Drug Topics

JULY 1, 2025

With federal reform continuously being punted along on Capitol Hill, state reform in places like Arkansas and Iowa may present hope for community pharmacies and patients with poor access to medications. “If

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Drug Topics

JULY 6, 2025

The Opportunities, Gaps in Diabetes Care Making Pharmacists Stand Out | ADA 2025 Brian Nowosielski ; Jon Easter, RPh July 4th 2025 Podcast Following his presentation at the American Diabetes Association’s 85th Scientific Sessions, Jon Easter caught up with Drug Topics to discuss the pharmacists’ role in diabetes management.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 25, 2025

Despite a high prevalence of childhood and youth-aged obesity, the use of medications for treating obesity is persistently low among children and young adults (YA), according to an abstract presented at the American Diabetes Association’s 85th Scientific Sessions, held in Chicago, Illinois, from June 20-23, 2025. References 1.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 6, 2025

Pharmacists Play Key Role in Addressing Social Determinants of Health | PQA 2025 Killian Meara May 30th 2025 Article In a session at PQA 2025, presenters discussed the impact of SDoH on health outcomes and how pharmacy teams can identify and address barriers.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 18, 2025

In a session at the Pharmacy Quality Alliance Annual Meeting 2025, presenters stated that approximately 68% of patients have at least 1 unmet SDOH. Community pharmacies, which are very accessible to the public, are well positioned to address social determinants of health (SDOH), including food insecurity.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 20, 2025

Vaccines in dermatology-present and future: a review. Sign up today for our free Drug Topics newsletter and get the latest drug information, industry trends, and patient care tips, straight to your inbox. References 1. Goh E, Chavatte JM, Lin RTP, et al. Vaccines (Basel). 2025 Jan 26;13(2):125. doi: 10.3390/vaccines13020125.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JANUARY 16, 2025

A new global study from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)s Pediatric Formulations Focus Group is the first to report current and global paediatric oral extemporaneous compounding practices. The FIP study aimed to identify current global paediatric oral extemporaneous compounding practices, challenges and needs.

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STAT

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A trade group representing large compounding pharmacies has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a “reckless and arbitrary” decision to remove a widely prescribed Eli Lilly drug for combating diabetes and obesity from an official shortages list.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 11, 2025

1 With a complex interplay between patients’ skin and the diseases that impact it, PsD is a debilitating disease that presents physical, psychological, social, and economic burdens, leading to significant decreases in quality of life (QOL).

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The Checkup by Singlecare

JANUARY 13, 2025

A compounded medication is a custom formulation of an existing brand-name or generic drug made by a licensed pharmacist and designed to meet a patients unique needs. For example, a person who is allergic to a common dye included in a prescription drug could have a compounded version of the drug made without that dye.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 17, 2025

By acting on hair follicle stem cells—which remain present even in balding areas—PP405 offers a promising option for people often left out by existing therapies. PP405 takes a different approach from current hair loss treatments, which mostly focus on secondary causes like hormones.

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STAT

MARCH 20, 2025

Food and Drug Administration wants bulk production of copycat versions of popular weight-loss drugs to stop, but telehealth companies and compounding pharmacies that have fueled widespread use of the knockoffs have other plans , The Wall Street Journal writes. And some pharmacies making the GLP-1 drug copycats will continue.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 13, 2025

With the social media boom in recent decades and a massive flow of health care information, ensuring all online skin care interventions are safe and effective may present challenges for regulators and providers. In health sciences, a standardized tool is needed to assess the quality of social media digital interventions.”

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European Pharmaceutical Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Any additional, non-functional components in carriers can potentially increase toxicity, Dr Xu shared.

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STAT

OCTOBER 24, 2023

MADRID — If you had to pinpoint one subject that stood out at this year’s European Society for Medical Oncology meeting , a massive conference with thousands of people from 140-some countries and 2,500 studies presented, it would be a burgeoning type of cancer treatment called antibody-drug conjugates.

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Omnicell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Terri Albarano, PharmD Director, Autonomous Pharmacy, Omnicell Sterile compounding safety is one of the biggest challenges for the pharmacy supply chain. Health systems are expected to compound IV preparations with increasingly complex regulations, rising drug costs, and supply disruptions. Injectable medications cause 1.2

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The Checkup by Singlecare

JANUARY 6, 2025

Compounded semaglutide is a medication thats custom-made for you by a compounding pharmacy. Though sometimes marketed as a generic version of Ozempic , compounded versions of semaglutide are not FDA approved. Though sometimes marketed as a generic version of Ozempic , compounded versions of semaglutide are not FDA approved.

