2018 - Pharmacy Technician Pulse

340B program reaches $100 billion in sales, while patients are left behind

PhRMA

JUNE 14, 2023

year-over-year in 2022, continuing a trend in which 340B sales have almost doubled since 2018, outpacing growth of the total U.S. The 340B Drug Pricing Program has grown yet again , exceeding $100 billion in sales in 2022 when 340B-priced medicines are measured at wholesale acquisition cost. Recent data from IQVIA shows 340B grew 12.2%

Rite Aid Addresses Cyberattack: 2.2 Million Customers’ Data Breached

Drug Topics

JULY 17, 2024

The retail pharmacy chain issued an alert to its customers that purchasing data from 2017 to 2018 may have been breached by a third party.

Over twice as many healthcare workers report harassment in 2022 than 2018, CDC finds

Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2023

New survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reinforcing doctors’ warnings that the medical field is crumbling under a largely unaddressed mental health crisis and a | Survey data outlining healthcare workers' worsening mental health and workplace difficulties comes alongside new calls for action from the CDC and (..)

Type 2 Diabetes in Young Patients Spiked in Year 1 of COVID-19 Pandemic

Drug Topics

AUGUST 29, 2022

Using electronic medical record data from 2018-2020 obtained from 24 medical centers across the US, including Johns Hopkins, University of Colorado, and Mayo Clinic institutions, a new study suggests rates of youth onset type 2 diabetes increased 77% during the first year of the pandemic.

Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Medical Records

Study: The Pandemic Disrupted Children’s Readiness for Kindergarten

Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Between 2018 and 2021, kindergarten-readiness dropped by 10%.

Eli Lilly agrees to provide free and lower-priced insulin in Minnesota to resolve 2018 lawsuit

Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

After reaching a settlement with Minnesota’s attorney general, Eli Lilly can close the book on a yearslong lawsuit in the state. | The company will provide its insulin products at $35 per month and donate free insulin at 15 clinics over the next five years. Meanwhile, Minnesota's claims against Novo Nordisk and Sanofi remain ongoing.

What will it take to end health care worker burnout?

STAT

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Researchers compared survey data from 2018 and 2022, finding that health workers experienced poorer mental health outcomes post-pandemic. Of those surveyed, 46% of health workers reported feeling burnout often or very often in 2022, compared to 32% in 2018. Read the rest…

Hospitals

California Wildfires in the 2010s Exacerbated Psychotropic Medication Prescriptions

Drug Topics

MARCH 13, 2024

Researchers studied the effect of wildfires on mental health in California from 2011 to 2018.

STAT+: The U.S. has relied on cheap, effective generic drugs for 40 years. Now that promise is under threat

STAT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Then, in 2018, she finally found a drug that kept her ADHD in check. STAT is co-publishing this article by Tradeoffs. Lisa Ann Trainor struggled to stay on top of schoolwork, hold a job or even perform basic tasks like laundry for six exhausting years. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Opinion: Private equity: health care’s vampire

STAT

AUGUST 19, 2024

These firms — which pool funds from wealthy investors and are exempt from many of the regulations and disclosure requirements that apply to other types of investments — have spent a half-trillion dollars since 2018 buying up medical resources.

Nursing Homes

Nursing Homes Hospitals

USDA, FDA turf battles hamper responses to outbreaks like H5N1 bird flu

STAT

MAY 14, 2024

WASHINGTON — On a bright June day in 2018, one of the nation’s top regulators waved groceries in the air, quizzing the secretary of agriculture on which agency is charged with monitoring different types of food.

FDA

Direct-acting Antivirals for Hepatitis C Infection Are Underused in the US, Study Finds

Pharmacy Times

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While the use of direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C virus increased from 2014 to 2018, treatment rates have declined since 2019 and remain suboptimal.

2022 ACC Consensus on Role of Nonstatin Therapies for LDL-Cholesterol Lowering

Pharmacy Times

MAY 16, 2023

Since the 2018 guideline’s publication, additional non-statin therapies such as bempedoic acid, evinacumab, and inclisiran, have been approved by the FDA for the management of hypercholesterolemia.

