As oncology drugs save or extend the lives of many more patients than anyone could have imagined a few years ago, a new challenge has emerged in the wake of their approval: Selling them to patients scared about their prognosis and alternately ignorant of and skeptical about recent breakthroughs in treatment.
Top 25 orphan drugs, by 2015 global sales
February 22, 2016
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Roche’s Rituxan generated $7.3 billion in sales in 2015, making it the top-selling orphan drug.
The pharma business needs to take engagement far more seriously than it has in the past. At the same time, there are signs that the industry is finally acting with more urgency and even transparency.
Study: Patients with marketplace health plans spend less on medications
Employer-insured enrollees spend more on prescriptions than health-insurance exchange enrollees, but the groups spend the same amount of money when it comes to specialty medications, a study shows.
Five things for pharma marketers to know: Friday, May 22
Amgen’s PSCK9 inhibitor gets a position opinion in the EU; the FDA plans to study how spouses influence perception of DTC ads; Botox may relieve depression
Strategies to Increase the Value of Drug Therapy
May 12, 2015
5:00 pm
Value is a concept that concerns all healthcare stakeholders.