Drug Topics
APRIL 29, 2024
Researchers addressed the association of sleep quality and dietary intakes for patients with type 1 diabetes who use insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring.
PharmaVoice
APRIL 29, 2024
The company's schizophrenia drug picked up in its $14 billion acquisition of Karuna Therapeutics recently generated positive long-term data from its phase 3 program.
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Drug Topics
APRIL 29, 2024
A Q&A with Karen Fancher, PharmD, associate professor of pharmacy practice at Duquesne University School of Pharmacy, on applying ethical principles to manage complex situations in oncology pharmacy.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 29, 2024
Retail sales were associated with lower e-cigarette use, although recreational legalization also increased the frequency of cannabis use among adolescents.
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
Drug Topics
APRIL 29, 2024
Check out these important FDA updates from the month of April 2024.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 29, 2024
At Asembia's AXS24 Summit, a clinician discusses the pathophysiology and classification of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Pharmacy Technician Pulse brings together the best content for pharmacy technicians from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
PharmaVoice
APRIL 29, 2024
Michelle Werner shares how the lessons from her resumé — and personal experience — are driving her work with novel therapeutics.
Drug Topics
APRIL 29, 2024
WHIM syndrome is characterized by low levels of neutrophils and lymphocytes in the blood due to dysfunction in the CXCR4 receptor, which results in serious and frequent infections.
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
Scientists who know about the types of pathogens — E. coli and Salmonella among them — that can be transmitted in raw milk generally think drinking unpasteurized milk is a bad idea. But right now, they believe, the danger associated with raw milk may have gone to a whole new level. “If I were in charge, for the moment I would forbid the selling of raw milk,” said Thijs Kuiken, a pathologist in the department of viroscience at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam,
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 29, 2024
The acceptance is based on positive data from the phase 3 ADORING 1 and ADORING 2 pivotal trials, as well as interim results from the phase 3 ADORING 3 open-label, long-term extension trial.
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 29, 2024
“Going to medical Spanish class really isn’t worth my time. I’d rather use the time to do research,” one of my classmates told me during the first week of my first year of medical school. Such a comment was my introduction to the publish-or-perish environment that is increasingly pervasive amongst medical students. Before then, I had known publish-or-perish as something for those seeking tenure at universities.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 29, 2024
Trastuzumab is indicated for adjuvant breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer, and gastric cancer.
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
In a challenge to the pharmaceutical industry, Doctors Without Borders has revealed the detailed costs of a study it ran for a tuberculosis treatment regimen and maintained this is the first time that expenses incurred for an individual clinical trial had been publicized. Moreover, the charity argued that its decision should help undercut a long-standing contention by drug companies that high prices for their medicines can be justified by research costs, even though these expenses are never disc
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 29, 2024
The indication is for patients aged 12 years of age and older, and the treatment is intended to increase the number of mature neutrophils and lymphocytes in patients.
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 29, 2024
In Kingman, Ariz., a windswept city of 35,000 at the eastern edge of the Mojave desert, data scientists are about as rare as a drenching rain. The local health clinic doesn’t have a stable internet connection, much less the software to support the latest, greatest artificial intelligence. But the clinic, a federally qualified health center called North Country HealthCare, has plenty of problems AI could help with.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 29, 2024
HSSPs improve medication adherence and reduce total health care costs by directly managing medications for complex chronic conditions like cancer, diabetes, COPD and CHF.
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
WASHINGTON — Nicholas Voyles, executive director of the Indiana Recovery Alliance, ended up missing his daily dose of methadone on Monday. He’d requested “guest dosing” before traveling to Washington, but discovered that day that the paperwork hadn’t been processed yet. Although he has requested guest doses in clinics across America, Voyles told an audience at the STAT policy in health care meeting, the process has only worked a single time.
pharmaphorum
APRIL 29, 2024
Get to know Dr Jay Shah, a prominent figure in the field of cardiovascular medicine, as he answers 12 intriguing questions about his role as Chief Medical Officer at Aktiia and his insights into the field.
