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Frazier PhRMA Scholarship awarded to four college-bound students in Philadelphia and DC

PhRMA

The Kenneth C. Frazier PhRMA Scholars Program is going strong in 2022—and we are expanding our horizons to a new city. This summer, we are thrilled to announce four new recipients: Arianna Camacho-Mendez and Axel Orellana from Washington, D.C.; and Michelle Tanujaya and Jackie Zhao, our first students from Philadelphia. Congratulations to these amazing scholars!

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Trial Results Suggest Metformin Is Effective at Reducing Odds of Serious COVID-19 Outcomes

Pharmacy Times

University of Minnesota Medical School Analysis shows comparison with fluvoxamine and ivermectin in a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized study.

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First 90 Days: Agios Pharmaceuticals’ Brian Goff

PharmaVoice

The rare disease veteran and first-time CEO is bringing his expertise to the company as it launches the first FDA-approved treatment for pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency.

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Lack of Awareness of Omicron Variant Infectious Status in More than Half of Adults Contributes to High Transmission Rates

Pharmacy Times

Overall low awareness of the Omicron variant infection contributed to high transmission rates and rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 in communities.

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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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UNICEF signs first ever malaria vaccine supply contract with GSK

European Pharmaceutical Review

UNICEF has awarded GSK the first ever contract for the supply of a malaria vaccine. Under the $170 million (€167.4 million) contract, GSK will deliver 18 million doses of RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) over the next three years. According to UNICEF, nearly half a million children died from malaria in Africa in 2020, at a rate of one child death per minute, so the supply contact could save thousands of lives every year.

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FDA Clears Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System for Type 1 Diabetes Patients 2 Years of Age and Older

Pharmacy Times

Omnipod 5 is an automated, tubeless insulin dispensing system that allows for continuous infusion and bolus dosing as needed.

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FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents Aged 12 Through 17

Pharmacy Times

The announcement marks the first protein-based COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the United States for this patient population.

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Towards ‘smart’ vaccine development and manufacturing

European Pharmaceutical Review

THE GLOBAL outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered an urgent need to protect people’s lives and livelihoods and the healthcare community recognised quite early that vaccines were the best solution to this crisis. However, the biopharma industries realised that traditional vaccine development and manufacturing techniques, which take around five to 10 years for initial development to large-scale distribution, 1 were inadequate to meet the growing demand for COVID-19 vaccines.

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AHA Statement Outlines Most Common Symptoms of 6 Cardiovascular Disease

Pharmacy Times

The American Heart Association includes 6 conditions and indicates that men’s and women’s experiences may differ.

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American Kidney Fund launches resources to engage patients of color

Outsourcing Pharma

The group has introduced a downloadable guide, interactive quiz, and other tools to inform patients from underrepresented communities about trial participation.

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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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Court Reviews Regulatory Status of Homeopathic Drug Products

Pharmacy Times

Decision in favor of FDA partially clarifies a somewhat gray area of the law regarding medications.

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Is it time to start rethinking mobile clinical trial apps?

Outsourcing Pharma

A leader from the trial financial management specialist suggests apps used in trials could be adjusted to better suit patients, sites and other stakeholders.

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Handling Narcissism in the Workforce and Spiritual Bankruptcy

Pharmacy Times

Narcissistic leaders have a negative impact on the culture of their organization as their conduct and management style induces fear.

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Flipping the script to disrupt, redefine and accelerate the patient care journey

PharmaVoice

A new, digitally innovative care model empowers patients and expedites their access to 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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Trends in Oncology Pharmacy Will Drive the Market Beyond 2022

Pharmacy Times

New drugs, virtual care, and a patient-focused approach are key during this period of transformation.

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Medication Safety Quiz 2022

OctariusRx

The 2022 version of the OctariusRx medication safety quiz is about to be released. Ongoing education and assessments of staff medication management competency are standards of good practice. Medication competency and your consultant pharmacist are two things that should go hand-in-hand. How are you assessing your staff? Use our tool to help enhance patient safety and satisfy the regulatory requirement.

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Rx Product News: August 2022

Pharmacy Times

This month's rx product news features Skyrizi (AbbVie), Myfembree (Myovant Sciences, Pfizer), and Dupixent (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals).

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Digital health firm Akili raises $163m in Nasdaq listing

pharmaphorum

Akili has started trading publicly today, raising $163 million as a result of its merger with a blank cheque company, saying the cash injection will help fund further development of its video-game based digital therapeutics (DTx). The company made its debut on the Nasdaq on Friday under the AKLI ticker with a starting share price of $9.65, and made swift gains, more than doubling to $20-plus in trading today having spiked as high as $36.

