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Younger, Middle-Aged Adults Face Higher Burden of Neurologic Long COVID Symptoms

Drug Topics

The higher burden of neurological symptoms among younger and middle-aged adults translated to worse subjective quality of life, according to a recent study.

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STAT+: RFK Jr. was paid six figures by his vaccine-challenging group before presidential run

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made over $20,000 per week as chairman of Children’s Health Defense before stepping away from the nonprofit in 2023 to run for president, new tax filings show.  In April 2023, Kennedy announced his presidential run and left his post as chairman and chief legal counsel of the organization he founded in 2007. Though he only spent three and a half months at Children’s Health Defense last year, he walked away with $326,056 — more than doubling his pay

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Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on Biosimilar Pricing, Dispensing

Drug Topics

On the most recent episode of Over the Counter, Steve Callahan, Senior Director of Advisory & Insights at MMIT, talked with us about biosimilars and the Inflation Reduction Act.

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STAT+: Why Orexo is abandoning a digital therapeutic for depression

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Swedish pharmaceutical company Orexo will no longer pursue an app for treating depression after many years of struggling to sell it. Orexo announced this week that it will no longer license the product, called Deprexis, from German manufacturer GAIA. The companies have worked together on Deprexis in the United States since 2020 and have deals for two other apps, including Modia, an app that provides psychosocial support to people being treated for opioid addiction.

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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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Q&A: An Independent Pharmacy Owner’s Perspective on Pharmacists in Health Care

Drug Topics

TaQuina Warren, PharmD, owner of Focus Pharmacy in Smyrna, Delaware, discussed her career journey and why pharmacists are so crucial to the interoperability of health care.

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Eli Lilly's Zepbound defeats Novo Nordisk's Wegovy in head-to-head weight loss trial

Fierce Pharma

Over the last two-plus years, as Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have battled for their share of the massive weight loss market and patients wondered which company’s products were more effective, there | Eli Lilly revealed results from a study that showed its obesity drug Zepbound was 47% more effective than Novo’s Wegovy in helping patients lose weight.

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STAT+: Using AI to design small molecule drugs is tough. Here are five companies trying to crack the code

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Ian Quigley was employee #13 at AI drug company Recursion until 2021, when he quit and turned the basement of his Utah home into a lab to develop AI models for predicting which proteins small molecule drugs might target — a tool he and co-founder Andrew Blevins found was missing during their time at Recursion.  When he was setting up the lab, Quigley ordered an Illumina DNA sequencer that the delivery person had wanted to leave on his porch.

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Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis at Younger Age Linked with Increased Dementia Risk

Drug Topics

A study found that patients with obesity who were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes aged 50 or younger had the highest risk of dementia.

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High-Dose Vitamin C Improves Outcomes for Late-Stage Pancreatic Cancer

Pharmacy Times

High-dose vitamin C, when combined with chemotherapy, has shown the potential to double the survival rate of patients with late-stage metastatic pancreatic cancer.

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Opinion: The invisible wasteland of health care data

STAT

As physicians, nothing brightens our faces quite like shutting off our computers. We spend  almost two hours of every work day wrestling with the long loading times to view clinical data, the litany of structured data sets we must complete to meet medical billing requirements for innumerable insurance companies, and the nearly endless sea of protected health information we must wade through just to find the piece we need for our patients.

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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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Husband of UK royal took own life after ‘adverse effects of medication’

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

Coroner says evidence suggests Thomas Kingston, who was married to Lady Gabriella, had a ‘lack of suicidal intent’ The son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent killed himself after suffering adverse side-effects from antidepressants prescribed by a Buckingham Palace doctor, an inquest has found. Thomas Kingston, 45, whose marriage to Lady Gabriella at Windsor Castle in 2019 was attended by the late Queen, died from a self-inflicted wound, the senior coroner for Gloucestershire concluded

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Bristol Myers Squibb latest drug company to sue HHS over 340B rebate model

Fierce Healthcare

Bristol Myers Squibb became the latest large drugmaker to sue the federal government over a plan to change how it doles out drug discounts to hospitals. | Bristol Myers Squibb became the latest large drugmaker to sue the federal government over a plan to change how it doles out drug discounts to hospitals.

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Patients With Post-COVID POTS Experience Disruptions in Circadian Blood Pressure Rhythm Regulation

Pharmacy Times

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) diagnoses have greatly increased following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Postpartum Depression Rates Increase With Higher BMI

Drug Topics

Women with prepregnancy overweight or obesity may be more likely to experience postpartum depression.

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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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Precision Oncology: Expanding Therapeutic Horizons With Trastuzumab Deruxtecan

Pharmacy Times

The tumor-agnostic FDA approval of T-DXd for HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic solid malignancies exemplifies the importance of understanding the risks associated with targeted therapy and the need for proactive monitoring strategies.

