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Advice For New Pharmacists: Lessons Form The Front Lines

IDStewardship

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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Breaking: FDA Approves First-Ever RSV Vaccine

Drug Topics

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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Pharmacists Find Marketing Success With Instagram, TikTok

Drug Topics

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

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New PhRMA Ad Campaign Sheds Light on PBM Abuses

PhRMA

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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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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A CEO’s quest to solve a 400-year-old medical mystery — and he’s also a patient

PharmaVoice

The CEO of Ventoux Biosciences has the disease that his company is aiming to treat, and it's driving him to find better medications.

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Novavax’s COVID-19 Vaccine Demonstrates Efficacious, Safe Response in Adolescents

Pharmacy Times

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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Americans want state policymakers to lower out-of-pocket costs

PhRMA

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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Taking your biotech global? Here’s how you can navigate cultural norms

PharmaVoice

What’s so different about doing pharma business in the U.K. versus Japan? One of Moderna’s top brass shares her tips for navigating choppy cultural waters.

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What explains rare heart condition among young men after Covid vaccines? A new study offers clues

STAT

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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FDA Approves Two Medications for Treatment of Schizophrenia 

Drug Topics

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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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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4 Things to know about PhRMA’s new 50-state poll

PhRMA

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

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Emalex aims at a first-in-class breakthrough for Tourette syndrome

PharmaVoice

With its phase 3 candidate, the biotech believes it can move the field beyond antipsychotics to a more effective approach.

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AI, Machine Learning Improve Patient Care, Can Empower Health Care Professionals

Pharmacy Times

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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Risk Factors Associated with TRD

Drug Topics

Medical experts discuss the risk factors associated with TRD.

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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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New resource underscores the importance of small molecule medicines

PhRMA

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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From science to strategy, this exec is painting Genmab’s bigger picture into the next decade

PharmaVoice

Martine van Vugt, recently named Genmab’s chief strategy officer and executive vice president, aims to usher in the company’s next wave of "knock your socks off" antibodies.

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Combination CRISPR, Antiretroviral Therapies Could Eliminate 100% of HIV

Pharmacy Times

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

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How Each COVID-19 Variant Impacts Children Differently

Drug Topics

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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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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For Eli Lilly’s head scientist, Alzheimer’s results cap a 25-year scientific quest

STAT

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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Attracting up-and-coming talent in biotech

PharmaVoice

The CEO of a Bay-area startup shares his strategies for growing a team from the ground up.

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The Role of the Pharmacy Technician Expands into Pharmacy-Based Community Health Worker

Pharmacy Times

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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Treatment Landscape Surrounding TRD

Drug Topics

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

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Opinion: Do masks work? Randomized controlled trials are the worst way to answer the question

STAT

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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A biopharma CEO opens up about executive salaries — and why he wants to change the status quo

PharmaVoice

With leaders at the biggest biopharma companies bringing in millions, the CEO of Corvus Pharmaceuticals opted for a pay cut to pour more funds into science.

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Consider Real-World Barriers When Deciding on Treatment for Diabetic Macular Edema

Pharmacy Times

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

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Data, Collaboration Can Help Unlock the Full Potential of Value-Based Care

Drug Topics

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

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Verizon will supply VA with mobile devices, emergency tech in $448M deal

Fierce Healthcare

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

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How Immunocore’s Bahija Jalla embraced the ‘a-ha’ moment of promising science

PharmaVoice

The biotech CEO is bullish on the company’s pioneering T cell receptor platform and innovating new immunology-based treatments.

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Pharmacists Are Vital to Transitions of Care

Pharmacy Times

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

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Can AI Answer Patients' Questions Better Than Professionals?

Drug Topics

A new study investigates whether GPT-4 can provide more in-depth analysis than medical professionals.

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Myths? Busted! Debunking Common Pharmacy Myths

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

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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Navigating workforce challenges amid a turbulent biopharma market

PharmaVoice

A number of biopharma companies slashed their workforces this year and as market anxieties persist, more challenges could be looming.

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Food Insecurity is a Leading Health-Related Social Need Among Patients With Diabetes

Pharmacy Times

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

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