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The ongoing battle over drug reimbursement and pricing has raised questions about whether the pharmaceutical industry can continue to rely on high U.S. revenues to fund biopharmaceutical R&D. Payers and insurers have become more aggressive in demanding clear evidence of value for high-priced medicines and are rejecting old models for coverage and reimbursement.

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In early January, Novartis selected Qualcomm Life as a global digital health collaborator for its Trials of The Future program. That program is designed to leverage healthcare technology to improve the experience of clinical trial participants and patients using Novartis products.

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Clinverse, Inc., provider of automated financial management technology solutions for clinical trials, announced today that it has expanded its suite of products with the addition of ClinPlan™, purpose-built software for clinical trial budget management and forecasting.

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ICON, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced it has agreed, subject to certain customary closing conditions, to acquire MediMedia Pharma Solutions for a cash consideration of $120 million.

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The "discussion draft" for legislation to speed "21st Century Cures" to patients emerged very quietly on Capitol Hill recently, muted by an absence of bipartisan support which had generated considerable enthusiasm for this effort to promote biomedical research and streamline regulation.

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Efforts are escalating to encourage sponsors, research institutions, and clinical investigators to accept oversight for multi-center studies by central institutional review boards (IRBs), as seen in several discussions of this topic at the December conference on "Advancing Ethical Research" sponsored by Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research.

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