Pharmacy Times
MARCH 27, 2024
Ron Lanton discusses California's Stop Dangerous Pharmacies Act, which aims to address understaffed chain pharmacies and reduce medication errors by implementing new regulations around pharmacy staffing, error reporting, and unsafe working conditions.
Drug Topics
MARCH 25, 2024
In a poster presented at the 2024 American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, researchers assessed state-level regulations for PBMs.
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Pharmacy Times
MARCH 22, 2024
As more states have legalized cannabis use—both medicinal and recreational—Sera said pharmacists’ roles in counseling will become even more important.
IDStewardship
MARCH 17, 2024
In this article a clinical pharmacist with experience and knowledge about using artificial intelligence describes how it can be used to be a better clinical pharmacist. Authored By: Steven Smoke, Pharm.D., BCIDP, BCPT Article Posted 18 March 2024 In healthcare’s evolving landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) promises to redefine pharmacy. AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini offer not-so-subtle hints at AI’s transformative potential.
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
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 27, 2024
Psychedelic medicines such as psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, and LSD have been shown to have a significant impact on conditions such as major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder in clinical trials.
PharmaVoice
MARCH 15, 2024
The company’s combo treatment Relyvrio was approved in 2022, but after failing a phase 3 trial, may be pulled from the market.
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Drug Topics
MARCH 5, 2024
Health care professionals, industry leaders, and politicians gathered for a virtual roundtable to discuss the state of the PBM industry.
The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry
MARCH 10, 2024
Confronted by the huge salaries on offer in the US, London boardrooms are lobbying to be allowed to make their own bosses even wealthier There was a sharp intake of breath last month when the pharmaceuticals group AstraZeneca cemented chief executive Pascal Soriot’s position as the best-paid FTSE 100 boss with a £17m pay package , up from £15.3m a year earlier.
pharmaphorum
MARCH 4, 2024
Inhaled cannabinoids have been shown to perform better than placebo in providing pain relief for people suffering from acute migraine in a clinical trial
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 16, 2024
Investigators found that 1,1,1 trichloroethane; 2-nitropropane; and 2,4,6 trichlorophenol were significantly associated with asthma symptoms for 3 exposure periods.
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.
PharmaVoice
MARCH 25, 2024
As the new weight loss drugs take the world by storm, companies in other areas are battening the hatches for when slimmer patients need fewer medical interventions.
STAT
MARCH 26, 2024
ZURICH — The lobby of this addiction clinic is unremarkable, really, except for the network of metal chutes and tubes that hug the walls as they snake downward from a pharmacy on the upper floors. Every few minutes, a new prescription comes clattering down, delivering a bottle full of powerful and effective pills used to treat opioid addiction to a waiting patient at the front desk.
Drug Topics
MARCH 7, 2024
As pharmacy benefit managers gain leverage to continue driving up drug prices, local pharmacies struggle to keep up and Congress has been called to act—but it might be too late
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 15, 2024
Pfizer knew 2023 was going to be a challenging year of transition. But even the drugmaker was surprised by the plummeting demand for its COVID-19 products, missing badly on its 2023 guidance. | After a difficult year for Pfizer, in which its share price fell by 44%, CEO Albert Bourla’s compensation fell by 35% from $33 million in 2022 to $21.6 million in 2023.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 19, 2024
Google is doubling down on its ambitions for healthcare AI by exploring how generative AI can help clinicians in medical decision-making, understand lab and imaging information and provide con | Google is hyper-focused on generative AI in healthcare, pushing forward research to advance gen AI capabilities that can help clinicians in medical decision-making, understand lab and imaging information and provide consumers with personalized health insights based on their wearable data.
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 14, 2024
This finding was evident in both examined groups and regardless of the patients' B-cell maturation antigen-directed therapy status.
PharmaVoice
MARCH 21, 2024
New tools that allow researchers to separate single cells can help map the complex web of proteins that lead to disease, providing new targets for biopharma.
