Drug Topics

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In a recent poll, only 1 in 5 parents believed it is unsafe for children to take medicine past its expiration date, while many did not know how to properly dispose medicine.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

SGLT-2 inhibitors, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and a non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor are all showing promise in the prevention and management of diabetic kidney disease.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How on pharmacy helps patients with chronic concerns like diabetes.

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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Patients with synchronous liver metastases from colorectal cancer have been found to have worse outcomes than those with metachronous liver metastases.

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Novartis has abandoned development of its drug to treat presbyopia, a common age-related loss of near distance vision, after it failed a phase 2b trial. The eyedrop formulation of UNR844 (lipoic acid/choline ester chloride) was acquired as part of the group’s buyout of privately-held ophthalmology biotech Encore Vision for $375 million upfront in 2017, and was designed to work by restoring the elasticity of the eye’s lens that declines with age.

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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 25, 2022

News research results in Zambia also find that early intervention in the form of antiretroviral therapies and better nutrition may help close the gap.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

ASCP 2022 session presenters discuss strategies and tools that can help busy pharmacists stay up to date on current medical literature, guidelines, and media.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Over the course of the pandemic, online prescribing has been embraced as a powerful tool in health care — not just by patients, but by a growing number of drug companies. Drawn in by the promise of direct access to patients, dozens of pages run by pharmaceutical companies now offer a way for people scrolling their sites to connect directly with a virtual provider who can write a prescription.

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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The efficacy of Shingrix was 97% in adults 50 years of age and older and 91% in adults 70 years of age and older over an extended follow-up period.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 25, 2022

AstraZeneca’s IL-5 inhibitor Fasenra is already making blockbuster sales from its use in eosinophilic asthma, but the drugmaker’s efforts to expand its label keep running into difficulties. Earlier this year, the FDA rejected AZ’s application for Fasenra (benralizumab) as a treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) with a request for more data.

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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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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 25, 2022

People with anxiety and related disorders were found to have vaccine hesitancy related to concerns regarding adverse effects and efficacy.

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PharmaVoice

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The company’s co-founder and head of R&D on how it’s using synthetic mRNA to create “smarter” therapies that could provide cures for cancer and more.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Ast ellas Pharma has announced plans to make a strategic investment to back the development of Taysha Gene Therapies’ adeno-associated virus (AAV) development programmes for Rett syndrome and giant axonal neuropathy (GAN). There are options in the future to possibly apply the worldwide research and development (R&D), manufacturing and marketing expertise of Astellas in gene therapy to AAV gene therapy development programmes of Taysha for genetic ailments of the central nervous system (CNS).

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Over the past few weeks, cases of flu have begun to creep up across the U.S., with spikes in the southeast and south central part of the country. Flu hospitalizations are also on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s influenza tracking team, all signs point to an earlier than usual flu season. At the same time, hospitals across the country are filling up with children who’ve contracted RSV — a virus that causes common cold-like symptoms that

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

With Halloween slowly — but spookily — creeping its way up to our calendars, it’s a perfect time to explore the more bone-chilling side of the pharmacy industry.

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Drug Store News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Pharmacy teams will be evaluated based solely on the behaviors that best support patient care and enhance the patient experience, in line with the company’s core values, Walgreens said.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Imagine that you are the parent of an 11-year-old soccer player who dreams of competing in the Women’s World Cup one day. You want to support her love for the sport while keeping her safe from harm. You are particularly concerned about brain injuries in youth sports, so you look up information about concussion protocols online. Information published by an international group of experts known as the Concussion in Sport Group (CISG) is reassuring.

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Drug Store News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Pharmacy teams will be evaluated based solely on the behaviors that best support patient care and enhance the patient experience, in line with the company’s core values, Walgreens said.

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ISPE

OCTOBER 25, 2022

ISPE Communities of Practice Leaders - Dharti Pancholi. Trudy Patterson. Tue, 10/25/2022 - 13:08. iSpeak Blog. iSpeak. ISPE Communities of Practice Leaders - Dharti Pancholi. Dharti Pancholi. 25 October 2022. Helping people, projects and companies succeed are the aspects Dharti Pancholi has enjoyed most about her career in the pharmaceutical industry.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

The antitrust regulator in Spain has fined Merck approximately $39 million for preventing a competitor from marketing a generic version of a hormonal contraceptive, the latest effort by a European government to crack down on anti-competitive practices in the pharmaceutical industry. In explaining its decision , the National Markets and Competition Commission, or CNMC, pointed to a 2017 court action in which Merck accused another company, Insud Pharma, of violating a patent for a vaginal ring cal

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2022

BioMed X has entered a research partnership with Sanofi to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) for drug development. Under the joint research project, a new research team will be set up at the BioMed X Institute in Heidelberg, Germany. This team will focus on creating a versatile computational platform that can precisely forecast the first-in-class drug candidates’ efficacy in virtual patient groups.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Pacific Biosciences, a Menlo Park, Calif., firm best known for its niche approach to DNA sequencing, on Tuesday announced plans to launch a new product that will put the company in direct competition with genomics juggernaut Illumina. The new DNA sequencer, dubbed Onso, reads the genome in small pieces and uses software to stitch that information together.

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Drug Store News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A CVS Health/Morning Consult survey finds that 61% of adults say they would like to get a greater range of health services from their local pharmacy.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Top of the morning to you. Gray skies are hovering once again over the Pharmalot campus right now, but our spirits remain sunny, nonetheless. Why? We will trot out a bit of insight from the Morning Mayor, who would say, “Every new day should be unwrapped like a precious gift.” To celebrate the notion, we are brewing still more cups of stimulation and invite you to join us.

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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Redesigning stores with special OTC areas for older patients can enhance communication, education.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Our best weapon against cancer may already live inside us — it just needs a little prodding. That’s the premise behind Normunity, which launched Tuesday with $65 million from investors to develop a suite of drugs that it dubs “immune normalizers” to help restore the natural ability of the immune system’s T cells to infiltrate and destroy tumors.

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PharmaVoice

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The company's head of U.S. and Canadian operations explains how the company is evolving its game plan after 100 years in the insulin space.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Healthware, as the key R&D partner, has been supporting Orion Corporation to design and develop a novel treatment, a Digital Therapeutics software solution “ Rohkea ” to treat Chronic Pain ( DTxP ) using Virtual Reality ( VR ). The efficacy and safety of the product has undergone a clinical trial, and the results were very promising.

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Drug Store News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Saie’s “The Every Body” campaign is being supported by more than 35 beauty brands including e.l.f. Cosmetics, Megababe, Pacifica and Versed among others.

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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In patients with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, researchers observed no significant difference between liberal and restrictive oxygenation on any-cause death.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The time of healthcare professionals is limited, but systems often rely on them as the principal means to help patients with chronic diseases. Ben Hargreaves finds Partha Kar, an advisor to the UK’s NHS, advocating a different approach – one where patients take the lead. Healthcare systems are currently going through a period of reflection on how to serve the needs of the greatest range of patients possible.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Dry shampoo products were found to contain elevated levels of Benzene.

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Drug Store News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Xtend’s Healthy Hydration sticks are available in lemon lime, strawberry banana and raspberry lemonade flavors.

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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By supporting pharmacy students at Howard University, the fellowship hopes to expand the number of pharmacists of color in industry.

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