Pharmacy Times
MAY 23, 2024
Clinical trials are using AI to handle large and complex volumes of data to develop oncology, cardiovascular, and neurologic compounds and to integrate molecular and imaging data.
Drug Topics
MAY 23, 2024
Recent research on food allergy highlights the mental health concerns of people living with a food allergy, how nutritional intervention can help children with food allergy, and that peanut introduction can reduce rates of new allergy in high-risk infants.
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PharmaVoice
MAY 20, 2024
The “Nobel Prize-worthy invention” could be worth hundreds of billions commercially — and have a deep impact on drug R&D.
STAT
MAY 24, 2024
A new study published Friday provides more evidence of the potential danger of drinking unpasteurized, or raw, milk containing H5N1 avian flu viruses. The work , published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that mice that were fed milk from H5N1-infected cows became very ill.
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
MAY 20, 2024
Belimumab (Benlysta; GSK) is a B-lymphocyte stimulator-specific inhibiting monoclonal antibody.
Drug Topics
MAY 23, 2024
In an abstract presented at Digestive Disease Week 2024, researchers analyzed the prevalence of obesity in patients with and without celiac disease.
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STAT
MAY 23, 2024
You’d think if there were a vaccine that would prevent tens of thousands of cases of cancer a year, people would want it for themselves and for their kids. But new data being released Thursday ahead of the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology show that just isn’t the case.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 23, 2024
Data have shown the potential for the therapy to treat several new conditions.
Drug Topics
MAY 24, 2024
Semaglutide reduced the risk of major kidney disease and cardiovascular (CV) events, and death from any cause, while simultaneously decelerating the loss of kidney function, among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and CKD compared to placebo.
PharmaVoice
MAY 22, 2024
Direct-to-consumer platforms offer consumers an online path to sourcing popular medications, but some therapeutic areas may be better suited for the business model.
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.
STAT
MAY 22, 2024
Less than a month ago, researchers reported for the first time the ability to scan wastewater for signs of the H5 influenza virus currently sickening dairy cows in at least nine states across the U.S. That technology is now at the threshold of real-world use. WastewaterSCAN, an infectious disease-tracking sewage surveillance network led by Stanford University and Emory University in partnership with Verily Life Sciences, has begun scaling up H5-specific testing of samples from all of its 190 sit
Pharmacy Times
MAY 23, 2024
The GLP-1 market is expected to exceed $100 billion by 2023, according to J.P. Morgan Research, with total users in the United States projected to reach 30 million.
Drug Topics
MAY 21, 2024
Research presented at Digestive Disease Week suggests that including omega-3 rich foods, or omega-3 supplements, into a healthy diet could offer additional protection against colorectal cancer alongside regular screening.
PharmaVoice
MAY 20, 2024
How persistence led to BioLineRx’s first approved therapy and promising pipeline.
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.
STAT
MAY 22, 2024
A second human case of bird flu infection linked to the current H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows has been detected, in a farm worker who had exposure to infected cows, Michigan state health authorities announced on Wednesday. In a statement , health officials said the individual had mild symptoms and has recovered. Evidence to date suggests this is a sporadic infection, with no signs of ongoing spread, the statement said.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 20, 2024
New research study reveals the potential of community pharmacists for minor ailment treatment, allowing for diversified patient care during growing health care shortage.
Drug Topics
MAY 22, 2024
A report from Dexcom found that depression and anxiety are commonly reported in patients living with type 2 diabetes, but continuous glucose monitors can make disease management easier.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 22, 2024
Epic launched an open-source tool on Wednesday to enable healthcare organizations to test and monitor artificial intelligence models. | Six weeks after announcing it was developing an AI validation software tool for healthcare, Epic has launched the open-source tool on Github to help health systems test and validate AI models.
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STAT
MAY 22, 2024
UnitedHealth Group should be released from a lawsuit that alleges its algorithm-based technology prematurely cut off care to its Medicare Advantage members, the company said in court filings this week, because patients and their families did not finish Medicare’s appeals process. “Plaintiffs have failed to exhaust the exclusive administrative appeal process set by the Medicare Act,” UnitedHealth’s lawyers argued.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 24, 2024
The role of semaglutide as a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor antagonist could offer further treatment options to improve patient outcomes.
Drug Topics
MAY 23, 2024
Savannah Roberts Clary, PharmD, BCPS, CPGx, a clinical pharmacist with Aegis Sciences Corporation, discusses what tianeptine is and how pharmacists can help warn the public about its potential hazards.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 22, 2024
A wave of employee layoffs that UPMC announced last month was just one part of a broader restructure and operations “transformation” initiative, for which the nonprofit system has tapped management | An internal presentation obtained by Fierce Healthcare outlined April's “tough, but necessary" layoffs as one part of a broader look at the nonprofit system's operations, for which it has partnered with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
STAT
MAY 22, 2024
If the H5N1 bird flu virus ever acquires the ability to transmit easily to and among people — keep your fingers crossed that it doesn’t — the world is going to need serious amounts of vaccine. Like, lakes of the stuff. Some manufacturers have been working with H5N1 viruses for years, producing small batches of doses that have undergone preliminary human testing.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 23, 2024
Combination treatment of sotorasib plus panitumumab prolongs progression-free survival in those with metastatic colorectal cancer and the KRAS G12C mutation.
Drug Topics
MAY 20, 2024
Health care providers must listen to patients who voice their experiences with post–COVID-19 condition symptoms. Only then can a clearer picture of the condition emerge for the millions of patients who have the near-invisible disease.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 24, 2024
A range of digital health companies today are harnessing natural language processing in different ways to catch those at risk and direct them to resources.
STAT
MAY 21, 2024
Scientists from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center have managed to generate a full genetic sequence of H5N1 virus from milk, a development they suggest means commercially purchased milk products could be used to monitor the progress of the bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle and to check for important changes in the virus over time.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 24, 2024
Multiple states have enacted legislation to rein in PBM practices
Drug Topics
MAY 22, 2024
Savannah Roberts Clary, PharmD, BCPS, CPGx, a clinical pharmacist with Aegis Sciences Corporation, talks about the dangers of tianeptine and how pharmacists can help warn the public about the potential hazards of tianeptine.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 21, 2024
A new paper published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure shows that patients on Cadence’s remote physiologic monitoring program had better outcomes than patients eligible for the program wh | Deaths from heart failure are rising. National remote monitoring company Cadence published new evidence that RM for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) could be the missing link in heart failure treatment.
STAT
MAY 21, 2024
BATON ROUGE, La. — The surgery was supposed to alleviate worry, but now, years later, Whitney Carter’s mind kept flicking back to it, wondering if it could be undone. She sometimes descended into these moods, taciturn, withdrawn, as if all hope had gone extinct. She sat on the couch in the half-light, blinds shut against the heat. The whole thing made her feel less than, like some essential part of her had been removed.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 21, 2024
Inavolisib was submitted to the FDA for review as a first-line treatment for advanced HR-positive, HER2-negative PIK3CA-mutated breast cancer.
Drug Topics
MAY 24, 2024
In an abstract presented at Digestive Disease Week 2024, researchers analyzed Clostridioides difficile episodes and identified the risk factors and potential medications that caused them.
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