Wed.Jan 11, 2023

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Know Your Winter Respiratory Illness

Drug Topics

With the respiratory season in full swing and COVID-19 continuing to infect, knowing the basics of the common cold, influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus can help ensure patients get the right care.

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Woman of the Week: Form Bio’s Claire Aldridge

PharmaVoice

The chief strategy officer of Form Bio is harnessing the new company’s computing power and bioinformatics to spur a genomic revolution.

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Getting Well and Staying Well: Supporting Patient New Year’s Resolutions for 2023

Drug Topics

Pharmacists can play an important role in patients’ wellness journeys.

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Study Identifies Prevalence of Cardiac Amyloidosis Among Bone Scan Patients

Pharmacy Times

Although cardiac amyloidosis was previously believed to be rare, more recent diagnostic advances and awareness have led to an increasing number of cases.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

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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Top 15 Potential Blockbuster Drugs to Watch Out For

Drug Topics

Clarivate analysts have identified the treatments they forecast could deliver annual sales of more than $1 billion within 5 years. These include therapies for rare diseases, as well as HIV, Parkinson’s disease, Crohn’s disease, alopecia, and cancer.

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Patients With Inflammatory Disorders May Benefit From Psilocybin Treatment

Pharmacy Times

Psilocybin is derived from certain types of mushrooms and has been proven to affect serotonin receptors.

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For most mild infections, long Covid symptoms clear after a year, large study finds

STAT

Since long Covid emerged, how best to define it, predict it, and treat it has been up for debate, but perhaps the most urgent question for patients and providers alike has been how long it lasts. A new study analyzing nearly 2 million patient records in Israel concludes that for most people, the troubling symptoms that persist after a mild Covid infection fade away after about a year.

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A Review of Treatment Options, Guidelines for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Pharmacy Times

With the release of the 2022 AHA/ACC Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure, patients with HFpEF now have a wider range of treatment options.

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Galecto has identified a master switch to reduce fibroid formation

PharmaVoice

With expertise surrounding a natural family of proteins and enzymes that can lead to fibrosis, Galecto is exploring the potential to develop cancer treatments.

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FDA Approves Albuterol/Budesonide Rescue Medication for Asthma Exacerbations

Pharmacy Times

The drug combination can significantly improve lung function and reduce severe asthma exacerbations.

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Position Your Pharmacy for Expansion

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.

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JPM23: As the year gets underway, here's what insurtechs have planned

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: As the year gets underway, here's what insurtechs have planned. pminemyer. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 19:32.

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New Drug Delivery Method Could Replace Injections With Pills

Pharmacy Times

The findings provide an alternative delivery strategy for peptide-based drugs and suggest that such techniques and principles could be applied to a broader range of drugs.

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AI and the Big Data paradigm – big ambitions in novel drug discovery

pharmaphorum

Over the past few decades, data generation has veritably exploded. However, the ‘Big Data paradigm’ is not so much concerned with the volume of that data, but how businesses and, indeed, industries can derive meaningful insights from what has become a glut of information. With the currently popular approach to artificial intelligence (AI) focussing on the Big Data paradigm, also, pharmaphorum spoke with Adityo Prakash, CEO of Verseon, about the whys and wherefores, delving deeper into the proces

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Chronic Hepatitis B Patients in Africa Need Improved Diagnostic Tools, Study Results Show

Pharmacy Times

Data are based on tests using low-cost, simple blood tests for helping decide which individuals with the disease need treatment.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

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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Is machine learning the answer for long-acting injectable drugs?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Machine learning models used to guide the design of long-acting injectable drug formulations have been successfully tested by scientists at the University of Toronto. The research results signal the potential for machine to reduce reliance on trial-and-error testing, which slows the development of long-acting injectables (LAIs). The study was published Nature Communications and is one of the first to apply machine learning techniques to the design of polymeric long-acting injectable drug formula

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Investigational T-cell Therapy for Viral Infections After Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Showed 95% Patient Response

Pharmacy Times

Viral infections can plague patients who have undergone stem cell transplantation.

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Verily laying off 15% of workforce, trimming down business lines: 'We've made some hard but necessary choices'

Fierce Healthcare

Verily laying off 15% of workforce, trimming down business lines: 'We've made some hard but necessary choices'. dmuoio. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 16:51.

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Stars Aligned for Pricing Model? Value-Based Contracts May be Poised for Takeoff

PharmExec

As new forms of cell and gene therapies continue to be developed, life sciences companies and payers need to find alternative ways to pay for these expensive treatments. Value-based contracts, though slow to gain traction so far, may provide the solution these groups are looking for.

