STAT

MARCH 13, 2024

government scrutiny of it and other Chinese companies, according to a BIO press release shared with STAT on Wednesday. It’s an about-face for a lobbying organization that recently was willing to defend WuXi against attacks, and it’s a sign that the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But since the announcement, residents and local officials have raised questions about who the deal benefits, and who gets left behind. The Health Assurance Transformation Corp., a General Catalyst entity known as HATCo, unveiled plans last month to acquire Akron safety net provider Summa Health.

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STAT

APRIL 27, 2023

In public, hospitals rave about artificial intelligence. They trumpet the technology in press releases, plaster its use on billboards, and sprinkle AI into speeches touting its ability to detect diseases earlier and make health care faster, better, and cheaper. Read the rest…

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STAT

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

On Thursday, at a press briefing at which they presented their 2023 earnings, AstraZeneca executives also played coy about the bargaining over the price of the company’s diabetes drug Farxiga.  

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.  is publicly continuing his pressure campaign with a press conference today. You’re reading the web edition of D.C.   Sign up here  to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sanders (I-Vt.)

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STAT

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The press release issued by pharmaceutical companies Eisai and Biogen on Sept. Years and years of failed Alzheimer’s trials created, and then fortified , doubts about whether drugs that attacked amyloid, a brain protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease, were a valid approach to its treatment.

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Mission-Driven Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If you’re here, you’re probably a nonprofit interested in improving efficiency through digital marketing or curious about how you stack up. We strive to transfer our knowledge, tools, and technology to nonprofits tackling society's most pressing challenges.

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JULY 27, 2023

Moments after McConnell experienced what appeared to be an abrupt medical issue on Wednesday — freezing and remaining silent for about 20 seconds during a press conference, then showing signs of disorientation — he was led away by aides while cameras rolled. Read the rest…

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AUGUST 14, 2023

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, an entity within the World Health Organization) recently announced that aspartame, a sugar substitute used in about 6,000 products worldwide, is “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Nobel committee framed Karikó and Weissman’s work as a prime example of complementary expertise, with Karikó focused on RNA-based therapies and Weissman bringing a deep knowledge about immune responses to vaccines. We would sit together in 1997 and afterwards and talk about all the things we thought RNA could do.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Generative AI could be a revolution in health care — but along the way, it will have to address concerns about whether tools meet standards of safety, privacy, equity, and practicality.   But while enthusiasm for generative AI is high and research is booming, it’s just starting to gain a toehold in clinical settings.

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STAT

AUGUST 8, 2023

The milestone Select trial of about 17,500 patients with obesity and heart disease is the first to show that a weight loss medication leads to long-term cardiovascular benefits.

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STAT

JUNE 13, 2023

In 2021, the Food and Drug Administration put studies of the drug, rusfertide, on hold after a mouse study raised concerns about skin malignancies (the hold was lifted quickly , after less than a month). But the therapy received some primetime attention here at the European Hematology Association’s annual meeting over the weekend.

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STAT

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Oligonucleotides, which are pieces of DNA about 15 to 30 base pairs long, are used in gene synthesis laboratories all over the world, along with DNA strands that may be thousands of bases long. Ever since the inception of gene synthesis, there have been concerns about possible misuse of synthetic genes. Read the rest…

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STAT

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I’ve spent a good deal of my career thinking about how we structure and fund research in the biomedical sciences in the U.S.  What I find particularly noteworthy about the Arena BioWorks initiative is the vision of its founders to build a biomedical research institute outside the university. and questioning whether the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. And what about you? But the production was thin on new ideas about how to help patients pay less for medicines, and Sanders’ efforts to goad the executives into lowering prices or freezing their salaries did not work.

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

Food and Drug Administration is weighing the first-ever request to make a birth control pill available without a prescription , the Associated Press writes. An FDA advisory panel will meet this week to review an application by Perrigo to sell a decades-old pill over the counter.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 4, 2022

New survey data from Press Ganey suggests that pharma may be able to get an edge by integrating physician directories into brand websites. And, in the process, learn more about their consumers than they knew before. The survey was commissioned by Press Ganey and conducted by an independent market research agency.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MARCH 16, 2023

The condition primarily affects females resulting in severe cognitive and physical disabilities and is estimated to affect about 1 in 12,000 girls and is only rarely seen in boys. The drug is likely to be available in the US from April 2023 although the press release provides no information on its release elsewhere.

