Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Approximately 330,000 cases of precancerous cervical dysplasia and 12,000 cases of cervical cancer in the United States per year are attributed to HPV.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The burden of RSV in the older population is becoming highly recognized as studies have assessed higher-risk individuals in industrialized and developing countries.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that the most recent Covid-19 booster offers about 54% percent protection against infection with the virus. A study published in the CDC’s online journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report showed that the updated vaccine was essentially equally effective at protecting against the strain targeted by the vaccine — called XBB.1.5 — and the JN.1 subvariant, which emerged after the vaccin

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The designation offers support in developing potential new medicines, treatment, and diagnosis to prevent rare conditions, like EoE.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The federal government is unveiling new regulations meant to modernize methadone treatment , the first major update to patient care standards at methadone clinics in more than 20 years. The new rules are aimed at increasing access to methadone, which has been used to treat opioid addiction in the U.S. since the early 1970s. The medication is highly effective: Studies show that people taking it are roughly 60% less likely to die of an opioid overdose.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The findings suggest that further research on additional intervention methods and expanding access to hydroxyurea in Africa could benefit young patients with sickle cell disease.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Understanding differences in the various levodopa formulations and assisting with medication therapy management is a crucial role for pharmacists.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Last spring, I joined a rebellion. The entire editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage, of which I was a member, resigned after its publisher refused to take steps to ease the high costs scientists are required to pay for publication in the journal. While this decision threw the brain imaging research community into a frenzy, the rest of the world barely noticed.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A growing number of adult and pediatric patients are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, despite increases in care modalities.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

South Korea is the only country to officially recognize digital therapeutics as a category. Nevertheless, the concept of software-based tools designed to manage or treat medical conditions has received enormous attention in the U.S. as proponents tout their potential to both widen access to care and improve patient outcomes. This optimism has driven significant financial investment in the sector, which ballooned to $3.4 billion in 2021.

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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.

Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The late-breaking data at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium included the results of KEYNOTE-123 for locally advanced resectable urothelial carcinoma.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

WASHINGTON  — The Biden administration is making its opening offers to pharmaceutical companies in its brand-new Medicare drug price negotiation program on Thursday, administration officials said. And that’s about all they said. The offers will not be made public unless a manufacturer chooses to publicly disclose information about the talks, a senior administration official said.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Adversities and life’s trials often serve as catalysts that guide individuals toward their destined paths, unveiling unforeseen opportunities. Such is the transformative journey of Dr. Jorie Kreitman, a dedicated pharmacy manager at Walgreens. Early Inspiration Dr. Kreitman’s passion for pharmacy ignited at the tender age of 7 when she was diagnosed with Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT), a condition characterized by irregularly fast or erratic heartbeats.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

General Catalysts’s grand vision for a venture capital-owned hospital system seamlessly blending AI and tech into everyday appointments and rewarding staff for keeping patients healthy might sound alluring. But the firm’s bold experiment is facing hurdles even before it has started as the community served by the health system it hopes to buy is pushing back.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Hybrid and multi-cloud: The next step for biotech to secure flexible, scalable scientific workflows Mike.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Happy Groundhog Day eve. Some takes and thoughts on Bluebird Bio’s quest for gene therapy profits, a reality check on Vertex’s highly touted pain drug, and more ADC investor FOMO. Bluebird and the case for gene therapy profits Genetic treatments that are potential cures for inherited diseases are a huge medical advance, but can these transformational (and expensive) products become a profitable business?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recommendation on the 2024 Measures Under Consideration list, brought forward by the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), would add a quality measure in the Medicare Advantage (MA) star rating | The Federation of American Hospitals is pushing CMS for the inclusion of a star ratings quality measure that shows how often insurers overturn or uphold prior authorization denials.

