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Acupuncture Represents Effective Nonpharmacologic Treatment for Sciatica Pain Management

Drug Topics

Acupuncture, a practice with thousands of years of history, has become increasingly accepted in mainstream medicine.

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Clinical staff that feel like ‘tech support’ — and other issues a CRO exec contends with

PharmaVoice

From tech-related challenges to an ongoing staffing crunch, Parexel’s CEO explains what the clinical trials industry is up against.

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Skeletal Muscle Relaxants May Offer Benefit for Some Types of Chronic Pain

Drug Topics

Research is limited on the effectiveness and efficacy of this class of medications.

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FDA Places Clinical Hold on Novavax COVID-19/Influenza and Standalone Influenza Vaccine Trials

Pharmacy Times

The clinical hold is a result of a reported case of motor neuropathy in a phase 2 trial participant.

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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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Updated COVID-19 Vaccine’s Impact on Various Patient Outcomes | IDWeek 2024

Drug Topics

Researchers explored the efficacy of Pfizer-BioNTech’s updated COVID-19 vaccine for the 2023-2024 period and its efficacy in improving various patient outcomes.

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STAT+: Chickenpox, shingles, Alzheimer’s? Evidence mounts for a viral cause of dementia

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Pascal Geldsetzer believes in open access, in disseminating science as quickly as it happens. Even so, last summer, as he uploaded the surprising results of his latest study to the MedRxiv preprint server, the Stanford University epidemiologist was feeling something other than the usual excitement. “I was scared to put this up because it’s such a different approach from what’s generally done in epidemiology and medicine,” he said.

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FDA Adds Intravenous Fluids to List of Drug Shortages

Pharmacy Times

The additions include Dextrose 70% intravenous (IV) solution, Lactated Ringers IV Solution, and Peritoneal Dialysis Solution, which were affected by Hurricane Helene.

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Managing Medication Overuse Headache in Chronic Migraine

Drug Topics

Patients with chronic migraine can frequently overuse acute medications, leading to medication overuse headaches.

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D.A. Wallach on his wife’s tragic death and creating a ‘golden record’ for medicine

STAT

D.A. Wallach met his late wife, Liz, at a Halloween party in Los Angeles hosted by the Maroon 5 star Adam Levine.  At the time, the erstwhile indie rocker never imagined that his relationship, and his career, would lead him to declare an all-out war on the U.S. health system. But then, Wallach said Thursday, she died four years ago, the day after giving birth.

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Pharmacists as Key Players in Managing Chronic Conditions | ACCP 2024

Drug Topics

Pharmacist management of chronic conditions can lead to improved patient outcomes.

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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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Zolbetuximab-clzb Receives FDA Approval for Treatment of Advanced Gastric and GEJ Adenocarcinoma

Pharmacy Times

Zolbetuximab is the first approved CLDN18.2-targeted treatment for gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

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PBMs and Value-Based Care: A Pathway to Better Pharmacy Reimbursement

Drug Topics

David Pope, PharmD, Chief Pharmacy Officer at XiFin, joined Drug Topics to discuss value-based care and how it has changed the way pharmacy operates.

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STAT+: Sales from controversial drug discount program rose to $63 billion last year

STAT

Prescription medicines purchased in the U.S. under a controversial government discount program amounted to $63 billion in 2023, a 23.4% increase from the previous year, according to the Health Resources & Services Administration, which oversees the program. The data mark a steady rise in sales under the 340B Drug Discount Program, which requires drugmakers to offer discounts that are typically estimated to be 25% to 50% — but could be higher — off all outpatient drugs to hospit

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Repeat IVIG Dosing Common in Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Suggesting Harm in Non-Responders

Pharmacy Times

Recognizing repeat dosing efforts is important to improving outcomes in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome who do not respond to IVIG.

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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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CVS ousts Karen Lynch, taps Caremark head as new CEO

Fierce Healthcare

It's a tumultuous time at industry giant CVS Health, and on Friday the company revealed a shake-up at the top that now has David Joyner stepping in as CEO. | It's a tumultuous time at industry giant CVS Health, and on Friday the company revealed a shake-up at the top that now has David Joyner stepping in as CEO.

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STAT+: How a drug discount program intended to benefit the poor got entangled in a California rent-control fight

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WASHINGTON — Californians are about to vote on an aggressive policy proposals to reform a drug discount program that is a key source of revenue for hospitals and health clinics. The group behind it? Apartment builders.  As a general rule, programs named after the sub-section of the law in which they were created are not well-known. The 340B Drug Discount Program is no exception.

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Trends to watch at HLTH 2024

Fierce Healthcare

The HLTH 2024 conference will kick off Sunday in Las Vegas with an expected 12,000 attendees from across the industry to plot the future of healthcare innovation. | The HLTH 2024 conference will kick off Sunday in Las Vegas with an expected 12,000 attendees from across the industry to plot the future of healthcare innovation.

