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Pharmacist Interventions May Improve Clinical Outcomes of Patients With T2D

Drug Topics

By getting involved in patient care, pharmacists can help alleviate the burdens associated with the self-management of type 2 diabetes (T2D).

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To Crush or Not to Crush: That is the Medication Administration Question

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists are well suited to identify patients with dysphagia and educate patients and caregivers on when and how to safely crush and administer medication.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Effective at Preventing Long COVID in Children, Adolescents

Drug Topics

Within a 12-month time frame, adjusted vaccine effectiveness against diagnosed long and probable long COVID was 41.7% and 35.4%, respectively.

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Community Pharmacists Have Distinct Role in Fall Prevention for Patients

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists play a significant role in early identification, continuous monitoring, and interventions to help minimize the risk of falls in older adults.

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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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Real-Time CGM Superior to Intermittently Scanned CGM in T1D, Analysis Finds

Drug Topics

Real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) demonstrated benefits associated with time in range, hypoglycemia, and hyperglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

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FDA Approves IgG-Hyaluronidase Recombinant for the Treatment of Adult Patients With CIDP

Pharmacy Times

Previously, IgG-hyaluronidase recombinant was approved by the FDA in 2014 for the treatment of primary immunodeficiency in adult patients and has expanded to include some pediatric patients.

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The WHO and drug regulators want to reformulate the flu vaccine. It’s easier said than done

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Last fall, the World Health Organization and some national drug regulators urged influenza vaccine manufacturers to drop the component known as B/Yamagata from flu vaccines as quickly as possible, citing the fact that this lineage of flu B viruses appears to have been snuffed out during the Covid-19 pandemic. It might seem like that request would be as simple as deciding to leave blueberries out of a mixed-fruit smoothie.

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AHA: Snow Shoveling Increases Risk of Heart Attack, Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Pharmacy Times

An American Heart Association scientific statement cautions individuals with known or suspected cardiovascular disease or risk factors against shoveling snow.

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STAT+: FDA expands approval of CRISPR-based medicine to treat beta thalassemia

STAT

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a CRISPR-based medicine to treat beta thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder. It’s the same potentially curative therapy cleared by the FDA in December to treat sickle cell disease. The expanded approval of the therapy, called Casgevy, was widely expected but came two months ahead of the FDA’s decision deadline, known as a PDUFA date.

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From Capecitabine to Tucatinib: Data Reveal New Treatment Options for Patients

Pharmacy Times

Significant study results could inform clinical practice strategies.

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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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STAT+: Many doctors are in the dark about how FDA approves devices and drugs, survey finds

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In her final presentation for health policy class at the University of Chicago, first-year medical student Robin Ji informed her classmates that the Food and Drug Administration does not require randomized controlled trials of most medical devices. Her peers’ immediate reaction was disbelief. “One classmate kept asking me, are you sure?

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Morgan Health: 3 things employers should focus on to manage GLP-1s

Fierce Healthcare

Demand remains high for GLP-1 drugs, and the experts at Morgan Health are aiming to support employers in managing that interest with a new report. | Demand remains high for GLP-1 drugs, and the experts at Morgan Health are aiming to support employers in managing that interest with a new report.

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STAT+: Could private equity be the future of private practice? A new lobbying group thinks so

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Private equity gets a bad rap in health care. But some doctors see that kind of cash and consolidation as the only way for their practices to survive — and now, they’re taking that message to Washington. Lower pay, difficult negotiations with insurance companies, regulatory requirements from both government and commercial payers, expensive and inefficient IT systems, and the challenge of competing against hospital systems have created a “cascade of problems that seem like th

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Innovaccer acquires customer engagement platform Cured to enhance patient experience

Fierce Healthcare

Innovaccer, maker of digital tools for providers, has acquired Cured, a digital marketing and customer relationship management [CRM] platform. | The strategic purchase adds more than 20 health systems and first-time digital health clients to Innovaccer’s current portfolio of customers.

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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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The state of Medicare Advantage, in one chart

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You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc.,  STAT’s weekly newsletter  following the flow of money in medicine.  Sign up  to get it in your inbox every Monday.  Hospitals want you to look here, not over there Hospital leaders took pains to draw investors’ attention to their sizable cash and investment reserves at JPM.

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Proper Use of Automation in Hazardous Drug Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

Although robotics can be instrumental in assuring sterility and reducing the overall number of potential hazardous drug exposure events, certain tasks require vigilant oversight.

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STAT+: Dewpoint Therapeutics cuts 15% of staff, acknowledges Merck, Pfizer broke off partnerships over buzzy science

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Dewpoint Therapeutics, the buzziest startup trying to tackle a new field of biology called biomolecular condensates, laid off 15% of its staff on Tuesday and acknowledged that a pair of collaboration deals with pharma companies had fallen apart. The downsizing is temporary, CEO Ameet Nathwani told STAT. The company needed to hire new employees with expertise to help move the company’s first drugs into clinical trials and expand its AI capabilities.

