Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2023
Pegfilgrastim-pbbk is a leukocyte growth factor developed to reduce the onset of infection in patients with non-myeloid malignancies administered myelosuppressive anticancer medications associated with a clinically significant rate of febrile neutropenia.
Drug Topics
MAY 17, 2023
The REFLECT Scoliosis Correction System from Globus Medical is intended to correct progressive scoliosis in pediatric patients while simultaneously maintaining stability and motion as well as allowing for future modulated growth.
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STAT
MAY 17, 2023
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — As post-lunch drowsiness settled on an auditorium full of leaders from the drug development industry, Peter Fernandes, CEO of Bellerophon Therapeutics, seized the presentation clicker and jolted them awake. “I don’t believe in dreams, I believe in nightmares,” he told the audience, drawing a laugh. “And I love nightmares.
Drug Topics
MAY 17, 2023
Authors offered specific recommendations for improving publishing and adoption of algorithmic processes focused on type 2 diabetes (T2D) going forward.
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
MAY 17, 2023
The panel corresponds to proteins that are abundant in treatment-resistant melanoma cells and may predict resistance to targeted treatment.
Drug Topics
MAY 17, 2023
The atrial fibrillation drug, asundexian, may provide protection from thrombotic events without a corresponding increase in bleeding risk.
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Drug Topics
MAY 17, 2023
The atrial fibrillation drug, asundexian, may provide protection from thrombotic events without a corresponding increase in bleeding risk.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2023
Common chronic pain conditions included in the analysis were fibromyalgia, neuropathic pain, and musculoskeletal pain.
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
WASHINGTON — A key House panel on Wednesday advanced several health care bills on Wednesday, including its first step toward a controversial effort to equalize Medicare payments between hospitals and physician offices. The Energy and Commerce health subcommittee passed a provision that would ensure Medicare pays the same amount to doctors who administer drugs whether they’re given in a hospital or a physician’s practice.
The Checkup by Singlecare
MAY 17, 2023
People have been preserving foods by the pickling process for centuries. The New York Food Museum reports that people in Mesopotamia may have been pickling foods as early as 2400 BC. And the method is just as popular today as it ever was. How many jars of pickles do you have in your fridge or pantry at this very minute? And do you have different kinds of pickled foods, too?
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.
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration could take longer to write regulations and make decisions if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against a long-standing legal doctrine giving agencies extra discretion, food and drug lawyers said Wednesday. The decades-old so-called Chevron doctrine directs judges to defer to reasonable federal agency interpretations of ambiguous or technically challenging aspects of the law.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2023
Good practice for older adults is that calories should go down while nutrient intake goes up as they age.
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission is widening its probe into pharmacy benefit managers and their impact on drug pricing by looking into a pair of group purchasing organizations that are owned by these industry middlemen, but are not well understood outside the industry. By seeking documents from Zinc Health Services and Ascent Health Services, the agency is attempting to unravel what critics complain is an opaque set of business practices and relationships.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 17, 2023
Chinook Therapeutics and Ionis Pharmaceuticals have entered a partnership to develop an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapy to treat a rare, severe chronic kidney disease. The collaboration aims to discover, develop and commercialise an ASO therapy. It will use the precision medicine approach, as well as the deep expertise of Chinook Therapeutics in nephrology and knowledge of Ionis Pharmaceuticals in RNA-targeted therapeutics.
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STAT
MAY 17, 2023
The stream of books about the government response to the pandemic that began with Michael Lewis’ “The Premonition” has just yielded its most important product to date. “ Lessons From the Covid War ” is public policy analysis at its near-best: lucid, sober, probing, at once analytical and engaging. But the book ultimately comes up a bit short, in ways that interestingly mirror the national response it chronicles and critiques.
Hospital Pharmacy Europe
MAY 17, 2023
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has proposed raising its fees for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians by 7.5% from April 2024, and has invited feedback via an online consultation survey. The increases would affect fees for the 2024 registration assessment – for which bookings open in February 2024 – as well as registration renewal fees from April 2024.
