Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The “cuddle hormone” plays a powerful role in human behavior and may be an additional option to treat pain and manage opioid addiction.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The DEA will have a hearing in December 2024 regarding the potential reclassification of cannabis to Schedule III, which could significantly impact the regulatory environment for pharmacies and their involvement in the cannabis market.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
CHICAGO — The last place you might have expected Kevin Hall to make a plea for help was at a conference of scientists who work for global food conglomerates. After all, the government researcher is the leading scientific voice in the United States warning that a steady diet of these engineered products might be a crucial driver of the nation’s epidemic of overeating.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The company also submitted data from the ongoing phase 2 study, demonstrating the improvements of the investigational drug for symptoms of overall disease severity.
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
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
WASHINGTON — The largest health system in North Carolina simply wasn’t interested in canceling its patients’ medical debt. That is, until the state government dangled billions of dollars in incentive payments. Other health systems have gotten just cents on the dollar to cancel unpaid bills they probably couldn’t collect on anyhow — take Cook County, Ill., which aims to pay about a penny per dollar to cancel an estimated $1 billion of medical debt.
Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
“Reducing abdominal adiposity may be considered a target for chronic pain management, particularly in those with pain in multiple sites and widespread pain,” wrote investigators.
Pharmacy Technician Pulse brings together the best content for pharmacy technicians from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Viridian Therapeutics also said it has completed enrollment for a second phase 3 trial of veligrotug, THRIVE-2, and expects topline data to be available by the end of this year.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
WELLESLEY, Mass. — At an event with journalists Tuesday outside of Boston, U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Robert Califf dismissed criticism that the agency is lowering standards for new drug approvals, even when clinical trials fail. This summer, the FDA expanded Sarepta Therapeutics’ accelerated approval for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy Elevidys , despite the drug failing its Phase 3 trial.
Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Researchers looked for a better understanding of medical debt and what type of role the US government plays in lessening the burden on patients and their health care costs.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question physicians like me are supposed to ask: “If your heart stops beating, do you want us to do CPR?” On the surface, this may seem like a mechanic asking a customer, “If your car stalls, do you want us to jumpstart the engine?” Who would say no to this, especially in a hospital?
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.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Hospital patients’ risk of death has fallen substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic and the months preceding it, even as hospitals are treating more and sicker patients, according to a new report | An analysis of 715 hospitals' patient safety metrics showed that patients hospitalized in Q1 2024 were about 22% more likely to survive as compared to Q4 2019, after adjusting for illness severity.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, two transplant doctors, one watchdog and a nephrologist-turned-advocate sat before members of Congress to talk about the nation’s troubled organ transplant system. For over two hours the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations ran through allegations of inefficiency, inertia, negligence and corruption in the groups charged with coordinating transplants throughout the U.S.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Pharmacy Times offers the latest news and insights for the pharmacy professional and solutions that impact the everyday practice of pharmacy.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has scolded AbbVie for making false and misleading claims about a TV ad about a migraine pill that features Serena Williams, the third time this year the agency has taken a major pharmaceutical company to task for its marketing. The agency is upset with Abbvie for a couple of reasons. First, the TV spot suggests that the medication, which is called Ubrelvy, will “provide a greater treatment benefit to patients suffering from migraine headache th
Advertisement
Are you still using workarounds to manage your daily operations? To achieve peak performance, it's time to explore other options for specialty and infusion pharmacy software. Streamline pharmacy operations and improve clinical performance with automated processing, real-time data exchange, and electronic decision support. Download this helpful infographic to: Drive efficiency and patient adherence from referral receipt to delivery and ongoing care – all with our Pharmacy Cloud.
Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
To further understand PBM market concentration, researchers separately analyzed commercial insurance, Medicare Part D, and Medicaid managed care market strategies of the 3 biggest PBMs.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
One of the most important measurements for cancer patients is the neutrophil count. Certain cancer therapies like chemotherapy can be harsh on these white blood cells, so cancer patients need their neutrophil count to be in a given range when undergoing those treatments or before enrolling in particular clinical trials. That can be a problem for people who have a natural blood variation called the Duffy-null phenotype.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
An overview of the latest developments in targeting DLL3 in lung neuroendocrine tumors were presented at the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s latest warning unearths concerning statistics about the mental health and well-being of American parents. These findings resonated with me deeply on two levels. First, I am a parent of three school-age children. Second, I am a trained therapist and head of behavioral health at a provider organization focused on caring for the most vulnerable members of our population — Medicaid members and those dually eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare.
pharmaphorum
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
A machine-learning tool developed by AstraZeneca and trained on UK Biobank data, called MILTON, can predict over 1,000 diseases, before diagnosis
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The investigators of the phase 3b trial (NCT04838444) will continue to follow up with patients for up to 10 years.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Amycretin has some intriguing results in obesity Amycretin, an experimental Novo Nordisk obesity pill that targets both amylin and GLP-1 receptors, spurred significant weight loss in a Phase 1 study, the company announced yesterday.
The FDA Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
By John W.M. Claud — Last week, FDA revised one of its two guidances relating to nitrosamines, Control of Nitrosamine Impurities in Human Drugs. Nitrosamines are impurities that can form during drug manufacturing and are considered potentially potent carcinogens. One specific kind of nitrosamines called N-nitrosamine drug substance-related impurities, or NDSRIs, are especially vexing to FDA and to industry because they mimic the structure of the specific active pharmaceutical ingredients (API),
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Tocilizumab reduced relapses in 4 patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD).
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
More than 50 years after the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was signed into law, a House hearing Sept. 10 delved into ways to protect and improve the legislation. | A House hearing celebrating the 50th anniversary of ERISA put a spotlight on ways to bring down costs for employers and individuals.
Fierce Pharma
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Johnson & Johnson already has a major presence in the crowded inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) space with its popular Stelara. | Tremfya will enter the UC space as J&J’s older Stelara, which is approved to treat both forms of IBD, nears biosimilar competition and Inflation Reduction Act-mandated price concessions.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Enrollees in both traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage have cost-sharing obligations for behavioral health services, a GAO report shows.
Fierce Pharma
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
For Intercept Pharmaceuticals’ beleaguered liver disease drug Ocaliva, the hits just keep coming. | Ahead of an advisory committee meeting slated for Friday, the FDA unleashed damning briefing documents calling into question the effectiveness and safety of Intercept’s rare liver disease drug Ocaliva. The regulator specifically raised an eyebrow at the post-marketing trials Intercept has used in a bid to keep hold of the accelerated approval it won back in 2016.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
More Kaiser Permanente members in Colorado will soon be able to visit CommonSpirit Health hospitals for their inpatient and emergency care, the nonprofit giants announced Tuesday. | Four of CommonSpirit Health's Metro Denver area hospitals will integrate Kaiser Permanente physicians and employees to provide care for its members. The nonprofit systems have a similar arrangement at five other hospitals elsewhere in the state.
European Pharmaceutical Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Sanofi has inaugurated a new production unit in France which utilises a world-first modular concept. The site, Modulus, located in Neuville-sur-Saône (Rhône-Alpes), is supported by an investment of nearly €500 million and will produce Sanofi’s next vaccines and biologic drugs. Modulus can adapt to manufacture up to four vaccines simultaneously. Notably, reconfiguration of the technological platform (live attenuated viral vaccines, recombinant protein or messenger RNA vaccines, as well as treatme
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
As the approval date for Bristol Myers Squibb’s schizophrenia drug KarXT looms, a prodrug approach emerges to potentially address dosing challenges.
pharmaphorum
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
One in two UK doctors would not use GenAI to treat patients, but there was more willingness to use it for diagnostic purposes, survey finds
STAT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Fighting a massive snowstorm to get to the doctor in the Dakotas is an unpleasant business. So is driving hours to see one of the two or three obstetricians in northern Minnesota. But Dave Newman, chief medical officer of virtual care at Sanford Health, is counting on technology to change that. Last year, a STAT documentary highlighted how Sanford, a large rural health system serving North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota, is using telehealth to reach more patients than ever before.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
This year the world’s first stem cell register celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
A recent meta-analysis found that supplementing with vitamin D could improve blood pressure, blood lipid levels, and glycemic parameters.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
200 
Let's personalize your content