FDA

STAT+: Juul spent big to court Black leaders to promote its e-cigarettes, new documents show

STAT

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Documents released this week shed new light on an aggressive strategy from vape maker Juul to court Black leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, to publicly support its e-cigarettes.

Documentation

WHO flags increasing resistance to GSK's HIV med Tivicay in some countries

Fierce Pharma

MARCH 6, 2024

GSK's antiretroviral HIV medicine Tivicay (dolutegravir) has been recommended by the World Health Organization since 2018 as a preferred treatment for the virus. |

Walgreens releases 2023-2024 flu index

Drug Store News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Flu activity is 66% lower than this time last year, but it is 34% higher when looking at pre-pandemic seasons, such as 2018-2019.

No longer brushed off: A Minnesota clinic tries to rewrite medicine’s approach to miscarriage

STAT

AUGUST 31, 2023

The first miscarriage happened in June 2018, almost as soon as she found out she was pregnant. — By the time Taylor Teske came to be sitting on an exam table in an obstetrician’s office in Minnesota, her medical records marked a devastating journey: nine pregnancies, one baby, eight miscarriages.

Medical Records

AbbVie swoops on Pfizer spin-out Cerevel with $8.7bn offer

pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 7, 2023

billion to buy central nervous system drug specialist Cerevel Therapeutics which spun out of Pfizer in 2018. AbbVie has announced its second major takeover deal in the space of a few days, offering $8.7

Sweeping bill to fight opioid addiction will be considered by Senate health committee

STAT

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The proposal would reauthorize a number of programs first created by the SUPPORT Act, an addiction-focused bill that Congress first passed in 2018.

Gilead adds investigational HIV vaccine to its portfolio from Spanish biotech

Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Gilead and Aelix first teamed up in 2018 for a clinical research collaboration agreement to investigate the vaccine.

Vaccines

STAT+: GLP-1s lower risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers, study shows

STAT

JULY 5, 2024

million patients with type 2 diabetes from 2005 to 2018 who were prescribed GLP-1s, insulin, or metformin. New research finds that the GLP-1 class of drugs — glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists — is more effective in mitigating the risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers than its type 2 diabetes drug alternatives.

Peculiar Articles: 10 Potential Conversation Starters From The Medical Literature

IDStewardship

DECEMBER 15, 2024

From the article – “…pimping occurs when an attending physician (the Pimper) poses a series of difficult questions to a resident or medical student (the Pimpee)…” This topic of conversation may be a funtransition to talking about life experiences as a trainee or trainer. Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health.

June 6 Marks National Naloxone Awareness Day

Drug Topics

JUNE 6, 2024

Overdose deaths have decreased for the first time since 2018, but naloxone remains an important tool in fighting the opioid epidemic.

Juul’s internal playbook opens a rare window into influence in Washington

STAT

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

WASHINGTON — A new trove of internal emails and other documents from the e-cigarette maker Juul reveals the company’s extensive behind-the-scenes efforts to promote its interests in Washington — a rare insight into the otherwise opaque methods corporations use to influence the government.

Documentation

Texas accuses Pfizer and contract manufacturer of providing ineffective ADHD drug to state's Medicaid program

Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The lawsuit further accuses the companies of manipulating quality-control testing from 2012 to 2018 to ensure samples received passing grades. . | In its lawsuit, Texas says the companies knew that deficient manufacturing processes compromised the effectiveness of Quillivant XR.

CMS has finalized its remedy for 340B payments, and hospitals are not happy

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has dropped the final rule to remedy the invalidated 340B-acquired drug payment policy for calendar years 2018 to 2022. |

Hospitals

STAT+: NYU professors who defended vaping didn’t disclose ties to Juul, documents show

STAT

MAY 6, 2024

Abrams, a frequent commentator about vaping in the news media, including CBS This Morning, CNN, and The New Yorker, coordinated extensively with Juul on public messaging in 2017 and 2018, according to company emails.

Documentation

STAT+: Insitro, biotech AI’s quiet unicorn, unveils efforts in ALS, liver disease, and cancer at JPM

STAT

JANUARY 7, 2024

Insitro, a South San Francisco firm, was founded in 2018 by Daphne Koller, who had previously been a Stanford professor, a 2004 MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and the co-founder and co-CEO of the online course company Coursera. But in biotech, one of the most well-funded AI players has been quiet.