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Real-World Considerations for New Therapies

Pharmacy Times

Panelists discuss how a new therapy for multiple myeloma would need to demonstrate significant improvements in efficacy, safety, or quality of life over current standards of care to warrant adoption while also considering factors such as cost-effectiveness, patient preferences, and ease of administration in their decision-making process for evaluating treatment changes.

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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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One doctor’s quest to help people with hearing loss enjoy ‘all the richness’ of music

STAT

As a child in Jacksonville, Fla., Alex Chern built string instruments out of office supplies and tuned them, stretching rubber bands taut to change their pitch. Starting at age 7, he took violin lessons and continued playing all the way through college at Yale University. He loved playing Beethoven, expressive pieces written in F major like “Romance No. 2” or the “Spring Sonata,” and technically challenging pieces like Bach’s “Sonatas and Partitas,ȁ

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Researchers Assess Shingles Vaccination Status Among Veterans on Immunosuppressive Medications

Pharmacy Times

The results emphasize the need for pharmacists and health care providers to further educate patients about receiving recommended immunizations.

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Potential competition for RSV prophylactic Beyfortus

STAT

This story first appeared in The Readout newsletter.  Sign up for The Readout  and receive STAT’s award-winning biotech news delivered straight to your inbox.  Good morning! For those who were wise enough to attend, hope you enjoyed this year’s STAT Summit. Today, we talk about some RSV competition that’s brewing, how Alnylam’s CEO spoke about its plans with ATTR-CM, and more.

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BenevolentAI CEO steps down as founders make a comeback

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Jörg Möller's sojourn as CEO of BenevolentAI has come to an abrupt end, as the firm names co-founder Ken Mulvany as executive chair

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STAT+: CVS Health replaces CEO as it faces a range of challenges

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CVS Health has replaced Karen Lynch with David Joyner as CEO, it said Friday, part of an attempt to turn the struggling company around.  Joyner was previously the president of CVS Caremark, the company’s pharmacy benefit manager, and formerly worked at Aetna, the insurer now owned by CVS. The company said Lynch had stepped down “in agreement” with the company’s board.

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AbbVie gets continuous Parkinson's drug over the line in US

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AbbVie has finally claimed FDA approval for its 24-hour Parkinson's therapy Vyalev, 18 months after the US regulator turned it down

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Morning Rounds: A STAT crossword, Atul Gawande, and hearing music with hearing aids

STAT

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. I’m recovering from the STAT Summit — in particular, recovering from this stunning view of Boston from the venue. On Wednesday evening, we had an amazing view of the almost-supermoon rising as dusk settled in during the last panel of the day.

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MSD preparing to take on Beyfortus with RSV antibody

pharmaphorum

MSD reveals the data that could unlock filings for clesrovimab, a rival to Sanofi and AstraZeneca's Beyfortus for preventing infant RSV infections

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mRNA licensing agreements surge 800% amid GSK lawsuits

Pharmaceutical Technology

An 800% increase in licensing deal values indicates growing confidence in mRNA technology, but some vaccine producers are facing lawsuits.

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Baxter to import 18,000 tons of IV product by year-end as hurricane recovery efforts continue in NC

Fierce Pharma

As recovery efforts at the North Carolina plant hit by Hurricane Helene move at an “encouraging pace,” Baxter International is laying out new details on a sweeping importation plan to help critical | Baxter has said the first IV product shipments cleared by the FDA for temporary importation are set to arrive in the U.S. this weekend. By the end of the year, the company expects nearly 18,000 tons of product from Europe and Asia to reach The States.

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Opioid addiction market to reach $2.4 billion across 8MM by 2033

Pharmaceutical Technology

Late-stage pipeline products could drive combined sales of approximately $171.4 million by 2033 in the 8MM.

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Opinion: STAT+: Genentech executive Fritz Bittenbender: Beware political soundbites

STAT

As Election Day 2024 gets closer, STAT’s First Opinion asked executives from leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies to reflect on how their industry is being portrayed in the presidential campaign — and what their hopes are for a new presidential administration. You can also read Eli Lilly chief scientist Daniel M. Skovronsky on fallacies surrounding patents, drug discovery, and affordability,   Sandoz CEO Richard Saynor  on what the 2024 conversation is missin

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Weight loss jabs not ‘quick fix’ for worklessness, health experts warn

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

Scientists say using the drugs to get people back into work could carry logistical and ethical problems Weight loss jabs are not a “quick fix” and the health secretary’s plan to use them to help people get back to work could backfire, experts have warned. Wes Streeting announced a real-world trial of the medication’s impact on worklessness this week, saying that “widening waistbands” were placing a burden on the NHS.

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Can you drink while taking Nurtec?

The Checkup by Singlecare

You may have just popped a Nurtec ODT pill, ready to sip on some wine and relax after a long day. Suddenly, it hits you: “Can I even mix these two?” That moment of panic is all too familiar for many. Nurtec is a prescription drug that is FDA approved for managing migraine attacks and preventing episodic migraine, but it might not always pair with an evening drink.

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STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

STAT

Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we’ll share it with others.  That’s right. Send us your changes, and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going. And here is our regular feature in which we highlight a different person each week.

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