Drug Topics
JUNE 27, 2024
“Retail pharmacy is central to our future and to our overall customer and patient experience. It enables many other things, but it has to change,” said Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth.
PharmaVoice
JUNE 27, 2024
Neuroscience pipelines are reawakening as biotechs prove to the pharma giants that the field is still worth the investment.
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Drug Topics
JUNE 27, 2024
Two posters presented at the American Diabetes Association 84th Scientific Sessions looked at challenges of remote CGM in older populations and after discharge from the hospital.
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a controversial bankruptcy deal in which the owners of Purdue Pharma sought to contribute up to $6 billion in exchange for immunity from further lawsuits. The ruling means the company and its creditors — numerous states, cities and counties, as well as Native American governments — will have to negotiate a new settlement.
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
JUNE 27, 2024
Test your knowledge of migraine therapies.
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
In the pit of the pandemic, with no one to see and nowhere to go, and horrors unfolding daily outside the front door, there was for many a reliable bright spot: the 5 p.m. drink that would mark the end of the workday. Drinking, which was already on the rise before 2020, became a coping mechanism for overburdened parents, burnt-out workers, the traumatized, and the bored.
Pharmacy Technician Pulse brings together the best content for pharmacy technicians from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Pharmacy Times
JUNE 27, 2024
Laura Bray, founder of Angels for Change, explains that addressing the 4 key economic causes to drug shortages can also help lead to effective solutions long-term.
Drug Topics
JUNE 27, 2024
Two abstracts presented at ADA 2024 explored how positive user experiences with a CGM can lead to better patient outcomes.
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
WASHINGTON — A House committee overwhelmingly passed four bills on Thursday that would expand Medicare coverage of obesity drugs and cancer screening blood tests and place guardrails around Medicare’s discretion in covering drugs and devices approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The House Ways & Means Committee passed obesity drug coverage legislation that would offer a limited pathway for adults 65 and older to get their weight loss drugs paid for by Medicare.
Drug Topics
JUNE 27, 2024
The theme of this year’s National HIV Testing Day encourages individuals to self-test for HIV as a means of demonstrating their compassion for themselves.
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
JUNE 27, 2024
WASHINGTON — Mike Leavitt is in the small club of government officials who’ve led an avian flu response. The experience is still fresh in his mind nearly two decades later. When he first heard about the avian flu outbreak in 2005, he had been secretary of health and human services in George W. Bush’s administration for just a couple of months.
Drug Topics
JUNE 27, 2024
During a session at McKesson ideaShare 2024, Martin Dennis of RxOwnership was joined by digital marketing experts to discuss key marketing tools for independent pharmacies.
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
Sonia Vallabh always thought genome editing wouldn’t be an option. It was such an obvious solution that people invariably asked, “What about CRISPR?” at the end of talks. But the details never made sense. Vallabh and her husband, Eric Minikel, scientists at the Broad Institute, have been racing to develop a treatment for prion disease, a rare form of neurodegeneration that killed her mother at age 51 and would, if left untreated, likely kill Vallabh as well.
Pharmacy Times
JUNE 27, 2024
HOPA’s DEI Advisory Board Chair discusses how creating safe environments, using correct pronouns, and being willing to talk about patients’ mental and physical needs are significant when providing care to LGBTQIA+ 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
JUNE 27, 2024
As a Canadian-born physician who has treated people with opioid use disorder on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border, I know that if I ever needed addiction treatment I’d head to the Great White North. Deaths from drug overdoses are twice as high in the U.S. as in Canada. Some of that difference stems from how people with opioid use disorder are treated in the two countries.
Pharmacy Times
JUNE 27, 2024
Tune into this episode of “Public Health Matters” to hear Dr. Bolu Oladini’s unconventional journey within pharmacy, his passion for mental health, and how artificial intelligence is beginning to be integrated into health care and everyday life.
