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The importance of the role that caregivers play in the healthcare landscape cannot be overstated.  Caregivers are playing an even greater role in the patient journey, and the rise in cancer and other chronic diseases means there are now more caregivers than ever. ...

6% of people around the world are affected by any of the 7,000+ rare diseases, but only 5% of rare diseases have an approved treatment People living with rare diseases undergo a long, arduous and uncertain journey to find, if at all, an appropriate treatment for their...

Brand planning is a vital but much maligned part of pharmaceutical marketing.    All too often, it’s seen as a chore, a box ticking exercise, or something to get done and move on from. The reality couldn’t be further from this!   In a recent webinar, Branding Science...

The pharmaceutical insights industry has used fundamentally the same questions for a long time in our research to support pipeline decisions and planning. Questions like: How likely are you to use this product? What percentage of patients would you use it for? Is it...

Much of market research still relies on self-reported answers. We ask people questions and assume they can accurately describe how they go about making decisions - and typically also that they rationally consider all the factors before doing so. These are not...

At Branding Science, we regularly work with market access teams and are well attuned to the complex challenges they face.  So, what are the core problems that global and regional market access teams encounter when working to deliver their global access targets? ...

You might find this controversial, confirmatory or somewhere in between, but here are our 10 immutable ‘laws’ of pharmaceutical brand planning: 1. Most teams see brand planning as a chore Team members have other things to do (or that they would rather do) and brand...

We all know that the AI revolution is coming, but the implications on the work of pharmaceutical market research and brand strategy consulting businesses are still unclear.  In a recent webinar, titled ‘Why AI chatbots will definitely replace the pharmaceutical...

Clinical trials play a pivotal role in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments, but they are not without their challenges.    In a recent webinar, Branding Science Director Chris Recaldin and Senior Director Andrew Cavill shed light on the challenges that the...