PhRMA
AUGUST 3, 2022
As members of Congress continue to push forward misguided government price-setting policies under the guise of “negotiation,” patient advocates across the country have been speaking out in local media outlets about the potential consequences.
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 4, 2022
American Diabetes Association updates recommendations regarding SGLT-2 inhibitors, GLP-1 RA, and finerenone for cardiovascular and renal comorbidities.
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pharmaphorum
AUGUST 3, 2022
We all know that real-world data (RWD) from electronic health records (EHR) could boost clinical trial efficiency and improve patient outcomes – so what’s holding us back? It’s been more than two decades since the ground-breaking potential of using electronic health records (EHR) to inform clinical research was first mooted. Since then, progress has been slow, but the industry now has everything it needs to close the feedback loop between science, evidence, and care, said speakers at a recent Co
European Pharmaceutical Review
AUGUST 1, 2022
Dubbed Disability Diversity in Clinical Trials (DDiCT), the initiative aims to provide recommendations on how to improve access, engagement, speed of enrolment and participation of people with disabilities in clinical trials. The goal is to “ensure all patient groups are reflective of the real-world population and aligned with the epidemiology of the disease studies,” a statement said.
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
PhRMA
AUGUST 5, 2022
The narratives being built around the Senate’s latest price setting proposal frame it as a bill intended to lower drug prices for patients and address rising inflation. But those narratives aren’t the facts. Here, we bust those myths.
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 5, 2022
Patients can better understand the most current recommendations for breast cancer screening with the new NCCN Guidelines for Patients®: Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis.
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PharmExec
AUGUST 5, 2022
Court Horncastle discusses how his career led him to work with treating COPD and asthma.
PhRMA
AUGUST 4, 2022
I recently joined PhRMA board members in penning the letter below to Congress, urging them to abandon their latest drug pricing proposal.
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 3, 2022
Effective pharmacy managers help everyone to see the proverbial forest through the trees.
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 1, 2022
Moderna has entered a new supply contract with the US Government to deliver 66 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine booster candidate, mRNA-1273.222. The contract comprises a $1.74bn award to produce and supply these vaccine doses and options to further procure up to 234 million additional doses of the company’s booster candidates. A bivalent booster candidate, the mRNA-1273.222 vaccine comprises Spikevax along with the Omicron BA.4/5 strain messenger RNA (mRNA).
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.
PharmaVoice
AUGUST 3, 2022
How these latest executive personnel changes are impacting the industry.
PhRMA
AUGUST 2, 2022
In case you missed it, Saturday, July 30, marked the anniversary of Medicare. For 57 years, Medicare has helped pay for medical care for Americans over the age of 65, as well as younger Americans with certain medical needs. To celebrate, we are reflecting on the history of the program that benefits more than 60 million Americans. Unfortunately, some members of Congress are considering significant changes to Medicare that could have a devastating effect on millions of Americans.
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 3, 2022
Findings in a new trial show that dietary supplementation of resistant starch has the potential to decrease people’s risk of certain types of gastrointestinal cancers.
pharmaphorum
AUGUST 2, 2022
Roche’s Tecentriq could become the first drug in the PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor class to be approved in a subcutaneous formulation, after the new version matched the original intravenous formulation in a phase 3 trial. The results of the IMscin001 study found that an injection of Tecentriq under the skin taking just a few minutes was non-inferior to a 30 to 60-minute infusion with the IV version in terms of pharmacokinetics – how the active ingredient behaves in the body after administration.
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.
PharmaVoice
AUGUST 2, 2022
How Seed Health is transforming the microbiome therapeutic market with its pharma-focused drug development approach.
European Pharmaceutical Review
AUGUST 3, 2022
Ph. Eur. The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Commission has established the mRNAVAC Working Party to begin working on quality standards to support the emerging field of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. The newly created Working Party’s first task will be to develop a consolidated strategy for future standards addressing these vaccines and their components.
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 1, 2022
Many companies overlook the power that workplace culture can have on employee wellness and instead, focus relentlessly on financial metrics.
pharmaphorum
AUGUST 2, 2022
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 296 million people globally live with hepatitis B, with most unaware of their infection. Africa is the worst impacted region for hepatitis B with a prevalence of 7.5 percent compared to 0.5 percent in the Americas. Hepatitis C impacts an estimated 58 million people across the globe. Again, Africa is the worst-impacted region with a prevalence of 0.8 percent while the Americas see a prevalence of 0.5 percent.
