IDStewardship

APRIL 30, 2023

In this article advice for new pharmacists is provided by a pharmacist with 15 years of experience and answers are sourced from commentary on Twitter as well. Composed By: Timothy P. Gauthier, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCIDP Article Posted 1 May 2023 Recently while attending the American Pharmacist Association’s annual meeting in Phoenix, AZ I walked by a grown man at a breakfast bar wearing a head-to-toe onesie patterned with Dunkin’ Doughnuts (DD) logos.

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Drug Topics

MAY 3, 2023

The vaccine is approved for use in adults aged 60 and older to prevent lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV.

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Drug Topics

MAY 1, 2023

Pharmacists can reach the members of their community through creative use of social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok.

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PhRMA

MAY 1, 2023

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) today launched a new ad campaign that continues to shed light on the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in driving up health care costs and denying coverage of lifesaving medicines.

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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

Patient Care

Pharmacy Times

MAY 1, 2023

Analysis shows that the ratio of neutralizing antibody geometric mean titers in adolescents compared with young adults was 1.5 after vaccination with NVX-CoV2373.

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STAT

MAY 5, 2023

A new study sheds light on what may be causing very rare cases of heart inflammation in young men after receiving an mRNA Covid vaccine. Early hypotheses as to what was driving the heart inflammation, called myocarditis , included an allergic response to the vaccine, vaccine-induced antibodies, or an autoimmune response in which the immune system attacks the body’s own healthy tissue by mistake.

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PhRMA

MAY 1, 2023

Too many Americans are struggling to access and afford their health care. While policy debates about how to address these issues can seem never ending, American adults largely agree on what state policymakers should be doing to help deliver relief to patients at the pharmacy counter.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 5, 2023

There are still significant unresolved issues in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which must be addressed before they can be safely and effectively used more broadly in medicine.

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STAT

MAY 3, 2023

If you flip to the 1,031st page of the May 1998 edition of the Journal of Cell Biology, you’ll find the first scientific byline for Daniel Skovronsky, then a young trainee at the University of Pennsylvania, on an article describing how beta-amyloid, a vexing molecule thought to play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, was more complicated than the field understood.

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Drug Topics

MAY 2, 2023

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical and Lundbeck’s Alify Asimtufii (aripiprazole) also was approved for maintenance monotherapy treatment of bipolar I disorder in adults.

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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.

PhRMA

MAY 4, 2023

When it comes to health care, Americans are concerned about innovation and affordability.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 4, 2023

At least 58% of mice treated with combined CRISPR therapies showed signs of complete HIV-1 viral elimination.

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STAT

MAY 2, 2023

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, before we had vaccines and effective medical procedures, the only ways to prevent transmission of the virus were behavioral measures like face masks and social distancing. There was (and continues to be) a desperate hunger for definitive studies telling us how well specific measures would work, with specific publics, in specific settings, for specific strains of the novel and changing virus.

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Drug Topics

MAY 2, 2023

Medical experts discuss the risk factors associated with TRD.

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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

MAY 4, 2023

A small molecule medicine is what most people think of when they imagine a medicine. These medicines typically come in the form of a tablet or capsule and are usually taken by mouth. These medicines play essential roles in the treatment of different diseases and are indispensable in providing patients, caregivers and health care providers with the tools necessary to achieve improved health outcomes.

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 3, 2023

ImmunoGen touts 'home run' as ovarian cancer drug Elahere extends lives in landmark trial win aliu Wed, 05/03/2023 - 14:50

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STAT

MAY 5, 2023

The ending of the public health emergency for Covid-19 will force the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to cut back on the data it collects to analyze how much illness the SARS-CoV-2 virus is causing in the future, the CDC announced Friday. But some of the data metrics the CDC will no longer be able to collect are of lesser value now than they were at earlier points in the pandemic, agency officials explained in a press briefing Thursday in advance of Friday’s release of two arti

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Drug Topics

MAY 1, 2023

Though the Omicron variant caused the most symptoms in pediatric patients, there were no differences in adverse outcomes by COVID-19 variant.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 3, 2023

The advent of pharmacy-based community health workers has helped to expand and codify the pre-existing community-based efforts of pharmacy technicians to reach even outside of medication access.

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 1, 2023

Teva, MedinCell win FDA approval for slow-release schizophrenia drug Uzedy kdunleavy Mon, 05/01/2023 - 07:35

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STAT

MAY 2, 2023

In 2004, the physician search firm Merritt Hawkins first issued their Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times. That year, the national average wait to get in to see a new physician was 21 days, an unacceptable amount of time to wait to access care. But that number has only gotten worse. In their 2022 survey , the wait for a new patient appointment increased to an average of 26 days.

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Drug Topics

MAY 2, 2023

Key opinion leaders illustrate treatment strategies for patients diagnosed with TRD.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 3, 2023

Pharmacists will play a growing role in the use of biosimilars and guiding patients through the switching process.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

Verizon will supply VA with mobile devices, emergency tech in $448M deal aburky Fri, 05/05/2023 - 16:17

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 2, 2023

Merck entitled to $1.

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Drug Topics

MAY 2, 2023

A unified data ecosystem will provide the foundation for the next generation of patient-care technology.

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Pharmacy Times

APRIL 30, 2023

Clinical interventions, follow-ups, medication reconciliation, patient education are key aspects of the programs.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 2, 2023

CVS closes $10.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

MAY 1, 2023

There are a lot of misconceptions and myths about careers in pharmacy and we’re on a mission to change that! Let’s debunk some of the most common myths about pharmacy careers. Pharmacy Myth 1: Pharmacists only work in retail settings. Pharmacists work in a wide variety of practice settings and we highlight a portion of them on our Novel Practice Settings page.

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STAT

MAY 2, 2023

Eli Lilly is nearing the readout from a pivotal study of its experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The approval of a similar medicine earlier this year has wrung risk from the outcome, but for the same reason, expectations for strong results are higher. The Lilly drug, called donanemab, is an antibody that targets accumulated plaques in the brain called amyloid.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 2, 2023

Screening tools are becoming widely used to help clinicians address the needs of patients with diabetes to improve health outcomes.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

Horizon taps AI provider Solera Health in effort to offer more customized care to members fdiamond Thu, 05/04/2023 - 14:16

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 2, 2023

Pfizer pulls off Q1 surprise with strong sales even as COVID vaccine demand plummets kdunleavy Tue, 05/02/2023 - 09:27

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