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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

The trouble with expert judgment in forecasts

When it comes to decisions that will determine brand sales we too often opt to use our expert judgment. Given the evidence to support the superiority of forecasting models Gary Johnson asks why they are so frequently ignored. Most pharma “forecasting models” are not actually forecasting models. To work, they require…

Articles

Measuring productive innovation (part I)

As innovation is key to the future of pharma, we explore how the ability to bring it to market can be measured across companies in our first video interview.

Articles

An Executive Intelligence protocol: (part I)

In the first of their two-part series Caroline Dawe and Sue Wright explore the concept of the Executive Intelligence protocol and the Management Cycle. Executive intelligence (EI) is a collective noun used to describe the various concepts of intelligence important to the functions of management. These are...

Sales & Marketing

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Commercial Evidence: Turning field intelligence into actiona...

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Sales & Marketing

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

Sponsored

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