Wed.Jan 04, 2023

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AMD Risk Not Tied to Long-Term Metformin Use

Drug Topics

The researchers reported that there was no significant difference in the age-related macular degeneration prevalence among the 3 study groups.

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Hemophilia B Gene Therapy Significantly Reduces Annual Bleeds in Phase 3 Trial

Pharmacy Times

The FDA granted fidanacogene elaparvovec breakthrough, regenerative medicines advance therapy, and orphan drug designations.

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How to Prioritize Tamiflu in Cases of Shortages

Drug Topics

Reports of localized supply issues with Tamiflu have left some providers wondering how to best prioritize who gets the antiviral during a rough flu season.

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STAT+: The health tech tracker for 2023’s first quarter: 12 industry events to watch

STAT

Continuing economic uncertainty and the threat of a recession are casting a pall over health tech in 2023 — a dramatic shift for an industry that enjoyed abundant funding in the pandemic’s early stages. Last quarter’s string of layoffs at companies like Ro, Noom and ThirtyMadison portend tight budgets and conservative contracts this year, with employers unsure about which digital offerings actually drive down health care costs for workers.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Federal Guideline Changes Reduce HIV Prescribing Disparities

Drug Topics

Researchers speculate that the disparities among those with private insurance coverage may reflect differences in overcoming hurdles to access, such as prior authorization.

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Physical Activity 3 Times Per Week May Reduce Symptoms of Depression in Children and Adolescents

Pharmacy Times

The benefits of physical activity may be greater for children and adolescents with clinical depression or depressive symptoms, who may develop anxiety and other disorders in adulthood.

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Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Worse For Women with Diabetes Mellitus Than Men

Pharmacy Times

A study showed that the risk of developing venous thromboembolism is worse for perimenopausal women with diabetes.

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Pfizer, GSK, AbbVie and many more celebrate New Year with price hikes: report

Fierce Pharma

Pfizer, GSK, AbbVie and many more celebrate New Year with price hikes: report. esagonowsky. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 10:21.

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Vaccines Offer Protection Against Cold and Cough Symptoms

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists play a vital role in administering these and educating patients about COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal, and Tdap vaccinations.

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Hippeas adds Nacho Vibes to chickpea tortilla chip line

Drug Store News

Nacho Vibes contains 2 g of protein and 3 g of fiber per 1-oz. serving, the company said.

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Position Your Pharmacy for Expansion

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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Tip of the Week: The Benefits of Mentoring Can Extend to Everyone Involved

Pharmacy Times

Mentorship is a long-term and formative process and interaction that extends beyond initial discussions regarding the mentee's career path.

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Gilead’s $658.5m immunotherapy collaboration

European Pharmaceutical Review

EVOQ Therapeutics Inc has agreed to license its NanoDisc technology for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and lupus to Gilead Sciences, Inc, enabling EVOQ to potentially receive up $658.5 million. The companies will collaborate to advance preclinical development and Gilead will be responsible for clinical development and commercialisation. “Despite key advances over the past two decades, there remains significant unmet need for people living with inflammatory and autoimmune diseases,” stated Dr Flavius

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Rare MIS-C Does Not Appear to Impact COVID-19 Vaccine Safety in Children

Pharmacy Times

Children who experienced COVID-19-induced multisystem inflammatory syndrome did not experience severe adverse reactions following COVID-19 vaccination.

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Q&A with Kelly Baker, CFO of Eversana

PharmExec

Baker spoke on topics ranging from pricing, access, the war for talent, and other key areas that are impacting pharma companies.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

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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Rates of Hand Eczema Among Health Care Workers Grew During COVID-19 Pandemic

Pharmacy Times

Greater prevalence of hand eczema among health care professionals working in COVID-19 units linked to increased hand sanitation habits.

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Moderna makes its first-ever acquisition, buying Japanese DNA manufacturer OriCiro for $85M

Fierce Pharma

Moderna makes its first-ever acquisition, buying Japanese DNA manufacturer OriCiro for $85M. mbayer. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 06:37.

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California’s dark history of forced sterilizations comes into focus as it seeks victims to pay reparations

STAT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — About 600 people alive today can’t have children because California’s government sterilized them either against their will or without their knowledge, and now the state is trying to find them so it can pay them at least $15,000 each in reparations. But after a year of searching, the state has approved just 51 people for payments out of 310 applications.

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Shortage of cold medicines in UK is government’s fault, say pharmacists

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmacy leaders cite ministers’ ‘lack of planning’ amid problems obtaining common products A shortage of cough and cold medicines in the UK is a result of ministers’ “lack of planning”, according to pharmacy leaders. Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were accused of “being in denial” as supply chain problems worsen, with pharmacists reporting shortages of once-common cold and flu medicines.

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5 Reasons to Upgrade Your Pharmacy Management Software

Are you still using workarounds to manage your daily operations? To achieve peak performance, it's time to explore other options for specialty and infusion pharmacy software. Streamline pharmacy operations and improve clinical performance with automated processing, real-time data exchange, and electronic decision support. Download this helpful infographic to: Drive efficiency and patient adherence from referral receipt to delivery and ongoing care – all with our Pharmacy Cloud.

