Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2024

Walgreens is expanding its specialty pharmacy services to offer gene and cell therapy services, supported by a dedicated 18,000-square-foot center in Pittsburgh, the company announced Thursday. | Walgreens is expanding its specialty pharmacy services to offer gene and cell therapy services, supported by a dedicated 18,000-square-foot center in Pittsburgh, the company announced Thursday.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 25, 2024

Despite a wealth of knowledge, pharmacists are frequently not consulted as part of the decision-making team in atrial fibrillation management.

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Pharmacy Times

APRIL 24, 2024

Multiple state and federal laws since the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the growing role of technicians

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APRIL 25, 2024

Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and thought that at least some virus was getting off of farms and going downstream — onto store shelves. He knew the Food and Drug Administration was working on its own national survey of the milk supply.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

APRIL 25, 2024

Exclusive: MSF calls for transparency after its bill for a trial of TB treatment came to a fraction of the billions claimed by pharmaceutical companies Doctors have for the first time released details of their spending on a major clinical trial, demonstrating that the true cost of developing a medicine may be far less than the billions of dollars claimed by the pharmaceutical industry.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 25, 2024

A Q&A with Kirollos Hanna, PharmD, director of pharmacy at Minnesota Oncology, on the current and future landscape of bispecific antibodies in myeloma treatment.

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APRIL 26, 2024

New federal rules aimed at limiting the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus among dairy cattle go into effect Monday, but detailed guidance documents released Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveal its mandatory testing order is less stringent than initially described. While that is easing concerns from farmers and veterinarians about the economic and logistical burden of testing, it leaves questions about how effective the testing program will be at containing additional outbreaks.

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 23, 2024

Giovanni Caforio, M.D., is lining up a new gig soon after handing all his Bristol Myers Squibb leadership roles in March. | Giovanni Caforio, M.D., is lining up a new gig soon after handing all his Bristol Myers Squibb leadership roles in March. The recent Big Pharma CEO, known for steering the $74 billion acquisition of Celgene, has been proposed as the new chair at Novartis for 2025.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 23, 2024

Abeona Therapeutics’ pz-cel is an investigational autologous, COL7A1 gene-corrected epidermal sheet therapy for the treatment of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.

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Pharmacy Times

APRIL 23, 2024

The approval was based on the QUILT-3.032 study, which included 77 adults with carcinoma in situ with or without papillary tumors after a transurethral resection.

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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.

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APRIL 24, 2024

The unsettling reality of H5N1 bird flu circulating in dairy cow herds in multiple parts of the United States is raising anxiety levels about whether this dangerous virus, which has haunted the sleep of people who worry about influenza pandemics for more than 20 years, could be on a path to acquiring the ability to easily infect people. To be clear, there is no evidence that this is currently the case — the sole confirmed human case reported in Texas three weeks ago was in a farm worker w

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 23, 2024

The Joint Commission announced Tuesday a new set of accreditation standards for telehealth and remote patient monitoring companies. | A third-party healthcare accrediting organization will offer a new program for telehealth and remote monitoring platforms to build patient trust and ensure high-quality virtual healthcare.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 24, 2024

With more states allowing the use of recreational marijuana than ever before, researchers examined its effects among youth populations.

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Pharmacy Times

APRIL 24, 2024

Pivmecillinam (Pivya) tablets were approved for female adults with uncomplicated urinary tract infection caused by Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, and Staphylococcus saprophyticus.

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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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APRIL 26, 2024

On a spring afternoon in Tucson, Ariz., about a half dozen children and teens hung out in the sunny common room of Pima County’s Crisis Response Center. Beyond the pastel-painted room stretched a long, wide hall where partitions separated individual beds, many left unmade with rumpled sheets. Wearing scrubs, the kids sat in rocking chairs, watched TV, talked and laughed.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2024

Amae Health launched in January 2022 to improve care for individuals with severe mental illness through a community-based, integrated approach. | Amae Health, which opened its first outpatient clinic in Los Angeles 18 months ago, closed a $15 million series A round to fuel its growth as it plans to open new clinics in four markets.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 26, 2024

As the H5N1 bird flu virus continues to spread across dairy cattle in the US, researchers and government health officials are ramping up testing to stop the spread.

