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GSK Announces Positive Topline Data for Co-Administration of RSV, Shingles Vaccines

Drug Topics

A co-administration option for both vaccinations can increase the likelihood of older adults completing the vaccination series and improve health outcomes for the patient population.

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Study Finds Women With Asthma Are More Likely to Need Fertility Treatments

Pharmacy Times

The authors also found that there was a higher frequency of miscarriages compared with women who did not have asthma.

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FTC formally sues PBMs over insulin prices and warns manufacturers

Fierce Healthcare

The Federal Trade Commission is suing the titans of the pharmacy benefit manager industry for anticompetitive practices and artificially raising the price of insulin drug prices, the agency announc | As expected for weeks, the Federal Trade Commission is taking legal action against the biggest three PBMs and its related group purchasing organizations.

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Second health care worker tied to Missouri bird flu case had respiratory symptoms

STAT

A second health worker who cared for a person hospitalized in Missouri with H5N1 bird flu developed mild respiratory symptoms but was not tested for influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday. The CDC said Missouri health officials didn’t learn that the health worker had symptoms until after the individual had recovered, too late to run a diagnostic test.

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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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Q&A: PBM Legislation “Highly Likely” to Pass This Year

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Following the Federal Trade Commission’s interim report on PBMs, legislators are galvanized to make change happen.

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Medication Nonadherence Poses Risks to Patient Safety

Pharmacy Times

Reasons include fear of adverse effects, lack of education, polypharmacy, and others

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FDA approves first at-home flu vaccine in U.S., a nasal spray

STAT

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved AstraZeneca’s bid to allow its nasal spray influenza vaccine, FluMist, to be sold for home administration.  Starting next flu season, people who want to order the vaccine to give it to themselves or their children at home will be able to do so.

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Cigna’s PBM Express Scripts Files Lawsuit in Response to July FTC Report

Drug Topics

The health care giant’s pharmacy benefit manager subsidiary filed a lawsuit claiming that the FTC’s recent 6(b) report was false and misleading.

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RFID Technology and the DSCSA: Paving the Way for a New Standard in Patient Care

Pharmacy Times

The Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) will soon mandate end-to-end tracking of pharmaceuticals throughout the supply chain, with numerous benefits for health systems.

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Express Scripts files suit against FTC, demands retraction of report on PBM industry

Fierce Healthcare

Express Scripts has filed suit against the Federal Trade Commission, demanding that the agency retract a damning report on the pharmacy benefit management industry. | Express Scripts is suing the Federal Trade Commission, demanding that the agency retract a damning report on the pharmacy benefit management 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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Opinion: Tested in Africa, used in America

STAT

At the recent annual International AIDS Conference, a startling presentation about the newest wonder drug in HIV prevention brought a raucous standing ovation. Lenacapavir, a novel drug given as an injection under the skin every six months, was 100% successful in preventing HIV in adolescent girls and young women in two countries in Africa. It felt to many like a generational moment.

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FTC Files Lawsuit Against ‘Big 3’ PBMs for Drug Price Inflation

Drug Topics

In its first move since the July interim report detailing pharmacy benefit manager practices, the FTC is now suing CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and Optum Rx.

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Arimoclomol Becomes First FDA Approved Treatment for Neimann-Pick Disease Type C

Pharmacy Times

The rare disease can result in progressive neurological symptoms and organ complications.

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Nvidia's venture arm backs $17M investment in Hippocratic AI to build out generative AI healthcare agents

Fierce Healthcare

Three months ago, startup Hippocratic AI released its first commercial product, a generative AI-based, task-specific healthcare agent. | Nvidia's venture capital arm, NVentures, along with Greycroft and Lee Shapiro of 7Wire Ventures, backed a $17 million investment in Hippocratic AI to fuel its product development of generative AI "agents.

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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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Long-overlooked scientist shares Lasker Award with other GLP-1 researchers

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GLP-1 based drugs are transforming the treatment of obesity and opening up new avenues for addressing heart disease , addiction , and even Alzheimer’s. Now, three scientists who played key roles in their invention have won a prestigious Lasker Award for biomedical research.  Announced on Thursday in New York, the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award will be shared by Svetlana Mojsov and Joel Habener , who identified and characterized the GLP-1 hormone in the 1980s whil

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Study: A Walk a Day Keeps Low Back Pain Away

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“By encouraging active self-management using health coaching principles, the WalkBack intervention might be able to reduce the prevalence of recurrent low back pain and associated burden on health care systems,” wrote investigators.

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Enhancing Patient Outcomes: The Role of Integrated Health System Specialty Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

These pharmacies address cost, understanding, and safety concerns through high-touch support and coordination.

