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JUNE 3, 2024

The nation’s largest nurses union is demanding that artificial intelligence tools used in healthcare be proven safe and equitable before deployment. | A union organization for nurses nationwide says the deployment of AI in healthcare will push nurses out of patient rooms and compromise patient safety. A new AI Bill of Rights lays out nurse and patient protections, which are not currently being met.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Research presented at ENDO 2024 found that environmental stress increased the likelihood of earlier alcohol, nicotine and cannabis use in females and traumatic events increased the likelihood in males.

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JUNE 3, 2024

It’s been one year since the U.S. surgeon general issued a national warning about an epidemic of loneliness. Other countries recognized the problem earlier: the United Kingdom appointed a minister for loneliness in 2018; Japan did the same in 2021. These initiatives have brought attention to — and spurred action around — an important problem with serious health consequences, which include increased risks of heart disease, dementia, and premature death.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 3, 2024

Patients with sickle cell disease with more than a 6-month delay transitioning from pediatric to adult care were about twice as likely to be hospitalized.

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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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JUNE 3, 2024

Paul Marchetti, the head of insurer Elevance Health’s pharmacy benefit manager, has left the company amid a wave of consumer complaints about patients receiving incorrect medicines or being unable to get their prescriptions filled. Elevance did not confirm Marchetti’s departure as the president of CarelonRx, but according to his Linkedin profile, he left the company in May.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 3, 2024

Promises of sexual improvement may ensnare unsuspecting patients with potentially dangerous adverse effects from untested OTC remedies.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2024

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is leaving the Medicare Advantage (MA) market at the end of 2024, the insurer announced recently. | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is opting out of the Medicare Advantage market. The health plan said its relatively low membership and burdensome regulatory factors meant the company no longer view the market as financially viable.

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STAT

JUNE 3, 2024

In the rural California town where physician Atashi Mandal sees patients, Medicare Advantage is popular among the older residents, many of whom have multiple chronic health conditions. Problem is, there aren’t any in-network providers for several hundred miles. “My patients seem to be unaware of this major deficiency regarding participation in Medicare Advantage plans,” Mandal wrote in a recent letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2024

Amid a relatively strong first quarter for the sector, hospitals’ financial performance improved from March to April, per a new Kaufman Hall report. | Margins, outpatient revenue and operating room minutes all increased in April, the report found.

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STAT

JUNE 3, 2024

CHICAGO — AstraZeneca’s head of cancer research and development, Susan Galbraith , is British, and prone to a particularly British style of understatement. She doesn’t boast loudly. But she did come to this year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology wearing a small lapel pin with the numeral 6 and the “AZ” corporate logo.

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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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pharmaphorum

JUNE 3, 2024

Understanding the challenges and opportunities in transitioning to IVDR for pharmacogenomics can be complex. Learn more about how to overcome these challenges effectively.

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JUNE 3, 2024

More than a year ago, Kaiser Permanente made waves when it said it was creating a new, sprawling entity of nonprofit hospitals and doctors with Geisinger as its first takeover — the latest example of health care companies bulking up in an already highly consolidated industry. Nothing has happened since then, at least publicly. Geisinger’s 10 hospitals and 1,700 employed physicians are now officially part of the group, known as Risant Health.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 3, 2024

Data analysis can help hospitals address waste of controlled substances that fuels diversion and increased costs.

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STAT

JUNE 3, 2024

In today’s labor market, good help is hard to find. For companies developing antibiotics, it’s becoming nearly impossible. Three years ago, I became CEO of the AMR Action Fund , which is investing approximately $1 billion in biotech companies developing treatments for antimicrobial-resistant infections, a growing global health crisis that now contributes to 4.9 million deaths every year.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 3, 2024

The study showed that belantamab mafodotin plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone (BPd) significantly improved progression-free survival compared to pomalidomide plus bortezomib and dexamethasone (PVd).