Smoke exposure from California’s wildfires linked to 52,000 early deaths, study says

STAT

JUNE 7, 2024

They estimated that somewhere between 52,480 and 55,710 people in California died prematurely between 2008-2018 due to chronic exposure to the dangerous particulate matter in wildfire smoke. In a paper published Friday in Science Advances , researchers at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health tried to chip away at that knowledge gap.

Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black midwives?

STAT

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Universities have also expanded their course offerings, with the number of new students enrolled in accredited midwifery programs growing from 1,006 students in 2014 to 1,214 in 2018 , according to the latest data available. Read the rest…

Hospitals

Adherence to Prevention Recommendations Associated With Reduced Risk For All Cancers

Drug Topics

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) Cancer Prevention Recommendations were updated in 2018 and encourage adopting healthy lifestyle habits.

STAT+: A pariah in science, the ‘CRISPR babies’ researcher gains support from a U.S. cryptocurrency entrepreneur

STAT

OCTOBER 8, 2024

He rose to international infamy in 2018, when it came to light that he had performed a series of secretive, ethically fraught , scientifically sloppy genetic experiments that resulted in the birth of three CRISPR’d children.

Opinion: Shifting the focus from loneliness to social health

STAT

JUNE 3, 2024

Other countries recognized the problem earlier: the United Kingdom appointed a minister for loneliness in 2018; Japan did the same in 2021. It’s been one year since the U.S. surgeon general issued a national warning about an epidemic of loneliness.

Walgreens Boots Alliance reportedly considering former Cigna executive Tim Wentworth for CEO

Drug Store News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Wentworth was CEO of Express Scripts before Cigna acquired the pharmacy benefits manager in a $67 billion deal in 2018.

Digital Health Interventions Could Help Improve Efficacy, Efficiency in Dermatology Care

Drug Topics

AUGUST 9, 2023

DHIs, first classified by the World Health Organization in 2018, include telemedicine, mobile health, wearable technologies, and artificial intelligence algorithms.

Opinion: Sen. Maggie Hassan on what Congress must do next to fight the opioid crisis

STAT

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2018, we came together across party lines to pass the SUPPORT Act, which established vital infrastructure for communities in New Hampshire and across the country to treat addiction, help people recover, and prevent substance misuse in the first place.

Boost for Amazon’s telehealth business, as Hilton signs up

pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Amazon can also offer prescription medicine delivery services within a few hours through its recently-launched Amazon Pharmacy service, kicked off with its acquisition of PillPack in 2018. It will be offered to Hilton employees across the US from next year, according to the report. Hilton employs around 141,000 people worldwide.

Hospitals

Overdose deaths during pregnancy spiked over the past few years, study says

STAT

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Overdose deaths among pregnant or postpartum people skyrocketed between 2018 and 2021, according to new research published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.

STAT+: AI can speed up drug discovery but don’t expect it to cure cancer, yet

STAT

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At Amgen, where he’s led drug research and development since 2018, Reese said this moment has finally arrived. David Reese calls it a “hinge moment” — the turning point when biotech and big tech merge to attack human disease with artificial intelligence.

STAT+: Why FDA product recalls have spiked in recent years

STAT

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Whichever the case, product recalls by the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) more than doubled between 2018 and 2022, according to new research published on Wednesday by life sciences software company MasterControl. In 2018, the agency only recalled 22 products. In 2022, it recalled 310.

FDA

STAT+: At JPM, Verve details plot to take genome editing mainstream

STAT

JANUARY 10, 2024

But since Verve Therapeutics was founded in 2018, it’s had a wider aperture: using the molecular tools of genome editing to go after the most common cause of death in the world. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco this week.

Hospital M&A deal volume returns to pre-pandemic levels as systems seek out complementary services

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 13, 2023

Twenty new hospital merger and acquisition deals were unveiled during the second quarter of 2023, the most since 2018. Hospital merger and acquisition deal volume has returned to pre-pandemic levels as of the second quarter of 2023, according to a new roundup report.