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PharmaVoice
AUGUST 2, 2022
EverythingALS aims to speed drug development through improved diagnostics.
European Pharmaceutical Review
AUGUST 1, 2022
Researchers have developed microparticles that can be tuned to deliver their payload at different time points. According to the authors, the technology could enable the creation of “self-boosting” vaccines that only need to be administered once, which could be particularly beneficial for childhood vaccinations in regions with limited access to medical care.
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 2, 2022
Over the next few years, undiagnosed breast cancer cases may add to the demand for more rigorous end-stage treatments and therapeutics.
pharmaphorum
AUGUST 3, 2022
Gilead Sciences’ investment in oncology has started to provide a solid return, with sales of cancer therapies breaching the $500 million threshold for the first time in the second quarter. Cell therapies Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) and Tecartus (brexucabtagene autoleucel) for lymphoma and leukaemia together brought in $368 million, up 68%, while antibody drug conjugate Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan) rose 79% to $159 million thanks to increased uptake in triple-negative breast canc
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 2, 2022
Samsung Biologics and GreenLight Biosciences have completed the initial commercial-scale engineering run for their messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccine under their manufacturing collaboration. Last year, the companies entered a strategic collaboration. Subsequently, technology transfer as well as scale-up from the lab bench to the commercial facility of Samsung were carried out in a period of seven months.
European Pharmaceutical Review
AUGUST 1, 2022
The joint Big Data Steering Group of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) has published a third workplan, setting actions to be delivered by 2025. According to EMA, the new plan will further enhance the efficient integration of data analysis into the regulatory evaluation of medicinal products. “Using novel technologies and the evidence generated from big data will benefit public health by accelerating medicine development, improving treatment outcomes an
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 4, 2022
The suggested wave 4 of the opioid crisis saw high opioid-involved overdose death rates in urban counties and high acceleration of overdose deaths in rural counties, indicating that the opioid crisis worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
pharmaphorum
AUGUST 4, 2022
Two phase 3 trials of Merck & Co’s Keytruda in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and advanced liver cancer have ended in failure, proving once again that cancer immunotherapy studies can be a hit-and-miss affair. The CRPC trial – KEYNOTE-921 – looked at the combination of Keytruda (pembrolizumab) with docetaxel in more than 1,000 patients who had not been treated with chemotherapy before, but who had seen disease progression despite earlier treatment with an anti-h
PhRMA
AUGUST 3, 2022
Last week, we examined ways the latest drug pricing proposal will undermine patient access to medicines , American medical innovation and our health care system as a whole. But there is another consequence that we can’t leave out: the impact this proposal will have on the biopharmaceutical industry’s contributions to American jobs and the economy.
European Pharmaceutical Review
AUGUST 5, 2022
A single injection of the investigational L9LS monoclonal antibody (mAb) has been found to be safe and highly protective in US adults exposed to the malaria parasite. The results of the Phase I US National Institutes of Health (NIH) study were published in The New England Journal of Medicine. In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 240 million people had malaria, the mosquito-borne disease spread by Plasmodium parasites, and that it caused about 627,000 deaths.
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 2, 2022
Health care facilities in counties with higher Black populations and in rural areas were less likely to serve as COVID-19 vaccination facilities during May 2021, indicating disparities in vaccine distribution.
pharmaphorum
AUGUST 1, 2022
Sarepta is pressing forward with a bold plan to file with the FDA for accelerated approval of its gene therapy SRP-9001 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in the next few months, with a view to making it available in sometime around the middle of 2023. The US biotech – which already has three antisense drugs for DMD on the market – had said earlier it was planning to delay the application into 2023, so the new announcement marks an acceleration of its plans.
PharmaVoice
AUGUST 4, 2022
Companies like Cost Plus Drugs and DiRx can bring generics directly to consumers at a fraction of the price, but whether it’s enough to fix the inflated U.S. healthcare system is yet to be seen.
European Pharmaceutical Review
AUGUST 5, 2022
Clinigen Healthcare is recalling three batches of Mexiletine hydrochloride hard capsules, indicated for the treatment of documented arrhythmias, due to a potential risk of under- or overdose, which could have consequences for the safety of patients. The Class 1 Medicines Recall Notification was published by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 2, 2022
Using computational methods, the development of an HIV therapy cocktail based on the virus’ genetics was found to increase the efficacy of treatment.
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