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October 14, 2026

How Medical Affairs Runs an Investigator-Initiated Study

The proposal came in as an email attachment three weeks ago. Legal's approval is a comment in the margin of a Word file that has been renamed twice since. Someone asked this morning which.

October 13, 2026

Pre-Launch Field Medical Starts in Phase 3

The board asks for field medical in the same quarter as the expected approval. The job description, the territory map, and the first advisory board land in one month. The MSLs meet the investigators.

October 7, 2026

How to Evaluate a Medical Insights Platform

Medical affairs insights are only useful when someone can find them later and show what changed because of them. A line that says “HCP positive, send data” cannot be themed, routed, or closed. This.

October 5, 2026

Field Medical Insights: How to Capture What the Visit Meant

The note goes in at 6:40 p.m. It says the visit was positive and that data was requested. By Thursday nobody can say which data, for which patients, or whether the comment challenged the study the.

September 28, 2026

KOL Engagement Strategy for Medical Affairs

Most KOL engagement strategies fail in the second month, and the failure is boring. Global medical writes a list of experts. The MSL opens a different list on Monday, the one that matches the.

September 22, 2026

Speaker Bureau FMV Monitoring: Why Audits Come Too Late

The worst moment in a speaker bureau year is not a cancelled dinner program. It is the Thursday a compliance officer opens the quarterly spend file and finds a speaker who crossed their Fair Market.

September 17, 2026

Complete Guide to Building a Successful Medical Affairs Strategy (2026)

Ten years ago, a medical affairs strategy could live quietly inside a launch plan. In 2026 it can't. Payers demand evidence before they'll listen, HCPs split their attention between congresses and.

September 14, 2026

Best MSL CRM Software for Medical Science Liaisons (2026)

The best MSL CRM software is built around scientific exchange and KOL relationship depth, not adapted from a sales-tracking tool. That distinction matters more than any single feature list. Most.

August 4, 2026

How to Set Up a Medical Information Request (MIR) Workflow — Without an IT Project

Somewhere in most small and mid-size life sciences companies, there's a shared inbox called something like medinfo@ — and inside it, a compliance incident waiting for a date. Medical information.