Drug Topics
APRIL 1, 2024
In comparison with the traditional volume-based pharmacy model, the membership model decreases financial barriers while increasing customer-pharmacist relationships.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 1, 2024
Stephanie Ashraf, MD, offered clinical experience in managing insomnia at the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) 2024 Annual Meeting.
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Drug Topics
APRIL 1, 2024
It’s important that pharmacists continuously revise their counseling as new information about substances such as xylazine, levamisole, and phenacetin emerges, said Anita Jacobson at this year’s American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting & Exposition.
STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
Texas health officials reported Monday that an individual who had been in contact with cattle has contracted H5N1 avian flu, only the second case ever recorded in the U.S. The person had contact with dairy cattle that are believed to have been infected with the virus, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement. It went on to say that the individual’s only symptom is eye inflammation — infection of the conjunctiva, the tissue surrounding the eye.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
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Drug Topics
APRIL 1, 2024
According to Anita Jacobson, pharmacists should actively facilitate access to harm reduction programs by providing information and resources, ensuring the person who uses drugs doesn’t have to navigate the landscape on their own.
STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
Hospitals performing pelvic and other sensitive exams for training purposes without patients’ explicit consent, including on anesthetized patients, won’t be eligible for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, according to new guidance released on Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
Since the U.S. surgeon general’s 2023 advisory on social media and teen mental health, public concern has skyrocketed around adolescents’ digital lives. Major news organizations and even state governments have pinned social media apps as addictive , dangerous, and the cause of the youth mental health crisis. In turn, calls to ban teens from social media apps have started to emerge, with mixed reception from policymakers nationwide.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 1, 2024
Insurers will feel resentful Monday as the feds opted to not reverse its decision to decrease Medicare Advantage benchmark payments by 0.16%, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announced. | CMS is not deviating from its January proposal to modestly rein in Medicare Advantage. Benchmark payments will still decrease 0.16% but the feds expect it will still pay up to $600 billion in payments to plans in 2025.
STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
Over the past few weeks, Medicare Advantage insurers demanded that the Biden administration give them higher payment rates for next year. The government’s data on how much people were using health care didn’t match their own data, insurers and lobbyists griped — and therefore they wouldn’t be paid enough to cover those costs.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 1, 2024
Tirzepatide is currently approved for management of type 2 diabetes, improving glucose control, facilitating weight loss, and improving cardiovascular disease outcomes.
Speaker: Chris Antypas and Josh Halladay
Access to limited distribution drugs and payer contracts are key to pharmacy expansion. But how do you prepare your operations to take the next step? Meaningful data: Collect and share clinical data regarding outcomes, utilization, and more Reporting: Limited distribution models require efficient tracking and reporting systems Workflows: Align workflows with specific pharma and payer contractual requirements For in-depth, expert insights on pharmacy expansion, watch this webinar from Inovalon.
STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Otsuka Pharmaceutical’s digital treatment for major depressive disorder, offering a new option for millions of people who struggle with the stubborn mental health condition. Called Rejoyn , the smartphone-based treatment for major depressive disorder symptoms, developed with digital health company Click Therapeutics, is intended for use by prescription alongside antidepressants.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 1, 2024
Investigators aimed to determine the impact of psychotherapy or psychopharmacologic treatments on adverse outcomes in individuals with coronary artery disease or heart failure.
STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
LONDON — Neurologists and patient advocates are up in arms over a policy decision by a U.K. health agency that they say will imperil access to an ALS treatment that’s available in the U.S. and on its way to approval in the European Union. The medicine in question, Biogen’s tofersen, is designed to treat a rare genetic form of the neurodegenerative disease, accounting for some 2% of all ALS cases.
Fierce Pharma
APRIL 1, 2024
While the market for COVID-19 vaccines has been shrinking lately, an investigation into text messages between Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen r | The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) took over the investigation into COVID vaccine negotiations between the European Commission's president and Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla, Politico reports.
Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist
What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.
STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
Most targeted cancer drugs work like tranquilizer darts, snaring an overzealous gene that has spurred the cell into murderously rapid growth. But many tumors don’t have a hyperactive gene. Like the mayhem in “Cat in the Hat,” they are enabled by parental absence. They grow because the genes that are meant to provide discipline, guiding the activity of other genes or self-destructing a cell whose DNA is too damaged, are broken or missing.
