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5 Questions With a Pharmacist: Lea Wolsoncroft from Remedies Pharmacy

Drug Topics

In an installment of Drug Topics’ 5 Questions With a Pharmacist, Lea Wolsoncroft of Remedies Pharmacy in Hoover, Alabama, discussed what is going on in her pharmacy practice.

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Op-Ed: Lower Prescription Drug Costs, Pass PBM Reform Legislation

Pharmacy Times

Lowering prescription drug costs for patients, saving taxpayers money, helping small businesses level an anti-competitive playing field: all of this is at stake.

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Rwanda to receive experimental vaccines, therapeutics to combat Marburg outbreak

STAT

Experimental vaccines and therapeutics to combat the deadly Marburg virus will begin arriving this weekend in Rwanda, where they will be used in clinical trials expected to begin soon, a U.S. government official confirmed on Friday. There are currently no licensed vaccines or drugs to prevent or treat Marburg, a cousin of the Ebola family of viruses that transmits and causes illness in the same way as Ebola.

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Big Pharma's layoff wave in New Jersey rolls on with hundreds of J&J cuts, 57 at Bayer

Fierce Pharma

Johnson & Johnson is laying off 231 employees in New Jersey and Bayer is cutting 57 positions in the state, according to separate Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN)

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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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Senators Call on FTC to Investigate PBM Co-Manufacturing Tactic

Drug Topics

Senators Ron Wyden and Sherrod Brown wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission calling to explore yet another PBM tactic impeding competition.

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Insufficient Vitamin D Levels in Children Connected to Slow Fracture Healing Process

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists and health care providers can counsel around vitamin D supplements and natural intake to increase a child’s vitamin D consumption.

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Wyden, Brown urge FTC to investigate PBM 'co-manufacturing' arrangements

Fierce Healthcare

Two key senators are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "co-manufacturing" arrangements that they fear pharmacy benefit managers may be using to stymie competition. | Two key senators are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "co-manufacturing" arrangements that they fear pharmacy benefit managers may be using to stymie competition.

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FDA Roundup: Biosimilar Approval, Hereditary Angioedema Treatment Receives Orphan Drug Designation

Drug Topics

Check out important updates from the FDA for the week of September 30.

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Accelerated Radiation Therapy Course is Non-Inferior to Traditional Radiation in Patients Undergoing Breast Reconstruction

Pharmacy Times

The accelerated course was safe and effective and did not increase complications in patients with breast cancer post-mastectomy undergoing breast reconstruction.

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STAT+: After Cassava Alzheimer’s drug fiasco, the FDA must intervene to protect patients

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For nearly a year, my stance on Cassava Sciences and its Alzheimer’s disease drug candidate simufilam has been clear: Emerging evidence shows the drug is inert, and patients with Alzheimer’s were misled into participating in ongoing Phase 3 clinical trials, so therefore, the Food and Drug Administration must take immediate steps to protect these vulnerable people from further harm.

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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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New analysis points to troubling trends as U.S. healthcare costs rise, but health outcomes worsen

Fierce Healthcare

A new analysis points to troubling trends in the U.S. healthcare market as costs continue to rise but health outcomes are declining. | "The inputs of the U.S. healthcare system, as measured by cost, exceed the outputs, as measured by the actual value or benefits received by Americans," Sanjula Jain, Ph.D., Trilliant Health's chief research officer, said.

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Beyond Blood Glucose: Addressing Adolescent Diabetes Challenges

Drug Topics

Social pressures, physiological changes, mental health challenges, and burnout all complicate diabetes management among adolescents.

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Cologuard Plus Receives FDA Approval For Non-Invasive Colorectal Cancer Screening

Pharmacy Times

The new screening test provides an easier, convenient option for patients seeking to screen themselves for colorectal cancer.

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Q&A: NIAID’s Jeanne Marrazzo speaks on bird flu, mpox, and succeeding Anthony Fauci

STAT

A year ago last week, Jeanne Marrazzo stepped into a very big pair of shoes.  Marrazzo became the first new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in decades, taking over a job held for 38 years by Anthony Fauci, whose long-term status as a science god in Washington gave way to Covid-19 fall guy in some quarters during and after the pandemic.

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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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Gilead strikes licensing deals with 6 generics makers to boost access to long-acting HIV PrEP med

Fierce Pharma

Gilead Sciences is wasting no time in promoting worldwide access to its twice-yearly pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV candidate lenacapavir. | The company will allow six generic manufacturers to make and sell its long-acting PrEP drug, lenacapivir, in 120 resource-limited countries.

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Diabetic Emergencies Led to Decreased Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Heart Failure

Drug Topics

Researchers compared the cardiovascular outcomes of patients hospitalized for heart failure that did or did not experience diabetic emergencies.

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Study Findings Suggest Use of Fedratinib as Treatment in the Second Line for Myelofibrosis

Pharmacy Times

Fedratinib is an orally available, small molecule inhibitor of JAK-2 approved for treatment of myelofibrosis.

