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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

What Are IDEAs Made Of: Hurdles

There are many hurdles preventing a drug from getting to market and unfortunately they’re not always clearly defined. Mike Rea questions how truly innovative products can proceed in such an unknown world. Measuring how well a drug works is not easy. The regulators like to put hurdles out - if the drug jumps them all cleanly...

Articles

Where is the value in a pharmaceutical sales conversation?

The topics that physicians would most like to discuss are usually out of bounds in pharma sales conversations. Where then, Erroin Martin asks, is the value in them? Twentieth Century Fox released a movie about a month ago titled “Love And Other Drugs.” The film is about a pharmaceutical salesman who…

Articles

The role of hospitals in community based healthcare

As the UK healthcare system verges on radical overhaul, pharmaphorum hears what the head of one of the key NHS Foundation Trusts sees for the future. Financial pressures owing to the current global economic climate spell out change for the way healthcare operates in many countries …

Sales & Marketing

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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