STAT
MARCH 26, 2024
Troubled hospital operator Steward Health Care, grappling with a financial crisis that’s engulfed its eight Massachusetts hospitals, has moved to shore up its finances by striking a deal to sell its nationwide physician network to insurance giant UnitedHealth’s Optum Care unit. The proposed sale of the doctors group, called Stewardship Health, is part of Steward’s plan to bolster its national system of 33 hospitals after the Dallas-based company last year fell behind in payi
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Drug Topics
MARCH 4, 2024
Although the pandemic spurred a greater need and use of online health resources, certain demographics continue to report significantly low participation in digital health portals.
The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry
MARCH 17, 2024
Cheri Nel cannot afford Vertex’s Trikafta medicine, so she is suing to end ‘patent abuse’ and allow a generic version Cheri Nel has a blunt message for the multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical company Vertex: “Any person that dies from today – that’s on you.” Vertex makes a “miracle drug” called Trikafta that can transform the lives of people with cystic fibrosis.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 21, 2024
More than 100 provider organizations want the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take a tougher stance on Medicare Advantage (MA) plans’ practices following an industry survey es | Providers spent nearly $20 billion in 2022 pursuing delays and denials across all payer types, yet those efforts are substantially more costly on average when dealing with private plans, hundreds of hospitals and health systems told Premier in a recent survey.
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 8, 2024
Semaglutide (Wegovy; Novo Nordisk) reduces the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke in adults with cardiovascular disease and either obesity or overweight when combined with the standard-of-care.
PharmaVoice
MARCH 25, 2024
Deborah Reardon is leading a new pillar that asks, ‘Are we looking at this from a patient lens and not from a Boehringer lens?
STAT
MARCH 25, 2024
When a patient is going through end-stage heart failure, the best treatment is to get a heart transplant. The basic steps are familiar: First a patient gets on the waiting list, and then the wait begins for the offers. In recent years, access to donor hearts has gone up thanks to a change in heart allocation policy, but there are still gender- and race-based disparities in the acceptance rate of a donor heart offer by transplant teams, according to new research published Monday in the Journal of
Drug Topics
MARCH 29, 2024
Researchers found various reasons for why individuals chose a specific pharmacy and how they purchase OTC medication.
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 11, 2024
The decades-long wait for an effective treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) has ended, as the FDA has approved the first drug for the fatty liver disease. | The decades-long wait for an effective treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) has ended. The FDA has approved Madrigal's resmetirom under the brand name Rezdiffra as the first drug for the fatty liver disease.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 6, 2024
One of the largest health IT conferences, HIMSS24, will kick off in Orlando on Monday as a revamped trade show following a deal with Informa Markets last fall. | One of the largest health IT conferences, HIMSS24, will kick off in Orlando on Monday as a revamped trade show following a deal with Informa Markets last fall.
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 1, 2024
Although regulation takes time, real safety concerns for patients in the rapid development of AI technology in health care are present today.
PharmaVoice
MARCH 19, 2024
Curevo Vaccine is readying a phase 3 trial for a candidate it believes could have an edge over GSK’s blockbuster Shingrix.
STAT
MARCH 25, 2024
It’s been four years since Covid-19 emerged, igniting a pandemic that killed millions of people and brought the world to its knees. A key factor in taming the pandemic was the creation of effective vaccines , which have saved millions of lives. You’d think developing a successful vaccine would be an unmitigated win, from a financial perspective.
Drug Topics
MARCH 27, 2024
Researchers detailed the FDA’s recommendations on low-dose aspirin and pharmacists’ role in cardiovascular practice transformation programs.
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 25, 2024
Even as Germany's BioNTech deals with ongoing declines of its revenue and share price, it's facing another serious concern: U.S. | Even as Germany's BioNTech deals with ongoing declines of its revenue and share price, it's facing another serious concern: U.S. officials are pressing the company to pay royalties linked to the commercialization of its lucrative Pfizer-partnered COVID-19 vaccine.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 12, 2024
ORLANDO — It's almost impossible to have a conversation at HIMSS24 without the topic of artificial intelligence or generative AI coming up. | How will the conversations about AI in healthcare change by next year's HIMSS conference? Hackensack Meridian CEO Robert Garrett predicts that pilot projects underway now will roll out into practice.
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