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Jenna Earl

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Bigger than Brand: Portfolio Positioning for Pharma

Jenna Earl outlines the three most important things to understand about portfolio positioning in pharma.


Truven Health Analytics

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The Path To Market Access: Winning Strategies To Build Value With Payers

Success in today’s rapidly changing market access world depends on understanding your product’s value through the eyes of payers and shaping crucial value communication around the needs of market access stakeholders as much as it does on developing solid evidence of the value of your product.


Meg Alexander

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Pushback on Rare Drug Prices: Not So Rare After All

Rare Disease Day is a good moment to sound a warning that providers of rare medicines may be the next to land in the hot seat, writes Meg Alexander.


James Brook

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The NHS Training Budget Requires More Than Just a Band-Aid

The UK's National Health Services needs to rethink the ‘sticking plaster’ solution of training replacement staff, writes James Brook.



Magali Richard

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A New Era in Precision Gene Editing

Medicine is entering a new era of “gene editing.” Instead of simply being able to “read” our genes, practitioners will be able to adapt and modify DNA sequencing in living cells to treat, cure, and even prevent disease. Defective genes responsible for life-threatening diseases can be rendered harmless by gene editing; it can also be used to develop new, precisely targeted biological drugs based on an individual’s distinct genetic markers. The full list of possibilities, in every area of the life sciences, is simply beyond imagination.


Elsy Boglioli

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A New Era in Precision Gene Editing

Medicine is entering a new era of “gene editing.” Instead of simply being able to “read” our genes, practitioners will be able to adapt and modify DNA sequencing in living cells to treat, cure, and even prevent disease. Defective genes responsible for life-threatening diseases can be rendered harmless by gene editing; it can also be used to develop new, precisely targeted biological drugs based on an individual’s distinct genetic markers. The full list of possibilities, in every area of the life sciences, is simply beyond imagination.


Nathan Lyman

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Precision Medicine's March to Market: 'Pairing' for Success

In the past few years, we’ve seen the biopharmaceutical industry begin to shift from a one-size-fits-all blockbuster approach toward an individualized, precision science model. This transformation has propelled companion diagnostics (CDx) into playing a more critical role than ever in the commercialization of biopharmaceutical therapeutics.


Nancy Beesley

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Think Globally, Act Locally

The best approach to getting global brand campaigns to work all over the world


Eric Bernabei

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Think Globally, Act Locally

The best approach to getting global brand campaigns to work all over the world


Thomas Bertels

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Market Access Reinvented

The key steps to implementing the "patient access" model of the future


Peter Vanovertveld

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Market Access Reinvented

The key steps to implementing the "patient access" model of the future


Carlos Angulo and Alexandra W. Miller

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Barrier to Generic Competition Threatens Safe, Low Cost Drug Options

Carlos Angulo and Alexandra W. “Sasha” Miller argue that an increasingly common brand company tactic is threatening to undermine the entire FDA generic drug approval process.


Elizabeth Izard Apelles

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The 'Prosolidate' Push: New Agency Service Mix

The advantages for brand teams in leveraging independent agencies in their campaigns.


Kun Lee

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Precision Medicine's March to Market: 'Pairing' for Success

In the past few years, we’ve seen the biopharmaceutical industry begin to shift from a one-size-fits-all blockbuster approach toward an individualized, precision science model. This transformation has propelled companion diagnostics (CDx) into playing a more critical role than ever in the commercialization of biopharmaceutical therapeutics.



Jeff Liepman

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Precision Medicine's March to Market: 'Pairing' for Success

In the past few years, we’ve seen the biopharmaceutical industry begin to shift from a one-size-fits-all blockbuster approach toward an individualized, precision science model. This transformation has propelled companion diagnostics (CDx) into playing a more critical role than ever in the commercialization of biopharmaceutical therapeutics.



Neil Saward

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What Lessons Can the World Learn from Ebola?

Ebola showed that when innovation is truly integrated, we can enter into unknown territories and bring new innovations with us, writes Neil Saward.



Anaïs Frappé

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The Emergence of Commercial Health Insurances as an Access Route to the Chinese Market

Commercial Health Insurance may bring more opportunities for market access in China.


Erick Gaussens

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Europe Under Pressure: Gearing Up for a Year of Regulatory Convergence

In the last year regulatory authorities sharpened their focus on gathering more data and on achieving transparency and harmonization. Erick Gaussens reviews 2015 and looks at companies’ need to respond to converging demands in 2016.


Pratap Khedkar and Malcolm Sturgis

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Seeing Through Physicians' Eyes: Three Priorities for Pharma

Physicians who show true empathy for their patients tend to have better outcomes. Their patients stick to treatment plans, heal faster, and have fewer hospital readmissions. The same principle applies to pharma companies trying to market to physicians, write Pratap Khedkar and Malcolm Sturgis.


Cameron Sharp

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The Healing Art in Medicine

Pharm Exec talks with David Dosa, a leading physician in geriatric medicine, whose famous work with a cat named oscar in end-of-life diagnostics became the stuff of therapeutic legend.


Susan Abedi

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From 1990s Business Wisdom to Today’s BioPharma Success

Applying the McKinsey 7S Framework to TLL and regional marketing teams.


Eric M. Bachman

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Marketing Curative Therapies: Are We Ready?

The eight trends brought on by “once-and-done” interventions that may transform thinking around healthcare marketing.


Diane Hayes

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Emergency Disaster Response: Three Ways Pharmas Can Help

As vital contributors to hospital disaster preparedness, the pharma industry has a role to play in making sure medical networks have what they need to meet the unforeseen, including future disasters.


Mollie Rosen

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The Creative Impulse: Defending Pharma and Health DTC

Defending pharma and health direct-to-consumer advertising is a top 2016 priority for the 4A’s industry trade group.


Gülce Belgin and Donald Macarthur

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Access to Orphan Drugs in Turkey

Gülce Belgin and Donald Macarthur explore the options available for companies to meet the needs of the rare disease population in Turkey.


Todd Greenwood, PhD

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Sales & Marketing: Reaching the Unreachables

The traditional commercial sales model in biopharma of deploying teams of reps to call on physicians is broken. Here, Stephen J. Donnelly outlines a new approach.