BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A medicine the pharma acquired in a $430 million buyout of Visterra in 2018 succeeded in a Phase 3 trial in IgA nephropathy, a crowded corner of drug research.

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Advarra

AUGUST 16, 2022

A rare, or orphan, disease by definition affects a small percentage of the population — fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. But the numbers add up, and taken together, rare diseases impact an estimated 30 million Americans. Before 1983, only 38 orphan drugs had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

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Codon

JANUARY 21, 2024

Today, refined versions of these human challenge studies have become standard practice in testing vaccines for vector-borne diseases (e.g., yellow fever, malaria, and dengue), evaluating new drugs or treatments, and studying pathogenesis, the process by which a disease develops. Why are challenge trials becoming more popular?

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Vial

MAY 20, 2024

Distinguishing the Roles of Preclinical vs. Clinical CROs in Clinical Research Randomized clinical trials are the gold-standard of evidence-based medicine, representing the culmination of the long, arduous drug development pipeline. What is a Pre-Clinical CRO? The global preclinical CRO market was estimated to be valued at US$5.7

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Some report that they believe that if they don’t take the medication, they may develop onchocerciasis-related severe skin diseases and may go blind (river blindness) and would prefer a treatment that does not repeat every year. Need for adulticidal drugs More than 99 percent of countries worldwide has been affected by this disease.

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Agency IQ

AUGUST 2, 2024

For example, on July 25, the Hungarian presidency hosted an informal meeting of health ministers to discuss health issues, such as mitigating the effect of cardiovascular diseases and implementing the European Health Data Space (EHDS).

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 24, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of robust health systems to respond to disease outbreaks and to control other deadly diseases such as malaria. In 2020, we discovered another novel malaria therapy, INE963, which has an entirely new mechanism of action and is expected to begin clinical trials in 2021.

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