With Europe’s biggest cancer congress ESMO attracting large and small companies to present the latest data readouts across a broad range of tumor types, Scrip looked at the key players and the five key battlegrounds at stake.
AstraZeneca’s Farxiga (dapagliflozin) appears set to become new standard or care in the treatment of hear failure based on results of the DAPA-HF Phase III trial present at the European Society of Cardiology Congress on 1 September. Scrip looks at Farxiga and its nearest competitors.
Paul Goudreau, executive director & head of Phase IV Solutions at the CRO Covance, recently told Scrip, “an ongoing and wide-ranging discussion is needed about assessment, payment and reimbursement of innovative products, as well as the evidence that supports them.”
The Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act reintroduced to the US House of Representatives calls for greater duties and resource demands on companies and the FDA than the proposed Personal Care Act in the Senate and allows room for states to impose more stringent regulations.
Less than one month into his new job, Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson shared his perspective on how he plans to build on Sanofi’s strengths and deliver needed changes. Scrip shares details about Sanofi’s leadership history and Hudson’s early priorities at the helm.
At the 2019 congress in Barcelona from 27 September to 1 October, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) proved once again it is a match for ASCO. Scrip shares the main points of the event including Seattle Genetics victory for mid-caps.
The Global Medical Device Nomenclature is emblematic of the global trend toward building high-quality data sets in the public arena to derive better information about how medical devices perform. Medtech Insight covers that the new chair of the agency saying how the GMDN usage is poised to explode.
MorphoSys, out of Munich, is one of a handful of mature European biotech companies appearing ready for greatness. In Vivo spoke with the CEO about the firm’s next generation antibody platform and why US expansion is crucial to its future.
The post-market clinical follow-up requirements for device and diagnostics companies based on the new medtech regulations are complex. They contain vague terms that need clarification for companies to understand how to comply. Expert and consultant Sarah Sorrel provides her interpretation in this interview with Medtech Insight.
Preventing cyberattacks on medical technology occupies the waking thoughts of device software manufacturers, but the global ransomware episode in mid-May shows that companies must also be alive to threat posed to their provider customers.
Funding is taking a long time to come through for the UK NHS’s digital health care transformation, but as the national provider’s head of technology strategy, Dr Paul Rice says, “We can’t afford to remain non-digital.”
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