Fierce Pharma
APRIL 1, 2024
Shortly after Gilead Sciences teamed up with Carlyle’s Abingworth to fuel further research on its antibody-drug conjugate Trodelvy, Teva is following a similar pathway with an asthma resc | Shortly after Gilead Sciences teamed up with Carlyle’s Abingworth to fuel further research on its antibody-drug conjugate Trodelvy, Teva is following a similar pathway for an asthma rescue inhaler.
STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
The net prices that health plans paid for medicines — after subtracting rebates, discounts, and fees — fell by 2.8% in last year’s fourth quarter, the largest decline ever measured by SSR Health, a research firm that tracks the pharmaceutical industry and its pricing trends. A key reason for the big drop — which dwarfed the 0.4% decline seen at the same time a year earlier — was pricing pressure on the Humira treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.
PharmaVoice
APRIL 1, 2024
Eledon Therapeutics is developing a drug that could facilitate organ transplants from animals to humans as the procedure gains steam.
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STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
UnitedHealth Group has gobbled up physician practices at an astounding rate — roughly 20,000 last year alone. Most of them share a common trait: They’re independent groups, not affiliated with hospital chains. The Minnesota conglomerate’s plan to roll Stewardship Health, the physician arm of for-profit Steward Health Care, into its Optum subsidiary would mark a noteworthy departure from its usual fare.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 1, 2024
Universal Health Services (UHS) was caught off guard by a $535 million jury decision against one of its behavioral health subsidiaries and plans to contest the case which could have a material adve | One of the for-profit chain's behavioral health facilities was found to be negligent in a rape involving two underaged patients. UHS said it plans to appeal as the size of the award "was unexpected for a single-plaintiff injury case of this type.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 1, 2024
Panelists summarize key takeaways on using bispecific antibodies for multiple myeloma treatment.
Fierce Pharma
APRIL 1, 2024
Like clockwork, AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot’s pay is under fire again. | Like clockwork, AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot’s pay is under fire again. The two most influential proxy advisory firms are rallying investors to vote against the 2024 pay proposal for Soriot at the company’s annual general meeting this month.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 1, 2024
It is unclear why the vaccines were less effective in women, but researchers note that the findings can be important when determining immune therapy outcomes in patients with melanoma.
Fierce Pharma
APRIL 1, 2024
What analysts viewed as a potential “inflection point” for Eisai and Biogen’s slow-footed Leqembi is facing a delay with the FDA. | What analysts viewed as a potential “inflection point” for Eisai and Biogen’s slow-footed Leqembi is facing a delay with the FDA.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 1, 2024
Health care professionals providing care to patients using second-generation antipsychotics could benefit from incorporating community pharmacists as members of their team.
STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money in medicine. Sign up to get it in your inbox every Monday. Optum scooping up more docs during Change outage Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder, UnitedHealth Group plans to buy Steward Health Care’s physician practice.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 1, 2024
Positive phase 3 trial results showed that danicopan was more effective than placebo when treating extravascular hemolysis in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Fierce Pharma
APRIL 1, 2024
With AstraZeneca’s dominance in the rare blood disease paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) threatened by the recent approval of the first pill on the market for the condition, Novartis’ Fabha | With AstraZeneca’s dominance in the rare blood disease paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) threatened by the recent approval of the first pill on the market for the condition, Novartis’ Fabhalta, AstraZeneca has answered in the United States for its add-on oral treatment in the indication.
pharmaphorum
APRIL 1, 2024
Otsuka and Click Therapeutics’ Rejoyn has become the first prescription digital therapeutic (DTx) to be approved by the FDA for people with major depressive disorder
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 1, 2024
A Michigan jury has found Detroit-based Henry Ford Health and some of its practitioners to be negligent in a case involving a delayed caesarean section and resulting severe disability. | A C-section was not performed for over two hours after being ordered, leading to the child's asphyxiation and severe, lifelong disability, the plaintiffs argued.
pharmaphorum
APRIL 1, 2024
Eisai has filed to extend the label for its Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi to include a once-monthly maintenance regimen
STAT
APRIL 1, 2024
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Hey there. Today, we learn about how scientists had a happenstance discovery about tumor-suppressor genes and used them to target aggressive pediatric tumor cells. We see a U.K. health agency make a controversial call about an ALS drug made by Biogen, and more.
The Checkup by Singlecare
APRIL 1, 2024
Sore throat is a classic symptom of viral infections, such as the common cold and flu. These types of sore throats typically clear up on their own. However, sore throat is also common in bacterial infections, like strep throat However, sore throats caused by bacterial infections may require antibiotics to prevent the bacteria from spreading, notes the Mayo Clinic.
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