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Vaccine Update: What Pharmacists Need to Know About ACIP’s New Guidelines

Drug Topics

Jean-Venable R. Goode, PharmD, director of the PGY1 Community Based Residency Program at Virginia Commonwealth University, discussed the new vaccine guidelines from ACIP.

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How Pharmacies Can Use Marketing Tools to Sell Their LTC Services

Drug Topics

Lindsay Constantino, president and cofounder of Centennial Pharmacy Services, an LTC pharmacy network, talks about how pharmacies can effectively market their services.

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When Vets Send Patients to Independent Pharmacies, Everyone Can Benefit

Drug Topics

When pet parents fill a prescription online, they lose the opportunity to consult with a pharmacist.

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Actor and epilepsy advocate Greg Grunberg wants the world to ‘talk about it’

PharmaVoice

The actor of “Heroes” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” fame is starring in another role as a patient advocate for people with epilepsy.

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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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What Are Pharmacy Students Up To These Days Anyways? – A Look At The ChatRx Podcast

IDStewardship

In this article the students from the University of Florida discuss why they started the ChatRx podcast and what their goals are for their new endeavor. Written By: Eisha Ludtke, Pharm.D. Candidate 2024 & Lucas Zhou, Pharm.D. Candidate 2024 Article Posted October 2024 Hello Readers of IDstewardship! My name is Eisha Ludtke, and I am a 4th year pharmacy student at the University of Florida (UF).

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Artificial Intelligence Helps Simplify Managed Care Pharmacy Workflow, Processes

Pharmacy Times

Artificial intelligence and machine learning can significantly benefit managed care pharmacy, specifically in contract reading and interpretation.

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Has the science of anti-aging caught up with the dream of a longer life?

PharmaVoice

Billionaire investors and a new crop of longevity biotechs are betting big money on a lifespan-altering tipping point.

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Researchers try to tease out possible ties between long Covid and menopause

STAT

When she stopped getting her period in March 2022, Daryn Schwartz wasn’t especially concerned. At 42, she had recently come off birth control, and figured her cycles were still adjusting. When it hadn’t come back by the summer, she sought gynecological care, but was told to wait it out. So she did, with no changes. She was having other symptoms, too — fatigue, chronic pain, and difficulty focusing.

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Expert: Celebrating Pharmacists’ Role in Health Care, How the Profession Has Changed

Pharmacy Times

The assistant program director at Mayo Clinic discusses the significance of pharmacists’ role in health care, changes throughout the industry, and her passion for mentoring pharmaceutical students.

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In the Opioid Epidemic, Treatment Challenges Still Persist

Drug Topics

Despite societal need, stigma around MAT and MOUD still exists.

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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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The FDA might yank cold medicines from shelves — and that could be just the beginning

PharmaVoice

Phenylephrine’s future is up in the air with an FDA committee saying it’s not effective and a class action lawsuit alleging false advertising. What comes next could have big repercussions.

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The fight for control of methadone, addiction treatment’s ‘miracle molecule’

STAT

A doctor, a patient advocate, and the most powerful figure in the methadone treatment industry presented competing visions for the future of American addiction medicine this week — a conversation that touched on stigma, patients’ rights, and a stark divide in health provider attitudes toward patients with addiction. The debate centered on a single question: whether U.S. doctors should be able to prescribe methadone, a medication used to treat addiction to drugs like fentanyl and he

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Pharmacists Play Important Role in Behavioral Health Care, Preventing Over- or Under-Prescribing

Pharmacy Times

There are 3 main medication-related issues for mental health care, which includes polypharmacy, nonadherence to prescribed medication, and underutilization of medications.

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Veterinarians and Pharmacists Discuss Challenges Around Pet Medications

Drug Topics

Veterinarians and veterinarian pharmacists weigh in on issues around working with pet medications.

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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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The PharmaVoice 100: Rare disease warriors

PharmaVoice

Biopharma leaders pounding away at rare diseases so patients with few other options can have healthier lives.

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Zuckerberg and Chan announce a New York biohub to build disease-fighting cellular machines

STAT

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician and philanthropist Priscilla Chan, announced on Wednesday plans to invest $250 million over 10 years to establish a new “biohub” in New York City focused on building a new class of cellular machines that can surveil the body and snuff out disease. The new initiative, publicly revealed at the 2023 STAT Summit and previewed exclusively to STAT, is the latest program from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, or CZI, a company the coup

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AI Is Revolutionizing Oncology With a Quantum Leap in Cancer Treatment

Pharmacy Times

AI systems can detect minute anomalies often missed by the human eye, reducing false negatives.

