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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Public health messages have told us for decades that if you smoke, you should quit. And if you don’t smoke, don’t start. But a new study suggests smoking may be even worse than we thought. The study , published Wednesday in Nature, underscores the importance of never lighting up that first cigarette, based on its conclusion that smoking has much longer harmful effects on immune responses than previously understood.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Participants of a recent study who experienced more daily cognitive symptoms had a greater likelihood of reporting moderate interference with functioning, less likelihood of full-time employment, and greater severity of depressive symptoms.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission is launching a probe into the extent to which group purchasing organizations and wholesalers may contribute to ongoing shortages of key medicines at hospitals and other facilities across the country. The agency will explore how these companies — which are responsible for brokering and distributing countless medicines — might misuse their market power to influence pricing and availability.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite the growth in vaccine and antibody development for combatting RSV, lower income countries may not reap the benefits.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you have high blood pressure, it’s increasingly likely that your doctor or your insurer will offer you a blood pressure cuff or an educational app to help you get it under control. While potentially impactful, these tools may not be reaching marginalized people who don’t regularly have access to good health care — and who may benefit the most from the tools.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the drug development process and transforming the way FDA-approved drugs are produced, ensuring compliance and optimising the supply chain. Learn more about the future of AI in pharmaceuticals.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The approval of irinotecan liposome offers an improved first-line treatment option for individuals diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

After three years being incubated by California VC Westlake Village BioPartners, a new biotech launched Wednesday with $135 million and plans to compete with Vertex Pharmaceuticals. The startup is called Latigo Biotherapeutics, and it’s launching having already started a Phase 1 trial for a non-opioid pain medicine, LTG-001. The oral therapy is designed to silence pain-signaling neurons by blocking a sodium channel called NaV 1.8.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Continued doses of denosumab reduced the incidence of diabetes by more than 1000 patients compared to an initial dose alone.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Last week, the Washington Post published an op-ed by former CDC Director Tom Frieden titled, “It’s the world’s leading killer. Make it the focus of the next breakthrough.” Frieden writes, “Hypertension, the ‘silent killer,’ is the deadliest but most neglected and widespread pandemic of our time, killing more than 10 million people a year worldwide.

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Long-Term Care (LTC) pharmacies are playing a critical role in delivering care primarily for our aging population. Yet LTC pharmacies face many challenges, including rising costs, space constraints, labor availability and many others.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A leaked version of a proposed agreement between India and the European Free Trade Association is causing alarm among civil society and patient advocacy groups over concerns the deal would delay access to affordable generic versions of newer, lifesavings medicines for several years. The language in a draft agreement, which is expected to be concluded by April, suggests changes would have to be made to India’s patent and regulatory laws.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Young women with breast cancer have a less favorable prognosis compared with older women. However, data on recent trends and period and cohort effects among young women are not well known.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Over the last month, for those watching HBO’s macabre “True Detective Night Country”—a TV series set in a harsh, sunless winter in a fictional Alaskan town—a continual theme is frostbite. | The FDA has approved the first medicine for severe frostbite. The U.S. regulator has signed off on Johnson & Johnson’s Aurlumyn (iloprost), an injected treatment to reduce the risk of amputation of the fingers or toes.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Interventions have been implemented to raise the number of applications to OBGYN programs, including allowing applicants to submit up to 18 signals relating to their preferred programs.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With another quarter exceeding analysts’ expectations, Blueprint Medicines has raised its peak sales estimate for rare disease drug Ayvakit to $2 billion. | With another quarter exceeding analysts’ expectations, Blueprint Medicines has raised its peak sales estimate for rare disease drug Ayvakit to $2 billion.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Would-be policy reformers on both the left and right always seem to want major overhauls of the American healthcare system. | As clinicians, it's critical for us to be open and accountable for adopting technologies and processes that can help us better serve our patients while meeting the needs of the business.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

FDA unleashes multiple warning letters targeting insanitary manufacturing and online sales of unapproved Mounjaro, Ozempic fkansteiner Wed, 02/14/2024 - 05:10

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Researchers will continue to research how lantibiotic’s antimicrobial effects can be harnessed for good.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Biogen’s business has been in decline thanks to fierce multiple sclerosis competition and a botched Alzheimer’s drug launch. To make matters worse, the U.S. | Biogen’s business has been in decline thanks to fierce multiple sclerosis competition and a botched Alzheimer’s drug launch. To make matters worse, the U.S. Department of Justice is looking into the company’s foreign operations.

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Drug Store News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Instacart revealed that it would lay off about 250 employees, or approximately 7% of the company, as it restructures, according to a letter to shareholders.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Repotrectinib led to a durable anti-tumor response in patients with NTRK-positive locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Even as Australia’s CSL continues to grow, the company’s ambitions for its kidney disease and iron deficiency outfit Vifor Pharma—now known as CSL Vifor—have become more muted. | Even as Australia’s CSL continues to grow, the company’s ambitions for its kidney disease and iron deficiency outfit Vifor Pharma—now known as CSL Vifor—have become more muted.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?  Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Hello! And it’s Meghana again. Today, we discuss how Biogen’s missed the mark with Leqembi, but how it’s also not exactly a surprise. We see a new startup emerge that aims to compete with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and learn of Phase 1 results for Replicate’s srRNA rabies vaccine.

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Drug Store News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The superstore and wholesale space performed well across the board in 2023, with leading retailers seeing consistent year-over-year quarterly visit growth throughout the year.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you, especially since the middle of the week is upon us. After all, we have made it this far so we are determined to hang on for another couple of days. And why not? The alternatives — at least those we can identify — are not so appetizing. And what better way to make the time fly than to keep busy.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Ipsen has won FDA approval for first-line use of its pancreatic cancer therapy Onivyde, saying it is now part of a potential new “standard-of-care” for patients

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Sage Therapeutics and Biogen may not have the broad label that they had hoped for with Zurzuvae, but the two companies are still touting the med’s initial launch performance in postpartum depressio | Sage Therapeutics and Biogen may not have the broad label that they had hoped for with Zurzuvae, but the two companies are touting the med’s initial launch performance in postpartum depression.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Elevance Health's $2.5 billion acquisition of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is on pause yet again amid concerns about the impact on competition. | Elevance Health's $2.5 billion acquisition of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is on pause yet again amid concerns about the impact on competition.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

WATERTOWN — Their brainstorming began in an MIT class in 2010 when the eager undergrads shot each other emails about how to solve a bioengineering equation. It has continued for 14 years over sushi dinners, between Marvel movies, and during rowing-machine workouts. Together, Omar Abudayyeh, 33, and Jonathan Gootenberg, 32, have probed the mysteries of genomic editing and COVID detection.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tandem Mobi aims to help individuals living with diabetes to experience the benefits of Control-IQ technology, the company said.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Eicos Sciences' Aurlumyn has become the first FDA-approved drug treatment to prevent amputations in cases of severe frostbite

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Drug Store News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The founder of Frilliance shares the inspiration behind the brand and why it was so important to create something specifically for teens.

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Outsourcing Pharma

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Stella Vnook, a seasoned veteran in the pharmaceutical industry with extensive experience in senior leadership roles at Catalent, Merck, and Diverse Biotech, has been a prominent figure in the field, particularly in oncology, for over 25 years.

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