Drug Topics

JANUARY 12, 2023

As many as 10 Humira biosimilars may be on the US market before 2023 is over. AbbVie has taken several steps to protect its revenues, including the launches of Skyrizi and Rinvoq.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

The percentage of U.S. kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 and fears that anti-vaccine sentiment stirred up by the pandemic could be spreading to other shots. Vaccinations among children remain high, but the trend — with coverage dropping from about 95% in the 2019-2020 school year to 94% in 2020-2021 to 93% in 2021-2022, according

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 12, 2023

Patients are finding relief in alternative therapies for this chronic skin disease.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Ready or not, health care is undergoing a massive transformation driven by artificial intelligence. But medical schools have barely started to teach about AI and machine learning — creating knowledge gaps that could compound the damage caused by flawed algorithms and biased decision-support systems. “We’re going to be at a point where we’re not going to be able to catch up and be able to call out the technology defects or flaws,” said Erkin Ötleş, a

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

Pharmacists report a myriad of reasons for joining the profession, including the connections they can build with patients.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Bayer has signed an agreement with Google aimed at using high-level processing power to handle quantum chemistry calculations used to predict the chemical and physical properties of drug molecules at the atomic scale. The deal with the tech giant’s Google Cloud unit revolves around its tensor processing units (TPUs), artificial intelligence-powered accelerators designed to run machine learning models and computationally-intensive workloads that can be customised to specific applications.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

WASHINGTON — Medicare officials have taken a step toward making a cutting-edge cancer treatment called CAR T-cell therapy available in doctor offices, in anticipation of the procedure being used for increasingly common cancer types. CAR-T is a relatively new medical procedure that uses a person’s own cells to fight their cancer, and it offers hope of a cure for those who have run out of options.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 12, 2023

Analysis shows 4-week daily dietary supplementation with the nuts increases the level of beneficial 12,13-DiHOME after physical activity.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s like clockwork now. Every few months, we’re warned that the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned yet another subvariant, this one even more transmissible than the ones it is fast overtaking. The new entity is given a name, an unwieldy string of letters and numbers separated by periods. There’s discussion — some of it breathless — on Twitter and in the media about the threat the new subvariant poses.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 12, 2023

As few as one-third of individuals who are living with peripheral artery disease are receiving medical therapies to address their risk factors.

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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 Store News

JANUARY 12, 2023

In this latest column, David Orgel discusses the hurdles retailers will face in 2023, and how they can ease the challenges by thinking strategically about the needs of shoppers, employees and communities.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 12, 2023

Frequent reassessments of therapy regimens address polypharmacy, particularly for older patients.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

As prescription drug abuse has grown in the US and Europe, the diversion of such treatments from legitimate sources has also increased. Ben Hargreaves speaks to an expert in the area to learn how drug diversion occurs, and how it can be countered. Drug diversion is the channelling of prescription drugs from a medical source into the illegal market. The problem is growing as abuse of prescription treatments, such as opioids, stimulants, and sedatives also increases , making the diversion of such

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 12, 2023

The risk of severe COVID-19 continues to outweigh the rare risk of post-vaccination myocarditis.

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STAT

JANUARY 12, 2023

Although the 7,000 New York City nurses who went on strike this week reached a deal with their health systems on Jan. 12, nurse staffing levels will continue to be a problem in New York City and in hospitals across the country. The New York nurses are just the latest group to speak out about hospitals that have long minimized nursing staff, prioritizing profits over safety.

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Drug Store News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Retailers using Salesforce Commerce Cloud can now offer their customers convenient pickup and delivery experiences with Walmart’s store fulfillment technologies and local delivery services.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Sustainable Market Initiative’s (SMI) 2022 Terra Carta Seal , which recognises global companies who are driving innovation and leadership within their industry, has been awarded to pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Sanofi, and Samsung Biologics. Launched in January 2021, Terra Carta is a sustainability recovery plan for Nature, People and Planet.

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Drug Store News

JANUARY 12, 2023

The platform is intended to empower small-to-medium sized brick-and-mortar retailers with a portfolio of retail tools and solutions to own their digital customer relationship.

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Outsourcing Pharma

JANUARY 12, 2023

Biogen partners with Alcyone to gain access to ThecaFlex, which is able to deliver therapies into the intrathecal space.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 12, 2023

Airsupra has been approved for as-needed use to reduce the risk of asthma exacerbations.

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STAT

JANUARY 12, 2023

Top health care leaders braved rain, hail, and flash flood warnings at this year’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. The other thing they’re navigating? The downpour of new-entrant retailers in health care. Announcements at JPM and the recent CES 2023 conference in Las Vegas have confirmed the desire of folks including Amazon, Best Buy, CVS, and even Samsung to try to make health care simpler.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 12, 2023

This National Pharmacist Day, take the time to reflect on how pharmacists have stepped up during the pandemic.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

The California attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing several drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers of conspiring to set prices for insulin, joining a growing list of states that have taken such a step as more and more Americans struggle to afford the life-savings diabetes treatment. The lawsuit alleges that the companies “unconscionably, deceptively, misleadingly, and artificially” drove up the cost of insulin, making the medication unaffordable for many of the 3 million

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PharmaVoice

JANUARY 12, 2023

Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb and others are taking small R&D steps in space that could lead to giant leaps for patients.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO — When BioNTech was founded in 2008, messenger RNA therapies and vaccines were still an unproven idea. The German company has now shipped out billions of doses of its mRNA Covid-19 vaccine worldwide — and BioNTech’s leaders say that’s just the beginning of a larger revolution in medicine. CEO Uğur Şahin sat down with STAT during this week’s J.P.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2023

Cancer death rate declined by 33% since 1991 as treatment advances, study finds. rking. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 16:36.

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Omnicell

JANUARY 12, 2023

Kristine Shepherd, MSN, RN Nurse Consultant, Omnicell Point of Care Solutions $7.1 million annually. That’s what an average US hospital loses due to nursing turnover, according to the 2022 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report. While nursing turnover has historically trended below the hospital average across all staff, in 2021 it actually increased 6.4 percent.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 12, 2023

JPM23: Viatris lays out plans to become ophthalmology leader and pull down $1B in eye care sales. zbecker. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 13:07.

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Outsourcing Pharma

JANUARY 12, 2023

The not-for-profit organization published its fair inclusion score to measure and rank pharmaceutical companies on their inclusion of women, older adults, and racial and ethnic minoritized patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2023

JPM23: As the conference closes, here are the trends payers need to watch. pminemyer. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 13:15.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

A high-ranking former technology employee at Takeda Pharmaceutical’s US headquarters in Massachusetts and her boyfriend were arrested Wednesday on federal charges for allegedly setting up a fake consulting firm that defrauded the Japanese drug giant of about $2.3 million. Priya Bhambi, 39, who was fired in November after an internal investigation, and Samuel N.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2023

Researchers raise questions about the safety of home infusion therapy. fdiamond. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 10:31.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

What happened at biotech’s big reunion? Will this year be better than the last? And is it time to quit San Francisco? We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. With the 2023 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference drawing to a close, we look back on the biggest news of the meeting, what it means for the year in biotech ahead, and whether the industry’s biggest annual gathering might finally have outgrown its host city.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2023

Transcarent inks another major hospital partnership to expand access to medical specialists. hlandi. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 13:52.

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