Drug Topics
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The National Community Pharmacists Association surveyed over 4000 independent pharmacy owners and managers for their thoughts on the 10 drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations.
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The nation’s three largest Medicare Advantage insurers increasingly refused to pay for rehabilitative care for seniors in the years after adopting sophisticated technologies to aid in their coverage decisions, a Senate investigation found. UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and CVS Health targeted denials among older adults who were requesting care in nursing homes, inpatient rehab hospitals, and long-term hospitals.
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Drug Topics
OCTOBER 17, 2024
In posters presented at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy 2024 Annual Meeting, researchers explored the implementation of collaborative care programs within various health systems.
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
In the last two years, telehealth has gone all in on GLP-1s. Dozens of companies have started to offer the wildly popular obesity and diabetes medications, meeting patients who are flooding online for prescriptions that could help them lose as much as 20% of their body weight. The telehealth GLP-1 boom wouldn’t be possible without clinicians willing to write prescriptions for those hundreds of thousands of patients.
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.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Cases of meningococcal disease currently exceed prepandemic levels.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 17, 2024
HER2-mutant NSCLC is associated with poor prognosis. Zongertinib and BAY 2927088 are HER2 tyrosine kinase inhibitors that have activity in NSCLC with manageable toxicity profiles.
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STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
As Election Day 2024 gets closer, STAT’s First Opinion asked executives from leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies to reflect on how their industry is being portrayed in the presidential campaign — and what their hopes are for a new presidential administration. You can also read Sandoz CEO Richard Saynor on what the 2024 conversation is missing and Bayer Pharmaceuticals COO Sebastian Guth on bad policy ideas.
Fierce Pharma
OCTOBER 17, 2024
AbbVie made history in 2015 with its Parkinson’s disease infusion pump therapy Duopa, kicking off a trend of delivery system innovation in the space as drugmakers sought to avoid the common pitfall | The 24-hour Parkinson's disease therapy crossed the FDA finish line after an initial manufacturing-related rejection last year and another snub in June.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Compared with brentuximab vedotin and chemotherapy, nivolumab and chemotherapy had longer progression-free survival and a better safety profile.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Findings from a collection of posters at ACCP underscore the critical role of community pharmacies in promoting health equity and providing high-quality, patient-centered care.
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.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Retail pharmacies benefit from the shift from a volume-centric model to a value-centric approach that focuses on enhancing patient care, reducing pharmacist burnout, and leveraging technology to improve efficiency and expand the scope of pharmacy services.
Fierce Pharma
OCTOBER 17, 2024
As a host of generics circle the gates, Novartis has lost another bid to waylay MSN Pharmaceuticals’ copycat of the Swiss pharma’s top-selling drug Entresto. | In a court decision filed in Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich rejected Novartis’ position that the FDA’s approval of MSN’s Entresto generic was unlawful. In issuing the decision, the judge upheld the green light that MSN won in July.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 17, 2024
RICO is being leveraged in the pharmaceutical industry with significant implications for insurers and public trust.
BioPharm
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Through the collaboration, Merck will use Mestag’s proprietary RAFT platform to investigate the pathogenic role that fibroblasts play in inflammatory diseases.
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STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Jazmin Evans was waiting on dialysis for four years before finally, on the Fourth of July last year, she received a kidney transplant. “Now I say the fireworks are for me,” said Evans, who was diagnosed with kidney disease when she was 17. She would have been waiting even longer had it not been for a shift, in 2021, in the way that physicians calculate kidney function for Black patients like her.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Patients aged 7 years and older can now be treated for their cataplexy or excessive daytime sleepiness with the extended-release oral formulation.
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
For the last 20 years Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has converted Nobel-winning research on RNA-based gene-silencing into medicines, winning approvals for drugs delivered to the liver. That’s where some misfolded proteins are made, and in an increasingly diagnosed heart disease called ATTR cardiomyopathy, they eventually jam up muscles in the heart and contribute to heart failure.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 17, 2024
This approval makes foscarbidopa/foslevodopa the first and only subcutaneous 24-hour infusion of levodopa-based therapy for adults with Parkinson disease.