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Pharmacy Times

APRIL 25, 2024

The findings emphasize a need for guideline-based care delivery for patients with severe asthma, particularly for patients who are facing social disparities within health care.

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APRIL 24, 2024

The U.S. Department of Agriculture moved to try to limit spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus among dairy cattle on Wednesday, issuing a federal order that will require an animal to test negative for the virus before it can be moved across state lines. It also requires laboratories and state veterinarians to report to the USDA any animals that have tested positive for H5N1 or any other influenza A virus.

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 26, 2024

After a negative phase 3 readout, Gilead Sciences is taking a $2.4 billion impairment charge on Trodelvy, which serves as the cornerstone of the company’s solid tumor ambition. | After a negative phase 3 readout, Gilead Sciences is taking a $2.4 billion impairment charge on the antibody-drug conjugate Trodelvy. With a busy year ahead across therapeutic areas, CEO Dan O'Day emphasized a "time of focused execution.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 25, 2024

Check out these featured Drug Topics expert interviews from April 2024.

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Pharmacy Times

APRIL 26, 2024

On this month's episode Laura Gillespie, PharmD, discusses her paper “Impact of Pharmacist-Led Initiatives on Health Care–Associated Clostridioides difficile Rates.

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APRIL 23, 2024

WASHINGTON — Testing conducted by the Food and Drug Administration on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday. But the testing, done by polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, cannot distinguish between live virus or fragments of viruses that could have been killed by the pasteurization process.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 23, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 Tuesday to issue a final rule striking new noncompete agreements for all workers and phasing out existing noncompetes for all but senior executives acro | The final rule, which does not apply to nonprofits, forbids noncompete contracts for all new hires and winds down existing noncompetes for all employees who are not senior executives.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 24, 2024

Check out these top featured stories from Drug Topics in April 2024.

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Pharmacy Times

APRIL 22, 2024

Investigators found that 89% of individuals with cardiovascular disease consumed more than 1500 mg of sodium daily.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cows in the United States has likely been going on for months longer than was previously realized, and has probably spread more widely across the country than the confirmed outbreaks would imply, according to an analysis of genetic sequences that were released Sunday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The genetic data point to a single spillover event that probably occurred in late 2023, Michael Worobey, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Ariz

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 23, 2024

The orphan drug sector has long been clearing growth in the larger pharmaceutical market with booming sales. | The orphan drug sector has long been clearing growth in the larger pharmaceutical market with booming sales. But thanks to blockbuster meds across wider disease areas and other challenges, the lucrative market may soon slow down for the first time in years.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 26, 2024

The clinical manifestations of shingles can be divided into 3 phases.

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Pharmacy Times

APRIL 22, 2024

Sharing data and a personal recommendation can make a difference in a patient’s life

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STAT

APRIL 21, 2024

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has been under pressure from scientists both at home and abroad to share more data on the H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cows, uploaded a large number of genetic sequences of the pathogen late Sunday. Access to the 239 genetic sequences will help scientists assess whether the dangerous virus has acquired mutations that might make it easier for it to spread to and among mammals, and whether additional changes have been seen as it moves from cow to cow a

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 26, 2024

Ten years after dipping its toes into the gene therapy pool in a licensing deal with Spark Therapeutics, Pfizer has gained FDA approval for the acquired treatment. | Ten years after dipping its toe into the gene therapy pool in a licensing deal with Spark Therapeutics, Pfizer has gained an FDA approval for the acquired treatment. The U.S. regulator has endorsed Beqvez for adults with the bleeding disorder hemophilia B.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 22, 2024

According to Scott Soefje, PharmD, understanding nuances across sites of care can help health care providers optimize patient care delivery while ensuring financial viability across all settings.

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