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Influenza Vaccination and Risk of Stroke in Older Adults

Drug Topics

Researchers addressed the association between older individuals who received an influenza vaccine and their risk of stroke following vaccination.

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Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda draws concern over possibility of international spread

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A large outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda is drawing international concern about the possibility of spread beyond the country’s borders. The number of cases detected so far, 27 , already makes the outbreak one of the biggest involving Marburg on record. Nine of those individuals have died. There are currently no licensed vaccines to combat the disease.

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Q&A: Impact of Stigma on Pharmacists with SUD, Importance of Mental Health Care

Drug Topics

Sara T. Thomason discuses the impact of stigma on pharmacists who are dealing with substance use disorder, the importance of mental health care, and how schools support pharmacy students dealing with addiction.

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STAT+: Health care CEOs dialed back their pay in 2023. They still made $3.5 billion

STAT

Health care stocks stumbled compared with the rest of the market in 2023. Companies missed their profit targets. Some CEOs even lost their bonuses. But the biggest names in health care still made $3.5 billion combined last year, compared with $4 billion in 2022. The average chief executive brought home $11 million, while the median was $4.1 million.

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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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Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Improves Outcomes in HFrEF

Drug Topics

Left ventricular ejection fraction, brain natriuretic peptide, and heart failure-related hospitalizations were among the improved metrics.

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FDA Grants Rare Pediatric Disease Designation to MDL-101 for Congenital Muscle Dystrophy

Pharmacy Times

MDL-101 is a proposed novel precision medicine that targets the LAMA1 gene, causing LAMA2 congenital muscular dystrophy type 1a.

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American Academy of Pediatrics Releases First Clinical Practice Guideline for Opioid Prescription, Treatment

Pharmacy Times

The guidelines mark a shift in practice by recommending a multimodal approach to opioid prescribing practices.

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Pain Management Roundup: Addressing Gaps with Cebranopadol, Navigating Nephrolithiasis

Drug Topics

Catch up on important pain management news from the month of September 2024.

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Opinion: The fraught history of the pelvic exam

STAT

When I was a medical student in the 1980s, the school hired “pelvic instructors” who taught us how to do exams in a painless and respectful way. They even allowed us to perform practice examinations on them. But at the same time, senior doctors urged me to perform pelvic exams on anesthetized women about to get surgery — women who never gave consent.

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Register Today: October 2024 Total Pharmacy Solutions Summit

Drug Topics

The event will focus on innovating with cutting-edge technology, featuring the likes of pharmaceutical technology companies revolutionizing the industry.

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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+: Prime Medicine shrinks CRISPR ambitions and gets cash infusion from Bristol Myers Squibb

STAT

Prime Medicine, founded with gene-editing tech from the lab of star Harvard biochemist David Liu and backed by blue chip investors, made little secret of its ambition.  It laid out plans to use its new gene-editing technology across 18 different diseases, listing conditions as disparate as ALS, congenital blindness, and muscular dystrophy.

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Cost-Benefit Analysis Favors RSV Vaccination for Older Adults

Drug Topics

Investigators suggested that the future cost-effectiveness of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination could be improved through lower vaccine prices and longer-lasting protection.

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Managing and Monitoring Cardiotoxic Risks During Cancer Treatment

Pharmacy Times

Aaron Adkisson, PharmD, discusses the importance of considering factors such as age, gender, and cardiovascular comorbidities when monitoring and managing cardiotoxic risks in patients with cancer. also emphasizing patient education on recognizing early heart failure symptoms.

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Outcomes in Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Examined

Drug Topics

Research was presented at the Heart Failure Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting.

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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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Pandemic-Related Hospital Caseload Strain Attributes to Portion of COVID-19 Deaths

Pharmacy Times

There was a detrimental relationship between COVID-19 caseload and mortality observed across multiple types of hospitals.

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Why today’s leading pharma manufacturers are adopting proactive asset management strategies

PharmaVoice

In recent months, high-profile drug shortages have brought pharmaceutical manufacturing operations into the spotlight.

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Expert: Patients With C. difficile Can Have Difficulty Advocating For Themselves

Pharmacy Times

C. diff survivor and Peggy Lillis Foundation Board Member Maryann Webb discusses how her experience with the infection encouraged her to advocate for patients who are struggling to advocate for themselves.