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STAT

MARCH 16, 2023

Hazy skies are enveloping the frosty Pharmalot campus, where the official mascot is running about watering the weeds and the short person is sleeping in. Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? As for us, we are busy firing up the trusty coffee kettle and brewing cups of stimulation. And as always, do keep in touch.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Using Google’s AI Model — and its cloud infrastructure, which I’ll share more about later — could boost adoption of iCAD’s broader cancer detection services, an executive said in a press release. Read the rest…

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MARCH 4, 2024

The Delaware ruling is a blow, as several of the other cases made similar arguments about how the program violates a drugmaker’s constitutional property rights. — CVS Health and Walgreens — plan to start dispensing the mifipristone abortion pill in a few states within weeks , the Associated Press writes. The

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STAT

MAY 5, 2023

This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. And what about you? And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? And our agenda is quite busy. Our official mascot will have a friend arrive for an extended sleepover.

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STAT

AUGUST 8, 2023

The milestone Select trial of about 17,500 patients is the first to show that an obesity medication leads to long-term cardiovascular benefits. The company reported only the topline figure in a press release and did not break out the reductions in heart attacks, strokes, or cardiovascular deaths.

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IDStewardship

AUGUST 17, 2022

Awareness of items for discussion gives people the opportunity to think about how to solve problems and arrive with ideas which make them more prepared to contribute. Sometimes agenda items are flexible and an item downstream can be tabled, which may allow for longer discussion on more pressing items earlier in the agenda.

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STAT

MARCH 30, 2023

We can tell because the official mascot got an early start chasing down cats, squirrels, and other creatures darting about the Pharmalot campus. Rise and shine, another busy day is on the way. And then there is the noisy parade of vehicles passing nearby on their way to who knows what?

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InCrowd

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Fitzgerald, CEO and president of Apollo, parent company to InCrowd, said in a recent press release. The post See the MM&M article about RSV tracking appeared first on InCrowd. We will continue to track the voice of clinicians as an important barometer for U.S. healthcare resources,” Daniel S.

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Digital Pharmacist

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Springtime, March specifically, is an excellent time of year for you to start conversations with your patients about the various foods they’re eating and how they can enhance their diets to improve their overall health.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

AUGUST 30, 2022

Pfizer’s vaccine candidate RSVpreF for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) showed a high level of efficacy in older patients with more severe lower respiratory tract illness which was defined by three or more RSV-associated symptoms according to a press release from the company. g RSVpreF or placebo in a 1:1 ratio.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

2,3 In the same press release, Camilla Petrycer Hansen, Principal of Seed Investments for Novo Holdings commented that chronic pain is “… a vast issue largely neglected by the market due to a dearth of innovation in this field for many years.” Towards the end of 2023, one sensed an emerging interest from Big Pharma in neuroscience.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

JUNE 29, 2022

In addition to learning more about unique pathways on our new webpage, we’ll also be featuring pharmacists who work in these unique settings on our blog. This means addressing the most pressing issues and sometimes requiring a follow-up call or visit to address other complaints. The patient’s INR was in range.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Located on the outskirts of the historic Italian city – home to Verdi and myriad architectural gems – the press launch and tour of the €85 million Chiesi development was a quintessentially Italian affair, based out of Chiesi’s San Leonardo production site. The Biotech Centre of Excellence aptly reinforces that.

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STAT

JULY 5, 2023

 The company bought more than 457,000 meals to educate doctors and other prescribers about its portfolio of drugs known as GLP-1 agonists, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Nearly 12,000 prescribers had food paid for by the company more than a dozen times last year.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Because coffee is so widely consumed you likely take time to think about how it affects your body in the long-term. So, who should be thinking about how their morning cup of joe impacts cholesterol? If you’re in the “I love coffee” club, you’re not alone. It’s easy to forget that drinking coffee can affect your health.

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IDStewardship

AUGUST 1, 2023

He was open to doing this interview providing his insights on antimicrobial stewardship in Turkey and correspondence over about a year and a half led to this article. About one year after completing my doctoral thesis, I started to work as an assistant professor in the same department. The publication can be found here.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 15, 2021

million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine ditched by Denmark, which has said it will stop using it because of concerns about rare blood clotting side-effects. They said studies had shown a higher than expected frequency of blood clots following doses, affecting about one in 40,000 people.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 14, 2021

China’s Kintor Pharmaceutical has begun late-stage US clinical development of its potential COVID drug proxalutamide – but there is scepticism over the company’s claims about its research. Kintor is in talks with the Brazilian health regulator Anvisa about a further trials.

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