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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.

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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

A history of: Contract Research Organisations (CROs)

In the latest part of his series on the history of pharma, Robin Walsh looks at the history of the Contract Research industry. Whilst most of those working in the pharmaceutical industry have felt the pressures of rising costs and thinning pipelines over the last twenty years...

Articles

“Accelerated word of mouth” – is this the new pharma model?

Pete West looks at how digital communications has accelerated ‘word of mouth’ in the 21st century, but is it to pharma’s benefit? Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. You may recognize the opening lines of this verse by…

Articles

What Are IDEAs Made Of: Differentiation

In his latest piece Mike Rea highlights how too often we choose to develop products that don’t hold significant importance to the market. One of the most abused words in the industry, differentiation is also often strangely ignored. The word itself creates a problem, as there are…

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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