Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hackers hit Broward Health network, potentially exposing data on 1.3M patients, staff. hlandi. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 17:14.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 4, 2022

Push Doctor – a digital platform that virtually connects patients with GPs – has been acquired by private healthcare service provider Square Health for an undisclosed fee. Rumours of a deal first emerged last November, amid reports that Push Doctor had been at risk of insolvency and going into administration. The company reported a loss of nearly £8 million (almost $11 million) in the year to 31 July 2021 and finished the period with just over £1 million in cash, reportedly only enough to last

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

HCA Healthcare scoops up MD Now Urgent Care's 59 Florida clinics to support statewide investments. dmuoio. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 13:02.

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Outsourcing Pharma

JANUARY 4, 2022

An AI expert discusses progress in the field, gaps in understanding, and how predictive modeling and other advanced analytical tools could be put to use.

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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.

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Walmart Health exec Osborne leaves the retailer amid ongoing leadership changes. hlandi. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 13:17.

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Outsourcing Pharma

JANUARY 4, 2022

A forward-looking report from company experts includes a breakdown of the top trends to watch for in pharmaceutical development and in healthcare overall.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 4, 2022

Novartis has blocked an attempt by Chinese drugmaker HEC Pharma to launch a generic version of its big-selling multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya in the US for almost six years. An appeals court ruling has upheld the validity of a key US patent covering Gilenya (fingolimod), and issued a permanent injunction against HEC Pharma until it expires in December 2027.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Centene completes acquisition of Magellan Health. pminemyer. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 15:37.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

JANUARY 4, 2022

Caring for patients who are more ill than ever before is the duty of a critical care nurse. Although CCRN certification is not mandatory, successful employment may hinge on the diligence demonstrated through the completion of the CCRN exam offered by the AACN. If you’re gearing up to take the Critical Care Nursing exam, then try these 5 free CCRN practice questions taken straight from our BoardVitals Critical Care Nursing question bank.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Nurses vote to end 10-month strike at Tenet Healthcare's St. Vincent Hospital. dmuoio. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 11:24.

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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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BuzzRx

JANUARY 4, 2022

When someone receives a diagnosis of prediabetes or diabetes , one of the first things they are told is that a healthy diet will play a major role in diabetes management. Specifically, they’re told to eat a low carbohydrate diet or low glycemic index diet. The general consensus is that aside from managing diabetes, a diabetes diet has other benefits too because it can reduce your cardiovascular risk.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Symplr to buy Midas analytics solutions suite from Conduent in $340M all-cash deal. rtorrence. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 12:38.

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The Physician Pharmacist

JANUARY 4, 2022

An age old question that perplexes many. How hard can medical school really be? You may also be wondering how it compares to traditional undergraduate degrees or even other professional graduate programs like Pharmacy School. Unfortunately, there's no way to sugar coat it; medical school is hard. Of course becoming a doctor should be hard and our answer is likely one you had already anticipated.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

AbbVie latest drugmaker to impose 340B restrictions on sales to contract pharmacies. rking. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 15:45.

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Pharma Tutor

JANUARY 4, 2022

Celebrating 75th Year of Pharmacy Act, 1948. Dr. R. S. Thakur. Chief Editor, Journal of Pharmaceutical Research. Krupanidhi College of Pharmacy, Bengaluru-560035. Email: drramsthakur@gmail.com. . admin. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 16:52. Tags. Pharmapedia. Articles.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Medicare Part B spent $1.5B on COVID-19 tests in 2020, other testing decreased. rking. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 14:29.

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Pharma Mirror

JANUARY 4, 2022

CPhI Predictions for 2022: high manufacturing demand to constrain global ingredients, partnering options and available CDMO capacity. Continued stellar growth in pharma sales and innovation bode well for supply side companies and CDMOs Amsterdam: CPhI Worldwide releases its beginning of year pharma market predictions for 2022 combining research from over 350 pharma executives and expert views from 10 CPhI contributors.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Real-world evidence firm Aetion grabs privacy-protected synthetic data provider Replica Analytics. rtorrence. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 14:54.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 4, 2022

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) therapy Spinraza has been a key earner for Biogen in recent years, but with sales now heading into reverse, the company is looking to extend its franchise. Its latest move is a $60 million upfront licensing deal with longstanding partner Ionis to exercise an option on BIIB115 (ION306), a longer-acting antisense drug still in preclinical development.

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Outsourcing Pharma

JANUARY 4, 2022

A leader from health tech solutions company Vytal examines supply chain challenges faced in the pharmaceutical field and shares some potential solutions.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 4, 2022

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former chief executive of the blood testing startup Theranos, has been convicted of defrauding investors by a jury in a California court and is facing a prison sentence. Prosecutors claimed that Holmes (37) knowingly misled shareholders in Theranos with the promise that the company’s technology could diagnose a battery of diseases with just a few drops of blood, rather than a larger blood sample drawn from a patient’s vein.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Humana, Vancouver Clinic join forces on new primary care practice in Oregon. pminemyer. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 12:09.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 4, 2022

PRISYM 360 label management software has been tested by Zebra’s Global Enablement Center to support customers’ critical printing needs, reducing risk and deployment times. . PRISYM ID announced it has successfully completed Zebra’s Enterprise Testing Program for its PRISYM 360 labeling solution. This designation indicates to customers and partners that PRISYM 360 was successfully tested, confirming its performance and functionality with Zebra ZT400, ZT600 and Xi4 series printers.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Ianacare locks down $12M amid growing caregiver market. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 15:31.

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Pharma Times

JANUARY 4, 2022

Pfizer’s Paxlovid has a success rate of nearly 90% as a prophylaxis treatment against severe COVID-19 when administered shortly after the patient has been infected with the virus.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 4, 2022

The global R&D pipeline is dominated by potential treatments in oncology and this is also where the investment is flowing. This doesn’t look like changing moving into the future, the main challenge will be managing to use this money to create a proportionate number of approved treatments and ensuring an early diagnosis for patients in the area. In this article, Ben Hargreaves explores how advances in technology could address these challenges.

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Pharma Times

JANUARY 4, 2022

In order to help to reduce transmission of the Omicron variant, measures have been instated in hospitals, including a ban on ward visitations.

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Roots Analysis

JANUARY 4, 2022

Clinical trials form an integral part of the overall drug development process, enabling the necessary evaluation of the safety and efficacy of a drug candidate. Studies suggest that around 40% of the total investment made for the development of drug candidate is dedicated to clinical trials; this is equivalent to an expenditure of USD 78 billion annually.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 4, 2022

The FDA has authorised the first COVID-19 booster vaccine for teenagers in the 12 to 15 age group, giving the okay for wider use of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty shot as it tries to keep the Omicron variant under control. The US regulator has also reduced the time between completion of the first two doses of Comirnaty and a third dose to five months from six as a wave of new COVID-19 cases caused by Omicron has started washing over the country.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

CMS pulls Trump-era Most Favored Nation drug price model. rking. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 12:04.

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