PhRMA
APRIL 19, 2023
PhRMA has awarded a $140,000 grant to the Emerson Diversity Health Foundation as part of our commitment to addressing health inequities and enhancing clinical trial diversity.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 19, 2023
Data from the aflibercept 8 mg clinical trial program will be presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2023 Annual Meeting, April 23 to 27.
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PhRMA
APRIL 19, 2023
PhRMA ha otorgado una beca de 140.000 USD a la “ Emerson Diversity Health Foundation ” como parte de nuestro compromiso de enfrentar la desigualdad en la asistencia médica y aumentar la diversidad de los elegidos para ensayos clínicos.
STAT
APRIL 19, 2023
For many years, there’s been considerable debate about the best age for women to initiate breast cancer screening.The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that women start getting screenings around age 50, while groups such as the American Cancer Society recommend screenings begin at an earlier age. Now a large new study suggests that if Black women begin screening for breast cancer at age 42, that could help lower racial disparities in breast cancer deaths.
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
APRIL 19, 2023
Analysis shows that babies of mothers who used drugs while pregnant were shorter at birth and weighed less during the breastfeeding stage compared with non-drug-exposed infants.
STAT
APRIL 19, 2023
University of Michigan pediatric neurologist Vivian Cheung made a name for herself studying rare genetic diseases, and in 2008 — when she was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania — was hired as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, an honor for which she received $1 million a year over the next 12 years to further her research.
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Fierce Pharma
APRIL 19, 2023
Goodbye, original COVID-19 vaccines: FDA updates shot guidance, pulls monovalent authorizations zbecker Wed, 04/19/2023 - 11:04
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 19, 2023
Atypical respiratory syncytial virus epidemics may continue, and testing patients for multiple respiratory pathogens when indicated might be necessary.
Drug Topics
APRIL 19, 2023
Timothy Aungst, PharmD at The Digital Apothecary joined the April 2023 Total Pharmacy Solutions Summit and spoke about how technology and automation continue to grow in the health care world.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 19, 2023
Pharmacists must be involved in managing adverse effects and drug-drug interactions as psychedelic medicines collide with traditional psychiatric treatments.
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.
Drug Topics
APRIL 19, 2023
Cognivue's Director of Pharmacy Chuck Schneider and Dr. Dung Trinh, Cheif Medical Officer at Irvine Clinical Research joined TPSS Spring 2023 to discuss cognitive health and the importance of intervening early.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 19, 2023
Building strong, trusting relationships helps combat hesitancy, creating healthier communities.
Drug Topics
APRIL 19, 2023
Dean Koskinas, PharmD, is the Execute Sales Consultant at Transaction Data Systems. He joined the Spring 2023 TPSS to discuss the best ways to integrate technology into all aspects of a pharmacy.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 19, 2023
The findings could inform revisions to safety guidelines and policies that help protect people with cardiovascular issues during heat waves.
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Drug Topics
APRIL 19, 2023
Paige Clarke, RPh, and Billy Chow, RPh from Prescryptive Health join TPSS to discuss the role of the pharmacist in drug prices, and how to better serve the community.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 19, 2023
HIMSS23: Best Buy Health, VillageMD execs see collaboration as critical to future of healthcare agliadkovskaya Wed, 04/19/2023 - 15:15
Drug Topics
APRIL 19, 2023
Ned Milenkovich, PharmD, JD, joins the Spring 2023 Total Pharmacy Solutions Summit for a seminar on the history and future of prescribing rights within pharmacy.
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 19, 2023
Neurovascular mechanisms cause the decrease in BP levels, results from a study of 23 participants in Brazil show.
STAT
APRIL 19, 2023
An expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccination policy informally endorsed a plan Wednesday to offer an additional Covid-19 booster shot to people 65 and older as well as people who are immunocompromised, and to simplify the Covid vaccine schedule. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was not asked to vote on the changes , announced Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration.
European Pharmaceutical Review
APRIL 19, 2023
“The approval of Omisirge is a significant development in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation” Omisirge ® (omidubicel-onlv), now US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved , is the first allogeneic stem cell transplant therapy to be given marketing authorisation based on results from a global, randomised Phase III clinical study. The treatment is indicated for patients 12 years and older with hematologic malignancies planned for umbilical cord blood transplantation, following myeloablati
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 19, 2023
Omidubicel-onlv therapy aims to quicken the recovery of neutrophils and reduce the risk of infection in patients with cancer.