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PharmExec

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This study demonstrates high-throughput analysis of BTEX compounds from several matrices (air, water and soil). We also present a calibration approach that enables speciation of ethylbenzene from the xylenes in real-time.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JULY 9, 2025

Nitrosamines are a class of chemical compounds formed via nitrosation – the reaction of a nitroso group (–NO) with an amine. This included antibiotics such as erythromycin and tetracyclines and other compounds such as imipramine. N-Nitroso compound contaminants in prescription and non-prescription drugs. 3 Krull I et al.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The market is furthermore expected to see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.3 The pharmaceutical analytical testing market is seeing significant growth following a greater incidence in the complexity of medicine development and higher demand for biologics and biosimilars, according to a report by Straits Research Pvt. billion by 2032.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A vast majority of patients diagnosed with CRPC already present with metastases at the time of diagnosis. The findings will be presented at an upcoming medical meeting and submitted to the FDA for regulatory approval in 2023. Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men in 112 countries.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 4, 2022

Testing drug compounds on a chip designed to mimic human organs sounds closer to science fiction than reality, yet the technology already exists and is already being put to use. If you are reading this then you are likely not a mouse, and as a result, will react to drug compounds differently.

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Omnicell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Many often rely on 503B outsourcing pharmacies for their pre-mixed compounded sterile products. At the University of Maryland Medical Center, we reduced our need for 503B vendors by implementing an IV robotics insourcing program for compounded sterile products (CSPs).

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Omnicell

JANUARY 10, 2023

See how Omnicell is transforming pharmacy care at Booth #1213 in the Exhibit Hall, where you can explore our full portfolio of services for central pharmacy and IV compounding robotics, point-of-care dispensing, inventory optimization, specialty pharmacy, and retail pharmacy. ASHP Midyear is more than a meeting.

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IDStewardship

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Compounding sulbactam-durlobactam Admittedly I have never compounded this one myself, but it just sounds like an error waiting to happen as well as a considerable time commitment. Compare that to a 1 gm meropenem vial that once diluted has stability data for 3 hours at room temperature. Have another one?

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 30, 2022

However, most novel active compounds identified with the help of AI are still in discovery or preclinical stages of development. The exploratory research phase for DSP-1181 was less than a year, compared to the average of five years using traditional drug design processes, according to the two developers.

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PharmExec

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This application note summarizes key SIFT-MS results presented in a peer reviewed article entitled Unreported VOC Emissions from Road Transport Including from Electric Vehicles.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Our chemists and formulation scientists review the properties of new drug candidates and “work their magic” to develop formulations that improve the exposure profile of the compound. How does bioavailability play a role in biopharmaceutics? Now fraction absorbed and bioavailability are often confused and used interchangeably.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 29, 2024

The guideline states that compounds “at or above the AET must be reported for toxicological risk assessment.” The paper highlighted that SHS analysis is currently a supplementary technique for volatile analysis.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Astellas will present results from a Phase III clinical study evaluating fezolinetant, an investigational oral, non-hormonal compound being studied to potentially treat vasomotor symptoms (VMS) associated with menopause. The results will be featured in an oral presentation at The North American Menopause Society Annual Meeting.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 23, 2021

The company said it plans to present data at an upcoming medical meeting and will include it in filings with the FDA and regulators in Europe. Radioligand therapy combines a targeting compound that binds to markers expressed by tumours with a radioactive isotope.

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The FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 14, 2023

Farquhar — At the GMP by the Sea Conference ongoing in Cambridge, Maryland, a presentation was made by a representative of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research that shows some interesting trends in enforcement. By Douglas B. OAI is FDA’s classification for facilities it deems to be in an unacceptable state of compliance.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2025

1,2 A particular disease burden is present for Black Americans. However, in that month’s meeting of ACIP representatives, they voted to recommend a single dose of PCV for all adults aged 50 years and older who are PCV-naïve or who have unknown vaccination history, while keeping in place the risk-based recommendation.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

AUGUST 25, 2023

Contaminants in pharmaceutical packaging For clarity, the authors described that the aim of extractable studies are to: “identify the freely available substances present in a given material.” Application for extractable and leachable species These analyses help lab personnel to create a list of potential contaminants present, Kritikos et al.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The compound was designed to address issues such as payload toxicity seen in first-generation ADC therapies, according to Zai Lab. This initial data on ZL-1310 was presented this week at the EORTC-NCI-AACR (ENA) Symposium 2024. ZL-1310 is humanised anti-DLL3 monoclonal antibody with a topoisomerase 1 inhibitor payload.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Initially the alliance will focus on developing a DTx for use with Mydecine’s lead psychedelic programme MYCO-001, a drug based on magic mushroom compound psilocybin that is being developed to help people stop smoking.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

MARCH 2, 2023

A Gastrointestinal Simulator (GIS) was found to be superior to the traditional United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) method in predicting in vivo performance of Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS) Class IIa compounds.

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