Adopting Orphan Drugs in Different Therapeutic Areas
What happens if a newly developed drug fails in the tested indication? Very often such drugs are abandoned if the developers think they will not be able to be used…
Continue readingWhat happens if a newly developed drug fails in the tested indication? Very often such drugs are abandoned if the developers think they will not be able to be used…
Continue readingArtificial intelligence and machine-learning are novel exciting tools which we hope will help drug development. AI is analysis of very large data sets with statistical machine-learning methods. The simple way…
Continue readingAccording to current data average time and cost of a new drug to reach the market is 12 years and costs £1.15 billion but what is not included in this…
Continue readingThose who have worked on clinical trials for many years probably remember the rigidity of the clinical protocols and how often clinicians complained that the study design is out of…
Continue readingIt is not a secret that the research and development in the pharmaceutical industry is very costly, time-consuming, risky and not particularly efficient. According to estimates bringing new drugs on…
Continue readingChildren often have the same diseases as adults, however many of the approved drugs on the market are not tasted in children. Many rare and serious diseases affecting children have…
Continue readingPersonalised medicine is a very popular topic in healthcare as a path towards better and cost-effective treatment of patients. However, we are not there yet due to various reasons. One…
Continue readingWhile the classic chemotherapy agents are cytotoxics, which do not have specific target, the new approach in oncology drug development is focused on immunotherapy, where the new compounds target specific…
Continue readingPrecision Medicine is getting very popular in terms of the future of medicine and managing the rising costs of treatment. Maybe one of the most expensive therapeutic areas at the…
Continue readingWe often hear on the news that a new promising oncology treatment is developed but later on that it was not successful. What are the challenges in drug development in…
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