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Conditional Approval and Pricing of New Drugs – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1313

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Conditional Approval and Pricing of New Drugs – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1313 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1313 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Preamble This post is based on INSEAD research by Professor Stephen E. Chick. This is a provocative research which answers and raises several questions.Link at the end. The Real Cost of Health Innovation: Who Pays for Life-Saving Breakthroughs? A new medicine can take more than a decade to reach a patient. It may require billions of dollars of investment, years of laboratory research, multiple stages of clinical trials and increasingly complex regulatory scrutiny. Even after demonstrating promising results, however, a new treatment can face another formidable barrier: will a health system actually pay for it and make i...
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Cancer Treatment – Access is the Real Obstacle – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1312

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Cancer Treatment – Access is the Real Obstacle – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1312 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1312 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Ivan Samkov Preamble This post is based on a McKinsey article. The core McKinsey source is Bob Li's August 31, 2026 conversation, which outlines the MARS approach around next-generation evidence generation, community education, cancer networks, and international acceleration/collaboration. The wider cancer-burden figures and prevention/early-detection context come from WHO and IARC. Link at the end. Can We Eliminate Cancer? The Real Revolution May Be Access, Not Discovery Cancer has long been portrayed as an enemy that science must defeat through better drugs, better diagnostics and better technology. And there is good reason for th...
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Effect of Tobacco on Fertility – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1311

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Effect of Tobacco on Fertility – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1311 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1311 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Alex Zvir Preamble This blogpost takes some insights from a recent World Health Organization report. Link to the report at the end. Tobacco and Fertility: The Hidden Reproductive Cost of Smoking For decades, the dangers of tobacco have been associated primarily with cancer, heart disease, stroke and chronic respiratory illness. Yet a new warning from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights another consequence that receives far less public attention: tobacco use can undermine fertility. The finding is important because infertility is already a major global health concern. WHO estimates that approximately one in six people of reproductive age ...
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Changing Demographic Trends and Development – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1310

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Changing Demographic Trends and Development – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1310 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1310 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Juan Philip Ramirez Credit: Rahul Varge Preamble This blogpost takes some insights from a recent article published in DevelopmentAid. Link to the article at the end. The Demographic Shift: What Changing Population Trends Mean for International Development For most of modern history, population growth was treated as one of the defining challenges of development. More people meant greater demand for food, housing, education, employment, healthcare and infrastructure. Governments and development agencies therefore focused heavily on managing rapid population growth and expanding services for growing populations. That picture is changing. ...
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Five Important Shifts in Consumer Behavior – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1309

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Five Important Shifts in Consumer Behavior – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1309 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1309 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: bi ravencrow Credit: Polina Tankilevitch Credit: Vitaly Gariev Preamble This blogpost takes insights from a recent Boston Consulting Group article. Link to the article at the end. The Consumer Has Changed: Five Shifts That Will Reshape Growth For decades, companies have built growth strategies around relatively familiar assumptions: consumers want lower prices, households are built around families, brands influence purchasing decisions, advertising creates awareness, and people make buying decisions largely on their own. Those assumptions are becoming less reliable. Consumers are changing not simply what they buy, but how they live, wha...
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Reckitt’s Strategic Reset – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1308

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Reckitt’s Strategic Reset – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1308 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1308 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Preamble This blogpost takes insights from a recent McKinsey article. Link to the article at the end. Reckitt is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, United Kingdom. It manufactures health and hygiene products. Reckitt's brands include the antiseptic brand Dettol, the sore throat medicine Strepsils, the toilet cleaner Harpic, the hair removal brand Veet, the cold, flu, and cough relief brand Mucinex, the indigestion remedy Gaviscon, the pain relief medication Nurofen and other brands and products like: Durex, Lysol, Finish, and Vanish. When Incremental Change Is Not Enough: Lessons from Reckitt’s Strategic Reset There comes a ...
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Global Water Pollution Crisis – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1307

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Global Water Pollution Crisis – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1307 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1307 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Tom Fisk Credit: Vero Lova Preamble This blogpost takes insights from a recent DevelopmentAid Digest article. Link to the article at the end. Water Pollution: The Global Crisis We Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Water is often described as the most fundamental resource on Earth. We drink it, grow food with it, use it in industry, generate energy from it and depend on rivers, lakes, wetlands and oceans for the functioning of ecosystems. Yet the quality of this essential resource is deteriorating in many parts of the world. Water pollution is not simply an environmental problem. It is a public-health crisis, an economic challenge, a development issue a...
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