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Kaiser Permanente-backed Risant Health closes Cone Health acquisition, adding 2nd health system

Fierce Healthcare

Risant Health completed its acquisition of Cone Health, bringing the nonprofit health system under its umbrella following the acquisition of Geisinger back in March. | Risant Health completed its acquisition of Cone Health, bringing the nonprofit health system under its umbrella following the acquisition of Geisinger back in March.

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Deadline looms for post-Brexit label changes for UK meds

pharmaphorum

The MHRA has reminded pharma companies that from 1st January all medicines sold in the UK will have to comply with new labelling requirements

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Beyond Prescriptions: 7 Products Your Pharmacy Should Be Selling

PioneerRx

Your pharmacy is already a trusted healthcare resource in your community, but you don’t have to stop at prescriptions or vaccines. Expanding your pharmacy’s.

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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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Seeking effective, safe treatment for all with precision dosing

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Tune in to the podcast interview with Dr Sharmeen Roy to learn more about precision dosing and how DoseMe is providing effective and safe treatment for all through personalised dosing solutions.

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'We Need to Educate': NABP Seeks to Address Pharmacy Workforce Burnout Through Collaboration, Education

Pharmacy Times

Al Carter of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy speaks on recent initiatives to address workforce burnout and stress among pharmacists.

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Coherus sells its last biosimilar Udenyca to Intas for up to $558M as company homes in on novel cancer meds

Fierce Pharma

Following a pair of similar deals in January and June, Coherus BioSciences has netted itself a hefty chunk of change for the last biosimilar in its portfolio, in turn freeing up the company to go a | Coherus has agreed to sell its Neulasta biosimilar Udenyca to Intas Pharmaceuticals for up to $558.4 million. The company plans to use the proceeds from the sale to pay off debt and fuel development opportunities for its branded cancer med Loqtorzi.

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Sanofi pours $1 billion into China for insulin plant

STAT

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?  Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Lots on the table today about AI-driven drug discovery, including some startups to watch in this space. Also, we’ve updated our obesity drug tracker and we talk about Gilead’s new cancer deal.

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High-Dose IVIG, Rituximab Effective in Patients With Pemphigoid-Associated Conjunctivitis

Pharmacy Times

A vast majority of patients achieved a positive clinical response with the combination, with improvements in their ocular condition.

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CVS taps two new leaders at its pharmacy division

Fierce Healthcare

CVS Health has announced further leadership appointments as the healthcare giant navigates choppy financial waters. | CVS Health has announced further leadership appointments as the healthcare giant navigates choppy financial waters.

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Novartis to advance novel Huntington’s disease therapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (a subsidiary of Novartis AG), is set to collaborate with PTC Therapeutics to develop the potential first oral disease-modifying therapy for Huntington’s disease. The global license and collaboration agreement is focused on PTC Therapeutics’ PTC518 Huntington’s disease programme. PTC will receive $1.0 billion upfront.

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12 Questions with Jackie Marchington

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Get to know Jackie Marchington, an expert in IPG Health Medical Communications, through this exclusive interview. Learn about her insights, experiences, and perspectives on the industry.

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Pfizer, Eli Lilly execs push back as senators scrutinize drugmakers’ telehealth moves

STAT

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. Pharma vs Congress: The latest in telehealth talks Eli Lilly and Pfizer have responded to senators who pressed them to share the details of their online platforms LillyDirect and PfizerForAll , seeking to determine whether the pharma giants are violating the federal anti-kick

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Immunocore's rare eye cancer drug backed by NICE

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Patients in England with a rare form of eye cancer will be able to access Kimmtrak, a TCR therapy from Immunocore, after NICE changes its position

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CSL Seqirus inks bird flu vaccine supply pact with UK after similar deals in US, Europe

Fierce Pharma

On the heels of similar deals in the U.S. and the EU, the U.K. is filling up its coffers with doses of bird flu immunizations from Australia’s CSL Seqirus. | On the heels of similar deals in the U.S. and the European Union, the United Kingdom is filling up its coffers with doses of bird flu immunizations from Australia’s CSL Seqirus. To prepare for a potential future pandemic, the U.K. has inked an accord with CSL Seqirus to acquire more than 5 million doses of the company’s H5 influenza shot.

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Study Finds Nature-Based Interventions at School Does Not Reduce Children’s Poor Mental Health Symptoms

Pharmacy Times

The authors recommend that longer assessments with lengthier interventions should be performed to assess potential benefits.

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STAT+: The Supreme Court cases already shaping Trump’s term

STAT

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.  Sign up here  to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. What a SCOTUS vape decision means for the FDA The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over the FDA’s decision to block certain flavored vapes from the market.

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Counseling Patients About the Importance of Appropriate Pen Needle Administration

Pharmacy Times

As use of injectable medications increases for diabetes and other indications, proper administration is crucial.

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Flavored vapes at the Supreme Court and crisis pregnancy centers online

STAT

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds.  Sign up here. Did you buy anything fun on Black Friday? Cyber Monday? I ordered a phone case that I’ve wanted for years, even though many, many friends have told me it’s “impractical” and “won’t fit in my pocket.

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