Drug Topics

JANUARY 6, 2023

A local West Virginia mechanic exemplifies the kind of problem-solving that pharmacy executives from major chains should apply to their stores.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 6, 2023

Google and DeepMind have developed an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot tool called Med-PaLM designed to generate “safe and helpful answers” to questions posed by healthcare professionals and patients. The tool is an example of a large language model or LLM, which are designed to understand queries and generate text responses in plain language, drawing from large and complex datasets – in this case, medical research.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 6, 2023

Results show an association between linoleic acid, found in nuts, seeds, and vegetable oils, and increased hypersensitivity in psoriatic lesions.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the treatment options for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients are growing each year with the approval of new agents, all of the currently marketed treatments only slow the disease’s progression and sometimes carry risks of severe side effects, such as liver failure or the development of viral infections. However, new mechanisms of action (MoAs) are in constant development, with some of the more innovative ones utilizing cell-based therapies.

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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.

Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 6, 2023

Ublituximab-xiiy from TG Therapeutics Inc is the first anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody approved for individuals with RMS that is administered as a 1-hour infusion after the starting dose.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2023

Carbon Health announces another round of layoffs, corporate restructuring amid challenging market conditions. hlandi. Fri, 01/06/2023 - 20:01.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

The UK has formed an partnership with German biotech BioNTech to provide up to 10,000 patients with access to personalised cancer therapies, in another example of the country embracing the mRNA technologies that underpinned COVID-19 vaccines. The cancer immunotherapies will mainly be provided in the context of clinical trials over the alliance, which extends out to 2030, but also covers supply of commercial therapies if approved in the interim.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 6, 2023

Lecanemab (Lequembi) approved to treat mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia associated with Alzheimer disease.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 6, 2023

The US Food Administration has agreed to review an application for nirsevimab (Beyfortus; AstraZeneca and Sanofi) to protect infants against RSV.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 6, 2023

MenABCWY combines components of 2 vaccines, which help protect against serogroups that cause most cases of the invasive disease.

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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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STAT

JANUARY 6, 2023

Now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to the widely anticipated Alzheimer’s drug from Eisai and Biogen, a key question is the extent to which payers — private and public — will cover the treatment. Such decisions are based on myriad factors, starting with the average $26,500 price tag. But there are other considerations, including the quality of the clinical trial data, side effect concerns, the patient population for which the medic

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the US economy teetering on a recession, sales and marketing budgets are expected to take a hit among businesses across sectors. The pharmaceutical industry is no exception. When any organisation looks to slash its budget, the old adage about acquiring new customers costing five times as much as retaining existing customers becomes an alluring data point.

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STAT

JANUARY 6, 2023

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, state legislators, regulators, and legal advocates are calling on prisons to explain their poor hepatitis C treatment rates, after a STAT investigation revealing that more than 1,000 people had died from complications of the curable disease. In South Dakota and Oklahoma, lawmakers have written to their respective departments of corrections about STAT’s reporting.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 6, 2023

Pharmacists are ideally positioned within communities to identify patients struggling with perinatal depression.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

The pharmaceutical industry has been slow to adopt a business practice that is faster, safer, and more efficient than its current way of operating; that the FDA has been encouraging the industry to implement more widely for years; and that has been used effectively in other industries for decades. I’m talking about continuous manufacturing. Continuous manufacturing produces a drug product from start to finish through a nonstop, integrated assembly.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2023

Researchers crawled search engines and searched the dark web to find out the true extent of healthcare ransomware attacks. aburky. Fri, 01/06/2023 - 13:25.

