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Digital therapeutics (DTx) uses digital technology to remotely prevent, treat, or manage a wide range of conditions through data-driven interventions; GlobalData says several opportunities exist in the digital therapeutics market for neurological diseases in Japan.  Shionogi & Co, a partner of Akili Interactive, a prescription digital medicine company of PureTech Health, has announced topline results of a […]

India has a rapidly growing pharmaceutical market that, being the third largest pharmaceutical industry in the world by volume, holds a prominent place in global health. Over the last decade, the Indian pharmaceutical market has seen increasing domestic and foreign investment. While the overall number of deals fluctuated only slightly between 2011 and 2019, a […]

Following the news that Pfizer/BioNTech will apply for authorisation of their Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty for children ages 5–11 after showing positive initial data from a trial at a lower dose in this age group; Philipp Rosenbaum, Senior Healthcare Analyst at GlobalData, offers his view.   He said: “It will be a delicate measure to broadly […]

GlobalData has predicted that the arrival of biosimilar therapies in the EU will continue to fall in the coming years following a wave pattern that has been occurring since 2006.   GlobalData’s senior drugs database analyst Quentin Horgan notes that we are currently in the downward trajectory of a wave that peaked in 2018, and it is likely […]

An upcoming influx of new therapies into the Pompe disease (PD) pipeline in the next decade is expected by GlobalData to provide a significant boost to the treatment market for this inherited, and often fatal, disorder that can greatly damage the heart and skeletal muscles. In fact, the market is expected to grow at a compound annual […]

Natural killer (NK) cell therapies have the potential to be an effective, off-the-shelf treatment for a range of cancers. Analysis of NK cell therapies, currently in development, reveals that 57% of these are allogeneic therapies, and although development in haematological indications is more advanced, there are a high number of therapies being investigated in solid tumours, says GlobalData, data […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has given businesses opportunity to implement technology-fuelled changes to the way they operate. AI and big data/analytics have been identified by healthcare industry professionals as the top technologies that will transform pharmaceutical drug discovery and development processes, as well as marketing and sales, according to a survey by GlobalData, a data and […]

Since Covid-19 was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), the peak in total number of clinical trials for the virus was seen in the month of April 2020. There has since been a steady decrease in new clinical trial investigations, except for the months of December 2020 and March 2021. As […]

Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide, a once-weekly dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA), recently demonstrated that it was able to not only reduce HbA1c levels in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients, but also confer weight loss when compared to insulin glargine in the SURPASS-4 trial. Tirzepatide has the potential to achieve […]

According to GlobalData, the diabetes market has gone through significant maturation, attributed to increased innovation and modernisation of therapeutic treatments over the past 20 years. The market has been a lucrative space for drug developers, as the disease is highly prevalent and patient numbers are expected to continue increasing in the foreseeable future. As a […]