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STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s plan to improve cybersecurity at hospitals starts off with incentives, but eventually hospitals will face penalties for not adopting measures to protect patient data, HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm said Monday. In February, a cyberattack against Change Healthcare, a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary that operates the largest medical claims clearinghouse in the country, left many doctors unable to get paid by Medicare.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 29, 2024
Demand for GLP-1s and other weight loss drugs has yet to subside, and a new study aims to establish an ethical framework that can be used to ensure the patients who need these therapies can access | A new study aims to establish an ethical framework that can be used to ensure the patients who need these therapies can access them amid shortages.
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration will start actively regulating tests developed in laboratories, with some exemptions, the agency announced on Monday. The agency’s action, which is expected to face legal challenges in courts, comes after Congress failed to pass a law to regulate such tests. The tests have not faced FDA scrutiny historically, as the agency considered them low-risk.
Fierce Pharma
APRIL 29, 2024
The price tag includes both the approved cancer drug Qinlock and another Deciphera candidate heading to the FDA’s desk in the coming months.
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
Ono Pharmaceutical of Japan said Monday it will acquire Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, a Boston-based maker of cancer drugs, for $2.4 billion. The all-cash deal values Diciphera at $25.60 per share, or a 75% premium to its Friday closing stock price. Deciphera markets a drug called Qinlock for patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors, or GIST, a type of cancer that begins in the digestive system.
pharmaphorum
APRIL 29, 2024
A partnership between Huma Therapeutics and Merck KGaA to develop digital support tools for cancer patients has borne fruit with the launch of a bladder cancer app in the UK
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
The pharmaceutical industry saw its reputation slip last year among patient advocacy groups thanks to growing concern about the rising prices for medicines and a lack of confidence prompted by increasing shortages, according to a new survey. Of more than 2,500 groups queried, 57% reported that the industry maintained an “excellent” or “good” reputation as it goes about the business of developing and providing medicines.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 29, 2024
"It's the center of the industry we're most concerned about, which is the healthcare industry," Oracle chairman Larry Ellison said.
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
I remember the day I left the military after six years of active-duty service. The crisp salute, the finality of it all. I was stepping into a world vastly different from the regimented life I had known. As a third-generation veteran, the military was more than a career; it was a legacy. But what I didn’t realize then was that leaving the military would mean entering a labyrinth of health care bureaucracy that seemed designed to confound and discourage.
pharmaphorum
APRIL 29, 2024
Explore the latest personalised strategies in the field of obesity medicine, including the use of GLP-1 agonists, in today's evolving landscape.
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
A tentative settlement has been reached in a long-running shareholder lawsuit that accused health care activist investor Alex Denner of making nearly $50 million from insider trading in connection with the 2018 acquisition of Bioverativ. Denner, managing partner of Sarissa Capital Management, a health care hedge fund, had denied the accusations in the lawsuit filed in 2020 with Delaware’s Court of Chancery.
pharmaphorum
APRIL 29, 2024
Patients in the US with the ultra-rare disease WHIM syndrome now have their first approved treatment, after X4 Pharma’s Xolremdi was given a green light by the FDA. Oral CXCR4 antagonist Xolremdi (mavorixafor) can be used in patients aged 12 and over with WHIM (warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections, and myelokathexis) syndrome, a congenital immunodeficiency characterised by low neutrophil counts that affects fewer than 1,000 people in the US.
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
WASHINGTON — Medical device maker Philips said Monday it will pay $1.1 billion to settle hundreds of personal injury lawsuits in the U.S. over its defective sleep apnea machines, which have been subject to a massive global recall. The Dutch manufacturer did not admit any fault and said it reached the agreement to resolve any uncertainty over the cases.
pharmaphorum
APRIL 29, 2024
Japan’s Ono Pharma has bolstered its cancer pipeline with a $2.4 billion agreement to buy Deciphera Pharma of the US and its fast-growing gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) therapy Qinlock. Ono is offering $26.50 per share in cash for the Waltham, Massachusetts-based company, saying the deal will enable it to “build a robust presence in oncology,” one of the group’s key priority areas.
STAT
APRIL 29, 2024
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was invigorating and inspiring, because that oh-too predictable routine of online meetings, phone calls, and deadlines has returned. But what can you do? The world, such as it is, continues to spin. So to give it a nudge in a better direction, we are firing up the coffee kettle to brew some cups of stimulation.
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