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API nitrosamines: method sensitivity issues

European Pharmaceutical Review

HARDLY A DAY goes by without mention of a newly emerging active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) nitrosamine, eg, nitrosamine propranolol. 1 This has led to a great deal of pre-competitive data sharing. For instance, Lhasa initiated a Nitrites in Excipients database to facilitate risk assessment of drug products, which was recently published. 2,3 The database categorises excipients thus: 1) excipients show varying nitrite contents with pronounced batch-to-batch variance, 2) the nitrite impact is

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Expert Discusses Drug Diversion in the Pharmacy

Pharmacy Times

Jake Nichols, PharmD, CEO, president, and co-founder of Renovo Health, discusses his experience with drug diversion and addiction.

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Tech Innovations: August 2022

Outsourcing Pharma

This monthâs news on technology, partnerships, expansions, and more includes items from IQVIA, Almac Group, Signant Health, Lonza, and other key companies.

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Daily Medication Pearl: Ceftolozane and Tazobactam (Zerbaxa)

Pharmacy Times

Zerbaxa is a combination of ceftolozane, a cephalosporin antibacterial, and tazobactam, a beta-lactamase inhibitor.

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Business Spend management for Today and Tomorrow: Creating a Scalable Foundation for Growth

PharmExec

Tue, Aug 23, 2022 1:00 PM EDT Hear how Werewolf Therapeutics successfully transformed its spend management processes by driving efficiencies; increasing savings; and implementing efficient, compliant systems on a scalable foundation for growth. How do procurement and finance leaders at biopharma companies plan for a future that has unknowns and uncertainty?

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American Oncology Network Ranks No. 107 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List

Pharmacy Times

AON receives ranking no. 107 among America’s fastest-growing private companies and no. eight among health services.

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Porton raises funds for gene and cell therapy CDMO platforms expansion

Pharmaceutical Technology

Porton Advanced Solutions has raised $80m in a Series B funding round to expand its end-to-end gene and cell therapy (GCT) contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) platforms. Merchant Health, a healthcare private equity (PE) fund of China Merchants Groups, led the financing round together with its sister fund China Merchants Capital and China Merchants Securities Investments.

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EU advisors back lower monkeypox jab dose to stretch supplies

pharmaphorum

The EMA’s Emergency Task Force (ETF) has recommended that EU member states can use a different regimen for Bavarian Nordic’s monkeypox vaccine Imvanex/Jynneos that uses a smaller dose, to eke out limited supplies of the shot. The recommendation comes after a review of a clinical trial which found that delivering a smaller dose intradermally – just below the top layer of the skin – is as effective as giving the standard dose subcutaneously as recommended on the monkeypox vaccine’

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Compliance to convenience: understanding the latest innovations in capsule formulation

Pharmaceutical Technology

When it comes to pharmaceutical, nutritional or cosmeceutical dosing, some of the most crucial parameters are safety, product effectiveness and patient adherence. The right formulation can have a huge impact on whether the customer continues taking their capsules, as well as whether the ingredients act as intended. Today, innovations in the capsule formulation space are creating new possibilities for how capsules look, feel and act, with huge benefits for customers.

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KOL Identification Without KOL Mapping

pharmaphorum

Among the infinite symposia, webinars, and white papers on this topic,?“KOL identification” and “KOL mapping” can find themselves melting together in a gelatinous jargon stew.? . Both are of equal importance, but they aren’t interchangeable and mean very different things. . KOL identification is the process of identifying those individuals with high levels of expertise and influence in a given therapeutic area; in the context of building your medical and commercial strategy.?

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Daily OTC Pearl: Aobbiy

Pharmacy Times

Aobbiy is a lung expansion and mucus relief device that aids in mucus removal to help clear the airway.

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EMA starts review of Cidara’s candidiasis therapy rezafungin

pharmaphorum

The EU regulator has started its review of Cidara Therapeutics’ once-weekly antifungal rezafungin, setting up a decision next year as a new option for serious, invasive infections caused by candida species. The filing is based on the ReSTORE trial of rezafungin, a drug in the echinocandin class, which met its objectives by showing that rezafungin was as effective as daily dosing with the decades-old drug caspofungin in severe candidemia and/or invasive candidiasis.

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Top Five Advantages of Joining RxLocal™ Pharmacy Finder

PioneerRx

Between offering the best care to your patients and managing a successful business, many pharmacists and store owners may struggle with broadcasting their services…

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NACDS Total Store Expo 2022 Promises to Bring Together Pharmacy, Retail Stakeholders

Pharmacy Times

The Total Store Expo is taking place in Boston from August 27 through 29, 2022.

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Top Five Advantages of Joining RxLocal™ Pharmacy Finder

PioneerRx

Between offering the best care to your patients and managing a successful business, many pharmacists and store owners may struggle with broadcasting their services…

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FDA Accepts NDA for GSK Subsidiary’s Momelotinib for Treatment of Myelofibrosis

Pharmacy Times

The regulatory submission includes data from the MOMENTUM phase 3 clinical trial that met all primary and key second efficacy end points.

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