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
Google’s recent integration of Gemini, its state-of-the-art large language model, into its search engine marks a significant step in AI-driven responses for digital health queries. Worldwide, users search Google with health queries 70,000 times per minute , so it has years of experience in communicating health information and a solid framework for producing high quality, authoritatively sourced responses for users.
PharmaVoice
JUNE 27, 2024
Obesity drugs like Wegovy are proving useful in many other diseases. Polycystic ovary syndrome, a chronic condition that can cause infertility, may be one.
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Pharmacy Times
JUNE 27, 2024
A biologics license application (BLA) for patritumab deruxtecan receives complete response letter due to inspection findings at third-party manufacturer.
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
Will Medicare finally begin covering weight loss drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy? And what health care issues may be lightening rods in this election? STAT chief Washington correspondent Rachel Cohrs Zhang joins the podcast to talk about a new proposal for obesity drug coverage in Washington and what to expect from the first presidential debate. STAT health tech reporter Brittany Trang also guest co-hosts “The Readout LOUD” this week, where we discuss AI for drug development, the la
pharmaphorum
JUNE 27, 2024
Explore a methodological approach for discovering the emotional patient journey through patient insights. Understand the importance of emotional connections in healthcare.
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
A startup selling elective whole-body scans for upward of $1,000 is launching a 10-year, 100,000 person study to attempt to settle doubts within the medical community about its value and potential consequences. Prenuvo, the Redwood City, Calif.-based startup touted last year by Kim Kardashian , is one of a handful of companies selling preventive MRI scans: images that aim to catch conditions like cancer, brain aneurysms, autoimmune disorders, and metabolic issues before they advance.
pharmaphorum
JUNE 27, 2024
Unleash the power of generative AI (GenAI) in the pharmaceutical industry to achieve excellence in product launch strategies. Learn how this cutting-edge technology can drive your business forward.
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Artificial intelligence is increasingly infused into many aspects of health care, from transcribing patient visits to detecting cancers and deciphering histology slides. While AI has the potential to improve the drug discovery process and help doctors be more empathetic towards patients, it can also perpetuate bias , and be used to deny critical care to those who need it the most.
pharmaphorum
JUNE 27, 2024
Verona Pharma has claimed FDA approval for its chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) drug ensifentrine, which has been tipped as a future blockbuster.The first-in-class dual phosphodiesterase (PDE) 3/4 inhibitor – now given the somewhat tongue-twisting brand name of Ohtuvayre – is the first inhaled product with a novel mechanism of action available for the maintenance treatment of COPD in more than 20 years, according to Verona.
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Hospital at home creeps towards commercial New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health this week announced it will gradually expand its hospital at home program from three of its larger facilitates, to its entire system of 18 hospitals, illustrating growing
Pharmacy Times
JUNE 27, 2024
New initiatives are tackling historically limited access to free or affordable courses
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. Read on today for some exclusive hiring news and a retraction of a high-profile paper on cancer detection.
pharmaphorum
JUNE 27, 2024
FDA rejects MSD, Daiichi Sankyo’s HER3-targeted ADC patritumab deruxtecan because of problems at a third-party manufacturer
STAT
JUNE 27, 2024
Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? The heat continues to rise here on the Pharmalot campus, where we are hoping for storm clouds to wash away the humidity that has characterized the past few days. One can dream, yes? To cope, we are quaffing some cups of stimulation — our choice today is butter pecan — and distracting ourselves by foraging for items of interest.
Pharmaceutical Commerce
JUNE 27, 2024
The deal offers member pharmacies two pricing options, which will take effect Aug. 1.
pharmaphorum
JUNE 27, 2024
SCOTUS rejects bankruptcy deal that would settle opioid litigation against Purdue Pharma, but also protect the Sackler family from liability.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 27, 2024
Health insurance premiums are putting major pressure on small businesses, according to a new analysis from the JPMorganChase Institute. | Health insurance premiums are putting major pressure on small businesses, according to a new analysis from the JPMorganChase Institute.
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