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Importance of Patient Navigation in Specialty Pharmacy

Pharmacy Times

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.

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How Your Pharmacy Can Participate in American Diabetes Month

Digital Pharmacist

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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The Evolving Role of the Pharmacist in Opioid Use Disorder

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists’ pharmacotherapeutic expertise helps them advocate for their patients and assist providers.

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Diabetes Health Burden Negatively Impacts Quality of Life in Elderly Patients

Drug Topics

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.

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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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STAT+: In major test for prime editing, scientists successfully correct mutations in monkeys

STAT

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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Industry Voices—The beginning of the end for Alzheimer’s Dementia?

Fierce Healthcare

The approval of Leqembi by the Food and Drug Administration marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. | The approval of Leqembi by the FDA marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. There are big questions around costs, access, risk and efficacy in certain populations. The most urgent, overarching question is: How can we find patients who will benefit from the drug before their condition progresses outside of the treatment window?

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Flip the Pharmacy Award Winners Recognized for Pharmacy Transformation Excellence

Drug Topics

The awards recognize the teams, coaches, and pharmacies that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to transforming community pharmacy practice.

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‘We’re absolutely making it too hard’: The complexity of adult immunization delivery hinders vaccine uptake

STAT

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.

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CVS, Mayo Clinic, Spark Capital back Abridge's $30M round to scale up generative AI in healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to c | Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to company CEO Shivdev Rao, M.D.

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Ribociclib With Endocrine Therapy Improved Invasive Disease-Free Survival in Patients With Early Breast Cancer

Pharmacy Times

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%.

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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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Reproducibility of Consecutive CGM Results in Cystic Fibrosis-Related Diabetes

Drug Topics

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.

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Maternal Covid-19 vaccination offers infants immunity for up to 6 months

STAT

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.

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One-third of Americans burdened by medical debt: study

Fierce Healthcare

Insurance coverage often fails to help Americans avoid medical debt, a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund revealed. | Even with health insurance, people are feeling the effects of high medical costs, often cutting back on necessities or delaying care. A new survey shows half of Americans struggle to avoid their healthcare.

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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: Pharmacists and Communities Unite for Safer Communities

Pharmacy Times

A critical aspect of National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is the focus on Naloxone training.

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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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Forces for good

Drug Store News

Sheryl Burke, SVP of Corporate Social Responsibility & Chief Sustainability Officer of CVS Health, shines a light on the retailer's efforts to help communities at the local and national levels.

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Giant sloths and woolly mammoths: Mining past creatures’ DNA for future antibiotics

STAT

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.

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Few therapists measure outcomes. A startup's new framework aims to change that

Fierce Healthcare

Two-thirds of patients receiving three months of outpatient therapy will not reach remission, a new analysis of behavioral health therapy outcomes data reveals. | Practitioners can use the framework, known as the Blueprint Quality Index (BQI), to track quality improvement over time, as well as assess the effect of programmatic or infrastructure changes on patient outcomes.

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Patients With Complicated Diabetes, Colorectal Cancer May Have Significant Risk of Death From Any Cause

Pharmacy Times

However, uncomplicated diabetes was not significantly linked to a greater risk of all-cause mortality or death from colorectal cancer.

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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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Amgen plans to lay off 350 former Horizon employees after $28B buyout

Fierce Pharma

In the biopharma industry, post-merger layoffs are often a question of when and how many. | In the biopharma industry, post-merger layoffs are often a question of when and how many. In the case of Amgen’s $27.8 billion buyout of Horizon, they came quickly. Around 350 former Horizon employees are being told this week that their positions will be eliminated.

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Fixing America’s health insurance woes is ‘actually very simple,’ says leading economist

STAT

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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Industry Voices—Why older adults are adopting health technology at a higher rate

Fierce Healthcare

Older adults are adopting digital health tools at a higher rate than ever before. | At Elevance Health, we are seeing an increasing acceptance of virtual care and technology by older adults to help manage their health.

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FDA Approves Vosoritide for Children With Achondroplasia

Pharmacy Times

Vosoritide is a daily injection for children with achondroplasia who have open epiphyses, given under the skin and administered by a caregiver.

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Novartis claims ex-staffer jumped to Takeda with 'thousands' of sensitive files

Fierce Pharma

Novartis believes a former employee of its Egyptian affiliate made off with thousands of files before jumping ship to Takeda. | Novartis believes a former employee of its Egyptian affiliate made off with thousands of files before jumping ship to Takeda. Now, the Swiss pharma giant wants a peek at Takeda’s business records to find out whether its confidential information has been used improperly.

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STAT+: UnitedHealth discontinues a controversial brand amid scrutiny of algorithmic care denials

STAT

UnitedHealth Group and Optum are getting rid of the name of their tech-driven care management company just months after the company faced congressional criticism over the use of its algorithms to cut off payments for patients’ care. Discontinuing the NaviHealth name is part of a broader rebranding of Optum’s division that provides services to people at home and in post-acute facilities.

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New multispecialty advocacy group wants to protect independent practices from hospitals' buyouts

Fierce Healthcare

A new national, multispecialty advocacy organization representing independent practices launched last week. | The American Independent Medical Practice Association says it is the first advocacy organization of its kind focused on supporting private medicine across specialties. It is made up of 5,000 physicians collectively treating 10 million U.S. patients.

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Why Data Point to Hospital At-Home Care as Next Evolution of Clinical Medicine

Pharmacy Times

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.

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Patient groups have become a powerhouse in R&D. Here’s a look at their impact.

PharmaVoice

“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.

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STAT+: For Parkinson’s disease, advances spurred by Apple Watch offer a glimmer of hope

STAT

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

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HRSA reinstating 340B program's registration requirements for off-site hospital facilities

Fierce Healthcare

The federal government is rolling back a pandemic-era waiver that lowered the bar for 340B hospitals to dispense discounted drugs across additional outpatient sites, a decision hospitals said will | HRSA is giving hospitals 90 days to bring any off-site, outpatient facilities using 340B drugs into compliance with requirements that had been waived during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Meeting the Challenges in Behavioral Health Care With Hybrid Pharmacy Approach

Pharmacy Times

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.

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Sanofi CEO Hudson's new 'Play to Win' pivot sends stock plunging

Fierce Pharma

Sanofi acolytes are none too happy with the latest chapter of CEO Paul Hudson’s "Play to Win" strategy. | Sanofi acolytes are none too happy with the latest chapter of CEO Paul Hudson’s "Play to Win" strategy. After unveiling the pivot alongside third-quarter earnings Friday, Sanofi’s stock plunged nearly 20%, with one analyst group suggesting the plan came “at the wrong time.

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CDC recommends rationing of RSV shot due to shortages

STAT

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended rationing an important monoclonal antibody product to protect young infants from RSV due to strained supply of the new product, Sanofi’s Beyfortus. In a health alert issued Monday, the CDC said clinicians should prioritize available doses for babies at highest risk from respiratory syncytial virus, reserving 100-milligram doses for infants under the age of 6 months and those with underlying health conditions that put them at h

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Ayble Health unveils mind-gut program with behavioral therapy techniques to ease GI symptoms

Fierce Healthcare

Ayble Health, a digital health platform focused on chronic gastrointestinal conditions, has unveiled a mind-gut program. | The program integrates with Ayble’s baseline nutrition program and offers evidence-based brain-gut behavioral therapy techniques including cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and gut-directed hypnosis.

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