Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The number of digital therapeutics available for migraine is likely to expand.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For the second year in a row, life expectancy is on the decline in America. The leading causes of death across the United States include cancer and chronic diseases. Even when patients are able to manage these conditions — e.g., overall cancer survivability has increased 33% since 1991 — their quality of life may still be diminished.

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PharmaVoice

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

FDA’s food program is in for a major overhaul — here’s why pharma should pay attention.

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Pharmacy Tech Scholar

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What Makes a Great Pharmacy Technician? Our students commonly ask us for tips on getting a job after completing our PTCB-recognized education program. Being marketable… The post 4 Attributes of a Great Pharmacy Technician appeared first on Pharmacy Tech Scholar.

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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

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to adjusted analyses, vitamin D reduced the risk of diabetes by 15% with a 3-year absolute risk reduction of 3.3%.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Do masks really protect against COVID-19?

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STAT

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the shinier entrants to have emerged in the world of mental health startups abruptly announced last week it would wind down, right in the middle of an ongoing crisis in mental health care. Mindstrong, which had raised a total of $160 million from a who’s-who of blue-chip investors, and was led for a while by a former National Institute of Mental Health director, simply couldn’t find a way to make money delivering the low-cost, high-quality care it had promised.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize and improve medicine. However, in order for widespread implementation, certain challenges and obstacles must first be overcome.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

February marks Black History Month in the United States. We want to take this opportunity to recognize some Black pharmacists who have made significant contributions to the pharmacy field. James McCune Smith James McCune Smith was born into slavery in 1813. He earned his medical degree from Glasgow University. He is recognized as the first African American to earn a medical degree, the first to be published in American medical journals, as well as the first African American to own and operate a

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PharmaVoice

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Guided by her personal experiences, Tamar Thompson is aiming to improve rare disease care through her advocacy work at Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease.

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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.

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Which payer raked in the most cash last year?

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Vaccination greatly reduces the probability of experiencing severe COVID-19 in both variants. Adults between the ages of 40 to 59 years saw the most significant reduction in risk when compared to individuals in other age categories.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Veteran influenza epidemiologist Keiji Fukuda remembers vividly when he first became fearful that a virulent bird flu virus, H5N1, might be on the verge of triggering a devastating pandemic. The virus, seemingly out of nowhere, did something bird flu viruses were thought not to be able to do. It infected 18 people, killing six of them. That happened in 1997, in Hong Kong.

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PharmaVoice

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals has developed a more precise way to track symptoms that could be broadly adopted across the industry.

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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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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Vertex pricing under fire—again—as activists press 4 governments for Trikafta generics fkansteiner Tue, 02/07/2023 - 10:08

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address highlighted some key areas of health care in which he hopes to make progress.

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Drug Store News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

CVS Health will acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6 billion.

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PharmaVoice

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

With two rare disease products on the launch pad for FDA submission in 2023 and a growing pipeline, Rocket is fueled for its next era of growth.

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Pharmafile

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Scottish biotech company ScotBio has announced that it has seen “promising initial results” from its attempts to extract a cure for the common cold from algae. The Livingston-based company is assessing how waste molecules from spirulina, an algae often consumed as a superfood, could be used as a cure for the common cold, COVID-19 and various other viruses.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A 2021 morbidity study found that COVID-19 was among the leading causes of death in children and young people.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A wave of important legislative changes is anticipated in the EU in 2023 making this year one of the biggest for the EU regulatory landscape governing the life sciences industry in recent times. Changes have been spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, which emphasised the need to urgently modernise outdated EU pharmaceutical law and revise regulatory ambitions in the MedTech sector.

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PharmaVoice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Victoria Richon’s latest venture is in the burgeoning field of protein-regulated drugs that could target a range of diseases.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

How the current economic downturn impacts healthcare funding and investor strategy agliadkovskaya Fri, 02/10/2023 - 10:37

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The use of biomarker profiles to guide asthma treatment decisions have not been well-studied.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Fungus-caused infections — real ones, not the ones sparking the zombie apocalypse on the popular show “The Last of Us” — pose a growing threat in the United States and around the world. Mississippi has become the latest state to report residents infected with Candida auris, a highly contagious fungus that thrives in hospitals and nursing homes.

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PharmaVoice

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Bayer’s Bill Anderson and Astellas’ Naoki Okamura will be charged with setting the companies on growth trajectories for 2023.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Albertsons launches app uniting pharmacy, nutrition and telehealth aburky Fri, 02/10/2023 - 16:29

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Researchers evaluated how changes in USP labeling standards have affected adherence across multiple classes of drugs.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Bayer named former Roche executive Bill Anderson as its new CEO on Wednesday, potentially ending a dramatic and difficult chapter during which its current chief executive, Werner Baumann, presided over the disastrous $63 billion purchase of the agriculture firm Monsanto. Anderson will take over April 1, becoming the first American to run the 160-year-old conglomerate, which invented aspirin and later played a major role in the development of hormonal contraceptives, hemophilia clotting factors,

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PharmaVoice

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Vlad Coric’s offbeat business strategy paid off once with a Pfizer buyout. Can he do it again?

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

DOJ collected nearly $2B in health fraud False Claims Act cases in fiscal year 2022 rking Wed, 02/08/2023 - 16:01

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

XBB, a less severe but more contagious strain of COVID-19, has taken over as the dominant Omicron strain.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Researchers who believe genomics can transform human health love to recount success stories. They’ll tell you about the 3-month-old boy whose heart was failing until researchers pinpointed what was ailing him. Or the baby girl who could have had a life-threatening reaction to anesthesia had researchers not sequenced her DNA ahead of time. But a new study focuses on a much more somber set of stories: those of infants who died with genetic diseases and who in some cases could have been trea

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