Peddling life cycle management
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
In the early days, even before anyone had a name for it, life cycle management was a defensive strategy, an end-of-life rescue therapy in which delivery systems and reformulations gave drugs an extra few years before they were retired to generic pastures. But as Scrip’s new "Lessons in lifecycle management" analysis points out, life cycle management can is now about maximising the health of products throughout their lifetime, and not just about their longevity.