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SCAN taps Instacart for new grocery allowance benefit

Fierce Healthcare

Food insecurity is a critical challenge facing seniors, and SCAN Health Plan is teaming up with Instacart to roll out a new grocery benefit as part of its 2025 Medicare Advantage plan lineup. | Food insecurity is a critical challenge facing seniors, and SCAN Health Plan is teaming up with Instacart to roll out a new grocery benefit as part of its 2025 Medicare Advantage plan lineup.

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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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STAT+: DCVC Bio founders look for more quick returns, less overhyped AI, with new $400 million fund

STAT

DCVC Bio, a Silicon Valley area investment firm launched six years ago by a group of tech, bio, and agriculture investors, has raised a new $400 million fund, it told STAT exclusively.  This is the third fund DCVC Bio has raised. It came in ahead of the original $350 million goal, according to executives.  The announcement makes DCVC Bio one of a select number of biotech VCs to raise new pools of capital this year.

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With Medicare's annual enrollment period 2 weeks away, here's what major payers will have on offer

Fierce Healthcare

As the calendar turns to October, the health insurance industry is gearing up for Medicare's annual enrollment period. | As the calendar turns to October, the health insurance industry is gearing up for Medicare's annual enrollment period.

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STAT+: Q&A: Why medical AI and value-based care may be made for each other

STAT

At last count, the Food and Drug Administration has authorized 950 medical devices that use artificial intelligence and machine learning. But far fewer have made a significant impact on patient care in the United States.  For medical AI developers like James Zou, that’s a problem. The Stanford professor is invested in getting effective medical machine learning — including some of his own, FDA-cleared algorithms — adopted by health systems.

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American Pharmacists Month: Pharmacy Owner Talks Changes, Rewarding Aspects of Profession

Pharmacy Times

Alan Corley, pharmacy owner in Greenville, TN, reflects on the changes he's witnessed throughout his career and the most rewarding aspects of his profession.

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STAT+: Roche seeks to project confidence on its obesity drugs — and sees room for competition

STAT

LONDON — Roche executives on Monday argued that their experimental obesity medications would prove to have advantages over their rivals’ products — and that the huge demand for effective weight loss drugs means there is room for another company in the field. “We wouldn’t have moved forward with these assets if we didn’t feel they were differentiated,” including in their molecular makeup and how they could be used in combination with other treatmen

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Key investor pressing CVS' leadership for strategic changes: report

Fierce Healthcare

A key hedge fund investor for CVS Health will meet with the company's top brass today in a move that signals a potential activist approach going forward,

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Chiesi Biotech Center of Excellence opens to strengthen R&D in Italy

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Chiesi Biotech Center of Excellence opens to strengthen R&D in Italy Nicole.

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'Good business and good health go hand in hand': Reducing inequities could add $2.8T to GDP by 2040, Deloitte finds

Fierce Healthcare

'Good business and good health go hand in hand': Reducing inequities could add $2.

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A letter from the executive editor: STAT is on fire

STAT

Dear Reader, STAT is on fire! Not literally, of course.

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Genentech buys Regor's next-gen CDK inhibitors for $850M

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Genentech buys Regor's next-gen CDK inhibitors for $850M Jonah.

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The Latest Surrounding Rising Medicare Part D Premiums

Pharmaceutical Commerce

Why looming benefit changes—and the resulting unintended consequences—are a concern for patients.

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Preventing burnout and optimising pharmacist time with AI

pharmaphorum

Find out how AI can help prevent burnout and optimise pharmacist time in the pharmacy setting. Learn how technology can streamline processes and improve efficiency in this crucial healthcare profession.

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Neffy nasal spray: a game changer for asthma patients and epinephrine delivery?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The first needle-free epinephrine nasal spray, Neffy by ARS Pharmaceuticals, represents a significant breakthrough in emergency treatment for type I allergic reactions.

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How do you stop acid reflux on Ozempic?

The Checkup by Singlecare

Ozempic (active ingredient semaglutide) is a GLP-1 receptor agonist that is FDA approved to manage Type 2 diabetes in adults in conjunction with a reduced-calorie diet and regular exercise. Like other medications in its class, such as Wegovy and Mounjaro , Ozempic mimics the actions of GLP-1, a hormone that controls appetite and stimulates insulin release.

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CDMOs eye industrywide growth in 2025 as many spurn BIOSECURE Act, CPHI research shows

Fierce Pharma

After experiencing a series of ups and downs in recent years, the biopharma contracting business is gearing up for a rebound in 2025. | Ahead of the CPHI conference in Milan, the events group has teased new research signaling an expected rebound for the CDMO industry—and a rejection of the BIOSECURE Act.

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