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Exploring Non-Pharmacological Interventions in Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes

Drug Topics

Investigators found that the non-pharmacological interventions were significantly effective at improving HbA1c, quality of life, anxiety, and blood glucose.

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Maternal Vitamin D, Multivitamin Supplementation May Reduce Risk of Autism in Offspring

Pharmacy Times

Supplementation during pregnancy also reduced communication warning behaviors in children who developed autism compared to the children of women who did not take supplements.

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Diabetes Mortality Trends Remained Steady in the Americas Over 20-Year Period

Drug Topics

Although diabetes mortality rates were stable in the Americas over the past 2 decades, the actual number of diabetes-related deaths is rising.

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Diabetes Expert on Semaglutide: “I don't think that companies anticipated this much of a demand.”

Pharmacy Times

The diabetes/weight loss drug is be evaluated in trials for pediatric patients who are at least 10 years of age.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

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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Single Dose Typhoid Vaccine Effective in Children

Drug Topics

The vaccine showed an overall efficacy of 80% in the per-protocol analysis, with a risk reduction of 6.1 typhoid infections per 1000 vaccinated children.

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Inconsistent Supplementation Recommendations for Women During Pregnancy Raises Questions

Pharmacy Times

However, different recommendations may actually be valuable, as different countries have different population-based needs.

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Considerations for RSV Prevention in Special Patient Populations

Pharmacy Times

Older adults, patients with weakened immune systems, individuals living in long-term facilities, and those with underlying cardiopulmonary disease are at a higher risk of developing severe RSV infection outcomes.

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STAT+: AI therapy and ICU training: A first look at health apps for Apple Vision Pro

STAT

Apple Vision Pro, the company’s most important new product in a decade, promises to envelop consumers in an immersive world of interactive content while employing clever technologies to make the device more usable and less alienating than virtual reality headsets that have come before it. Marketing for Vision Pro has focused on the $3,499, 1.3-pound helmet’s potential for watching video, making work calls, viewing family photos, and other casual uses.

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FDA sets date for high-profile CAR-T adcomm for Bristol’s Abecma, J&J’s Carvykti

Fierce Pharma

Mark your calendars, oncology drug and CAR-T therapy developers. | Mark your calendars, oncology drug and CAR-T therapy developers. The FDA has decided on a date for a highly anticipated advisory committee meeting for Bristol Myers' Abecma and J&J's Carvykti.

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Opinion: Medicare has different standards than the FDA. That’s how it should be

STAT

Who among us is looking forward to getting older in 2024? Not senators (most of whom are 65 and older ), the two leading presidential candidates (100% of whom are over 75), or the eight Cabinet members who are already more than 65 (growing to 10 in February). Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are younger (averaging 58 years of age ), but even so, many are already over 65.

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Position Your Pharmacy for Expansion

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.

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February Marks American Heart Month

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists can heighten awareness about cardiovascular health and promote heart-healthy lifestyles.

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STAT+: ARCH Venture Partners is raising $3 billion for a life sciences fund

STAT

ARCH Venture Partners, one of the top investors in the biotech ecosystem, is raising $3 billion for a new fund. The Chicago-based firm filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week for what would be its 13th namesake fund. Arch estimated it would raise around $3 billion — roughly the same amount it raised during its more recent fundraising in 2022.

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'Cybersecurity matter' forces Lurie Children's Hospital to take communications, MyChart offline

Fierce Healthcare

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has been working through a “cybersecurity matter” since Wednesday that has led the organization to take its phone, email and Epic MyChart systems offline, accor | Illinois' largest pediatric care provider said it took down its systems preemptively on Wednesday, leading to disruptions across its hospital and other locations.

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Lead aprons not necessary for patients during X-rays, says largest U.S. dental group

STAT

Since the 1920s , lead vests and aprons have served as trusted shields against the harmful effects of X-rays for radiologists, technicians, and patients. But new safety guidelines  from the American Dental Association (ADA) call for discontinuing their use among patients, both because X-ray technology has evolved significantly over the years, and because there are better ways to reduce patients’ exposure to radiation, such as using digital as opposed to conventional X-ray film.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

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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Industry Voices—Embracing the advantages of virtual care

Fierce Healthcare

The pandemic acted as a catalyst, propelling virtual care to the forefront of healthcare delivery. | The pandemic acted as a catalyst, propelling virtual care to the forefront of healthcare delivery.

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STAT+: The lessons of Aduhelm, Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug that was not to be

STAT

Aduhelm, a pioneering treatment for Alzheimer’s disease that collapsed under corporate mistakes and regulatory controversy, is now a cautionary tale in pharmaceutical history. This week Biogen said it would no longer sell or study the medicine , which first won approval in 2021, ending an era for one of biotech’s storied companies and leaving the rest of the industry to piece together the lessons of a would-be blockbuster that never took off.

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FDA Accepts sBLA for Daratumumab, Hyaluronidase-fihj for Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

Pharmacy Times

Daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj in combination with other therapies was previously approved by the FDA in May 2020 for 8 indications in multiple myeloma.