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3 challenges to watch in global health in 2023

STAT

For the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, people working in the infectious diseases and global health spheres were largely focused on the new disease. In 2022, however, gears shifted. Covid didn’t go away, but diseases like flu that had been held in abeyance by the new virus and the measures we used to slow its spread — well, they’re baaack.

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Geron finally gets close to a product approval with imetelstat

pharmaphorum

More than 30 years after it was first formed, Geron is on the cusp of bringing its first product to market, after imetelstat hit the mark in a phase 3 trial in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The Foster City, California-based biotech said today that its IMerge trial of imetelstat – vying to become the first telomerase inhibitor to reach the market – hit its objectives in patients with lower risk MDS, a rare group of bone marrow cancers.

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Walmart, Kroger among retailers named by BrandSpark as most trusted in 2022

Drug Store News

H-E-B, Walmart, Kroger, Publix and ShopRite earned the top five spots in the most trusted private label products category.

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Top 2022 Pharmacy Blog Posts for Independent Pharmacy Marketing

DiversifyRx

Pharmacy marketing is one of our favorite topics at DiversifyRx. Here are our top blogs to help you improve your pharmacy’s marketing. Last week we shared our Top 2022 Blog Resources To Optimize your PBM Revenue , which covers our third Pharmacy Profit Pillar PBM Optimization. This week we will dive into the most popular blogs from 2022 that focus on independent pharmacy marketing, our fourth Pharmacy Profit Pillar.

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AAM applauds Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023

Drug Store News

The Consolidated Appropriations Act will increase competition from generic and biosimilar medicines and enhance patient access to lower cost prescription drugs.

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Increasing financial compensation could drive more diverse clinical trial participation, study says

Fierce Healthcare

Increasing financial compensation could drive more diverse clinical trial participation, study says. fdiamond. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 15:15.

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Minimum wage increases take effect in 23 states

Drug Store News

As of Jan. 1, the minimum wage has gone up in 23 states and Washington, D.C. The dollar amount varies and ranges between $9.95 and $15.74.

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Not all post COVID-19 condition symptoms are specific to the virus

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

A comparative analysis with common viral infections suggests that many recognised post COVID-19 condition symptoms are not unique to the virus. According to the findings of an analysis by US researchers, only some of the post COVID-19 condition symptoms can be uniquely attributed to infection with the virus when compared to the post-infection symptoms induced by other, common viral infections.

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European Health Data Space (EHDS) update: what this means for pharmaceutical and biotech

pharmaphorum

The proposed EHDS Regulation 1 ( Proposal ), introduced in May 2022 by the European Commission (EC), aims to reform the “situation of fragmentation” that depicts the existing approach to health data access across Europe 2 through the establishment of a centralised data system. The intention is to streamline the process for patients wishing to access their medical records via electronic health record systems (“EHR systems”) and to facilitate the ability for researchers, innovators, and policy mak

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November's hospital margins up 12% monthly thanks to cooling expenses

Fierce Healthcare

November's hospital margins up 12% monthly thanks to cooling expenses. dmuoio. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 16:21.

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Hy-Vee once again to host Best of Local Brands Summit

Drug Store News

As part of this year’s summit, Hy-Vee will work to identify suppliers with diverse backgrounds and is encouraging minority-owned and women-owned businesses to apply.

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STAT+: Roivant-Pfizer inflammatory bowel drug hits high expectations in mid-stage study

STAT

An experimental inflammatory bowel disease medicine that serves as the basis for a partnership between Roivant Sciences and Pfizer met high expectations for a Phase 2 clinical trial data released Wednesday. In a clinical study of 245 volunteers, the drug, called RVT-3101, helped 32% of trial participants with ulcerative colitis go into remission, compared to 12% in the placebo group.

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China’s NMPA clears Transcenta’s IND for solid tumour treatment

Pharmaceutical Technology

The China National Medical Products Administration’s (NMPA) Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) has granted clearance for Transcenta’s investigational new drug (IND) application for its TST003 to treat solid tumours. TST003 is a first-in-class Gremlin1 targeting humanised monoclonal antibody. It has demonstrated better single-agent activities in patient-derived xenograft tumour models of many difficult-to-treat solid tumours, including microsatellite stable colorectal cancer and castration-resistan

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2023 Fundraising Challenges

NF2 BioSolutions

We are doing 2 fundraising challenges throughout the year this year and you can partake in any whenever you like, get everyone involved from mums, dads, kids, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbours, friends and work colleagues. HAVE FUN AND RAISE FUNDS FOR NF2 RESEARCH! CAKE BAKE & COFFEE. Hold a cake sale and/or Coffee morning for this fundraiser.

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Blood tests for diabetes

The Checkup by Singlecare

A blood test for diabetes measures the amount of glucose or sugar in a person’s blood. Diabetes is a condition in which the body has trouble converting sugar from food into energy. It can be caused when there isn’t enough insulin or the insulin in the body is not working well enough to process sugar. This can lead to high blood sugar levels in the bloodstream, causing symptoms like increased thirst and frequent urination, among other complications, as the disease progresses. .

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