Drug Topics

JUNE 23, 2023

The Protect Patient Access to Pharmacies Act will help to secure Medicare patients’ freedom to receive medications and care from the pharmacy of their choice.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Vertex Pharmaceuticals said Friday that, over a year after receiving the company’s stem-cell therapy, two type 1 diabetes patients no longer need to take insulin injections and saw stark reductions in a biological marker of disease.  The results, presented at the American Diabetes Association conference in San Diego, bolstered experts’ hopes that the treatment could provide a functional cure for some patients.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Amazon Web Services launched a new innovation center focused on generative AI backed by a $100 million investment, its most recent bid to keep up with the AI race. | Amazon's cloud unit launched the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center with a $100 million investment, its most recent bid to keep up with the AI race.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Father’s Day weekend was anything but calm on Twitter, which erupted as vaccine expert Peter Hotez was challenged online to a debate by podcaster and former reality TV host Joe Rogan. Rogan’s challenge began when Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine and vaccine expert, tweeted his  concern about Rogan’s three-hour interview with longtime anti-vaccine activist  and presidential candidate Robert F.

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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.

Drug Topics

JUNE 23, 2023

The accelerated approval of delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl is “based on expression of Elevidys micro-dystrophin observed in patients treated with ELEVIDYS,” according to Sarepta Therapeutics.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2023

Pharmacists can recognize evidence of successful interventions and learn how to integrate them into their own practice.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2023

Dr Haumschild opens the discussion with Larry Anderson, MD, PhD, and Gabe Hinojosa, PharmD, BCOP, regarding various states of relapse in multiple myeloma.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Polio eradication is a delicate dance. And one of the biggest challenges facing the people trying to choreograph its final steps is how to phase out use of oral polio vaccines. The oral vaccines have brought the paralyzing viruses to the brink of  annihilation; so far this year there have only been six cases detected, five in Afghanistan and one in Pakistan.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2023

As the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and PREP Act Expansions end, the ability of technicians to immunize patients in the future remains unclear.

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JUNE 23, 2023

An estimated 82,998 people died from opioid overdoses in the U.S. last year. A new study published Friday in JAMA Health Forum drives home how lack of access to lifesaving medications could contribute to these preventable deaths. The study is the most comprehensive Medicaid analysis of opioid addiction to date, analyzing a national claims dataset with 76 million patient data points between 2016 and 2018.

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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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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2023

Community health workers can address issues of health equity to enhance the services of the pharmacy and support a value-based care model.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 23, 2023

The need for capable healthcare staff was an urgent concern for me as my surgery for a major medical condition was placed on hold. | Unless we commit to a reliable and robust measurement system of hospital-acquired infections, we will continue to have a stressed workforce and need to rely on data generated in other countries.

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JUNE 23, 2023

SAN DIEGO – An experimental pill from Eli Lilly led to 14.7% weight loss on the highest dose in a 36-week trial, heating up the growing competition among drugmakers to develop an effective oral obesity therapy. The mid-stage results for orforglipron match the estimates of 14-15% weight loss that Lilly gave in an investor call late last year. The full   results,  published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine, were presented here to a packed conference room at the Americ

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 23, 2023

Psylo and Daiichi Sankyo have signed a sponsored research deal to advance the development of non-hallucinogenic psychiatric therapies.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Color Health wants to take away any reason you might have for skipping screenings for cancer.  The Silicon Valley company, which pivoted from cancer genomics to Covid-19 testing on a large and hugely profitable scale, has a new program that incorporates both its roots in cancer testing and its logistical experience from the pandemic. Called, simply, the Cancer Prevention and Screening Program, and built in partnership with the American Cancer Society, the program aims to make it easy to get

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Drug Topics

JUNE 23, 2023

Pending authorization of the XBB.1.5 vaccine, the company said that doses would be available in time for fall vaccination.

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JUNE 23, 2023

The burden of high health care costs and medical debt in the U.S. is no secret. Medical debt affects one in five adults in the U.S., with an average burden of more than $20,000 for each medical debtor. As primary care physicians, we frequently witness the effects of these financial burdens, particularly for our older or sicker patients with expensive medical conditions.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

JUNE 23, 2023

It’s likely you’ve heard of gabapentin: In 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that it was the 7th most commonly prescribed medication in the U.S. Gabapentin is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat postherpetic neuralgia from shingles , partial seizures due to epilepsy , and moderate to severe restless legs syndrome (RLS).