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Startup Rad AI taps Google's cloud tech, MedLM to streamline repetitive tasks for radiologists

Fierce Healthcare

Rad AI, a startup that developed an AI platform for radiology, is teaming up with Google to use its cloud and large language models to streamline workflows and reduce radiologists' administrative b | Rad AI is teaming up with Google to use its cloud and large language models to power up its AI-based radiology platform. The company's technology, made by radiologists for radiologists, aims to streamline workflows and reduce repetitive tasks.

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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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From Axatilimab to Zanubrutinib: Treatment Updates Abound

Pharmacy Times

Presentations detail clinical trial results and focus on drugs in the pipeline.

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STAT+: Survey: Confusion over key requirements means clinical trials aren’t registered and results aren’t reported

STAT

More than half of those responsible for registering clinical trials and reporting results fail to do so over confusion about key requirements, according to a new survey that highlighted ongoing difficulties in achieving transparency surrounding study data. Specifically, 52% said their major challenges involved sorting out the types of clinical trials that must be registered, when a trial should be registered, and when and for which trials information from summary results must be submitted to a U

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Vertex, CRISPR's gene-editing therapy Casgevy wins early FDA nod to treat beta thalassemia

Fierce Pharma

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have scored an FD | Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have scored an FDA approval for their gene-editing therapy Casgevy (exa-cel) to treat transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT). The approval came more than two months ahead of the FDA's March 30 decision date.

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Opinion: Cord blood banking sounds like a great idea — until you realize what it costs babies

STAT

If her social media accounts are any indication, model, cookbook author, television personality, and entrepreneur Chrissy Teigen is a wonderful mother. Many parents regard her as a role model. That’s why I found it disappointing to learn that Teigen is a spokesperson for the Cord Blood Registry, which advocates for the collection of umbilical cord blood at birth for future use.

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GSK pumps £200M+ into UK manufacturing network to bolster commercial ambitions, API supply

Fierce Pharma

As British pharma giant AstraZeneca looks abroad to build new factories, GSK is sticking close to home, where it plans to plug hundreds of millions of pounds into the United Kingdom over the next t | As other British drugmakers like AstraZeneca look abroad to build new factories, GSK is sticking close to home, where it plans to plug hundreds of millions of pounds into the United Kingdom over the next two years.

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HRG’s five notable products from December

Drug Store News

HRG reviewed 13 products in the health category, 38 items in the wellness sector and 27 items in the beauty aisle to see which ones stood out as Products to Watch.

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Takeda picks up 2nd FDA-approved indication for immune globulin treatment HyQvia

Fierce Pharma

The FDA has approved Takeda's HyQvia as a maintenance therapy for CIDP. It is the second indication for HyQvia, which was first endorsed in 2014.

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DISCO dances out of the shadows with €20m for ‘surfaceome’

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DISCO Pharma has emerged from stealth with €20m in seed financing that will be used to advance its surfaceome cancer target-hunting platform

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Opinion: BMI as a barrier to orthopedic surgery doesn’t make sense for patient health

STAT

I am getting bent out of shape over surgeons telling patients they cannot get a knee replacement because they are above a certain BMI cutoff. Here’s a familiar scenario: A patient with a high body weight and BMI limps down the hall to my exam room. “How have you been?” I ask. He sighs. “I still can’t get a new knee.

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Transformative trends with real-world data from early access programmes

pharmaphorum

In addition to bringing treatment and hope to patients without alternatives, early access programmes provide further information on a product’s safety and efficacy data in real-world conditions.

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Health care negotiations on Capitol Hill are clear as mud

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. Bertagnolli’s burgeoning NIH agenda Monica Bertagnolli is just two months into directing the $48 billion NIH, but she has a  laundry list of challenges ahead of her.

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Wages haven’t kept pace with premium hikes: study

Fierce Healthcare

Wages have not been able to offset the rising costs of premiums for workers with employer-sponsored coverage over the last three decades, with Black and Hispanic employers hit particularly hard by | The mean cumulative lost earnings from 1988 to 2019 due to increased premiums in employer-sponsored health plans come to $125,340 per family, according to a JAMA Network Open study.

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Pharma takes a gut check of microbiome drugs

PharmaVoice

On the heels of two FDA approvals for microbiome-based therapies, interest in the space is gaining steam.

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Merck's Keytruda again bags industry-first cervical cancer nod—with limitation

Fierce Pharma

After crowning Keytruda as the first immunotherapy for advanced cervical cancer back in 2021, the FDA has awarded the drug another industry-first designation in an earlier stage of the tumor type. | After crowning Keytruda as the first immunotherapy for advanced cervical cancer back in 2021, the FDA has awarded the drug another industry-first designation in an earlier stage of the tumor type.

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Washington State AG Bob Ferguson files lawsuit to block Kroger-Albertsons merger

Drug Store News

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit to block the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger, saying that it will severely limit shopping options for consumers.

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