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New analysis reveals postpartum sterilization rates are higher among U.S. women with sickle cell

STAT

Often, women with sickle cell disease are told not to have kids. They might come to an appointment, happily pregnant, only for the doctor to tell them they shouldn’t be. They might be preparing for a scheduled C-section when their OB-GYN says that this pregnancy has gone smoothly but the next one could kill them. The illness is associated with an increased risk of serious pregnancy complications, which warrants a discussion — but sometimes that discussion can blur the line between

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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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Aspen Neuroscience, underway with Parkinson's cell therapy trial, bolsters manufacturing with new San Diego facility

Fierce Pharma

Aspen Neuroscience, underway with Parkinson's cell therapy trial, bolsters manufacturing with new San Diego facility fkansteiner Wed, 10/02/2024 - 07:31

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Influenza Vaccination and Risk of Stroke in Older Adults

Drug Topics

Researchers addressed the association between older individuals who received an influenza vaccine and their risk of stroke following vaccination.

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FDA Grants Rare Pediatric Disease Designation to MDL-101 for Congenital Muscle Dystrophy

Pharmacy Times

MDL-101 is a proposed novel precision medicine that targets the LAMA1 gene, causing LAMA2 congenital muscular dystrophy type 1a.

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Brain-computer interfaces are rapidly evolving. Here are six scientists shaping the field

STAT

Nearly 20 years after neuroscientist John Donoghue placed electrodes on Matthew Nagle’s motor cortex , allowing the man with no limb movement to control objects using his thoughts, the brain-computer interface field looks dramatically different — both the people doing the research and the technologies they are creating.  Researchers like Leigh Hochberg and Eddie Chang and big-name startups such as Synchron and Paradromics have turned what was not too long ago an arcane academi

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At-home hospital care popular with patients and clinicians, but data backing quality, costs are limited, CMS finds

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital programs providing at-home acute care are widely appreciated by patients and clinicians but still don’t have a bulletproof argument in respect to quality and costs as compared to a brick-a | A new 79-page government report on the soon-to-expire Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative outlines both clear-cut and muted wins for advocates.

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Small Doses: September 23 to September 27

Drug Topics

Check out a recap of important pharmacy news you might have missed this week, dispensed in small doses.

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Immunotherapy Evolution Continues with Innovative Approaches to Multiple Myeloma Treatment

Pharmacy Times

Experts discuss emerging targets in the immunotherapy landscape and how to improve patient outcomes through innovative approaches.

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Why a map of a fruit fly’s brain has neuroscientists ‘blown away’

STAT

Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge number of cells and cell connections. It took almost 50 labs around the world to create a new neural map, or connectome, of an adult fruit fly — the largest map of its kind, and an effort that will allow researchers to better understand the brain’s inner workings. Access to the full connectome, as published Wednesday in a series of papers in Nature , could represent a new era for neuroscience, according to some re

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Advice For New Pharmacy Interns: A White Coat Ceremony Key Note Speech

IDStewardship

Authored by: Timothy P. Gauthier, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCIDP Article Posted 30 September 2024 I recently had the honor to give a key note speech for my alma matter, Northeastern University in Boston, MA. It took me a while to put the thoughts together and I had some support from my friend Dr. Robert Kraljevich. It seems like other people might potentially benefit from reading this and learning from my 20 years of experience in the pharmacy biz… so I put it on this webpage!

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Now Trending: World Dense Breast Day, Addressing Public Health Amidst Natural Disasters

Drug Topics

Check out this recap of articles published on our sister sites during the past week.

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Small Molecule Drugs Remain Vital in Addressing Refractory Multiple Myeloma

Pharmacy Times

Small molecule agents continue to be beneficial additions to multiple myeloma treatment, even with the development of T-cell redirected therapies.

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Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda draws concern over possibility of international spread

STAT

A large outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda is drawing international concern about the possibility of spread beyond the country’s borders. The number of cases detected so far, 27 , already makes the outbreak one of the biggest involving Marburg on record. Nine of those individuals have died. There are currently no licensed vaccines to combat the disease.

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J&J's Erleada prevails over Astellas, Pfizer’s Xtandi in real-world prostate cancer study

Fierce Pharma

While they were both approved several years back to treat the same two types of prostate cancer, Astellas and Pfizer’s Xtandi has held a larger slice of the market than Johnson & Johnson’s riva | A real-world, head-to-head study of two androgen receptor pathway inhibiting (ARPI) prostate cancer drugs indicates that Johnson & Johnson’s Erleada provides an edge in overall survival versus Astellas and Pfizer’s Xtandi.

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Q&A: Impact of Stigma on Pharmacists with SUD, Importance of Mental Health Care

Drug Topics

Sara T. Thomason discuses the impact of stigma on pharmacists who are dealing with substance use disorder, the importance of mental health care, and how schools support pharmacy students dealing with addiction.

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FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to LQT-1213 to Treat Patients With Long QT Syndrome

Pharmacy Times

The treatment aims to reduce prolonged QTc interval in patients with long QT syndrome.

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