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KFF: Insurers set to rake in $11.8B in Medicare quality bonus payments for 2024

Fierce Healthcare

Health plans are set to rake in $11.8 billion in Medicare Advantage quality bonus payments, according to a new analysis from KFF.

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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+: FTC sues big 3 PBMs for ‘artificially inflated’ insulin prices caused by ‘perverse’ rebating

STAT

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against the largest pharmacy benefit managers and their group purchasing organizations for allegedly anticompetitive practices that “artificially inflated” the price of insulin and, consequently, impeded patient access to the life-saving treatment. The administrative complaint accused CVS Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth’s OptumRx of creating a “perverse” system of rebates that favored

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Examining the Impact of ePROMs in a Pharmacist-Led Telephone Clinic

Drug Topics

Patients who completed electronic patient-reported outcome measures said they made them feel more involved in their care and better supported.

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Standardizing Infusion Pumps in Large Health Systems Enhances Safety

Pharmacy Times

Analyzing consolidation of 8 drug pump libraries into 1 IV infusion library in a 9-hospital system: from standardization to implementation.

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CVS' Oak Street to pay $60M to settle kickback allegations

Fierce Healthcare

CVS' Oak Street Health unit has agreed to pay a $60 million settlement to resolve kickback allegations, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. | CVS' Oak Street Health unit has agreed to pay a $60 million settlement to resolve kickback allegations, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.

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Year-long fallout over retracted trans youth paper highlights new research era

STAT

Last year, a Springer Nature journal published a study surveying 1,700 parents of adolescents and young adults with gender dysphoria. Just a few months later, the study was retracted because there had been no formal process for those parents to consent to the study. But the story didn’t end there. Ongoing fallout from the paper and its retraction has opened up an internal rift among academic editors and journal staff that led to one editor’s resignation, as first reported by Retrac

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Organon pays up to $1.2B to acquire Dermavant and its steroid-free skin cream Vtama

Fierce Pharma

With its latest acquisition, women’s health outfit Organon is bringing its dermatology business to the U.S. with a potential blockbuster in tow. | Organon is set to acquire Roivant’s immuno-dermatology subsidiary Dermavant for up to $1.2 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. The crown jewel of the deal is undoubtedly Vtama, Dermavant’s steroid-free cream for plaque psoriasis, which is looking at a major expansion opportunity in eczema.

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FDA Approves Pembrolizumab Plus Pemetrexed and Platinum Chemotherapy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Pharmacy Times

The approval is based on positive results from the phase 2/3 IND.227/KEYNOTE-483 trial.

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Amazon inks digital health partnership with Talkspace, adds mental health provider to health conditions program

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon has added virtual behavioral health provider Talkspace to its health conditions program, a service it rolled out in January to help connect customers with virtual care benefits. | Amazon has added virtual behavioral health provider Talkspace to its health conditions program, a service it rolled out in January to help connect customers with virtual care benefits.

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Pediatricians’ obesity guidelines rest on shaky evidence about eating disorder risks

STAT

To address soaring rates of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics last year endorsed tactics it once considered risky.  “Watchful waiting” had been standard practice, in part from concern that a doctor’s focus on weight could inadvertently plant the seed for stigma or eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

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PBM strikes back at FTC over drug pricing report

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PBM Express Scripts has sued the FTC, claiming its recent report on the sector's role in drug pricing is defamatory and should be retracted

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The Patient Prescription Pipeline: Enhancing Health Equity With Medically Integrated Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

Shifting from a vertical, isolated care model into a collaborative approach can improve the clinician and patient experience.

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Dandelion Health launches AI marketplace for model validation, use in clinical trials

Fierce Healthcare

Health tech startup Dandelion Health launched a clinical artificial intelligence marketplace that merges third-party algorithms and Dandelion's data platform and model validation capabilities | Through a new solution, Dandelion Health can bring together AI developers and life sciences companies to answer questions in a fraction of the time as a randomized controlled trial.

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Opinion: End the ‘forced swim test’ on mice for antidepressant research

STAT

In 2022, more than 22 million Americans had serious thoughts of suicide or had made a plan to end their life. To treat depression, the leading cause of suicide death, there is an urgent need for novel antidepressants, as existing ones are only effective roughly 50% of the time. But there is a serious problem with the way we conduct research to improve depression treatment.

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Sanofi, Regeneron look to seize major opportunity with Dupixent's COPD approval

Fierce Pharma

After more than a decade without any therapeutic advancements in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), people with the progressive disease suddenly have two new options, with more likely o | Regeneron and Sanofi have announced that the FDA has expanded the label of megablockbuster Dupixent to treat COPD. With the nod, Dupixent becomes the first biologic treatment for COPD patients in the U.S.

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FDA Approves Isatuximab With Bortezomib, Lenalidomide, and Dexamethasone for NDMM

Pharmacy Times

The decision expands treatment options for patients with transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM).

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