Drug Topics
MAY 17, 2024
While many people may be unaware of the different types of asthma, there are 5 ways individuals can experience the condition, with common triggers that heighten symptoms.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2024
Three influencers from around the world showcase the passions they pursue outside the pharmacy industry.
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Drug Topics
MAY 17, 2024
Amgen’s Tarlatamab-dlle (Imdelltra) is the first and only approved DLL3-targeting bispecific T-cell engager therapy for the aggressive form of lung cancer.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2024
As summer approaches, remind patients to go back to basics with sunscreen and self-examinations.
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
MAY 17, 2024
Since diabetes technology innovation, combined with strong patient demand, has outpaced current evaluation methods, investigators are calling for new approaches that “keep up with the times.
STAT
MAY 17, 2024
In 2018, during her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture, Frances Arnold noted that scientists had arrived at a point where they could read, write, and edit any sequence of DNA. But composing whole genes or even whole genomes from scratch — that was something only evolution could do. A few years later, not long after helping to launch the Arc Institute, a nonprofit research center in the Bay Area, molecular engineer Patrick Hsu wondered if it was possible to imitate the forces of evolution
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STAT
MAY 17, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — According to Elisabeth Bik, a scientific watchdog who has discovered thousands of errors in scientific papers, the problem of fraud, errors, or data mishandling in the scientific literature seems to be getting worse. In the last couple of years, Bik’s been seeing an influx of AI-generated papers in the scientific record that are “nonsensical and clearly low quality.
Drug Topics
MAY 17, 2024
Dive in and learn more about the answers to yesterday’s quiz.
STAT
MAY 17, 2024
HIV has long stumped immunologists looking to develop an effective vaccine. All of the most promising approaches pioneered in the past three and a half decades have ultimately failed, and only a few months ago, the last trial expected to potentially deliver a vaccine within this decade was shut down. But HIV scientists are nothing if not resilient, and used to trying one new approach after another.
Drug Topics
MAY 17, 2024
Check out important updates from the FDA for the week of May 13.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 17, 2024
The panel that worked on the report was made up of Big Tech players like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, as well as leaders such as Harvard Medical School, the Leapfrog Group and Kaiser Permanente.
Drug Topics
MAY 17, 2024
Test your pharmacy news knowledge with our weekly quiz.
STAT
MAY 17, 2024
Just because the Food and Drug Administration has given the Apple Watch and other wearable devices the OK to market the health benefits of their tracking and algorithms doesn’t mean that the data they generate are useful for either patients or their doctors, experts said Thursday at the STAT Breakthrough Summit West in San Francisco. “Yesterday, I saw a patient with type 2 diabetes who has a continuous glucose monitor, and so she’s been tracking her blood sugar every five mi
Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2024
Future potential directions include measuring the impact of clinical pharmacist interventions on referral utility, disease-specific clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, medication adherence, and absenteeism.
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.
PharmaVoice
MAY 17, 2024
The strange — and difficult — aspects of the recent influenza outbreak in cattle and its potential threat to humans.
STAT
MAY 17, 2024
Extreme weather fueled by accelerating climate change puts patients, providers, and health care facilities at severe risk, jeopardizing lives. Unpredictable shifts in weather patterns are creating new regional extremes , and communities have to adjust to survive. During climate crises, health care providers and facilities must be ready to quickly adapt to shifting needs.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 17, 2024
Inequities in mental health across the U.S. | ED overutilization, exacerbated comorbidities and lost productivity will drive trillions in "avoidable and unnecessary expenses" should inequities in mental health access and outcomes remain unchecked.
STAT
MAY 17, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — Health tech investor Bob Kocher has seen some bad AI-related startup pitches in his time. The worst typically involve AI chatbots masquerading as romantic partners to improve people’s mental health. “They pitch it to me as a mental health improvement model,” Kocher, a partner at venture capital firm Venrock, said.
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Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2024
Tarlatamab is a first-in-class immunotherapy that binds to DLL3 tumor cells and CD3 T-cells, to kill DLL3-expressing SCLC.
STAT
MAY 17, 2024
When Black people receive maternal care, they are often not treated the same as white people. In 2016, when Simmone Taitt had her first pregnancy loss, she was very well insured, had a high-paying job as a tech executive, and had access to one of the top OB-GYNs in New York City. Yet, when she found out that her baby had no heartbeat, she left that appointment with no medical follow-up, and no emotional or mental health support.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 17, 2024
One in 4 adults in the U.S. | Challenges to inclusive design often stem from viewing disability as a binary status. However, disabilities vary widely in severity and permanency, with symptoms existing on a spectrum.
STAT
MAY 17, 2024
As Cytokinetics faces pressure to sell itself to a large pharma company following positive late-stage results of its heart drug, CEO Robert Blum maintains that the biotech can launch the treatment — what would be its first approved medication — on its own. Cytokinetics reported top-line results of its drug, aficamten, in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or oHCM, last December, sending its shares up on speculation the company would get acquired.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 17, 2024
The US Senator took another swipe at the US prices of Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs Ozempic and Wegovy.
pharmaphorum
MAY 17, 2024
Navigating maternal vaccine trials: addressing safety, efficacy, and preterm birth risks. Insights on vaccines for pregnant women and maternal health.
Pharmafile
MAY 17, 2024
Amgen has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Imdelltra (tarlatamab-dlle) for the treatment of adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) who have had disease progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy. The post FDA approves Amgen’s Imdelltra for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer appeared first on Pharmafile.
pharmaphorum
MAY 17, 2024
Explore sustainable catalysis and its potential to transform chemical reactions in drug discovery. Learn how green chemistry plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of catalysis.
STAT
MAY 17, 2024
LONDON — The key groups involved in addressing global health problems often include governments, foundations, and pharmaceutical companies. But to John-Arne Røttingen, the new head of the Wellcome Trust , one of the world’s top private funders of biomedical research, there’s another sector that should be getting involved — the tech industry.
pharmaphorum
MAY 17, 2024
Brainomix gets FDA approval for e-Lung, an AI tool that assists in the diagnosis and assessment of patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) from medical images.
STAT
MAY 17, 2024
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. Our agenda is still shaping up, but we expect to promenade with the official mascots, take in a moving picture, and hold another listening party, where the rotation will likely include this , this , this , this and this.
pharmaphorum
MAY 17, 2024
Amgen gets FDA approval for Imdelltra as a treatment for small cell lung cancer, becoming the first DLL3-targeted drug and the company's second BiTE therapy.
The Checkup by Singlecare
MAY 17, 2024
Every year, 1 in 6 Americans gets a foodborne illness from eating contaminated food or drinks. One kind of foodborne illness is food poisoning, caused by pathogens like bacteria, viruses, and other microbes. Food poisoning occurs when food is not properly stored, handled, or cooked, causing symptoms like stomach cramps, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting.
The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry
MAY 17, 2024
Patients are already dying as wonder drugs lose their effectiveness. International action is urgently needed As apocalyptic horror stories go, it’s up there with the scariest. Yet it’s not fiction writers but top scientists who are warning of how the world could look once superbugs develop resistance to the remaining drugs against them in our hospital pharmacies.
pharmaphorum
MAY 17, 2024
Bernie Sanders says high prices being charged for new obesity therapies like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy could end up bankrupting US healthcare systems
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