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Air freight is critical to the pharmaceutical industry, especially as supply chains become increasingly complex, delegates heard yesterday at the Life Science and Pharmaceutical conference in London.

New trends such as home healthcare, where medicines are taken directly to the patient, clinical trials in different areas of the world, companion diagnostics and advanced therapies are changing the industry, David Spillett, key account director for specialist pharma logistics company World Courier, explained.

Taking the example of a patient in Germany whose biopsy results ...