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Can you eat bread if you have diabetes?

The Checkup by Singlecare

If youre living with diabeteswhether prediabetes , Type 2 diabetes , or Type 1 diabetes then youre probably taking steps to manage your blood glucose levels. Along with regular exercise, sufficient sleep, and taking care of your mental health, following a healthy, balanced meal plan is one of the most effective components of diabetes management. As you focus on maintaining healthy blood sugar levels, being mindful of your carbohydrate intake is likely at the forefront of your mind.

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STAT+: FTC slams PBMs for boosting specialty drug prices at the expense of the U.S. health care system

STAT

For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a highly critical report of pharmacy benefit managers, which play a crucial but opaque role in the pharmaceutical supply chain. And the findings may provide further impetus for legislative action to curb practices that critics say contribute to the rising cost of prescription drugs.

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Switzerland’s Basel Region Crowned ‘Europe’s Top Destination to Launch a Drug Device Company’, According to Pharmapack Report

Pharmafile

Pharmapack Europe: Basel the best location for drug device innovation in Europe thanks to combination of world class manufacturing and existing biomedical research infrastructure 18 December 2024 Paris, France New research released ahead of Pharmapack Europe the continents largest partnering event for medical device and packaging innovation has ranked the Basel region […] The post Switzerlands Basel Region Crowned Europes Top Destination to Launch a Drug Device Company, According to Ph

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about pharma asking Trump to pause Medicare talks, a Truveta database launch, and more

STAT

Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. Clear blue skies and chilly breezes are wafting across the Pharmalot campus, where the official mascots are snoozing after foraging for their breakfast. This means we are free to focus on the matters at hand — rummaging through our to-do list and making cups of stimulation. Our choice today is maple bourbon, a necessary indulgence.

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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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Long-term potential revealed for novel modifier gene therapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

New long-term data reveals that a modifier gene therapy delivered meaningful visual function improvements for retinitis pigmentosa participants in a Phase I/II clinical trial. A two-year safety and efficacy update from the OCU400 clinical trial showed that 100 percent of treated evaluable participants improved or preserved their visual function compared to untreated eyes at both one and two years.

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STAT+: Eli Lilly’s stock falls after 2024 guidance misses forecasts

STAT

Eli Lilly’s expectations for sales in the fourth quarter of last year missed forecasts, driven by lower-than-expected sales of its diabetes and obesity drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound. This is another notable stumble for the company after its third-quarter earnings report disappointed. In the fourth quarter, the pharma giant expects to have brought in $13.5 billion in revenue, less than the $13.9 billion that analysts polled by FactSet had forecast.

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STAT+: NIH issues a policy to widen access to medical products that emerge from government-funded research

STAT

After years of prodding, the National Institutes of Health has adopted a new policy requiring companies seeking licenses to sell medical products invented with government research to submit plans for ensuring greater access to patients. Going forward, a company would not only have to submit an access plan when seeking to license the rights to sell a drug, vaccine or device, but would also have to update that plan as product development progresses.

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Merck is broadening its pipeline as Keytruda’s patent cliff looms

PharmaVoice

Merck looks ahead with an array of cardiometabolic, immunology, neuroscience and ophthalmology pipelines.

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A biotech legend, pharma CEO, and two Trump admin vets walk into JPM Day 2

STAT

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?  Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Hey there. This is Matthew Herper. It was a little chillier in San Francisco this morning, and you can feel many JPM attendees dragging a bit from trying to pack a month into a day. It doesn’t help that, a day after J&J , Eli Lilly , and GSK all announced deals that gave some observers hope of a resurgence in M&A, Lilly, the mightiest drug company

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Oral GLP-1 Shows Significant Weight Loss in Patients With Obesity

Drug Topics

RGT-075 from Regor Therapeutics demonstrated a statistically significant 5% placebo-adjusted weight loss in adult patients with obesity or overweight.

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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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FTC releases second report slamming pharmacy benefit managers

PharmaVoice

Agency commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to publish the report, which makes similar allegations against the controversial drug middlemen as the agency’s first report released last summer — but relies on more data.

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PBMs Significantly Marked Up Specialty Generic Drugs

Drug Topics

The Federal Trade Commission released its second interim staff report on industry-leading pharmacy benefit managers and their practices specifically regarding specialty drugs.

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Fierce Healthcare

The FTC released its second interim staff report Tuesday during Chair Lina Khan's final open commission meeting, but declined to indicate whether it would take further legal action.