Drug Topics
APRIL 19, 2023
Dr. Laura Faast joined the Spring 2023 Total Pharmacy Solutions Summit to talk about the best ways pharmacies can improve their cashflow.
STAT
APRIL 19, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday extended a stay on limits to a federally approved abortion drug, giving the panel two more days to consider a case that could determine whether the widely used medication can remain on the market. The stay, now in place until the end of Friday, was due to end at midnight amid an unprecedented case testing the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to approve and regulate drugs.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 19, 2023
HIMSS23: Athenahealth rolls out new tool to measure how well patients engage with digital health aburky Wed, 04/19/2023 - 16:23
STAT
APRIL 19, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration’s latest plan to study whether opioids are effective as a chronic pain treatment is facing significant resistance from addiction and pain care experts. A planned clinical trial, doctors and researchers argued on Wednesday, would not yield significant new information about whether opioids are effective as long-term treatments for chronic pain.
The Checkup by Singlecare
APRIL 19, 2023
You probably know that vegetables are one of the best food groups to eat for your health , thanks to their many vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. But did you know that fresh garlic counts as a vegetable? And that it’s just as good for you as other veggies? It’s true: Any food that’s a root, bulb, or stalk of a vegetable plant counts as a vegetable.
STAT
APRIL 19, 2023
Just one week after the season finale of the HBO show “The Last of Us,” about a zombie apocalypse caused by a fungal infection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning about Candida auris spreading in U.S. health care facilities. Twenty-seven states and Washington, D.C. have reported cases of the deadly fungal infection that often doesn’t respond to common antifungal drugs, with southern Nevada emerging as a hotspot of infections.
Hospital Pharmacy Europe
APRIL 19, 2023
ChatGPT showed some promise for relatively straightforward cardiology questions but performed less well in more complex case vignettes ChatGPT has the potential as an AI-assisted decision-support tool for questions that are relatively straightforward. In contrast, it performed less well when providing answers to more complicated case vignettes. Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) is an interactive AI model.
STAT
APRIL 19, 2023
The calamity of March 2020 arrived two years later for pediatric units. In the fall of 2022, a tidal wave of respiratory viral illnesses sent children to emergency rooms in droves when enterovirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza peaked in close succession, bombarding young children who had remained mostly unexposed to these viruses during the most acute years of the Covid pandemic.
Med Ed 101
APRIL 19, 2023
Beta-blockers are a class of medication that is frequently used for cardiac and cardiovascular purposes. Selectivity and evidence of benefit often guide selection, but one thing that may get overlooked is beta-blocker interactions in relation to CYP enzymes. Not all beta-blockers interact with CYP enzymes and those that don’t always follow a pattern.
Hospital Pharmacy Europe
APRIL 19, 2023
Endocan serum levels might become a useful biomarker for assessing the extent of disease in patients with ulcerative colitis Measurement of serum endocan levels could be a useful way to determine the extent of ulcerative colitis in patients according to a study by Turkish researchers. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a form of inflammatory bowel disease in which there is mucosal inflammation.
Pharmaceutical Technology
APRIL 19, 2023
GSK has signed an agreement to buy Canadian late-stage biopharmaceutical company BELLUS Health for $2bn (£1.6bn). GSK will buy all the outstanding shares in BELLUS for $14.75 per share in cash. GSK expects that the BELLUS Health acquisition will boost its speciality medicines and respiratory pipeline. The company will gain access to BELLUS’s investigational, twice-daily oral P2X3 receptor antagonist, camlipixant, to treat refractory chronic cough (RCC).
Drug Store News
APRIL 19, 2023
Both facilities will support the company's medical segment, focusing on its U.S. medical products and distribution and at-Home Solutions businesses.
Fierce Pharma
APRIL 19, 2023
J&J, Legend's Carvykti cut risk of progression or death by whopping 74% in earlier myeloma, leaked abstract shows aliu Wed, 04/19/2023 - 09:10
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