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What’s happening in the labs of pharma companies worldwide.

Some companies are repurposing or developing treatment, others are focusing on vaccines, tests or technology to deliver drugs in the body. Existing drugs being repurposed Gilead Sciences Inc’s (NASDAQ:GILD) antiviral medication remdesivir is undergoing the final phase of clinical trials, with results expected by the beginning of May. AstraZeneca PLC (LON:AZN) is assessing the efficacy […]

Working from home? Trust is key, says CEO of company with completely remote workforce

'I think the critical piece to making it work is to build trust between leadership and the team, and the team with each other,' says Wildbit co-founder and CEO Natalie Nagele. (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters) Working from home may be a steep learning curve for people observing social distancing, but for one U.S. software company, it's business […]

Balancing scientific rigour with speed to find COVID-19 vaccine

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, gray, cultured in the lab. File photo/AP, NIAID-RML Researchers in the race against time to provide a vaccine for COVID-19 will have to balance speed with scientific […]

A smart future

Like it or not, artificial intelligence (AI) has already begun to reshape the way pharma and biotech companies operate at almost every level. The integration of AI-based data analysis into the entire spectrum of these companies’ activities has led to increasing collaboration with AI developers, and we expect this trend to continue as large and […]

Is the pharmaceutical industry underinvesting in mental health?

The number of clinical research programs undertaken by the major pharma players has now fallen by as much as 70% in the last ten years. The global pharmaceutical industry has spent well over a trillion dollars on research and development in the last ten years, and analysts expect annual investment levels to grow by around […]

Medicines in space: how astronauts will make their own drugs.

NASA’s TRISH has funded innovative projects seeking to better protect astronauts' health during deep space missions. Two of the six projects focus on ‘just-in-time’ medications, which allow drugs to be manufactured on-demand and onboard the spacecraft. Allie Nawrat talks to the TRISH scientist Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta about the two on-demand projects. Humans, and particularly space […]

The Rise and Rise of Patient Centricity

The rapid growth of patient centricity over the last few years and considers what pharma’s next steps should be to enhance patient engagement. I still consider myself a relative newbie to the pharma industry, having only started seriously covering the sector five years ago. In that (relatively) short period of time I’ve seen patient centricity […]

The Digital Learning Revolution: How Classes are Moving Out Of The Classroom

Every learning process has two principal stakeholders—students and teachers, or as we like to call them learners and helps—and two fundamental engagement tools, questions and answers. Learning processes essentially can be centered on either the teacher or the student, but the outcomes they result in are drastically different. The didactic learning process wherein the teacher […]

Four digital health trends set to reinvent and re-energise pharma.

Dec 05, 2019 By Digital Inteligence Blog Why AI is set to transform the nature of healthcare. When British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock addressed the Public Health England annual conference in September, his speech provided valuable backing for the prediction that AI is set to transform the nature of […]

Where next for patient centricity in pharma?

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5 Ways AI Is Changing the Pharma Industry

Outlook on Pharma: What the Next Five Years will Bring

Gone are the days of discovering and distributing innovative new drugs, marketing them aggressively and seeing record-breaking sales. Today’s pharma companies need to play a bigger part in the conversation between healthcare professionals and patients, drive patient engagement, and demonstrate value to all stakeholders. Major shifts are happening in pharma and healthcare that will bring […]