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5 Reasons to Upgrade Your Pharmacy Management Software

Are you still using workarounds to manage your daily operations? To achieve peak performance, it's time to explore other options for specialty and infusion pharmacy software. Streamline pharmacy operations and improve clinical performance with automated processing, real-time data exchange, and electronic decision support. Download this helpful infographic to: Drive efficiency and patient adherence from referral receipt to delivery and ongoing care – all with our Pharmacy Cloud.

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Becerra renews COVID-19 public health emergency another 90 days, possibly for last time

Fierce Healthcare

Becerra renews COVID-19 public health emergency another 90 days, possibly for last time. rking. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 12:18.

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Cybersecurity Threats & Pharma

PharmExec

The steps companies can take now to better protect themselves and their data.

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A record 15.9M people enrolled in ACA marketplace plans so far, CMS says

Fierce Healthcare

A record 15.9M people enrolled in ACA marketplace plans so far, CMS says. fdiamond. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 10:36.

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Consumers opted to shop for groceries online in December

Drug Store News

According to Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey, December’s monthly U.S. online grocery sales figure is only 2% lower than the record high of $9.3 billion last seen in the first quarter of 2021.

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JPM23, Day 3: Clover Health tees up busy day for insurtechs; Hinge Health stretches its reach into at-home care

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23, Day 3: Clover Health tees up busy day for insurtechs; Hinge Health stretches its reach into at-home care. hlandi. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 15:00.

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Gut microbiome key in Parkinson’s, suggests study

European Pharmaceutical Review

The largest microbiome study conducted at the highest resolution concluded the gut microbiome is involved in multiple pathways in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). The findings, published in Nature Communications , show a wide imbalance in microbiome composition in people with Parkinson’s. Investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, US employed metagenomics, the study of genetic material recovered directly from the stool microbiome of individuals with PD and neurologica

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JPM23: Intermountain Health, UCHealth launch joint venture to accelerate value-based care in Colorado

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: Intermountain Health, UCHealth launch joint venture to accelerate value-based care in Colorado. hlandi. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 10:02.

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AbbVie, Anima Biotech announce collaboration worth $580M plus

pharmaphorum

AbbVie and Anima Biotech have announced that they are collaborating in a deal worth up to over $580 million to discover and develop drugs that modulate mRNA biology for three targets in cancer and immunology. Anima uses its mRNA Lightning platform to discover small molecules and determine their mechanisms of action for diseases previously deemed undruggable, with scientists searching for compounds that target proteins with roles in regulating mRNA, so as to affect disease states through post-tra

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UCSF Health received fewer patient portal messages after letting clinicians choose when to charge

Fierce Healthcare

UCSF Health received fewer patient portal messages after letting clinicians choose when to charge. dmuoio. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 12:08.

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Opinion: FTC’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements could be a game changer for some physicians

STAT

The last two decades have been a period of declining economic influence for practicing physicians. Independent medical practice has been steadily eroded by hospital employment, as well as by private equity and corporate acquisitions, to the point where less than half of physicians in the U.S. work in private practices. I have argued that the emerging scarcity of practitioners will eventually reverse this erosion.

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Lilly, Biogen and more gear up for blockbuster launches in 2023: report

Fierce Pharma

Lilly, Biogen and more gear up for blockbuster launches in 2023: report. kdunleavy. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 10:19.

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Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?

STAT

WASHINGTON — After 9/11, Congress created an entirely new government agency to address the threat of terrorism, and Americans are still taking off their shoes in airports more than 20 years later. After a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people in the United States alone, very little about the federal government has changed at all, and it may not for a long time.

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CMS plans to announce first Part D drugs subject to price negotiations this fall

Fierce Healthcare

CMS plans to announce first Part D drugs subject to price negotiations this fall. rking. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 10:33.

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What’s standing in the way of wastewater data becoming a more mainstream public health tool

STAT

When case counts suggest Covid-19 is in check, the truth is in the toilets. The pandemic has long been in its fatigue phase , making it hard for public health departments to have the return on investment to keep testing clinics open — and making it all but impossible to know, in real time, how many people in a certain area are sick. And while hospitalizations are fairly reliable, that indicator lags behind cases.

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Top 2022 Pharmacy Blog Posts for Independent Pharmacy KPI Optimization

DiversifyRx

Last week we shared our Top 2022 Blog Resources For Team Development. This week we will cover the most popular blogs from 2022 that focus on KPI (key performance indicator) Optimization, our sixth (and final!) Pharmacy Profit Pillar. Here’s an overview of the 6 Pharmacy Profit Pillars: Non-PBM Revenue. PBM Optimization. Cash-Based Revenue. Marketing.