Pricing pressures peg back Lilly’s growth products

Both drugs are also facing competition in the market, which allows healthcare payers to negotiate hard on access to formularies. ... second entrant Ajovy (fremanezumab) from Teva, according to Lilly,   but still well behind Amgen’s first-to-market

Sobi shows strong growth despite haemophilia competition

Another new entrant in the haemophilia A market is Bayer’s Jivi, which has a twice weekly dosing schedule. ... The ultra-rare disease therapy was licensed from Novimmune for $452m last year, and gives Sobi an expanded presence in the all important US

Three agencies join forces to form ONEHealth

She said: “We are incredibly excited to bring together teams of experts who have been embedded in the healthcare market and understand how to communicate with stakeholder groups and how to ... Healthi’s strategic director Nick Mayhew will also remain

D-day: time to make digital deliver

There are encouraging signs that the penny is dropping. For example, at the beginning of 2018, Roche Diagnostics announced a partnership with GE Healthcare to jointly develop and co-market digital ... Chris Ross is a freelance writer specialising in the

Google boosts healthcare business with new hire

Another tech giant promising healthcare disruption is Amazon, which entered the mail-order pharmacy market earller this year by purchasing start-up PillPack. ... Entering the healthcare provider market is a huge step, even for these tech giants, however,

It’s not the end of the world, is it?

The end of US pricing exceptionalism. As anyone who works globally across the industry will attest, the US pharmaceutical market, and its healthcare market more generally, is exceptional in many ways. ... As emerging markets become richer, access to at

Mylan sees the UK paving the way for an insulin game changer

As biosimilars surge into the insulin market, governments  are urged to seize ‘the opportunity of the century’. ... said Brault. “It is about increasing access. Bringing a biosimilar insulin to the market will create extra options for healthcare

Developing advocacy in the pharmaceutical industry

Encouraging brand awareness and brand acceptance among fellow healthcare professionals. Facilitating market access for your product by providing you with a favourable independent voice when it comes to funding decisions. ... Good communicators (either as

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McCann Health bolsters European leadership team

New hires will deepen the agency’s capabilities in the healthcare market. ... I see huge potential in bringing McCann’s consumer expertise to broaden, engage and deepen our capabilities in the specialist healthcare market and contribute to

WA Communications expands its practice

Appoints two new team members. WA Health, the specialist healthcare arm of WA Communications, has appointed two new team members to bolster its practice. ... Joining Connor is Yasmin Sheikh (pictured left), who joins from Huntsworth Health, and will be

Open Health creates new role

In order to strengthen their experience and expertise, healthcare communications and market access group Open Health has appointed Gavin Jones into its newly formed role of director of rare disease. ... Joining the agency with twenty years’

Janssen's Matthew Kirby takes up senior role at Wilmington Healthcare

Moves into business development director role at the group. Healthcare information group Wilmington Healthcare has appointed Matthew Kirby as business development director. ... Before joining Janssen Kirby was at Nycomed Pharmaceuticals, where he served

Philips promotes Simon McGuire to health systems lead

His new role at the company will see him lead and expand the health systems business to “further strengthen Philips’ position within the healthcare market”.

CMR celebrates successful Management Buyout

Creative Medical Research (CMR) is a specialist medical device market research and participant recruitment agency.

20 questions: Round 6

As it's our 20th year anniversary, we invited our employees to play our version of 20 questions - this month we asked our employees about office life in Singapore. Watch the video: . 44 (0) 20 8069 5000. Address:. Chester House. Fulham Green.

Device Attribute Testing

The patient evaluation needed to reflect real life as much as possible, so that it truly reflected patient preference and could predict the future market impact of any new device.

Research Partnership welcomes 20 new Graduates

Project Coordinators into our annual market research graduate programme.

A researcher’s guide to Key Driver Analysis

During my time as a healthcare market researcher I’ve learned that there are three key business questions that are critical to marketing success - Which product features drive the prescribing of