Sat.Dec 09, 2023 - Fri.Dec 15, 2023

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Opinion: Listen: When do tests hurt more than help?

STAT

Manil Suri and Daniel Morgan are an unusual team: Manil is a mathematics professor and author (of both fiction and nonfiction ), while Daniel is a physician and professor of epidemiology, public health, and infectious diseases. But — in what they say is a typical “Smalltimore” moment — both a neighbor and a student had told them they should work together because of a shared interest in false positives on diagnostics tests.

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FDA Approves First Gene Therapies for Treatment in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease

Drug Topics

The approvals mark a turning point in the ongoing effort to manage sickle cell disease, the most common inherited red blood cell disorder in the United States.

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Study suggests PBMs are gaming pharmacy system to overcharge for drugs

PharmaVoice

Markups for generics can be as high as 7,000%, the researchers said.

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Five Ways Preceptors May Integrate Generative Artificial Intelligence Programs Into Pharmacy Education Learning Experiences

IDStewardship

In this article a clinical pharmacist discusses ways that preceptors may integrate generative artificial intelligence programs into pharmacy education for student and resident learning experiences. Authored By: Timothy P. Gauthier, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCIDP Generative artificial intelligence was NOT used to create this text. Although, maybe it would be better if I had used it!

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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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From Fear to Passion: Embracing the Unexpected Journey into Pediatric Pharmacy with Dr. Stephen Small!

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

An Unexpected Path Deciding exactly what you want to do or where you want to go in life is difficult. What if you don’t like where you end up? What if you change your mind? Dr. Stephen Small is a prime example of what it looks like to not only change your mind but to embrace the unexpected. Dr. Small is a pediatric clinical pharmacist specialist but if you had asked him years earlier, he would not have thought that he would end up working with children, “Pediatrics was actually the only specialt

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Understanding Adverse Events With BCMA-, Non-BCMA-Targeting Bispecific Antibodies in Multiple Myeloma

Drug Topics

Understanding the adverse event profile of bispecific antibodies can aid treatment selection and improve patient outcomes.

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Study: Stem Cell Therapy Shows Improvement in QoL for Those With Heart Failure

Pharmacy Times

Investigators also found that the results demonstrated lower death and hospitalization rates for those with advanced heart failure treated with cell therapy.

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NIH panel calls for fewer, better-paid postdocs in bid to halt loss of scientists to industry

STAT

A National Institutes of Health working group on Friday recommended a sizable increase in salaries of postdoctoral researchers and a cap on the length of the position in an effort to secure the future of academia’s research workforce amid an unprecedented exodus of young life scientists to industry. The group called for raising minimum postdoc salaries to $70,000 beginning next year — an increase of more than 20% — and adjusting wages for annual inflation, as well as limitin

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Daratumumab Plus VRd Improves Progression Free Survival in Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma

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Results of the phase 3 PERSEUS study were presented at the 2023 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

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A former CDC head on key R&D areas, public trust and if we learned anything from COVID-19

PharmaVoice

Dr. Julie Gerberding, now president and CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, shares lessons learned from a long career in academic, public health and industry.

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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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Pharmacy Automation Can Be a Means to Drug Safety

Pharmacy Times

In the pharmacy, time is the ultimate value-add.

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Gene therapy offered this 7-year-old freedom. The price: a grueling year

STAT

PHILADELPHIA — The meds Shelby Campbell needed for her rare blood disorder stopped working just after her sixth birthday. She lost her appetite and was often doubled over in pain. She continued getting blood transfusions but her doctors struggled to manage side effects that threatened her organs. By the time she turned 7, the doctors told her parents they had to do something — soon.

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CDC: Vaccine Coverage for Respiratory Viruses Needs to Increase

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Immunizations against influenza, COVID-19, and RSV are lower than they were this time last year, and hospitalizations have increased across all age groups.

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Oncology drugmakers seek the sweet spot between efficacy and tolerability

PharmaVoice

The FDA is now pushing companies to find the optimal dose early in development to minimize harm.

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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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Litfulo From Pfizer Inc

Pharmacy Times

The approval carries the limitation that ritlecitinib should not be used in combination with biologic immunomodulators, cyclosporine, other Janus kinase inhibitors, or other potent immunosuppressants.

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STAT+: Humana used algorithm in ‘fraudulent scheme’ to deny care to Medicare Advantage patients, lawsuit alleges

STAT

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the health insurance giant Humana illegally used an algorithm to prematurely cut off payment for rehabilitation care after patients suffered serious illnesses and injuries. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Western Kentucky, argues Humana’s reliance on the algorithm, known as nH Predict, was part of a fraudulent scheme to reap a windfall by systematically denying claims to desperately ill people

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Mediterranean Diet Could Help Reduce Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

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The mediterranean diet targets inflammation, oxidative stress, and hormonal balance mechanisms, which are also associated with female reproductive outcomes.