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STAT

JANUARY 6, 2023

When Michael Odell, an intensive care nurse, died by suicide a year ago this month, it thrust attention on all that nurses had endured during the pandemic. Odell’s death also motivated his friends in the field as well as other nurses to build on that attention and his legacy. In the year since, they’ve been advocating for health care worker well-being and calling for health systems to offer more support for nurses, historically a group that’s received less consideration than

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The Checkup by Singlecare

JANUARY 6, 2023

Mounjaro (tirzepatide) is a brand-name prescription medication that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to improve blood sugar control in adults with Type 2 diabetes (along with diet and exercise). More recently, Mounjaro has become increasingly popular for weight loss. “In clinical trials Mounjaro has reduced patients’ weights by more than 20%,” explains Suzanne Soliman, Pharm.D., a board-certified pharmacist and founder of Pharmacist Moms Group.

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STAT

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment that moderately slows cognitive decline in people with early-stage disease. The drug, called Leqembi, was developed by Eisai , the Japanese pharmaceutical company that also developed the first symptomatic treatment for Alzheimer’s 25 years ago.

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PharmExec

JANUARY 6, 2023

A chat with with Indegene's Timothy Moore, Senior Vice President, Emerging Biotech and Key Accounts and Jack Mycka, Vice President, Enterprise Medical Solutions and Emerging Biotech.

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STAT

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Friday more aggressive air quality standards for particulate matter, pollutants small enough to be inhaled and cause respiratory illness and other disease. The agency’s new rules would help clean the nation’s air and bring it more in line with the past decade of research on the harmful effects of particulate matter.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2023

How FTC's noncompete agreements rule could impact healthcare. fdiamond. Fri, 01/06/2023 - 15:55.

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STAT

JANUARY 6, 2023

Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we’ll share it with others.  That’s right. Send us your changes, and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going. And here is our regular feature in which we highlight a different person each week.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 6, 2023

pharmaphorum is proud to announce its inaugural “The World Without Disease Summit”: a high quality, two-day event bringing together key global leaders and innovators to explore the potential of disease interception in future health. The event has been conceived in partnership with an established industry leader in this space, Ben Wiegand, Founding Partner at CWWDA (The Connected World Without Disease Accelerator) and former senior executives at UnitedHealth and Janssen.

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STAT

JANUARY 6, 2023

And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. Our agenda is still being assembled, but we do know that we will promenade extensively with the official mascot. We also hope to catch up on our reading, since our stack of overdue library books is disheartening.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 6, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review for glofitamab, Roche’s CD20xCD3 T-cell engaging bispecific antibody. The decision for the FDA priority review of glofitamab is for adults with relapsed or refractory (R/R) large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) after two or more lines of systemic therapy. If approved, the cancer immunotherapy would be the first fixed-duration, off-the-shelf CD20xCD3 T-cell engaging bispecific antibody available for individuals with an aggressive

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2023

JPM23, Day 1: CVS Health backs $25M investment in Array Behavioral Care. hlandi. Fri, 01/06/2023 - 16:50.

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Drug Store News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Medicare Part D beneficiaries are now able to access reduced-cost monthly insulin supplies and free Shingrix vaccines at all Hy-Vee Pharmacy locations.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2023

Industry Voices—Pushing toward a new standard in kidney care. pminemyer. Fri, 01/06/2023 - 11:13.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 6, 2023

GSK will exclusively license up to four bi- and multi-specific T cell engaging (TCE) antibodies developed using technology platforms from WuXi Biologics, a contract research, development, and manufacturing organisation (CRDMO). Licensing T cell engaging antibodies. The CRDMO will receive a $40 million upfront payment from GSK and up to $1.46 billion in additional payments for research, development , regulatory and commercial milestones across the four TCE antibodies.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 6, 2023

Your weekly roundup of the latest news from Drug Topics®.

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PharmExec

JANUARY 6, 2023

One company pursues a program for a technology they believe is a potential cure for Type 1 diabetes.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 6, 2023

With Leqembi approval in Alzheimer's disease, Eisai and Biogen plot 'meticulous' launch. fkansteiner. Fri, 01/06/2023 - 12:44.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2023

Elevance Health rolls out a nutrition tracker in its Sydney member app. pminemyer. Fri, 01/06/2023 - 15:38.

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