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Life Science Leader on TransCelerate’s Efforts to Modernize Drug Development
Life Science Leader’s Rob Wright has a great profile on TransCelerate BioPharma and their efforts to modernize the drug development and clinical trial landscape. TransCelerate is a nonprofit organization made up of 18 innovate biopharmaceutical companies dedicated to collaborating across the industry to find ways to simplify and accelerate the discovery of new medicines. As the article notes, the challenge involved is enormous: With combined annual revenues in excess of $300 billion and nearly 800,000 employees Read More >
2013 Novel Drug Approvals
The FDA approved 24 novel drugs last year by our count, in line with average approvals for the last ten years but down from the decade-high approvals seen in 2012. Our count is a bit lower than the FDA’s count of 27 new approvals, because we did not include imaging agents like Navidea’s Lymphoseek, or reformulations like J&J’s Simponi Aria. 2013 was the first year the breakthrough-designated therapies were approved, with three breakthrough therapies approved: Gilead’s Read More >
IPAB: Bad Medicine for Patient Care
The Independent Payment Advisory Board is bad medicine for patient care, deficit reduction and containing Medicare costs. This board, consisting of 15 bureaucrats appointed by the President, has been given the power to make decisions affecting patients’ quality of care, with almost no oversight and no means for challenging its decisions. IPAB must be repealed. There is widespread support among patient advocacy groups and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle for full Read More >
NPR’s Shots Blog: Vaccine Fears Fueled The Resurgence Of Preventable Diseases
This past weekend, Michaeleen Doucleff at NPR’s Shots blog shared a fascinating but disturbing map from the Council on Foreign Relations, How Vaccine Fears Fueled The Resurgence Of Preventable Diseases. The map covers 2008-2013 and shows outbreaks of measles, mumps, rubella, polio, whooping cough, and other diseases that are preventable with vaccines. As the article notes, we’ve seen a large increase in whooping cough cases here in the US. While the 24,000 cases seen in Read More >
The Hill’s Congress Blog: Innovation in medicine isn’t optional – it’s imperative
Earlier this week, The Hill’s Congress Blog posted an op-ed penned by Andrew von Eschenbach and Paul Howard entitled, “Innovation in medicine isn’t optional – it’s imperative” highlighting the importance of encouraging innovation and preserving incentives for drug development. The authors recommend increased cooperation and collaboration between industry, academia, and regulators, in addition to recognition by the federal government that ‘a vibrant life-sciences industry will generate higher national productivity, lower total health care costs, and Read More >
