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R&D

Why every healthcare breakthrough creates a new education ch...

Patients will only benefit from a health breakthrough if HCPs and the systems around them are able to put it into practice.

Sales & Marketing

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Commercial Evidence: Turning field intelligence into actiona...

Agentic Call Reports help turn field observations into scalable, actionable insights generating Commercial Evidence.

Digital

Healthcare AI’s off switch needs a budget

An AI system can be cheap to buy and expensive to stop.

Patients

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Rare diseases, real opportunity: Why the UK’s next challenge...

The UK has the science, the talent, and the investment. The next step is ensuring that innovation translates into timely patient impact.

Market Access

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Is the next generation of Chinese biotech ready to go global...

Will Chinese biotechs continue to transfer most ex-China rights, or retain their strongest assets and compete internationally themselves?

Articles

AstraZeneca boldly steps into the Twitterverse

Think direct social media engagement between a pharma company and the public in real time will never happen? Think again, because for AstraZeneca it just did. While many of us in Europe were safely tucked up in bed during the early hours of this morning, something changed in the world of pharma…

Articles

The analogue trap in forecasting

Too often we’re blinded by obvious similarities between ours and another product and so then rely on this product as an analogue. Gary Johnson highlights why analogues often provide terrible forecasts. One of the most popular approaches to forecasting is to search for a product that looks very similar to your product and then assume…

Articles

Cardiovascular prevention is better than a cure

Is it in pharma’s best interest to help with cardiovascular disease prevention? In our latest interview, Professor Neil Poulter explains how it might well be. With limited early warning signs and increasingly poor diets and lifestyles, cardiovascular disease has become a real public health issue...

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The independent pharmacy opportunity pharma marketers are ov...

Pharma marketers often underestimate the value of independent pharmacies.

Digital

Healthcare AI’s off switch needs a budget

An AI system can be cheap to buy and expensive to stop.

Digital

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AI-enabled pharmacovigilance, with Updesh Dosanjh

Updesh Dosanjh, IQVIA commercialisation lead for safety technology, discusses how and why the role of AI in pharmacovigilance is changing.

Market Access

Is the next generation of Chinese biotech ready to go global...

Will Chinese biotechs continue to transfer most ex-China rights, or retain their strongest assets and compete internationally themselves?

Market Access

Two business hands outstretched, one weighing cash, the other drugs, for balance

What the revised 340B rebate pilot programme means for pharm...

While the scope of the revised pilot is limited, it may be a harbinger for a broader policy shift.

Oncology

Australia, CAR-T therapy, and solid tumours

Bev Menner, chief executive officer at Cell Therapies Pty Ltd, discusses CAR-T therapies for solid tumours and Australian and APAC R&D more generally.

Oncology