Life Sciences

  In “fun” news, the FDA wants to know if the use of animation in pharmaceutical advertising affects consumers’ general perception of drugs, as well as the side effects they can cause. According to a Notice posted on the Federal Register website, the FDA is looking to answer the following questions: 

  Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) founder Kathy Giusti attended the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) summit several weeks ago, which was hosted by President Barack Obama. In a Forbes guest post, she shared five reasons why we can be optimistic about the initiative, which aims to develop better, targeted therapies that leverages one’s unique genetic […]

  If you’re a follower of our blog, you probably know that I enjoy listening to earnings conference calls. They give you a rare look into a company’s operational successes, and sometimes failures. Just last month, Quintiles held their Q4 2015 Earnings Call, which was full of information that gives color not only to the […]

  The life sciences industry is truly a global marketplace. Companies reside all over the map, and now more than ever, pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations are choosing to move their headquarters overseas, to places like Ireland, where they are more tax-friendly. Whether born and bred in Ireland or a recent transplant, the island […]

  It’s that time of year again. The event for industry thought leaders and decision makers is just around the corner, and we’re hoping you’ll attend. Even if you can’t attend, we’re still giving you the opportunity to enter to win a SONOS wireless speaker…just because we like you. 

  On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, after being very ill for several days, I asked my husband to take me to the emergency room. I had been unable to keep food or drink down, and I had a very painful swollen mass in the right side of my neck/throat. In the ER, they determined that […]

  Booz Allen Hamilton, a management and technology consulting firm, believes that hyper-personalization, the ability to leverage analytics and other digital methods to communicate on a one-to-one level, will be a trend for 2016. We agree. For example, portals will offer patients and their caretakers the information they want when they want it. 

  A 2015 article in The Huffington Post talked about some of the challenges of clinical supply management. The author, Loretta Cipkus Dubray of Global Clinical Connections, listed four issues: counterfeiting, technology, weather conditions, and local government/politics. Naturally, the technology bit caught my attention. 

  “There are as many types of lung cancer as there are patients with lung cancer. We now understand lung cancer is unique to each patient and tailored treatments are more effective and less toxic. With the rapid developments being made in targeted treatment options available to patients with lung cancer, chemotherapy, radiation and surgery […]

BIO, the world’s largest trade association representing biopharmaceutical and research organizations, put out a compelling integrated marketing campaign that shows you shouldn’t put a price tag on life. 

A recent study published in American Academy of Pediatrics found that providing Asthma patients with medication before they left the hospital reduced ER re-admission rates, as opposed to the standard method of relying on patients to fill their own prescriptions. Medication adherence is a topic that we talk a lot about because of the significant impact […]

  Life sciences companies have long relied on paper-based business processes and been slow to adopt new technologies. The move toward electronic ways of doing business, specifically as it relates to clinical data, didn’t start to make headway until the late 1990s with the advent of electronic data capture (EDC) systems. It took over a […]