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GSK teams up with Google on bioelectronic medicines
GlaxoSmithKline is teaming up with Google's parent company Alphabet to create a new company focused on developing bioelectronic...
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Value-based care necessitates big changes for pharma marketers, says digital pharma agency
Much has been discussed, and some dismissed, when it comes to value-based care in the pharma industry. However, no one can deny that the...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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India’s Drug Approvals Near Record Despite FDA Inspection Blitz
Even as the FDA has increased scrutiny of India, it’s been approving generic drug applications from the country’s firms at a record pace....
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With a Name Like Xalkori
New drug names aren’t just bizarre—they’re dangerous. What would Don Draper make of Xalkori? Pfizer’s lung cancer drug, released in 2011,...
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How does a drug get its name?
Street names aside, who comes up with crazy non-words like Zyrtec, Tenofovir and Xeljanz? Say it with me: Xeljanz. OK, at least try and...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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How the Nurofen Specific Pain Range marketing strategy was undone as misleading by the Australian AC
It was a brilliant marketing strategy … instead of marketing the fast-acting Nurofen for pain relief as one product effective for a range...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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Pharma product launch optimisation tool
Vivisum has launched Brand Builder, a solution that provides strategic market insight for pharmaceutical brands. Brand Builder combines...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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As biosims win nods in Europe and India, debate over naming rights heats up
From www.fiercepharma.com Drugmakers, biotechs and their generic rivals are squabbling over the names that will be assigned to...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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The FDA way
Ira Levy of Goodwin Procter discusses the FDA regulation for drug names and how companies can reduce their chances of rejection. What is...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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FDA Approves Zarxio, First Biosimilar Drug
The approval paves the way for alternatives to an entire class of complex and costly drugs to go on the market. Most brand-name drugs...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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Putting our lives in their brands
From www.theguardian.com What if brand loyalty was actually as serious as life and death? Nick Dutnall looks at how we might trust a...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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Making medicine emotional
from www.mmm-online.com Since the birth of branding, and particularly in the advent of the “like,” people have been using brands as a...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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Update on pharmaceutical brand name requirements in Canada
Sponsors filing a drug submission must also provide a brand name assessment as part of the drug safety and effectiveness evaluation. The...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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What's in a name? For drugs, a lot of Zs and Xs
Farxiga. Hetlioz. Otezla. Zykadia. No, these are not the names of distant planets visited by the starship Enterprise. They're the brand...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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Back-to-'Biogen' shift signals wider industry branding trend
Biogen's ($BIIB) recent change back to its original name - from the decade-old merger name Biogen Idec - made sense in many ways. Along...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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Cancer breakthroughs trigger big pharma interest in drugs and deals
Companies are scrambling to get into the immunotherapy market, which experts think could eventually be worth up to £26bn a year in sales....
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Defining brands and why they are critical to success in healthcare.
As we start our column in earnest, we thought we should perhaps state our position, be clear on some boundaries and definitions of what...
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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The Science of Naming Drugs (Sorry, 'Z' Is Already Taken)
Not only is the process of christening a new product a lot trickier than it sounds, the most obvious candidates can be the most perilous....
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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Biosimilars: Making the most of an “inexact” science
There’s no question that biosimilars are a revolution in life sciences. The development of these complex medications made from living...
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India to open drugs database to global regulators
India had exported medicines worth $15.2 billion (about Rs 97,000 crore) in 2014-15, an increase of 5% over the previous year’s figure....
pharmanaming.com by Readge consultants
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