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FEBRUARY 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. Hello, everyone. Damian here with the latest twist in biotech’s recovery, a close look at Bluebird Bio, and the uncertain future of a Covid-19 player. The need-to-know this morning Merck   reported  earnings for the fourth-quarter and 2023.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Even after the acquisitions of Prometheus and Acceleron, Merck is ready to make more deals in the $1 to $15 billion range, according to CEO Rob Davis.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A panel of experts share insights on overcoming challenges in responsible opioid prescribing and explore emotional responses, aversion to change, and the role of interdisciplinary collaboration in addressing the opioid crisis.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

With Merck reporting a whopping $25 billion sales haul for | With Merck reporting a whopping $25 billion sales haul for Keytruda on Thursday, the PD-1 cancer superstar appears to be the world’s top-selling drug in 2023. Keytruda looks set to take over the top spot from Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty, which ruled the previous two years, scoring sales of $55.9 billion in 2022 and $55.1 billion in 2021.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced new private-public partnerships to support the food as medicine movement at its first-ever summit on the topic on Wednesday. | HHS will be teaming up with Instacart, a grocery delivery company and two nonprofits, the Rockefeller Foundation and Feeding America. They will share research, communication and program implementations to advance the collective understanding of food as medicine.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As Sanofi strives to become a global immunology leader, it's also busy making the most of a crucial respiratory launch with partner AstraZeneca. | As Sanofi strives to become a global immunology leader, it's also busy making the most of a crucial respiratory launch with partner AstraZeneca. On both fronts, Sanofi expects to see dividends in 2024.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tenet Healthcare has disclosed a pair of new and completed hospital transactions alongside projections that next week’s 2023 financial report “will be above the high end” of its guidance. | The for-profit disclosed a new $1 billion deal to sell four California hospitals to UCI Health and said it has wrapped a previously announced $2.4 billion sale of three South Carolina hospitals to Novant Health.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On today's podcast, brought to you by Kadans Science Partners, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Bradley Hardiman, Astellas Pharma’s Senior Director of Business Development; Mike Murray, head of Murray International Partners Ltd; and Mairi Dillon, Kadans' Ecosystem Manager for UK & Ireland.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

After GSK spent the latter half of 2023 warding off concerns about the swelling Zantac product liability litigation, the company is back at the settlement table in 2024. | After GSK spent the latter half of 2023 warding off concerns about the swelling Zantac product liability litigation, the company is back at the settlement table in 2024.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As cyberattacks continue to target the healthcare sector, it is crucial to look back at cybersecurity incidents from the past year and prepare for the challenges that lie ahead. This retrospective discusses the impact on patients, health systems, insurers, and vendors, and highlights the importance of cybersecurity measures in protecting sensitive healthcare information.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Ten minutes from the Raleigh airport, the future of biotech is under construction. On either side of a new stretch of four-lane highway sit two $1 billion biomanufacturing campuses, which will bring a combined 2.5 million square feet of research and development and advanced manufacturing space to a region that has become the No. 1 place where North America makes prescription drugs.

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Drug Store News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Walmart plans to build or convert more than 150 larger-format stores during the next five years while also continuing its program to remodel existing locations.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Despite litigation and denouncements from the biopharma industry, Medicare price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act are rolling on. | Despite litigation and denouncements from the biopharma industry, Medicare price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act are rolling on. And today, the government is sending out its first round of offers on affected drugs.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Explore the current state of pharmaceutical meetings and events in 2024, including the shift from in-person to virtual and hybrid formats. Discover how the industry is embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion in these gatherings.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As Roche CEO Thomas Schinecker sees it, the Swiss pharma made a “major achievement” in 2023. Despite a sharp decline in COVID-related sales, the company was able to grow overall revenues | As Roche CEO Thomas Schinecker sees it, the Swiss pharma made a “major achievement” in 2023. Despite a sharp decline in COVID-related sales, the company was able to grow overall revenues thanks in large part to the performance of eye disease drug Vabysmo.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Almirall has formed a three-year alliance with Microsoft designed to accelerate the discovery and development of personalised dermatology therapies.

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