Life Sciences

Today, the journey of starting a family does not look the way it did fifty years ago, and people are turning to fertility services for help. 1 in 8 couples in the United States experience pregnancy-related difficulties that fertility treatments can address. Key market drivers include the increasing rate of obesity causing deterred ovulation in wom...

Despite the term patient centricity gaining currency in the industry, there is a degree of variability in a companies’ approach and strategic priorities. Frost & Sullivan sees digitization playing a critical role in transforming the clinical trial model from traditional, high-cost, and difficult-to-access centralized settings to more patient-cent...

The African continent grapples with a huge burden of communicable diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. With African governments facing major health financing challenges, a significant proportion of these disease areas are financed by global aid organizations that are also helping in poverty eradication in the continent. Paral...

he global life science industry is in a state of flux. While the recent years have seen the advent of multiple novel technologies, such as in-vitro diagnostics (IVD), CRISPR-Cas9, virtual clinical trials, and liquid biopsy, the industry stands at a crossroad with challenges in scaling-up and commercializing such technologies. In addition, companies...

The global pharmaceutical industry is continuously evolving. with the rising need for novel therapies in the ever-changing disease landscape. As a result of rising prevalence of chronic infectious diseases as well as continuously growing number of cancer cases, market needs are shifting from traditional, small molecules to novel, large-molecule the...

The Healthcare industry has witnessed some of the largest mega-mergers in 2018 – mergers on the provider as well as the payer ends. While this has the potential to bring a shift in power centers in the ecosystem, each stakeholder has relied heavily on inorganic growth to maintain their stronghold. This Mergers and Acquisitions in Life Sciences In...

Readers of one of Frost & Sullivan’s media partners were invited to participate in an online survey in September 2018 that centered around the state of their laboratories in 2018 and their expectations for 2019. Frost & Sullivan has conducted similar studies among the same targeted respondents since 2012. Where applicable, the study presents year...

The West African region has a handful of emerging economies within Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of overall development and growth. The region currently has a high number of people living in extreme poverty, particularly in Nigeria, as well as a high population density. Furthermore, there has been a growing trend of non-communicable diseases, such as...

The East African region boasts of a number of emerging leaders within Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of overall development and growth. On one hand, the region has one of the highest burdens of disease in the world, such as HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis. On the other hand, there has been a growing trend of non-communicable diseases, such as cancers a...