Drug Topics

JUNE 22, 2023

The Act4Biosimilars Action Plan aims to highlight key challenges preventing patient access to biosimilars and outline steps to help overcome them.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 20, 2023

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has granted an emergency use listing (EUL) to SK bioscience’s Covid-19 vaccine, SKYCovione. SKYCovione is a self-assembled nanoparticle vaccine and the 12th Covid-19 vaccine to receive a EUL from the regulator. Developed using pharmaceutical company GSK’s pandemic adjuvant, the vaccine targets the receptor-binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

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PhRMA

JUNE 20, 2023

As technology continues to rapidly advance, it’s important for regulatory agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to keep pace and adopt new technologies and approaches to support its public health mission and ultimately, better serve patients.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 20, 2023

A recent review evaluated possible approaches for new vaccines targeting respiratory viruses.

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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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PhRMA

JUNE 22, 2023

Research doesn’t end once a medicine is first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Researchers often spend years after an initial approval exploring and obtaining approval of new indications for medicines to treat other patient populations desperate for new treatment options. Patients with cancer or rare diseases often depend on this post-approval research.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

A pair of new reports released this week allege that HCA Healthcare policies are encouraging staff to transition more patients to palliative and end-of-life care, thereby increasing churn and boost | Two reports, one based on dozens of employee interviews and the other on policies and discharge statistics, paint a picture of internal policies encouraging transfers to boost quality metrics and free up hospital beds.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 22, 2023

A study found that pharmacists possessed moderate to low knowledge scores when it came to statements tackling biosimilars.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 22, 2023

Pharmacists play key roles in performing comprehensive patient reviews, reducing polypharmacy.

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PharmaVoice

JUNE 20, 2023

As the fallout of the Aduhelm approval continues, scrutiny of the speedier pathway has increased and the pressure is on to close a key gap in the regulation.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2023

A counterfeit medication was reportedly purchased at a retail pharmacy, appearing to have contained another type of diabetes medication that led to an adverse reaction.

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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.

IDStewardship

JUNE 18, 2023

In this article the story of an infectious diseases podcasts is discussed – IDpodcasts. Authored By: Richard L Oehler, MD Co-founder and Webmaster of ID Podcasts Platforms University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA Article Posted 19 June 2023 In 2007, the University of South Florida Division of Infectious Diseases (ID) was looking for a way to archive and webcast live medical presentations given by its ID faculty.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 23, 2023

The Protect Patient Access to Pharmacies Act will help to secure Medicare patients’ freedom to receive medications and care from the pharmacy of their choice.

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STAT

JUNE 23, 2023

Vertex Pharmaceuticals said Friday that, over a year after receiving the company’s stem-cell therapy, two type 1 diabetes patients no longer need to take insulin injections and saw stark reductions in a biological marker of disease.  The results, presented at the American Diabetes Association conference in San Diego, bolstered experts’ hopes that the treatment could provide a functional cure for some patients.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2023

Pharmacists can recognize evidence of successful interventions and learn how to integrate them into their own practice.

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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 Healthcare

JUNE 22, 2023

Physician-owned general acute care hospitals charge less than other non-physician-owned facilities in their region for several common shoppable care services, according to a new analysis published | A new analysis of competing hospitals' published prices adds fuel to the debate over whether Congress should lift the Affordable Care Act's ban on new physician-owned hospitals.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 21, 2023

The first RSV vaccines were approved by the FDA earlier this year.

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STAT

JUNE 23, 2023

Father’s Day weekend was anything but calm on Twitter, which erupted as vaccine expert Peter Hotez was challenged online to a debate by podcaster and former reality TV host Joe Rogan. Rogan’s challenge began when Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine and vaccine expert, tweeted his  concern about Rogan’s three-hour interview with longtime anti-vaccine activist  and presidential candidate Robert F.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 22, 2023

Even after second application attempt, Intercept’s Ocaliva wasn’t the fatty liver disease breakthrough that the company had hoped it would be. | Even after second application attempt, Intercept’s Ocaliva wasn’t the fatty liver disease breakthrough that the company had hoped it would be. Intercept is now swinging into restructuring mode, and the NASH baton passes on to Madrigal Pharma.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 22, 2023

Treatment with lisocabtagene maraleucel led to strong and durable response rates with little serious adverse effects in patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 21, 2023

Antiobesity medications are considered to be 'vanity drugs' by many private insurers, and the refusal to cover obesity treatment is counterproductive because of obesity's many health consequences.

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STAT

JUNE 21, 2023

For years, public health guidance about opioid overdoses has been relatively simple: Administer naloxone , then call 911. But the days of simply spraying naloxone into an overdose victim’s nose, then watching that person resume breathing and wake up within minutes, are over.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 22, 2023

The EMA is scrutinizing GLP-1s, raising a safety signal about the risk that drugs from Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and other companies could cause cancer.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 21, 2023

Antibiotics that were found to be most commonly associated with clostridium difficile infection are piperacillin/tazobactam, meropenem, vancomycin, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, and levofloxacin, according to a recent study.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 21, 2023

Beauty and household items topped the list of what customers want to buy in the pharmacy.

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STAT

JUNE 22, 2023

When I was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy 20 years ago, there was no hope. The guidance the diagnosing doctor gave my parents was simple: Love your child as much as you can now because he won’t be here very long. That was the inspiration that my mom needed to start CureDuchenne. Her intention — our whole family’s intention — was to cure this disease so no other parents would have to go through the same traumatic prognosis.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 20, 2023

Used by Egyptians 35 centuries ago as a remedy for inflammation, colchicine was found over the ages to be effective against a variety of maladies including gout, dropsy and familial Mediterranean f | Agepha Pharma, a family-owned company based in Slovakia, has gained an FDA approval for Lodoco, which becomes the first drug to target cardiovascular inflammation.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2023

More than 4 times as many people who used the app quit smoking compared to a traditional support service.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

Even in the face of substantial headwinds, dealmaking in the healthcare industry hasn't fallen off, according to a new analysis from PwC. | Even in the face of substantial headwinds, dealmaking in the healthcare industry hasn't fallen off, according to a new analysis from PwC.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Last year, after a string of high-profile trial failures , the Huntington’s disease community got positive news in the form of very early data from an experimental gene therapy for the rare neurodegenerative condition. On Wednesday, however, the company behind the drug released updated figures that were more mixed — even befuddling. The study from Uniqure, a Dutch biotech, randomized early stage Huntington’s patients to receive low-dose treatment, a high-dose treatment, or a

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 23, 2023

Generative Health: A new standard of care Mike.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2023

Standard prediction models that assess an individual’s risk of developing dementia and how to prevent it are limited in their ability to do so, showing high error rates and a higher chance of receiving a false-positive result, according to a recent study.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 22, 2023

Ochsner Health and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are partnering to build an integrated cancer care program in southeastern Louisiana, the organizations announced Thursday. | The first phase of the new collaboration will see cancer patients at seven of Ochsner's southeast Louisiana facilities become eligible for breaking clinical trials.

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JUNE 20, 2023

I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery.

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