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
In 2015, the year I turned 40, the American Cancer Society updated its guidelines for breast cancer screenings. Instead of urging women to get mammograms beginning at 40, it would now recommend yearly mammograms beginning at age 45, and then every two years from age 55 on. I was greatly relieved by this news. I was a little more than a year into a wildly busy job at a news media startup.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 17, 2023
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted and granted priority review to Takeda ’s biologics licence application (BLA) for its enzyme replacement therapy, TAK-755, to treat congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (cTTP). By replacing the missing or deficient ADAMTS13 enzyme, TAK-755 offers targeted therapy for addressing an unmet medical need for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura patients.
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
As an oncologist, Jennifer Lycette gets to know her patients particularly well. She’s doubtful that artificial intelligence could replace that personal connection, but new research based on, of all things, Reddit Q&As, says otherwise. The study, which Lycette wrote about in her essay, “ Why a chatbot might seem more empathetic than a human physician, ” found that chatbot-generated notes were, in some ways, better than notes from actual humans.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 17, 2023
FTC expands probe into pharmacy benefit managers to GPOs pminemyer Wed, 05/17/2023 - 16:36
Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2023
Experts have seen the value of technology in the clinical trial space because it helps to remove natural bias that can leads to inaccuracies in data collection.
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
On May 9, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released updated draft recommendations for breast cancer screening. In contrast to their prior recommendations that most women start screening at 50, the USPSTF — a major national body making preventive care recommendations — now recommends screening mammography every two years for all women ages 40 to 74 years.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2023
When considering outsourcing, pharmacies should use multistakeholder team to weigh pros and cons.
Fierce Pharma
MAY 17, 2023
Regulatory tracker: Another China-made PD-1 starts FDA journey as Elevar, Hengrui target big cancer type aliu Wed, 05/17/2023 - 09:41
Pharmacy Times
MAY 17, 2023
Preexposure prophylaxis use for HIV continues to be lower than desired in some populations.
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
Biotech firm PTC Therapeutics said Wednesday that its drug for phenylketonuria, or PKU, met its key goal in a Phase 3 study. In PKU, patients’ bodies are unable to break down the amino acid phenylalanine, resulting in intellectual disability, memory problems, and other neurological issues. In the 156-volunteer trial, the drug, sepiapterin, reduced levels of phenylalanine by 63% compared to a placebo, PTC said in a press release.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 17, 2023
WellSpan Health partners with Emerus to build three 'neighborhood hospitals' in southern Pennsylvania dmuoio Wed, 05/17/2023 - 13:52
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Two years after its launch, CVS Health is planning to close down its clinical trials unit by the end of 2024, to refocus on core operations. Since the pandemic began, the drug store chain has doubled down on its efforts to build a health care business that would move it further into the home health and primary care spaces.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 17, 2023
'Podnosis': How tech can help diagnose neurodevelopmental disabilities and how insurtechs can be profitable tcarey Wed, 05/17/2023 - 09:26
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
Rise and shine, everyone. The middle of the week is upon us. Have heart, though. You made it this far, so why not hang on for another couple of days, yes? Consider the alternatives, after all. And what better way to make the time fly than to keep busy. So grab that cup of stimulation — our flavor today boasts the aroma of blueberries — and get started.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 17, 2023
VA renegotiates $10B Oracle Cerner EHR contract with stronger performance metrics, bigger penalties hlandi Wed, 05/17/2023 - 13:22
Fierce Pharma
MAY 17, 2023
Intercept's latest NASH bid in jeopardy after FDA questions drug's efficacy, safety aliu Wed, 05/17/2023 - 12:29
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 17, 2023
The Digital Health Continuum – Connecting Clinical Trials to Care Delivery mteefey Wed, 05/17/2023 - 16:26
European Pharmaceutical Review
MAY 17, 2023
An engineered oncolytic virus (DNX-2401) targeting glioblastoma (GBM) cells combined with subsequent immunotherapy using intratumoural delivery , gave a 52.7 percent 12-month overall survival (OS) rate for patients with recurrent GBM. According to the Phase I/II trial results published in Nature Medicine , this is higher than the prespecified efficacy threshold of 20 percent.
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