Drug Topics

MAY 7, 2024

Recent research exploring the gut-skin connection shows that dietary modifications and probiotic supplements may help skin conditions like acne, atopic dermatitis, and rosacea.

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MAY 9, 2024

Twenty-seven years ago today, a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong developed a sore throat, spiked a fever, and started to cough. Six days later, he was hospitalized; six days after that, he died of acute respiratory distress caused by viral pneumonia. Testing showed the toddler, who’d had contact with sick chickens before becoming ill, had been infected with H5N1 bird flu.

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MAY 8, 2024

Since March, when the first reported cases of H5N1 bird flu began showing up in dairy cattle in Texas, the Food and Drug Administration has been asking farmers to discard any milk from infected animals. Initially, spotting tainted milk was believed to be fairly easy because cows that get sick with H5N1 begin producing milk that is thick and yellowish.

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 8, 2024

Following the lead of French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, Pfizer has agreed to settle more than 10,000 personal-injury claims from users of heartburn drug Zantac, resolving litigation in several U. | Following the lead of French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, Pfizer has agreed to settle more than 10,000 personal-injury claims from users of heartburn drug Zantac, resolving litigation in several U.S. state courts, according to Bloomberg.

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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.

Pharmacy Times

MAY 7, 2024

As pharmacy practice continues to evolve, it is imperative to recognize the vital contributions of all members of the pharmacy team, including pharmacy technicians.

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MAY 8, 2024

Almost every hospital and health system currently struggles with a growing workforce shortage and rising costs to deliver care. Agencies have stepped in to fill the gap, often resulting in unp | In-House Health developed an artificial intelligence-driven scheduling and management platform for modern nursing teams. The startup picked up $4 million in seed funding from NEA and TMV to build out its platform.

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STAT

MAY 8, 2024

Two congenitally deaf children can hear for the first time after being treated with gene therapy, according to data presented at a conference Wednesday. The results are “jaw-droppingly good, just shocking how good. It exceeded the wildest expectations of anybody who started this work,” said Larry Lustig, an otolaryngologist at Columbia University and an investigator on the study.

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MAY 8, 2024

Once hailed as a landmark accomplishment for the speed with which it was developed and a shining example of British innovation, the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has been grounded by the European | Once hailed as a landmark accomplishment and a shining example of British innovation, the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has been grounded by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 5, 2024

With these findings contributing to the understanding of neighborhood-level asthma risks, the authors note next steps can involve identifying and addressing disparities.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

MAY 8, 2024

New data from a Phase IIa trial in moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis has demonstrated that a novel monoclonal antibody (mAb) could facilitate dosing every 12 weeks for induction therapy. This is due to a 31-day half-life at anticipated therapeutic dose levels, Inmagene Biopharmaceuticals confirmed. Humanised anti-OX40 IgG1 mAb IMG-007 works via a silenced antibody -dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) function, Inmagene explained.

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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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Drug Topics

MAY 7, 2024

For National Fentanyl Awareness Day, Drug Topics talked with Scott H. Silverman about how public health leaders can address the fentanyl crisis and the best ways to educate the public on the dangers of fentanyl use.

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MAY 8, 2024

It should be hard — exceedingly hard — to obtain the synthetic DNA needed to recreate the virus that caused the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic without authorization. But my lab found that it’s surprisingly easy, even when ordering gene fragments from companies that check customers’ orders to detect hazardous sequences. Our experiment demonstrates that the immense potential benefits of biotechnology are profoundly vulnerable to misuse.

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MAY 8, 2024

Amid a U.S. | In a letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D., the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability chairman argued that China’s influence over global pharmaceutical supply chains constitutes an act of economic warfare against the United States.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 8, 2024

With the current social media trend of the “Sleepy-Girl Mocktail” claiming to provide quality sleep, is this trend fact or faux as a quality sleep aid?

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 8, 2024

Ascension disclosed Wednesday that it has detected “unusual activity” on some of its technology networks that it believes “is due to a cybersecurity event.” | The Catholic health giant said it detected "unusual activity" Wednesday and "immediately" activated remediation processes, including hiring a third-party cybersecurity firm.

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Drug Topics

MAY 2, 2024

A review found that many guidelines that recommended pharmacogenetic testing were inconsistent between clinical associations.

