Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Many patients face significant challenges in accessing their specialty medications, which highlights the importance of pharmacy-deployed patient navigation programs designed to help resolve nonclinical, system-related barriers to care.
Digital Pharmacist
OCTOBER 25, 2023
November is American Diabetes Month – a time to come together to spread awareness about diabetes prevention and management. Pharmacies play a crucial role in healthcare, making them ideal partners in promoting awareness and education during this month. In this blog post, we’ll explore key ways pharmacies can actively participate in American Diabetes Month.
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Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Pharmacists’ pharmacotherapeutic expertise helps them advocate for their patients and assist providers.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 24, 2023
A study published in Primary Care Diabetes pinpoints those at most risk and recommends education to improve the quality of life in diagnosed elderly patients.
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
PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 25, 2023
“They have the money,” and they’re using it to influence drug development, according to the executive director of the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.
STAT
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Prime Medicine said Friday it successfully used a new, ultra-versatile form of genetic surgery called prime editing to edit liver cells in monkeys. The results, presented at the European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy meeting in Brussels, are a major step for a technology that could transform treatment of numerous diseases. “I think the big celebration here is we’re showing, in primates, for the company, that we have a delivery system that is working and is safe,” said J
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Drug Topics
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The awards recognize the teams, coaches, and pharmacies that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to transforming community pharmacy practice.
PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Backed by Pfizer, Anokion’s innovative approach to treating celiac, MS and more is showing early promise where others failed.
STAT
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Alison Buttenheim was floored by a sign she saw in her doctor’s office when she went to get the first jab of the two-dose shingles vaccine to protect her against painful flare-ups of varicella zoster. “Medicare patients cannot receive Tdap or zoster vaccines here. They need to obtain [them] at their pharmacy. If they receive it here, they need to pay out of pocket,” the notice read.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Compared to endocrine therapy alone, the combination of ribociclib and endocrine therapy lowered the risk of cancer recurrence in patients with early breast cancer by 25.2%.
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.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Researchers assessed the reproducibility of at-home CGM acquisitions with mixed meal tolerance tests among patients with CF-related diabetes who were not treated with insulin.
PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 27, 2023
This year's inductees to the PharmaVoice 100 "hall of fame" are leaders who have been at the forefront — and will stay at the forefront — of industry change.
STAT
OCTOBER 25, 2023
PHILADELPHIA — Cesar de la Fuente believes the next breakthrough antibiotic might come from animals that have been dead for thousands of years. Since 2021, his lab here at the University of Pennsylvania has built algorithms to trawl genetic databases for protein fragments, called peptides, with microbe-squashing properties. They started with human DNA.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 27, 2023
A critical aspect of National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is the focus on Naloxone training.
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.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Patients who were bedridden for 7 days or longer had the highest prevalence of symptoms, which included fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, and trouble sleeping.
PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Ken Getz has spent his career improving clinical research for the benefit of patients, the life sciences industry and other R&D stakeholders.
STAT
OCTOBER 24, 2023
People eligible to use the only needle-free flu vaccine available in the United States may be able, next year, to give it to themselves or to eligible children at home. AstraZeneca, which makes the vaccine FluMist, announced Tuesday it has submitted to the Food and Drug Administration a supplemental biologics license application that would allow for self-administration of the vaccine by people ages 18 through 49, and would allow people 18 and older to give the vaccine to eligible children.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 27, 2023
However, uncomplicated diabetes was not significantly linked to a greater risk of all-cause mortality or death from colorectal cancer.
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Drug Topics
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Study results suggest an association between lung cancer, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, waist circumference, and glycated hemoglobin.
PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Pfizer brought in a new approval for a five-in-one shot for meningococcal disease, and the company has built a sizable vaccine business over time.
STAT
OCTOBER 23, 2023
The risks of severe neonatal morbidity, neonatal death, and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit were all significantly lower during the first month of birth in infants whose mothers were vaccinated against Covid-19, and protection against the virus continued for up to six months after birth, according to a new study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Vosoritide is a daily injection for children with achondroplasia who have open epiphyses, given under the skin and administered by a caregiver.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Accurate characterization and differentiation of acute pain during radiation therapy may help facilitate symptom management for patients with oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers.
PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Precigen’s CEO is pushing for her next therapeutic breakthrough with innovative cell and gene therapy platforms.
STAT
OCTOBER 23, 2023
In the last two decades, Black Americans have suffered 1.63 million excess deaths compared to white Americans. Experts gathered at the STAT Summit in Boston last week to discuss the crisis of Black deaths in the U.S. and interventions that can help advance health equity. “If we continue to have a maternal health crisis, if we continue to have an infant mortality crisis … then we’re going to potentially see a situation or circumstance where Black people can be extinct in the
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 26, 2023
With health systems undergoing a necessary reevaluation of how they allocate their funding into the future, initial data support the need for them to offer a hospital-at-home option for patients they serve.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 27, 2023
A new study adds to previous research that has found religious and political correlations between vaccine beliefs and hesitancy, which have geographical links.
PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 27, 2023
A consummate life sciences executive who has led with boldness and devotion, Dr. Jeremy Levin considers himself a participant as well as a leader.
STAT
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Since the Apple Watch was unveiled in 2014, it has been trumpeted not only as a high tech fashion accessory, but also as a way for people to track their own health and fitness. It has evolved as a popular cardio tool for such uses as heart rate monitoring, recording your ECG, and measuring the oxygen saturation of your blood. But now, after nearly a decade of development, the Apple Watch is being leveraged on an entirely new health frontier: Parkinson’s disease, the degenerative brain dis
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 26, 2023
The hybrid pharmacy model represents a significant step forward in providing the best possible care for individuals struggling with behavioral health conditions, ultimately improving their outcomes and overall well-being.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Jason Reed, PharmD, Senior Director of Product Management at FTB Vella, discusses the importance of drug price transparency for both consumers and veterinarians.
PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Dr. Mark Goldberg has continually been at the cutting edge of technologies and ideas, including now as chairman and CEO of Allucent.
STAT
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Fixing the U.S. health care system can seem like a herculean task. But the solution is “actually very simple,” according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Amy Finkelstein. In their recent book “ We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care ,” Finkelstein and Stanford economist Liran Einav describe how years of research have led them to the conclusion that the best way forward is for the U.S. to offer universal basic health care coverag
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