There are more than 7,000 diseases that are considered “rare,” that is, affecting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Yet around one in ten Americans lives with at least one of these…
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A few years ago, there was much talk of the “patent cliff” facing blockbuster drugs like Lipitor and other huge name-brand drugs. The “patent cliff” may have spelled the end…
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This article was originally published by Li Du in BMC Medical Ethics 2018 19:29 under a creative commons license. Abstract Background The patenting of human genes has been the subject…
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Drug development is one of the world’s most high-risk / high-reward industries, with the vast majority of drugs created never making it to market. Of those that do make it…
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Portfolio, Program, and Project Management in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries This book describes the way that pharmaceutical projects and programs are currently managed, and offers views from many highly…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the development within computer systems of the ability to perform tasks that have traditionally required human intelligence. Examples of AI applications include visual perception, speech recognition,…
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This paper was originally published by Dibyendu Dana, Satishkumar V. Gadhiya, Luce G. St. Surin, David Li, Farha Naaz, Quaisar Ali, Latha Paka, Michael A. Yamin, Mahesh Narayan, Itzhak D. Goldberg…
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This article was originally published by Christopher M. Holman in Intellectual Property Watch under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Despite the impor…
The US pharmaceutical market, together with those of Canada and Mexico, make more than half the global pharmaceutical. The US alone is the world’s largest and it represents 45 percent of…
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This article was originally published by James A Smith, Zeeshaan Arshad, Hannah Thomas, Andrew J Carr & David A Brindley in Nature Biotechnology v35, pp 210–214 (2017) under a creative…
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