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Pneumococcal Vaccine Rates Low Despite Updated Recommendations

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In 2022, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) published updated pneumococcal vaccine recommendations. million adult patients who were enrolled in a health plan as of January 2022 that contributed data to the Optum database. Of those, 38% had evidence of pneumococcal vaccination prior to January 2022.

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Dual GLP-1/GIP Receptor Agonist Shows Decreases in Hemoglobin A1c

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2 The current study, which was a 26-week, randomized, double-blind trial, was conducted at 5 sites in Mexico between February 2022 and February 2023 and included patients aged 18 to 75 years with a type 2 diabetes diagnosis for 6 or more months. Published 2022 Apr 5. Updated July 26, 2022. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes.

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Pharmacist Involvement Helps Reduce Time to A1c Target

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In 2022, the estimated cost of those diagnosed as having diabetes was $413 billion. 2022 Jun 20;15:1911-1923. Additional advantages include fewer emergency visits, hospitalizations, medication adherence, and associated cost savings. 2 “Prevalence of diabetes in the United States continues to rise, affecting an estimated 38.4

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STAT+: FTC slams PBMs for boosting specialty drug prices at the expense of the U.S. health care system

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billion in revenue by dispensing medicines to treat cancer, HIV, heart disease and other serious illnesses at prices that exceeded their estimated acquisition costs between 2017 and 2022. Specifically, the companies were able to generate more than $7.3 Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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How cinnamon lowers blood sugar

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Several studies have been published demonstrating cinnamon’s positive effects on blood sugar control; a review of studies from 2022, for example, found that eight out of 14 recent clinical trials on humans showed that cinnamon reduced fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1C in participants with Type 2 diabetes.

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FDA Approves Insulin Aspart-Xjhz as First Interchangeable Biosimilar to NovoLog

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Published 2022 Jun 20. Orabone AW, Do V, Cohen E. Pharmacist-Managed Diabetes Programs: Improving Treatment Adherence and Patient Outcomes. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes. 2022;15:1911-1923. doi:10.2147/DMSO.S342936 Newsletter Pharmacy practice is always changing.

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Opinion: I’m the director of the Center for Medicare. Here’s how we executed the first round of drug price negotiation

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The historic Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has fundamentally improved the affordability of and access to prescription drugs for millions of people with Medicare. The law laid out aggressive timelines for implementing the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program.