Views & Analysis | Perspectives on pharma industry issues

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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Digital

Healthcare AI’s off switch needs a budget

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

Patients

Union Jack on pill, one of many scattered on aqua surface

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

Wool, cotton, motor bikes and medical writing

In the third of his perspective pieces on pharma, Chris Stevenson questions whether outsourcing medical writing is simply a matter of time. There’s a well known phrase about history: history repeats itself – it has to because no one listens. Is history about to repeat itself in the...

Articles

The Bribery Act 2010

As pharma faces increasing scrutiny over its external relations, Steve Gray reviews the UK Bribery Act and clarifies what it means for the industry. The UK Bribery Act received Royal Assent in April 2010 and despite not coming into effect until April 2011, is already being...

Articles

Time to take conflict of interest seriously

Chris Stevenson suggests that conflict of interest is becoming more common across the industry, and questions whether not only medical professionals should seriously consider it. There are few phrases in our industry that create such a closed mind as ‘Conflict of Interest’. Ask many people involved in working with…

Sales & Marketing

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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