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Maternal RSV Vaccines: Updates for Health Care Providers

Drug Topics

Maternal immunization can prevent RSV in infants.

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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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From the rainforest to Wall Street — Jaguar Health’s big play for revitalization

PharmaVoice

A pharma with a massive collection of rainforest-derived plants needs a regulatory win to overcome last year’s financial decline.

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Hyloris wins painkiller approval amidst amplified anti-opioid efforts

Pharmaceutical Technology

The FDA approved Hyloris’s non-opioid painkiller as the agency increases efforts to mitigate an opioid crisis.

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Study Results Indicate Precision Therapies Make Up Approximately Half of FDA-Approved Oncology Drugs

Pharmacy Times

This finding underlines the need for methods that address multiple genomic alterations and targeted therapies effective in tumors driven by variations in suppressor genes or transcription factors.

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Preparation, Cooperation Key to Successfully Navigate DEA Audits and Investigations

Drug Topics

An ounce of prevention is well worth a pound of cure when it comes to DEA investigations.

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For women’s health, Organon changed the financial language

PharmaVoice

Organon is partnering with governments, banks, NGOs and investors on programs to improve women’s health through results-based financing.

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Serotonin levels are depleted in long Covid patients, study says, pointing to a potential cause for ‘brain fog’

STAT

If you’ve been following the mystery of long Covid since it emerged in 2020, you’ll recall interferons and serotonin have been clues from the start as combatants in the body’s prolonged battles against the virus. Theories about why symptoms persist long after the acute infection has cleared often point to two suspects: viral reservoirs where SARS-CoV-2 lingers and inflammation sparked by the infection that doesn’t subside.

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Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Is Life-Changing for Veterans With PTSD, Yet Access to These Therapies Remain Outside the United States

Pharmacy Times

In the clinical setting, psychedelic medicine has promise as a safe and efficacious treatment for PTSD, TBIs, and other mental health issues.

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Rethinking STI Testing Through Partnerships Between Community Pharmacy and Public Health

Drug Topics

Community pharmacists and their colleagues in the public health space can work together to increase STI testing and treatment in at-risk groups.

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Lawmakers mull lifting ban on physician-owned hospitals as doc lobbying groups claim major cost savings

Fierce Healthcare

A new analysis backed by doctor lobbying groups suggest that physician-owned hospitals could have fueled about $1.1 billion in savings across 20 of Medicare’s most expensive conditions in 2019— tho | Lobbying groups in favor of overturning the ban on new physician-owned hospitals outlined broad cost savings if 2019's Medicare patients were treated at such facilities instead of a traditional hospital.

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Is there a nursing shortage in the United States? Depends on who you ask

STAT

Hospitals are frustrated with a nationwide nursing shortage that’s only gotten worse since the pandemic. In 2022, the American Hospital Association quoted an estimate that half a million nurses would leave the field by the end of that year, bringing the total shortage to 1.1 million. At the same time, National Nurses United insists there isn’t a nurse shortage at all.

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Novel Oral Medication Reduces Risk of Death by 76% in Patients With ALK-Positive Lung Cancer

Pharmacy Times

The statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in disease-free survival is “practice-changing” and may represent a “paradigm shift” in treatment, according to experts.

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Attract New Patients, Increase Sales With These Pharmacy Remodeling Tips

Drug Topics

Remodeling your pharmacy is about much more than a new paint job and getting rid of old carpets.

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With COVID sales in free-fall, Pfizer slashes revenue forecast by $9B and preps for major cost cuts

Fierce Pharma

As the coronavirus outbreak has shifted to the endemic phase, drugmakers have warned of a drop in demand for COVID-19 products, with the impact coming into focus during the fall vaccination season. | Pfizer has slashed its 2023 revenue projection by $9 billion because of declining demand for COVID products. The company now expects sales to reach between $58 billion and $61 billion, down from a prior range of $67 billion to $70 billion.

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STAT+: It’s time for the FDA to halt Cassava Sciences’ Alzheimer’s clinical trials

STAT

The Food and Drug Administration should halt Cassava Sciences’ ongoing clinical trials in Alzheimer’s disease. That, and other thoughts on the fallout from the City University of New York investigation that raised serious doubts about the science underpinning the company’s experimental drug simufilam. Patient safety is paramount to the FDA, so stopping Cassava’s two Phase 3 studies is the ethically correct thing to do.

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FDA Approves Pentavalent Vaccine for Most Common Serogroups That Cause Meningococcal Disease

Pharmacy Times

Penbraya (Pfizer Inc) is the first and only approved pentavalent vaccine that confers protection against the most common meningococcal serogroups—A, B, C, W-135, and Y, in individuals 10 through 25 years of age.

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