Hospitals

'Sobering' study finds nearly no benefits from medical debt relief efforts

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 8, 2024

An experimental review of medical debts relieved by the charity RIP Medical Debt in 2018 to 2020 showed near-negligible changes in credit, no improvement in financial well-being, no changes in repayment or utilization behaviors and worsened mental health among those with the most debts.

Opinion: My stalled relay race to get access to ALS drugs in development

STAT

JULY 5, 2024

One night in November 2018, I fell while crossing a street in Subic Bay, a U.S. naval logistics station in The Philippines. My face whacked the asphalt. Lying in the path of oncoming traffic, I couldn’t move a muscle. After 45 seconds of terror, I was able to stand up and haul myself to the other side.

FDA

340B program reaches $100 billion in sales, while patients are left behind

Rite Aid Addresses Cyberattack: 2.2 Million Customers’ Data Breached

Trending Sources

Over twice as many healthcare workers report harassment in 2022 than 2018, CDC finds

Type 2 Diabetes in Young Patients Spiked in Year 1 of COVID-19 Pandemic

Study: The Pandemic Disrupted Children’s Readiness for Kindergarten

Eli Lilly agrees to provide free and lower-priced insulin in Minnesota to resolve 2018 lawsuit

What will it take to end health care worker burnout?

California Wildfires in the 2010s Exacerbated Psychotropic Medication Prescriptions

STAT+: The U.S. has relied on cheap, effective generic drugs for 40 years. Now that promise is under threat

Opinion: Private equity: health care’s vampire

USDA, FDA turf battles hamper responses to outbreaks like H5N1 bird flu

Direct-acting Antivirals for Hepatitis C Infection Are Underused in the US, Study Finds

2022 ACC Consensus on Role of Nonstatin Therapies for LDL-Cholesterol Lowering

STAT+: Juul spent big to court Black leaders to promote its e-cigarettes, new documents show

WHO flags increasing resistance to GSK's HIV med Tivicay in some countries

Walgreens releases 2023-2024 flu index

No longer brushed off: A Minnesota clinic tries to rewrite medicine’s approach to miscarriage

AbbVie swoops on Pfizer spin-out Cerevel with $8.7bn offer

Sweeping bill to fight opioid addiction will be considered by Senate health committee

Gilead adds investigational HIV vaccine to its portfolio from Spanish biotech

STAT+: GLP-1s lower risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers, study shows

Peculiar Articles: 10 Potential Conversation Starters From The Medical Literature

June 6 Marks National Naloxone Awareness Day

Juul’s internal playbook opens a rare window into influence in Washington

Texas accuses Pfizer and contract manufacturer of providing ineffective ADHD drug to state's Medicaid program

CMS has finalized its remedy for 340B payments, and hospitals are not happy

STAT+: NYU professors who defended vaping didn’t disclose ties to Juul, documents show

STAT+: Insitro, biotech AI’s quiet unicorn, unveils efforts in ALS, liver disease, and cancer at JPM

Smoke exposure from California’s wildfires linked to 52,000 early deaths, study says

Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black midwives?

Adherence to Prevention Recommendations Associated With Reduced Risk For All Cancers

STAT+: A pariah in science, the ‘CRISPR babies’ researcher gains support from a U.S. cryptocurrency entrepreneur

Opinion: Shifting the focus from loneliness to social health

Walgreens Boots Alliance reportedly considering former Cigna executive Tim Wentworth for CEO

Digital Health Interventions Could Help Improve Efficacy, Efficiency in Dermatology Care

Opinion: Sen. Maggie Hassan on what Congress must do next to fight the opioid crisis

Boost for Amazon’s telehealth business, as Hilton signs up

Overdose deaths during pregnancy spiked over the past few years, study says

STAT+: AI can speed up drug discovery but don’t expect it to cure cancer, yet

STAT+: Why FDA product recalls have spiked in recent years

STAT+: At JPM, Verve details plot to take genome editing mainstream

Hospital M&A deal volume returns to pre-pandemic levels as systems seek out complementary services

'Sobering' study finds nearly no benefits from medical debt relief efforts

Opinion: My stalled relay race to get access to ALS drugs in development

Stay Connected