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Driving Patient Engagement in Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Research to Achieve Trial Success

Worldwide, around 47 million people have dementia, and there are 9.9 million new cases every year, according to recent data from the World Health Organization (WHO)1.Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and may contribute to...

Solving Challenges and Pain Points for Complex Global Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are evolving away from trials based solely at investigator sites, moving on to the patient’s home, requiring direct-to-patient services in order for patients to participate. Homecare networks are now responsible for not only patient treatment, but also for...

The Importance of the Human Touch in Improving Clinical Trial Patient-Centricity

Patient-centricity has become an important focus for drug developers and an essential element of clinical studies aimed at showing that a new therapy addresses real patient needs. How companies define patient-centric trials sometimes differ. But to patients themselves, it typically...

Cancer drug screening process saves discovery time and limits use of mice

A method of testing drugs thatprompt the immune system to attack and destroy cancer cells has been developed which can speed up drug discovering andreducethe unnecessary use of mice in drug screening programmes. Certain cancer drugs help the body’s immune...

Novel approaches to improved treatments for orphan genetic diseases: Enhanced intracellular delivery of protein therapy through natural transport mechanisms

Orphan genetic diseases have become an increasingly popular area for drug development through a variety of novel mechanistictherapeutic approaches. The development of a means to restore missing proteins to diseased cells consistently and efficiently remains a prominent goal in molecular...

Pharma Industry gaining an edge for collaborative robots

Automation in its broadest sense has expanded from its original industrial manufacturing base to laboratories and businesses. The application of robotics and automation has been successfully achieved in a wide range of industries dealing with well...

Examining the operational challenges presented by serialisation

The deadlines for serialisation compliance in the EU and the U.S. are drawing closer. For many pharmaceutical companies, the journey towards implementing a full serialisation solution is well underway, but for others the complexity of the task means that...

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