Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The class action lawsuit against CVS Health, Caremark, and Aetna was announced earlier today.

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PharmaVoice

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite recent phase 3 setbacks in RSV and COVID-19, CEO Paul Chaplin sees a promising path forward in the travel vaccine market for the Dutch biotech.

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Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A study from the University of Michigan found that only 1 in 6 emergency department visits for an opioid overdose in the United States result in a prescription for buprenorphine, methadone, or extended-release naltrexone.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Working together, pharmacies and labs can answer the call to align and back legislation that supports pharmacists as providers, help patients gain greater access to affordable care, and reap the benefits of improved health outcomes while growing business revenue.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As we look ahead to 2024, the pharmacy landscape is poised to undergo transformative changes driven by technology.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

On a mild May day in 1993, about 60 scientists and doctors gathered on a lawn in Copenhagen to commemorate the first International Symposium on GLP-1, the hormone that decades later would become the basis for highly effective diabetes and obesity drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. The meeting was a scientific showcase of all the leading experts in the nascent field.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Current federal statutes exclude anti-obesity medications for coverage when used for anorexia, weight loss, or weight gain.

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Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

APEX 2024 will be here before you know it. Watch pharmacists and vendors recap their APEX 2023 experience.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

You would have been forgiven for being surprised on Sept. 12 when a panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration concluded that the active ingredient in Sudafed PE and other over-the-counter decongestants is completely ineffective. It was front-page news, birthed myriad explainer stories on the internet, and even inspired a lawsuit against companies that sold the medicine, phenylephrine.

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Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Q&A with Tiffany Capps, CPhT, pharmacy operations manager at Galloway-Sands Pharmacy in North Carolina and marketing communications manager at CPESN Networks.

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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.

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. | Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. The collaboration introduces more competition and more options for healthcare teams looking to innovate using different approaches or to get more tactical with their AI strategy, one health IT expert said.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Biogen, the iconic but embattled biotech firm, is shuttering Biogen Digital Health, its roughly 150-person group focused on using new types of data like those from mobile phones and smart watches, and ending a clinical trial being conducted with Apple early, STAT has learned. Biogen confirmed the organizational change, but said it might lean even more on digital tech startups in the future.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Routine yoga therapy has shown endurance, strength, balance, symptom stability and quality of life improvements in individuals with heart failure.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Children are often exposed to harmful chemicals in air, water, soil, food, food packaging, and plastics. However, low-income children and children of color are disproportionately impacted by these exposures, according to the authors of a study that examines disparities in neurotoxic exposures and their harmful effects on children by race, ethnicity, and economic status.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Maintaining a purpose in life has the potential to reduce apathy related to dementia and cognitive decline.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite the challenging funding market, startups focused on women's health and menopause care continue to attract investors who see an untapped market. | The startup, which launched about a year ago, focuses exclusively on women navigating midlife hormonal transition. Midi offers evidence-based interventions ranging from lifestyle coaching and supplements to prescription medications, all covered by major insurance providers.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A panel of independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly against a polarizing potential treatment for ALS on Wednesday, concluding that the medicine’s messy supporting data did not meet the standard for approval. After a day-long meeting that included impassioned testimony from ALS patients, the agency’s expert advisers voted 17-1 with one abstention that the case for NurOwn, a treatment from BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, was based too heavily on con

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. For health systems, hospitals and medical groups, competition for the shrinking pool of nurses and doctors will intensify, according to a new analysis.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In less than two years, digital health’s high-flying class of public debuts have landed with a resounding thud. Accelerated by the pandemic’s forced adoption of telehealth and other digital health solutions, 2021 saw more than 30 health technology startups go public, raising hundreds of millions and in some cases billions of dollars. Today, three members of the class of 2021 have gone bankrupt.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Big players continue to make hefty investments in health tech—look no further than Amazon expanding its virtual clinic to all 50 states and the planned $3 billion merger between digital wellness co | Health tech company Wheel has been building for the next evolution of virtual care with an eye toward working with large enterprises, health plans, pharma and nontraditional players like retailers.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Intravenous immunoglobulin found to provide fast and long-lasting relief for COVID-19-related neurological conditions, although investigators are still uncovering the pathology of many of these conditions.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Democratic members of the Senate Budget Committee voiced support for taxing the wealthy and increasing Medicare spending, arguing Republicans want to keep the status quo for corporations enjoying f | Democrats came down on the side of taxing wealthy corporations, while Republicans agreed that spending must be cut to ensure Medicare's long-term health.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The story of the latest development in drug administration technology — a mouth patch that can deliver peptides and proteins without injection — begins with Chinese fondue. Researcher Zhi Luo, the lead author of a new paper detailing the patch development published in Science Translational Medicine, was enjoying the spicy fondue dish when he found himself fascinated by Sichuan peppercorns.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Structural racism encompassing groups, not bigotry targeting individuals, drives much of the healthcare inequity in the U.S., according to a study in Health Affairs. | The residual effects of a 1930s racist mortgage program are still being felt. The expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act helped address the problem to some extent, but not all states elected to take advantage of that opportunity.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

NICE poised to reject AstraZeneca, Daiichi’s Enhertu in HER2-low breast cancer aliu Wed, 09/27/2023 - 10:40

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The pandemic is over for most of the world. But for the 2.7% of adults in the United States who are immunocompromised , it isn’t. I’m one of them. As we are all increasingly expected to return to pre-pandemic routines, including traveling abroad, those of us with a weakened immune system are attempting to be proactive — to plan ahead for possible illness.

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Drug Store News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

CVS Health is focused on addressing the concerns raised by its pharmacists so it can continue to deliver the high-quality care its patients depend on, the retailer said.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Five strategies for delivering digital that makes a difference Mike.

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Drug Store News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The FTC and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon.com, alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to maintain its monopoly power illegally.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A U.S. | The case was a test of whether a state's Certificate of Public Advantage exempted a health system from submitting to federal regulatory review.

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Drug Store News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Holly May, executive vice president and global chief human resources officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance, discusses the company’s partnership with Mental Health America.

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Outsourcing Pharma

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At Advanced Therapies Europe 2023, BioPharma Reporter caught up with ScaleReady's Jenny Stjernberg to discuss her work at the biotech company, her journey from academia to commercial and female representation in the cell and gene therapies industry.

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Drug Store News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Menstrual Cramp Relief Cream utilizes plant-based ingredients to help relieve pain, cramps, sore muscles and bloating, the company said.

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