Drug Topics
OCTOBER 15, 2023
Jean-Venable R. Goode, PharmD, director of the PGY1 Community Based Residency Program at Virginia Commonwealth University, discussed the new vaccine guidelines from ACIP.
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 15, 2023
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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Drug Topics
OCTOBER 19, 2023
When pet parents fill a prescription online, they lose the opportunity to consult with a pharmacist.
IDStewardship
OCTOBER 18, 2023
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).
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
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Artificial intelligence and machine learning can significantly benefit managed care pharmacy, specifically in contract reading and interpretation.
STAT
OCTOBER 20, 2023
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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Pharmaceutical Technology
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The FDA approved Hyloris’s non-opioid painkiller as the agency increases efforts to mitigate an opioid crisis.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 19, 2023
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.
STAT
OCTOBER 20, 2023
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
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Despite societal need, stigma around MAT and MOUD still exists.
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 Pharma
OCTOBER 16, 2023
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.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 19, 2023
There are 3 main medication-related issues for mental health care, which includes polypharmacy, nonadherence to prescribed medication, and underutilization of medications.
STAT
OCTOBER 18, 2023
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
Drug Topics
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Veterinarians and veterinarian pharmacists weigh in on issues around working with pet medications.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 19, 2023
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.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 16, 2023
AI systems can detect minute anomalies often missed by the human eye, reducing false negatives.
STAT
OCTOBER 16, 2023
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.
Fierce Pharma
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Up until this point, immune checkpoint inhibitors have been allowed to treat early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) either before or after surgery. | Thanks to a new FDA approval for Merck's Keytruda, a continuous immunotherapy regimen around surgery is now available for patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. The drug's label already includes an overall survival win from a key trial.
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PharmaVoice
OCTOBER 19, 2023
The actor of “Heroes” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” fame is starring in another role as a patient advocate for people with epilepsy.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 19, 2023
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.
STAT
OCTOBER 16, 2023
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.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Seniors are forced to navigate a convoluted Medicare Advantage (MA) landscape for healthcare coverage, often only to be denied care, experts told legislators during a Senate Finance Committee heari | Senators and experts agreed Wednesday that marketing practices from Medicare Advantage plans are often overwhelming for seniors.
Fierce Pharma
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Editor's note: This is an evolving story. Please check back on Oct. 23 when the full data of MARIPOSA are presented at ESMO 2023. | A drug combination from Johnson & Johnson outperformed AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso in slowing the worsening of newly diagnosed lung cancer. But it’ll take more than a tumor progression win to dethrone the EGFR king.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 18, 2023
In the clinical setting, psychedelic medicine has promise as a safe and efficacious treatment for PTSD, TBIs, and other mental health issues.
STAT
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Lotte Bjerre Knudsen was still getting used to all the empty benches in her lab when she ran into a tall man with black wide-framed glasses in the hallway: Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, the new head of research at the Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, and her new boss. He was just one of many changes she had found upon returning from maternity leave earlier that week — along with the departures of nearly every colleague with whom she had spent the last three years struggling to create a potential
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 17, 2023
SEATTLE—Amazon Pharmacy is launching drone delivery for prescription medication orders with the service initially taking flight in College Station, Texas, the company announced Wednesday. | SEATTLE—Amazon Pharmacy is launching drone delivery for prescription medication orders with the service initially taking flight in College Station, Texas, the company announced Wednesday.
Fierce Pharma
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Editor's Note: Please check back on Oct. 22 when the full data of EV-302 are presented at ESMO 2023. | The results are in for a phase 3 bladder cancer trial assessing the combination of Seagen and Astellas' Padcev, plus Merck's Keytruda, versus standard of care chemotherapy. The figures indicate that the combo can be transformative in the indication.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 20, 2023
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.
STAT
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Stephen Hemsley, the former CEO of UnitedHealth Group and its current board chair, also owns an investment firm that manages his own portfolio of UnitedHealth stock and oversees other wealthy individuals’ accounts that have held shares of companies that have direct business with or indirect ties to United. It’s an unusual arrangement for someone in such a prominent role at one of the largest health care corporations in the world, according to several experts in securities and corpo
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 19, 2023
There is a lot of buzz about the use of artificial intelligence to help with clinical documentation and administrative tasks. | Centerstone, a large nonprofit mental health system, is working with tech company Lyssn to leverage its AI-powered platform to train its team of more than 3,000 clinicians in the latest evidence-based practices. The partnership also includes developing new solutions and long-term revenue sharing.
Fierce Pharma
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Pfizer will cough up $2 million to settle allegations from the U.S. Department of Labor that it underpaid certain women who were employed at the company’s New York City headquarters. | The accusations centered on the company's compensation of 86 female employees in 2015 and 2016. Under the settlement with the Department of Labor, the company must also set aside $500,000 for potential future salary adjustments.
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Understanding the recommended ages for vaccination is crucial to properly advise patients and parents who have questions
STAT
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Generative AI tools, also known as large language models, are already helping doctors transcribe visits and summarize patient records. The technology behind ChatGPT, trained on vast amounts of data from the internet, made headlines when it correctly answered more than 80% of board exam questions. In July, a team at Beth Israel saw promising results when using GPT-4 during a diagnosis workshop for medical residents.
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