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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

Creativity. Who needs it?

In a world of increasing marketing exposure, Trevor Chapman discusses the importance of creativity in effective communications. Are agencies that bang on about ‘creativity’ more concerned about winning awards than shifting product? Surely a clearly stated...

Articles

The BIA sees a bright future for UK bioscience

Continuing our series of speaking to key people shaping pharma, we caught up with the new Chief Exec of the BIA, Nigel Gaymond, to hear his perspective. Nothing sums up the nature of the life sciences industry better than the notion of risk and reward. The risks involved in developing...

Articles

What Are IDEAs Made Of: Assumptions

Assumptions are made in all walks of life and Mike Rea highlights how skewed the outcome could be if they are wrong – how much can we afford to assume? I assume that you're over the age of 18. I have reasons to believe that assumption is probably right. I assume that...

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

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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