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Rick Kelly

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A Pricing Revolution: The State Offensive

The second of two articles summarizing the broad range of government efforts to control drug pricing focuses on state government efforts.


Wolfgang Liang

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Real-World Evidence Is Becoming a Pivotal Component in Chinese Healthcare

Its use enables key processes such as early access, regulatory approval, and reimbursement listing.


Hilary Johnson

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PREP Act Protections for COVID-19 Vaccine Liability

How PREP Act protections will apply to potential COVID-19 vaccine-related claims.


Shannon Hartley

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Commercial Models for the Changing Life Sciences Market

Life sciences companies have an opportunity to craft a sales approach that resonates with clients, protects against future disruptions and stands out from the competition.


Chris Dowd

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Copay Adjustment Chess Match: What Will Payers Do Next?

As new litigation looms in the debate over use of copay accumulator programs, a look at potential next moves for payers—and steps drug manufacturers should take to ward off cost-driven non-adherence.


Sharat Sharan

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Digital Engagement is Only as Good as the First-Party Data It Provides

First-party insights bridge marketing and sales to deliver better HCP experiences.



Paul Edwards and Sharmeen Roy, PharmD, BCPS

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Precision Medicine: Investments and Outcomes Expected

Precision medicine is now seen as a healthcare approach for both the present and the future, particularly with the explosion of personalized care delivery.


Joe DeLuca

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AI’s Promise in Delivering on Patient-Centricity

How pharmaceutical companies can utilize AI at key stages of the treatment journey to enhance patient-centric engagement by increasing empathy and humanity in patient interactions.


Niko Andre, M.D.

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Redefining Care through Patient Partnership

AstraZeneca’s Niko Andre discusses the power of patient partnership in driving medical progress.


Cristiana Toader

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How a “Push and Pull” Approach Can Maximize Innovation Value through HTAs

How can companies adapt their single evidence package at launch into multiple, tailored versions for HTAs that vary across different countries and regions?



Mark Melton

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Modular Approaches are Opening the Portal to Better HCP Engagement

Portals are finally a viable channel as life sciences companies shift to modular to build their digital ecosystems, create and approve content, and deliver omnichannel experiences.


Richard Hughes IV

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Congress, Have a More Thoughtful, Bipartisan Pandemic Post-Mortem

Congress and our nation’s public health officials should take the current moment to self-reflect and resolve challenges with public confidence in our public and scientific institutions.


Lance Wilke

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Succession Attack Plan: Get Strategic with Your Critical Roles

Outlining four considerations for biopharma companies in ensuring that their approach to replacing and filling key leadership positions is more truly aligned with future goals in business delivery and risk management.


Christine Lee

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Beyond the Scrubs: Understanding Healthcare Providers as People for Increased Engagement

The benefits of adopting a humanized approach to healthcare provider marketing extend across the healthcare spectrum, enhancing engagement rates, brand loyalty, and marketing ROI, while also driving better outcomes for patients.


Guido Palazzo

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Why Culture, Ethics, and Compliance Are More Important Than Ever Post-COVID

If the COVID-19 crisis represents an unprecedented opportunity for pharma to strengthen its public reputation, it also poses enormous risks if things go wrong, writes Professor Guido Palazzo.



Scott Swain, PhD, MPH

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Addressing 4 Common Roadblocks When Using RWD in Regulatory Submissions

Scott Swain details the most common roadblocks that pharma companies experience when incorporating real-world data (RWD) in regulatory submissions and looks at how they can be addressed.


Sanjay K. Rao, PhD

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Value Creation Through Portfolio-Based Corporate Strategy

Looking at corporate value through a portfolio lens provides an astute and reliable path to genuine value creation.



D. Scott Harper, PhD

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Breaking Orbit

How pharmaceutical leaders at established companies can still disrupt the status quo and change the game.


Kathi Henson

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Patient Services Are Simplifying the Healthcare Consumer Experience

Growing business segment of life sciences industry improves patient access.


Andrew Fraser

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How Can Pharma Companies Join the Digital Therapeutics Revolution?

More and more companies are joining forces with software developers to create innovative products. But many are learning the hard way that making next-generation digital therapeutics isn’t as easy as signing a partnership agreement.


Justinian Liu

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China’s 2022 NRDL Readout

Despite the twists and turns, 2022 turned out to be a banner year for National Reimbursement Drug List’s new inclusions—and with welcomed upgrades to bidding and renewal rules.


Lisa Owens

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It’s Time to Get Creative Hiring in a Post-Brexit European Life Sciences Market

Brexit and the pandemic continue to complicate flow of international talent.



Julia Jackson

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Build Brand Trust with Communities of Color Beyond COVID

When it comes to vaccine hesitancy or reluctance, there have always been concerns around the public's belief and attitude. This is especially apparent among blacks and other minority groups, whose concerns can stem from historic injustices that fueled mistrust. The COVID era has presented an opportunity to convert many who are ready to engage via transparency and by initiating trust through marketing.


Mike Hennessy Jr.

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A Care Sea Change

This month is as good a time as any to take a deep look at the transformations taking place in point-of-care delivery.


Duo Xu, Miranda Wang, Selene Peng

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China 2021: The NRDL Readout

China‘s 2021 National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL) results are finally out, and this year features another major expansion of the NRDL formulary, with ongoing emphasis on innovations and some much anticipated breakthroughs in rare disease drug inclusions.