Changing Faces: Digital and supplier hires, August 2026

Digital health, clinical technology, contract services, and life sciences suppliers all saw notable leadership changes last month.

Market Access

$100 notes in pill bottle on aquamarine background with spilled pills

How new PBM transparency rules will alter drug pricing

The complex drug pricing ecosystem means all stakeholders are scrambling to understand how the new regulations and PBMs’ adjustments will impact them.

Market Access