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JUNE 23, 2023

Last year, just a few months after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade ended the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, Christine Henneberg published a memoir on two simultaneous life-defining experiences: carrying her first pregnancy during her first year performing abortions. This was long after another transformative journey: traveling and living in a rural Indian village at the foothills of the Himalayas when Henneberg first wanted to be a writer.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 23, 2023

After years of using the patent system to delay competition from a rival company and then exhausting that ploy early this year, Jazz Pharmaceuticals is taking a new route—suing the FDA. | After years of using the patent system to delay competition to its key Xyrem/Xywav franchise from a rival company, Jazz Pharmaceuticals is taking a new route—suing the FDA.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JUNE 23, 2023

Wine drinking is linked to a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) but also reduces the risk of developing both CVD and coronary heart disease (CHD), according to the findings of a recent meta-analysis. Previous studies have hinted that the polyphenolic content of wine confers a cardio-protective effect whereas consumption of spirits , increases the risk of ventricular arrhythmias.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JUNE 23, 2023

Study data from a major trial has demonstrated RNA CAR-T (rCAR-T) therapy Descartes-08 facilitated significant and long-lasting clinical improvement in generalised myasthenia gravis (gMG). This is the first clinical trial using rCAR-T to treat autoimmunity. It is also the first successful Phase II trial using an engineered cell therapy for autoimmunity.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JUNE 23, 2023

The UK should introduce routine vaccination for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to protect babies and older adults, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended. It has made the early recommendations after reviewing several vaccines currently in development to allow sufficient lead time for the Government to get a policy and programme in place, a statement said.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 23, 2023

A month before it was set to take the stand in the highly anticipated first Zantac-related trial, GSK scratched the case with a settlement. | GSK can now wipe an upcoming California Zantac trial off its plate with a confidential settlement a month before what would have been the first state-level trial.

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JUNE 23, 2023

WASHINGTON – President Biden on Friday told federal health officials to boost contraception access, the administration’s latest attempt to shore up reproductive rights as abortion limits snowball across the country. The president’s executive order, released this morning, instructs the Health and Human Services Department to ensure people on commercial insurance are getting contraception at no cost — a requirement under the Affordable Care Act — and consider mov

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2023

Several workplace risk factors, including safety concerns going unaddressed, predicted suicidal thoughts.

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Drug Store News

JUNE 23, 2023

Walgreens brought together internal and industry leaders for a LinkedIn Live discussion on the importance of diversity in clinical trials and ongoing efforts to reduce barriers to participation, especially in underserved communities.

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JUNE 23, 2023

LONDON — Back in the 1950s, Battersea Power Station, a towering brick structure on the south bank of the Thames, supplied a fifth of London’s electricity, an economic engine that even powered Buckingham Palace. The coal-fired plant was decommissioned decades ago. But on Thursday evening, in an art deco, gold-and-glass control room in the recently retrofitted power station — now a multi-use development complete with apartments and a cinema — the U.K. government and the

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Drug Store News

JUNE 23, 2023

The Disney100 Collectible candy dispensers and Disney Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse gift set will be ready for shipping in late summer/early fall.

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ISPE

JUNE 23, 2023

Insider’s Guide to Manufacturing, QC, and Operational Excellence Trudy Patterson Fri, 06/23/2023 - 10:23 iSpeak Blog iSpeak Insider’s Guide to Manufacturing, QC, and Operational Excellence Dante Amatangelo Amanat Kaur Niranjan S. Kulkarni, PhD 23 June 2023 The 2023 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo features Manufacturing, Quality Control, and Operational Excellence as one of the key content areas.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JUNE 23, 2023

Vortioxetine improves depressive symptoms, cognitive performance, functioning and health-related quality of life in patients with both major depressive disorder and early-stage dementia, according to a recent trial. In a significant proportion of patients, depressive symptoms and dementia are related. However, there is insufficient evidence to support the use of antidepressants to treat depression in patients with dementia.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2023

Medical experts discuss treatment options for indolent and aggressive relapse multiple myeloma.

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JUNE 23, 2023

LONDON — European regulators are on the verge of rejecting an ALS drug from Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, all but dooming the medicine’s chances of entering the E.U. market for now. The negative recommendation issued Friday by a European Medicines Agency committee is not a surprise. Last month, Amylyx said that the agency was headed toward a negative review.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Clover Health has reached a settlement in lawsuits alleging that the Medicare Advantage insurtech had not been forthright with investors when the company went public, the company announced in a

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