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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for VAX-24 for Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

Drug Topics

The Breakthrough Therapy designation for VAX-24 will grant Vaxcyte access to the FDA’s Fast Track program.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Opinion: There are 4 gaps in global pandemic responses. The biggest is missing leadership

STAT

Three years after news of the first cases of Covid-19 infections and deaths began to appear, the global response to pandemics remains in a sluggish, reactive mode, waiting until dire threats emerge before initiating action. Take the latest Ebola outbreak in central Uganda. It’s been more than a month since the last case has been found, and a two-month lockdown of two districts west of the capital, Kampala, ended in mid-December.

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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.

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STAT+: HHS will seek more input on its new Medicare drug price negotiations

STAT

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services is gearing up to start releasing details about its new Medicare drug price negotiation process this year, and the public will have more of a chance to weigh in along the way than initially expected, officials said Wednesday. The Inflation Reduction Act, which established Medicare’s new negotiation powers, didn’t explicitly require the agency to get public input before setting up the program, but HHS outlined several op

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Top 2022 Pharmacy Blog Posts For Independent Pharmacy Team Development

DiversifyRx

Check out our Top 2022 articles on Team Development for Independent Pharmacies. Last week we shared our Top 2022 Pharmacy Blog posts for Independent Pharmacy Marketing , which covers our 4th Pharmacy Profit Pillar Marketing. This week we will dive into the most popular blogs from 2022 that focus on Team Development, our fifth Pharmacy Profit Pillar.

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Lawmakers again urge the Biden administration to use federal law to widen access to a cancer drug

STAT

For the third time in less than a year, a group of lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to use a controversial provision of federal law to widen access to a pricey cancer medicine, an issue that has festered ever since cancer patients petitioned the federal government. The medicine in their crosshairs is the Xtandi prostate cancer drug, which last year had a $156,000 list price, according to Elsevier Health.

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How to save on Wegovy for weight loss

The Checkup by Singlecare

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us put on a few unwanted pounds from being stuck indoors and losing our typical routine. One study found that almost half (48%) of adults gained weight during this time. And many people are still trying to get back in shape. But what happens when you’re tracking your calories and exercising, but the scale still doesn’t budge?

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STAT+: Top Verily executives depart amid leadership shakeup and layoffs

STAT

Verily, a health technology company spun out of tech giant Alphabet, announced Wednesday that it is restructuring its management team and business and cutting 15% of its workforce. According to a memo exclusively obtained by STAT, Amy Abernethy , the former Food and Drug Administration official that Verily brought on to advance the use of technology in speeding up clinical trials, will be elevated to president of product development and chief medical officer.

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Rite Aid joins Kubra retail cash payments network

Drug Store News

With Kubra’s retail cash payments network, Rite Aid customers can receive their personalized and reusable barcode on their printed bill or download the barcode to their mobile phones.

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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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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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STAT+: Physicians group urges FDA to convene expert panel before finally approving an Alzheimer’s drug

STAT

A physicians group is urging the Food and Drug Administration to hold an expert panel meeting to review an experimental Alzheimer’s treatment before issuing a full-blown approval, a move that reflects nagging safety issues surrounding the medication. The appeal follows a step announced last week by the FDA to grant accelerated approval for the medicine, which is called Leqembi.

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FDA clears first ACL reconstruction device for use in paediatric patients

Pharmafile

The FDA has cleared the ACL TightRope® II implant to treat torn knee ligaments in children and adolescents. The implant was developed with the aim of addressing a so-called ‘epidemic’ of knee injuries in young athletes who are at higher risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. read more.

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STAT+: Upstart Element ratchets up race for cheaper DNA sequencing with a $200 genome

STAT

SAN FRANCISCO — Decoding the billions of chemical letters that help shape who we are once cost a fortune. But genomics startup Element Biosciences on Wednesday announced it can now read a whole human genome for as little as $200 — the cost of a couple trips to the grocery store. Element’s announcement, made during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference , comes after Illumina and Ultima made commitments to bring the cost of reading a whole genome down to $200 and $100, respect

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Sales-Rep Compensation: Adding Long-Term Incentives to Mix

PharmExec

As they are forced to do more with less, pharma commercial leaders should rethink their incentive programs to ensure their sales teams remain strong drivers of growth.

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Opinion: Another Ebola outbreak, another missed opportunity for preparedness

STAT

When I learned that an outbreak of Ebola was declared in Uganda last fall, I had a flashback to 2014 when I was working at Merck and an outbreak of Ebola disease caused by a different species of the virus emerged in full force in West Africa. At the time, doses of a candidate vaccine against the virus circulating in West Africa had been developed and were in Merck’s freezers.

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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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