Chronic pain and other pain disorders are notoriously hard to treat, with approximately 40% of patients reporting insufficient relief from their medication. There is a huge unmet need for safe and effective drugs, referred to as analgesics, designed to treat pain as their primary function.
Recently, our company Rx communications Ltd has been involved in proposals for a number of literature review projects – one where an original review and analysis required updating before publication, and others that were designed to find answers to fairly obscure or unusual questions. We find, with the start of the year, many of our clients looking for vendors for these types of projects, and so we thought it might be useful to share our experiences.
Information is an important part of the patient journey and central to the overall quality of each patient’s experience with your drug, treatment or product. To help you get…
Regionalisation of phase IV trials because of payer differences sounds like a good thing in the short term. Improved market access, for one. But has anyone considered the longer term effects?
Interesting article in PharmaVoice in April 2012 – regarding Competitive Intelligence and Competitor Strategy. The article rightly points out that Pharma is leaving good intel on the table –by not…
Ruairi O’Donnell writes in the March 2012 issue of Pharmaceutical Market Europe that evidence matters. Of course it does. And particularly in market access activities, which is the context he…
We thought we should provide some insight to the anatomy of our medical communications project manager
The ISPOR 15th Annual European Congress Abstract Submission has opened today.
Taking place at the ICC Berlin, Germany ISPOR will be accepting abstract submissions which must be submitted through ISPOR’s online abstract system by June 26th 2012.
One of our Twitter followers @HealthEcoDigest recently blogged a podcast with the BMJ editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee and neuroscientist Professor Colin Blakemore. In the podcast, they are discussing whether a false…
The world is a daily classroom on basic economics principles: from the Greece bailout, to the austerity measures in several EU countries, to debate over the Chinese yuan currency, to the American recession and Occupy Wall Street protests.
