Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 2, 2023

When it comes to vaccination efforts, remember that patients 65 years or older are not a homogeneous group.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 3, 2023

The way pharmaceutical companies manage data carries inherent risks, as exemplified by the constant scandals about data breaches. Is there anything that can be done about this? A potential solution could be provided by decentralised storage, which could not only improve data security, but also open opportunities for business process automation, improved data governance, and potentially new revenue streams.

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Pharmaceutical Commerce

JANUARY 3, 2023

Collaboration aims to decrease environmental burden in the space.

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PhRMA

JANUARY 26, 2023

Mental illness represents a broad spectrum of health conditions affecting mood, thinking and behavior. These conditions include depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, substance use disorder, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, among others. Each of these illnesses often varies in its degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe, and may occur together.

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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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Drug Topics

JANUARY 12, 2023

Patients are finding relief in alternative therapies for this chronic skin disease.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

The federal government will audit Medicare Advantage insurers aggressively under a rule finalized Monday, which is expected to result in billions of dollars in overpayments going back toward Medicare’s trust fund and patients over the next decade. However, federal officials watered down one of the auditing policies by giving insurers seven years of immunity from having the samples of their diagnosis coding errors extrapolated to their broader Medicare Advantage membership.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 23, 2023

Amazon Pharmacy rolls out service for unlimited generic drug prescriptions for $5 a month hlandi Mon, 01/23/2023 - 22:15

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The Checkup by Singlecare

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whether it’s allergies, the common cold, the flu, or COVID, there are a number of reasons why you might be running to the tissue box more often than usual to handle congestion and pesky mucus (otherwise known as phlegm). If you find yourself with a stuffy nose or a phlegmy cough, there are a number of foods, at-home remedies, and over-the-counter medications that can provide some much-needed relief.

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PhRMA

JANUARY 31, 2023

Middlemen don’t want patients to know how they are stacking the deck against them.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 5, 2023

List prices of 450 medications have increased 5% overall at the beginning of 2023. More price hikes are expected.

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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.

STAT

JANUARY 27, 2023

After weeks of deliberation, Pfizer was scolded by a U.K. pharmaceutical industry trade group after its chief executive officer made misleading statements in a media interview about the need to vaccinate young children against Covid-19. The fracas began when the Pfizer chief, Albert Bourla, gave an interview to the BBC and discussed the idea of vaccinating children between five and 11 years old, a course of action that had not yet been approved by regulators in the U.K.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 20, 2023

Antibodies help neutralize the virus, though the levels decrease at the 6-month mark, data indicate.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 26, 2023

BMS settles lawsuit with two fired employees who refused COVID vaccines kdunleavy Thu, 01/26/2023 - 14:30

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Drug Store News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Retail pharmacy’s foray into clinical trial services is a no-brainer given their enhanced focus on improving patient outcomes in the communities they serve.

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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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PhRMA

JANUARY 25, 2023

Earlier this month, the American Cancer Society (ACS) released its annual report, Cancer Statistics 2023, finding the overall cancer mortality rate has declined 33% since peaking in 1991, leading to an estimated 3.8 million averted cancer deaths over this period. The report notes the continued decline in death rates since 1991, including a 1.5% decrease between 2019 and 2020 alone, increasingly reflects advances in prevention and treatment—including new medicines which have improved survival acr

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 11, 2023

With the respiratory season in full swing and COVID-19 continuing to infect, knowing the basics of the common cold, influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus can help ensure patients get the right care.

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STAT

JANUARY 18, 2023

Yet another experimental HIV vaccine has failed. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported Wednesday that a Phase 3 clinical trial of a vaccine was stopped because the vaccine was ineffective at preventing HIV infection. The vaccine was being developed by Janssen, the vaccine division of Johnson & Johnson.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 17, 2023

Vaccination provides an opportunity to prevent and treat herpes simplex virus infection.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 25, 2023

Merck's Keytruda dealt another blow in prostate cancer but readies new challenge to AZ's Imfinzi aliu Wed, 01/25/2023 - 10:17

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 9, 2023

CVS, Cigna back kidney care coordination, tech startup Monogram Health's latest $375M raise. dmuoio. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 12:24.

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PhRMA

JANUARY 23, 2023

2022 marked another year of significant progress by biopharmaceutical research companies conducting lifesaving research and development for innovative medicines with a total of 45 new medicine approvals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to a new report released by the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), 37 novel medicines were approved by CDER last year.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 30, 2023

As a dozen Humira Biosimilars are set to enter the market this year, it seems to be unlikely that they will drive down drug costs in the future.

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STAT

JANUARY 12, 2023

The percentage of U.S. kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 and fears that anti-vaccine sentiment stirred up by the pandemic could be spreading to other shots. Vaccinations among children remain high, but the trend — with coverage dropping from about 95% in the 2019-2020 school year to 94% in 2020-2021 to 93% in 2021-2022, according

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 16, 2023

The head of the CAR T cell antibody can recognize and target the growth factor in its tumor microenvironment.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 9, 2023

JPM23, Day 1: BMS touts new launches as patent cliff looms; Regeneron's Eylea sales disappoint. esagonowsky. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 09:55.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2023

Dollar General pilots mobile clinics as it targets a bigger presence in healthcare hlandi Fri, 01/20/2023 - 18:25

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PhRMA

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) drug price setting provisions, as predicted, are already impacting biopharmaceutical research & development (R&D) decisions. Whether you are looking at estimates of how many fewer medicines or indications will be developed, or noting shifts away from areas of unmet patient need because the law is signaling those innovations are not valued, the IRA’s price setting provisions are a loss for patients everywhere.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 26, 2023

Spending on specialty drugs fueled a 11% increase in Medicaid drug spending from 2020 to 2021, says Magellan's seventh annual Medicaid Pharmacy Trend Report.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Since long Covid emerged, how best to define it, predict it, and treat it has been up for debate, but perhaps the most urgent question for patients and providers alike has been how long it lasts. A new study analyzing nearly 2 million patient records in Israel concludes that for most people, the troubling symptoms that persist after a mild Covid infection fade away after about a year.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 19, 2023

Data from a randomized clinical trial supports previous clinical findings on SGLT2 inhibitors and their ability to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 6, 2023

Google and DeepMind have developed an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot tool called Med-PaLM designed to generate “safe and helpful answers” to questions posed by healthcare professionals and patients. The tool is an example of a large language model or LLM, which are designed to understand queries and generate text responses in plain language, drawing from large and complex datasets – in this case, medical research.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 5, 2023

How mental health made the 'remarkable transition' to virtual: study. fdiamond. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 15:21.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

New research published in the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) underscores the critical role that medicines play in improving health and reducing disease complications and other, often costly, medical care and services. The study finds that since curative direct-acting antiviral medications for hepatitis C were approved in 2013, even after factoring in the cost of treatment, Medicaid has saved an estimated $15 billion in avoided health care costs and nearly 285,000 Medicaid enrollees are

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