Category: Medicine

Patient Treatment & Travel: The Need for Stepped-Up Support Drug manufacturers have a long-standing history of providing hub support to help patients navigate the path to product access, effectively utilize their insurance coverage, and understand what other support may be available. But for certain types of therapies, more is needed. The Impact of Medicare Advantage […]

Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/Hardvicore.com Sharp, a provider of commercial pharmaceutical packaging and clinical trial supply services, will be expanding its Macungie, PA plant in order to boost its production capacity for sterile injectables secondary packaging.1 The Macungie expansion project is expected to provide greater capacity for secondary packaging activities, including autoinjector/pen assembly and labeling; vial […]

Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/Carl.com Biosimilars—biologic drugs that are biologically similar to their reference products—are often hailed for their potential to offset the high cost of this drug class. They are marketed at purchase prices that are 10% to 40% lower than the cost of the originator, once the originator’s patent expires of course.1 The […]

PC: What technology in the sustainability space are players in the industry adopting? O’Brien: I think we need to do a lot more. When I look at what is here at LogiPharma, and when we look at what’s available on the market, the big focus continues to be the container providers. We see all the […]

Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/Orkidia.com In an effort to continue expanding on its vaccine development portfolio, Sanofi will be entering into a co-exclusive licensing deal with Novavax.1 Per the agreement, Sanofi will own a co-exclusive license to co-commercialize Novavax’s current stand-alone adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine across the globe (except where Novavax has existing partnership agreements, including […]

Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/BillionPhotos.com Done., a provider of hybrid care solutions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) along with other chronic psychiatric conditions, is boosting its pharmacy network to now involve partnerships with more than 30 pharmacies.1 The various collaborations will help better confirm that medication is accessible for all. Such partnerships aim to […]

PC: What specific trends have you noticed the show? O’Brien: There’s a lot of tech developments. It’s probably the first year where I’ve noticed a lot of the innovation is coming from the tech space around digital technology control and visibility. There’s been some cool and innovative tech ideas coming from companies where they’re looking […]

Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/Mahira.com PCI Pharma Services, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) and biopharma global outsourcing services provider that currently operates 30 sites across seven countries, has started installing new equipment for what will soon be a 50,000 square-foot, sterile fill-finish facility on its Bedford, NH campus. The installation project features a […]

Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/NoeySmiley.com Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare market had to adjust accordingly to accommodate the shift in use of health services and medications, along with therapeutics and vaccines. Now, with the United States officially ending the public health emergency on May 11, 2023, new trends have come to light for […]

Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/DeemerwhaStudio.com Veeva, a provider of customer relationship-management (CRM) software to the life sciences industry, updated its customers on the unusual transition it is undergoing as an enterprise software provider. Because it wanted to leave its platform technology originally licensed from Salesforce.com, it announced at last year’s event that it would undertake […]