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
This story first appeared in The Readout newsletter. Sign up for The Readout and receive STAT’s award-winning biotech news delivered straight to your inbox. Good morning. I had the unexpected opportunity to wake up a little too early today, not unlike the way Bristol Myers Squibb CEO Chris Boerner had the unexpected opportunity to testify in front of Bernie Sanders earlier this year.
pharmaphorum
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Sage has launched another round of layoffs as it deals with the fallout of dropping a key pipeline drug for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The bad news didn’t come all at once for Blue Note Therapeutics, but a final denial from the Food and Drug Administration in January proved to be the final blow. In late 2023, after a rejection from the agency earlier in the year, Blue Note had made a last ditch attempt to convince the FDA that Attune, its mental health app for cancer patients, could fill an urgent unmet need.
PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The results provide the first clinical evidence of RNA editing, a burgeoning field that's drawn interest from biotechs and pharmaceutical companies alike.
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Over the summer, the Food and Drug Administration announced the creation of the Rare Disease Innovation Hub to serve as a point of collaboration and connectivity between the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), patient organizations, and product innovators with the goal of ultimately improving outcomes for patients.
pharmaphorum
OCTOBER 17, 2024
NICE backs NHS use of Roche's Alecensa as first adjuvant therapy for ALK+ NSCLC, and peri-operative use of MSD's Keytruda for all-comer NSCLC patients
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
A coalition of unions, consumer groups and public interest organizations urged the Federal Trade Commission to challenge a $16.5 billion deal in which Novo Nordisk’s parent foundation would acquire Catalent, a leading contract drug manufacturer, over concerns the acquisition will harm competition and reduce patient access to popular diabetes and weight loss medicines.
Outsourcing Pharma
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Investors and big pharma companies are waking up to the potential of techbio companies after years of avoidance, say experts at TechBio UK 2024, an event run by the BioIndustry Association (BIA).
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Medicare is in trouble, and it’s largely the fault of the Medicare Advantage program that is run by private insurers, according to Donald Berwick, who ran Medicare during the Obama administration. More than half of people on Medicare are enrolled in private Medicare Advantage plans, and MA’s share of the market is growing fast. Medicare pays Medicare Advantage plans a set annual rate for each enrollee.
pharmaphorum
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The first human skin atlas is helping researchers to understand how skin forms, the mechanisms behind disorders, and could usher in scarless healing
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
For three physicians, the changes were gradual, and then unmistakable, when UnitedHealth Group took over their practices. They lost control over their schedules, they were told to prioritize coding their patients’ illnesses , they felt like widgets. Those were the experiences of three former UnitedHealth doctors — Susan Baumgaertel, Michael Good, and Rubin Hirsch — who spoke at STAT’s annual summit in Boston on Wednesday.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Three RSV vaccines are currently FDA approved for use in adults aged 60 or older.
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Veteran biotech executive Tony Coles has been the man behind the curtain of two multibillion-dollar acquisitions and many more boardroom discussions. But, publicly, he has arguably been just as active pushing the drug industry and other business leaders towards difficult conversations on corporate responsibility and race. Those conversations, he told the crowd at the STAT Summit in Boston Thursday, have been much more difficult.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The guidelines emphasize the importance of vaccination, risk assessment, and preparedness for immunocompromised patients who are traveling post-transplant.
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2024
People who rely on Medicaid continue to get medical care at high rates, and it’s presenting a growing challenge for the major health insurers who cover them. On Thursday, Elevance Health disclosed in its third quarter earnings release that its medical loss ratio — the amount of premium revenue it spent on medical care — was markedly higher than Wall Street analysts expected, sending its stock price into a tailspin.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The KEYNOTE-756 and CheckMate 7FL trials show this combination improves pathological complete response rates in this patient population.
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