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Senators Call on FTC to Release Second PBM Report

Drug Topics

Ahead of its first general meeting in 2025, lawmakers called on the FTC to vote yes on releasing a second interim staff report on PBMs.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

The annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is officially underway, bringing the healthcare and biopharma industries' biggest wheelers and dealers to San Francisco.

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Combating the Post-Pandemic Pharmacy Workforce Shortage

Pharmacy Times

The pharmaceutical industry is facing a critical talent shortage caused by fewer students entering the field, burnout and a lack of stability. We offer ways to combat the shortage.

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Fierce Healthcare

Chronic care management will continue to be an important growth driver for Teladoc, executives said. The company is teaming up with Amazon to make it easier for individuals to find and enroll in its virtual cardiometabolic programs.

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Will the MAHA movement include alcohol among its targets?

STAT

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds.  Sign up here. Good morning! There are just two days left to submit nominations for our annual STAT Madness competition. It’s a bracket-style tournament honoring the best innovation in biomedical research, and a lot of fun.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit that will determine whether preventive services will remain fully covered by group health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). | The Supreme Court will decide the fate of the preventive services provision, a core component of the Affordable Care Act, by July.

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Pharma to raise prices on more than 250 drugs in the US from January 2025

Pharmaceutical Technology

This month, pharma companies have announced plans to increase the prices of more than 250 branded drugs in the US.

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Fierce Healthcare

In an interview at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, Morgan Health CEO Dan Mendelson told Fierce Healthcare that the firm's current portfolio of investments have focused on several key buckets within healthcare.

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NYT exposes hospitals, middlemen make millions off a hospital markup program

PhRMA

A ground-breaking New York Times investigation reveals how a for-profit federal contractor helps hospitals abuse the 340B program to charge huge markups on medicines. 340B has become a tool for profit, benefiting large hospital systems and private corporations far more than the patients it was designed to serve.

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Fierce Healthcare

Cigna has tapped Progyny as it looks to enhance access to benefits for fertility and family planning services. | Cigna has tapped Progyny as it looks to enhance access to benefits for fertility and family planning services.

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Will 2025 mark pharma’s pivot to bigger deals after years of lackluster M&A?

PharmaVoice

A series of uncertainties that kept dealmaking to a minimum last year could be reversing as pharma reloads pipelines ahead of the patent cliff explosion.

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Fierce Healthcare

The Department of Health and Human Services released an AI Strategic Plan Jan. 10 that lays out short-term and long-term goals for ensuring AI is safe and trustworthy when deployed in healthcare. The plan emphasizes technical assistance for under-resourced organizations and workforce training initiatives.

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JP Morgan 2025: Thermo Fisher rides momentum to project strong growth in 2025

Pharmaceutical Technology

The CDMO's growth strategy, capital deployment approach, and work with AI, among other things, have been key to its 2024 performance.

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FDA sets August date for subcutaneous Leqembi decision

pharmaphorum

FDA has started its review of an autoinjector version of Eisai and Biogen's Alzheimer's drug Leqembi that could allow patients to be dosed at home

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Johnson & Johnson acquires Intra-Cellular for $14.6bn

Outsourcing Pharma

Johnson & Johnson's $14.

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AIs can be used for fracture detection, says NICE

pharmaphorum

NICE has said that four artificial intelligence technologies can be deployed by the NHS to detect fractures on X-rays in urgent care.

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Scope Summit finalists to fight for awards in site innovation and patient engagement

Outsourcing Pharma

Spotlighting innovation at the SCOPE Summit, finalists for the Site Innovation and Patient Engagement Awards showcase groundbreaking tools, AI solutions, and diversity-driven initiatives set to transform clinical trials.

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Grifols gets $21m award for Parkinson's biomarker hunt

pharmaphorum

Grifols has been awarded a $21m grant from the Michael J Fox Foundation to find plasma biomarkers to predict Parkinson's years before symptoms start

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Wildfire Smoke Exposure Heightens Lung Cancer Risks and Complicates Patient Outcomes

Pharmacy Times

Wildfire smoke carries toxic compounds that can trigger respiratory inflammation and cause cellular damage.

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Fierce Healthcare

At 2024s J.P. | Work to unify disparate programs has the $37 billion nonprofit system on an upward trajectory, CEO Wright Lassiter III told conference attendees.