By Larry Ramer, DrugPatentWatch writer A growing number of pharmaceutical companies are looking to simultaneously benefit from the low costs of developing generic treatments and the increased market share and…
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This is a guest post from Susan K Finston, President of Finston Consulting. A little over five years ago I penned the first installment in this irregular series, focused on Israel’s tech transfer prowess and efforts to encourage innovative life-sciences. I tracked the Start-Up Nation’s incremental progress here. In a nutshell, Israel leveraged excellence in basic science and […]
Health care costs in the US touched a staggering $3.2 trillion in 2015, which makes it one of the nation’s largest industries, equaling 17.8% of gross domestic product. This translates…
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Developing nations offer welcoming and growing markets as Abbott focuses exclusively on reformulating and marketing off-patent medications Driven by patient loyalty, prescriber preference, pharmacist trust, and traditional marketing, branded generics&#…
Formularies come into effect at the hospital level and the individual insurer level When developed and managed with due care and consideration, drug formularies can be a good tool for…
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Although currently tiny and narrowly focused on a handful of disease areas and countries, the biosimilar industry is set to expand as patents expire on top biologics, payers push for…
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For the last century, drug development consisted of tiny-molecule treatments focused at mass audience. It worked for some patients while it didn’t for the rest. In some cases, we knew…
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This article was originally published by Christopher Southan, Peter Varkonyi, Kiran Boppana, Sarma A.R.P. Jagarlapudi, and Sorel Muresan at PLoS ONE 8(10): e77142. Abstract The statistics of drug development output and…
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By: Pankaj Mondal, DrugPatentWatch Staff Writer When it comes to measuring the success of a new drug, the amount of time required to complete the entire approval process become a…
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Here’s a brief note in response to some of the discussions I’ve seen regarding the merit of patents. Many of the anti-patent arguments focus on things which probably never should have been patented. But few address the things which only exist because of patents. In some industries (e.g. software), patents are often seen as a […]