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What’s being done to prepare for the next pandemic?

PharmaVoice

Will the world be ready when a new outbreak hits? Here’s a look at the efforts to combat emerging viral threats.

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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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Alternative Funding Programs Affect Our Most Vulnerable Patient Populations

Pharmacy Times

AFPs limit access to provider-prescribed specialty medications.

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House passes site-neutral policy, transparency, PBM reform package

STAT

WASHINGTON — The House passed a relatively major health care package late Monday, an end-of-year victory after the same policies had to be yanked from consideration in September because they lacked bipartisan support. Though the package is unlikely to pass the Senate and become law as-is, its advancing through the House does make each included policy more attractive for a potential government funding deal, as lawmakers draw closer to the Jan. 19 deadline to fund the government and extend

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MAPS Submits NDA for First-Ever Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for PTSD

Drug Topics

Despite affecting 13 million Americans annually, existing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatments offer modest relief and more effective approaches are needed.

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Bristol Myers’ commercial chief on the industry’s ‘seismic’ changes over 27 years and what’s coming next

PharmaVoice

Adam Lenkowsky’s unique vantage point on the major transformations shaping BMS and the industry as a whole.

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Golidocitinib Demonstrates Significant Survival Benefits For Patients with Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma

Pharmacy Times

Median overall survival is set to be more than 2 years, which is more than double the overall survival of current frontline therapies.

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STAT+: With big ambition — and a family name to match — Reed Jobs charts his own course in biotech

STAT

In the months after his father died of complications from pancreatic cancer, Reed Jobs found it difficult to go back to life as it was before. He was a sophomore studying biology at Stanford University and, up until October 2011, had always planned to pursue a career in cancer research. His father had been diagnosed when he was a preteen and he had spent much of his adolescence thinking about treatments and clinical trials, like many people whose parents are diagnosed with the disease during the

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Combined Influenza, COVID-19 Vaccines Offer Strongest Protection for Children

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While either vaccine offers some protection, having both vaccines offers the strongest level of protection against hospitalization and severe complications like MIS-C, and death.

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Done deal: Pfizer completes $43B acquisition of Seagen, doubling its oncology pipeline

Fierce Pharma

Pfizer’s $43 billion acquisition of Seagen is in the books, the company said on Thursda | It’s a done deal. Pfizer’s $43 billion acquisition of Seagen is in the books, as it becomes the largest M&A transaction in the biopharma industry since AbbVie snatched up Allergan for $63 billion in 2019. The buyout of the antibody-drug conjugate specialist has doubled Pfizer’s pipeline to 60 programs.

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Moderate Intensity Exercise May Improve Cognition Following a Night of Poor Sleep

Pharmacy Times

Moderate cycling improved cognitive function in patients who got partial or no sleep.

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Opinion: U.S. medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 million of their patients

STAT

Oliver McGowan was 18 years old when he was hospitalized in England with recurrent seizures and pneumonia. He was autistic, and he and his parents had one specific request for the medical team: no antipsychotic medications. When he had taken them in the past, they made his seizures worse and had devastating effects on his mood. Despite the family’s vehement protests, doctors gave him an antipsychotic.

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COVID-19 Vaccines Crucial to Protect Vulnerable Populations During Holiday Season

Drug Topics

A Q&A with Robert Walker, MD, senior vice president and chief medical officer at Novavax.

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Fees charged by hospitals for colonoscopy procedures 50% higher than surgical centers, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

A new price comparison study finds over 50% higher facility fees for commercially insured colonoscopies performed in hospitals rather than ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), suggesting that “money | The analysis of commercial payers' price transparency data shows that “money has apparently been left on the table” for employers and consumers, the study's senior author says.

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Researchers Find Allergy Medication Could Aid Treatment for Lung Cancer

Pharmacy Times

Immune cells in lung cancer are connected to allergic conditions found in eczema and asthma.

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Methadone clinics spar with addiction doctors on bill that would widen access

STAT

Lawmakers on Tuesday will debate an addiction medicine proposal that would have been considered unthinkable just years ago: giving a select group of doctors the power to prescribe methadone directly to patients. With no end in sight to the deadly U.S. drug overdose crisis, which claims nearly 110,000 lives a year, many advocates have zeroed in on methadone as a potential game changer.

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Maternal Cannabis Use During Pregnancy Associated With Adverse Health Outcomes

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A recent study found that cannabis exposure over the course a pregnancy was associated with small-for-gestational-age birth, medically indicated preterm birth, stillbirth, or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

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