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JUNE 3, 2024

Structure Therapeutics reported Monday that its oral GLP-1 drug led to weight loss in two small studies, leading shares to surge in pre-market trading. In a 12-week Phase 2a study, the daily pill in a capsule formulation led to 6.2% placebo-adjusted weight loss. In a separate 12-week pharmacokinetics study, the company tested a new tablet formulation of the drug, called GSBR-1290, and it led to placebo-adjusted weight loss of up to 6.9%.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

JUNE 3, 2024

Hydrochlorothiazide is a prescription medication used to treat high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. “Hydrochlorothiazide, or HCTZ, belongs to a class of diuretics (water pills) known as thiazide diuretics ,” says Ken Zweig, MD , an internist practicing in Arlington, Virginia. It’s also used to treat edema, which is swelling caused by the build-up of fluid in the body’s tissues.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Illumina said Monday afternoon that its board of directors had approved a spin-off of its cancer test subsidiary Grail, signaling that a nearly four-year-long, $8 billion saga will finally draw to a close this month. Shares in the newly independent Grail are expected to be distributed on June 24, Illumina said in a statement. Illumina will retain a 14.5% stake in the company, which will trade under the ticker $GRAL.

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JUNE 3, 2024

All Boehringer Ingelheim inhalers are included in the program and will be available for $35 per month for eligible patients.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Becton Dickinson plans to pay $4.2 billion for Edwards Lifesciences’ critical care business, which sells technology that monitors the heart conditions of critically ill patients. Edwards had told investors in December 2023 that it planned to spin off the business in order to focus more sharply on addressing structural defects in the heart. BD, meanwhile, wants to increase its monitoring presence in hospitals.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 3, 2024

Daratumumab in combination with standard treatment regimens shows benefit in multiple myeloma.

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JUNE 3, 2024

S TAT is putting together a list of books and podcasts that deal with health, medicine, and the life sciences that would be great to check out this summer. We invite our readers to fill out the form below, and you may see your pick in our upcoming annual roundup. To get a little inspiration, check out our past lists from 2023 , 2022 , and 2021.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JUNE 3, 2024

A report by Spherical Insights has predicted that the process spectroscopy market will value $35.8 billion by 2033. Process spectroscopy is becoming more connected to automation and digitalisation initiatives, like Industry 4.0, the report stated. The analytical technique can therefore aid smart production and predictive maintenance. Furthermore, incorporating data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) facilitates predictive process control and optimisation, the report explained.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Agios Pharmaceuticals said Monday that its drug called mitapivat reduced the need for blood transfusions in patients with a severe form of beta-thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder. The results achieved the primary goal of a placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trial, and if the drug is eventually cleared by regulators, could accelerate sales. In the study, 30% of participants responded to treatment with mitapivat compared to 12% of participants offered a placebo.

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JUNE 3, 2024

GSK planning to refile anti-BCMA drug Blenrep in the US for multiple myeloma after reporting positive results from the DREAMM-8 trial at ASCO

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JUNE 3, 2024

A leading contract research organization has agreed to pay $35 million — including the largest-ever fine for violating the Animal Welfare Act — as part of a criminal plea for badly neglecting hundreds of beagles in a breeding facility. The investigation into Inotiv, which provides drug discovery and development services to the pharmaceutical industry, drew national attention in May 2022 after U.S.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 3, 2024

Thanks to a shortage of the isotope actinium, RayzeBio has temporarily halted new patient enrollment in its phase 3 study in neuroendocrine tumors.

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JUNE 3, 2024

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. What’s next for Risant? Kaiser Permanente grabbed everyone’s attention last year when it said it was creating Risant Health, a new and vague entity that acquired Geisinger and had plans to scoop up at least four more health systems that are focused on “value-based care.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 3, 2024

The PALOMA-3 trial showed subcutaneous amivantamab was better than IV for lung cancer patients.

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JUNE 3, 2024

You’re reading the web edition of ASCO in 30 Seconds, STAT’s guide to the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting.   Sign up for the last day here. ASCO is more than half done. There is free coffee on the exhibit floor. One booth barista said their team had made 1,400 espressos in a day. Everyone’s perspective is alternating between two verses from Smashing Pumpkins, who are, lest you forget, a Chicago band.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 3, 2024

The BIOSECURE Act is a proposed legislation that reflects the current strained US-Chinese relations, impacting biotech cooperation. Learn more about the implications and challenges.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 3, 2024

Following fellow immunotherapy regimens by Roche and AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo and Yervoy want to carve out a piece of the first-line liver cancer market, too. | Following fellow immunotherapy regimens by Roche and AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo and Yervoy want to carve out a piece of the first-line liver cancer market, too.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 3, 2024

Join us for live coverage of BIO 2024, featuring Viola Davis and Brooke Baldwin on Day 1. Stay tuned for exclusive updates and highlights from the event.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Asciminib demonstrated stronger efficacy, safety, and tolerability, as well as less adverse events in patients compared with those who received investigator-selected standard-of-care tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

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