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Chicago children’s hospital network down as experts warn of rising cyber threats

STAT

Chicago pediatric hospital Lurie Children’s has been forced to take its network offline in the face of a “cybersecurity matter” as experts warn of heightened threats against health systems across the country. Late Thursday, Lurie Children’s Hospital, which uses Epic System’s electronic health record software, said it was “actively responding” to the issue and working with experts and law enforcement.

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5 Reasons to Upgrade Your Pharmacy Management Software

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.

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As Humira plummets, AbbVie dials up Rinvoq and Skyrizi estimates to a combined $27B

Fierce Pharma

As AbbVie slogs through sharp revenue declines for Humira, the company is looking to the immunology light at the end of the tunnel. | Sales of Humira—which once sat pretty as the world’s best-selling drug—plunged nearly 41% to $3.3 billion in the third quarter.

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Promising red-light myopia treatment for children is raising safety concerns among experts

STAT

Myopia, or near-sightedness, is on the rise: Nearly half of the world’s population will be nearsighted by 2050,  according to the World Health Organization. The condition is increasingly common among children in particular, which ophthalmologists attribute to a combination of less time spent outdoors and more time spent with iPads and iPhones.

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Bristol Myers CEO outlines transition strategy featuring 11 key brands, more dealmaking

Fierce Pharma

In his first earnings call as Bristol Myers Squibb’s CEO, Chris Boerner laid out his plan to quickly navigate the company through a period filled with patent cliffs and new government-man | In his first earnings call as Bristol Myers Squibb’s CEO, Chris Boerner laid out his plan to quickly navigate the company through a transition period filled with patent cliffs and new government-mandated pricing pressure.

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Optum Perks launches new telehealth platform for prescriptions

Fierce Healthcare

Optum Perks is rolling out a new telehealth solution that aims to make it easier for patients to secure their prescriptions at a low cost. | Optum Perks is rolling out a new telehealth solution that aims to make it easier for patients to secure their prescriptions at a low cost.

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JP Morgan 2024 – Katherine Stueland

pharmaphorum

Learn more about Katherine Stueland, the CEO of GeneDx, as she discusses her journey, the future of diagnostics, whilst at JP Morgan 2024.

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The Path for Prescription Drug Sales

Pharmaceutical Commerce

A dive into this market reveals that the latest numbers yield promising results—a global value of a worldwide $1.6 trillion—but it will continue to be attributed to past, present, and future healthcare spending.

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FDA Can’t Reclassify Its Way Out of Reviewing 100,000 LDT Submissions

The FDA Law Blog

By Steven J. Gonzalez & Allyson B. Mullen — On January 31, 2024, FDA announced its intent to initiate the reclassification process for most in vitro diagnostic (IVD) products that are currently class III (high risk) into class II (moderate risk). Most of these reclassified tests will supposedly be infectious disease and companion diagnostic IVDs.

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STAT+: Senate working group proposes 340B reforms

STAT

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators released a draft of legislation to resolve controversial disputes in the 340B drug discount program, according to documents obtained by STAT. The drug discount program, which was designed to support providers that serve low-income patients, has been increasingly contentious as it’s grown in recent years.

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Florida Blue partners with Sanitas to run a value-based primary care center in Jacksonville

Fierce Healthcare

When Florida Blue announced this week that it’s partnering with Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville to deliver primary care, officials with the company considered it in keeping with a healthcare | Among the primary care services to be offered at Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville are onsite pharmacy dispensing, chronic condition management, mental health services, labs and imaging.

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Hikma will pay $150m in US opioid settlement

pharmaphorum

Indian pharma Hikma has agreed a $150 million settlement to resolve lawsuits claiming that it helped fuel to the opioid crisis in the US

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Providence agrees to $158M of refunds, debt erasure to settle charity care billing investigation

Fierce Healthcare

Renton, Washington-based Providence has cut a deal to refund or erase $157.7 million in medical care payments following allegations and a lawsuit from its home state’s attorney general that the lar | The nonprofit health system's deal with the Washington State Attorney General over allegations it billed patients who may have qualified for charity care is "the largest resolution of its kind in the country.

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Regeneron's Eylea HD vs. Roche's Vabysmo: Will the real standard of care please stand up?

Fierce Pharma

One day after Roche said it was starting to establish Vabysmo as th | One day after Roche said it was starting to establish Vabysmo as the new standard of care in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME), Regeneron clapped back with the same claim about its new treatment—high-dose Eylea.

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Novo, Lilly poised to become first trillion-dollar healthcare companies

PharmaVoice

Explosive demand for weight loss drugs has propelled both companies to new heights. Here’s a look at the staggering growth, by the numbers.

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Vera prices $$250m offer, and other biotech financings

pharmaphorum

Our round-up of recent biotech financings is headed by a $250 million public offering for late clinical-stage biotech Vera Therapeutics, with an initial public offering (IPO) filed by CAR-T specialist Kyverna and private rounds for Eyconis, COUR Pharmaceuticals, Basking Biosciences, Enterprise Therapeutics, Halia Therapeutics and NeoPhore.

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What makes a drug a blockbuster — or a cautionary tale?

STAT

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 talk about how biomanufacturing is getting a huge boost in North Carolina, study a new potential root for autoimmune disease in women, and more.

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