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MAY 8, 2024

Yes, it’s possible to have a worm living in your brain — in fact, it’s far more common than you might think, said Dr. David Hamer, a professor of global health and medicine at the Boston University School of Public Health, who also directs a travel clinic at Boston Medical Center. Brain worms became a topic of public fascination Wednesday after the  The New York Times  reported that presidential candidate Robert F.

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Fierce Pharma

MAY 6, 2024

As BioNTech continues to endure a sharp decline in COVID-19 vaccine sales, the German mRNA specialist is looking ahead to the next leg of its commercial journey. | With plans to have at least 10 potentially registrational trials underway by the end of 2024, BioNTech is plotting the first wave of its market debut in oncology from 2026 onward.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 7, 2024

With gene therapy, anti-tissue factor pathway inhibitors, and RNA interference therapy targeting antithrombin, there are many new options that will be available for the patients impacted by hemophilia.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 2, 2024

Google and DeepMind released an open access paper on their newest artificial intelligence tools intended for use in hea | Results released by Google on Med-Gemini's performance show that it outperforms existing AI/ML including GPT-4 on over a dozen industry benchmarks.

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Drug Topics

MAY 9, 2024

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc has reported 224 injuries associated with a software malfunction in a companion insulin app, leading the company to issue a recall of the technology.

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MAY 7, 2024

A young boy died in a trial for Pfizer’s experimental gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the company told patient advocates Tuesday. The boy was enrolled in Daylight, a trial studying the treatment in boys aged 2 or 3. The boy had received the therapy early last year, Pfizer told the advocates in a note posted online by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy.

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MAY 7, 2024

Even after consumer outfit Kenvue split from Johnson & Johnson one year ago, the company has been performing certain services for the pharma and medtech giant as part of a transition process. | Kenvue’s board of directors on Monday approved a plan to cut 4% of the company’s global workforce. The J&J spinoff employed about 23,000 staffers at the end of last year, so the layoff initiative could affect some 920 workers.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 6, 2024

The new administration method, which is co-formulated with rHuPH20, is usable in previous approved nivolumab indications for solid tumors in adult patients.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

MAY 4, 2024

Lost documents prevented victims from finding out the truth, official inquiry told Disastrous failures that caused the contaminated blood scandal were denied by ministers for decades after officials destroyed, lost and blocked access to key documents, memos submitted to the official inquiry reveal. Several batches of files involving the work of a blood safety advisory committee were shredded as the government faced the threat of legal action, documents show.

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Drug Topics

MAY 6, 2024

Mycophenolate mofetil oral suspension is the only FDA-approved ready-to-use liquid formulation.

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MAY 7, 2024

The presence of H5N1 avian influenza virus, better known as bird flu, among dairy cows in Texas — the second largest producer of dairy cattle — was first confirmed in late March. By then, H5N1 had likely been circulating among dairy cows for months. Six weeks later, the nine states responsible for more than one-quarter of U.S. dairy production, which accounts for 3.5% of the U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 6, 2024

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be fully solvent for longer than previously projected, according to an annual Medicare Trustee report. | The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money as quickly as expected. Here's how federal officials are reacting.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 6, 2024

In an ambitious effort to address the ongoing uncertainty within the 340B Program space, 6 senators released a draft discussion bill earlier this year titled the SUSTAIN Act.

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MAY 8, 2024

After bringing slow-release schizophrenia drug Uzedy to market last year, Teva and France’s MedinCell are using the same playbook for a similar candidate. | The companies second go at a long-acting schizophrenia med uses popular antipsychotic olanzapine, which Eli Lilly first marketed in the 90s but found safety issues with its own long-acting version.

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MAY 8, 2024

As demand for GLP-1 receptor agonist medications increases, researchers are hopeful these drugs can be used for more indications than those that currently exist.

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MAY 7, 2024

Jeremy Farrar, now the World Health Organization’s chief scientist, was working in Vietnam 20 years ago when the H5N1 virus started to spread across Asia — at that point in poultry. He recalls there was a reluctance among farmers to cull their chickens because they weren’t being compensated for them. Movement of infected birds to evade culling only served to disseminate the virus, which in the years since has spread to all continents except Australia.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 8, 2024

Get to know Ariel Buda-Levin from the IPG Health Network better with these 12 insightful questions. Learn more about her background, expertise, and experiences.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 6, 2024

A new treatment for postpartum depression has been developed with rapid onset, cutting down the time it has taken previous treatments to take effect by weeks or months.

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