PhRMA
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month and a time for us to underscore the biopharmaceutical industry’s ongoing commitment to improve the lives of patients, families and communities affected by sickle cell disease.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Outpatient Treatment Is Primarily Based on Patient-Specific Factors, Whereas Oseltamivir Remains the Therapy of Choice for Inpatient Settings.
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PhRMA
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Through the constant efforts of U.S. innovators and their global partners, COVID-19 treatments have continued to be distributed to patients around the world — changing the pandemic’s treatment landscape and the trajectory of the virus’ impact. This is in no small part due to the more than 140 collaborations for COVID-19 treatments that have been signed since the start of the pandemic, as reported to PhRMA by global data provider Airfinity.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Pharmacists dispensing Lybalvi should understand that potentially life-threatening consequences can occur if opioids are taken concurrently.
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.
Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Thousands of pharmacy professionals use SureCost every day to save. We examined their anonymized data to uncover five unique savings opportunities. Now, we've summarized these findings so that you can download our report.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Analyses of more than 30,000 adults in the United Kingdom from 9 prospective cohort studies finds a high pre-pandemic BMI was associated with the infection.
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Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Pfizer has entered an agreement with Global Fund to deliver up to six million courses of its oral therapy, Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir tablets and ritonavir tablets), under the Covid-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM). The C19RM has been the main channel to support low- and middle-income nations in procuring Covid-19 therapies, personal protective equipment, tests and vital elements to bolster health systems.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The study also showed sustained reductions in hospitalizations over a 2-year period of FreeStyle Libre system use.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Claudia Donohue was on the operating table first thing in the morning. It wasn’t where she wanted to end up when she first learned she had lung cancer. When she saw the constellation of white dots on her chest scan, she figured the last 59 years of smoking cigarettes had finally caught up to her. Plus, she’d already had cancer once before, in her bladder.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Program will start to distribute a free HIV self-test to people who enroll by early 2023.
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
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
A move by Optum to change longstanding practices for licensing data to academic institutions has sparked an outcry among researchers, who argue the move will make accessing data so costly and difficult that universities will scale back their research programs. Optum notified users that they now must access insurance claims data through an enclave hosted by another unit of the company.
Drug Store News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Costco reported that net sales for the quarter increased 15.2%, to $70.76 billion, from $61.44 billion last year, while net sales for the fiscal year increased 16%, to $222.73 billion, from $192.05 billion last year.
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Rivus Pharmaceuticals has raised $132m in a Series B funding round to clinically advance its lead candidate, HU6, for the treatment of obesity and cardio-metabolic disorders. RA Capital Management led the financing round, which also saw participation from Bain Capital Life Sciences and BB Biotech. Existing investors of the company, including Longitude Capital, Medicxi and RxCapital, also took part in the round.
Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Congress could overrule presidential declaration, but White House threatened veto of similar measure in March.
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STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Amid ongoing debate over the cost of prescription medicines, a new analysis finds that brand-name drugmakers increased their wholesale prices by 4.9% in the second quarter this year, up slightly from 4.4% a year earlier. But when accounting for inflation, wholesale prices fell by 3.7%, and inflationary pressures are likely to push wholesale prices still higher.
DiversifyRx
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
When you have owned a pharmacy long enough, pharmacy legal issues are bound to happen to you. . Types of Pharmacy Legal Issues for Pharmacy Owners. Legal troubles can fall from many angles for pharmacy owners. Here’s a short list: Employment lawsuits Board of Pharmacy actions PBM audits PBM contracts Pharmacist dispensing activities Patient prescription fraud Landlord issues Former employer issues Employee theft Robbery.
Digital Pharmacist
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Pharmacies play a pivotal role in educating patients and caregivers about pain and the medications used to treat it. With September being National Pain Awareness Month, we thought this was the perfect time to discuss this initiative and how we can work together to bring awareness to it. American adults have or have had chronic pain. American adults have or have had high-impact chronic pain.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Market share is often held up as the most relevant metric for the success of a biosimilar class. I believe there are other metrics, like cost savings or signs of greater patient access, that should also be used to define biosimilars’ successes or failures. In the U.S., the first biosimilar was launched in September 2015. As I write this, there are 38 FDA-approved biosimilars ; 22 of them are commercially available.
Drug Store News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Each limited-edition pack blends pastel-colored blue, pink and purple lentils that feature Lil Nas X’s face, butterflies and heart graphics.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Newly published details about a high-profile Apple Watch study call it “a priority” to recruit Medicaid patients — a population not usually considered the target for Apple’s pricey products. In September 2020, health insurer Anthem, which is now called Elevance, announced a large study investigating whether an Apple Watch-based system could be used to help manage asthma.
Drug Store News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
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STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
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Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
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STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
For the first time since gifting Harvard University $500 million to launch a new research institute , Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan visited the school Thursday to talk about their ambitious goal to study the basis of intelligence. The couple, who originally met at Harvard, were in Boston to celebrate the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence , which will focus on the brain and AI systems — and what scientists don’t kno
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The annual report notes that progress in reducing cancer mortality is uneven among populations, with minority groups not seeing the same benefits from therapeutic advances.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
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Drug Store News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The event will be held Nov. 30, 2022, at the Sheraton New York Times Square in New York City.
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Merck (MSD outside of North America) has reported that it received a ruling in favour of the company from the US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia in a patent infringement suit against Viatris linked to sitagliptin. Sitagliptin is an active ingredient in the Januvia, Janumet and Janumet XR therapies. The suit involved two Merck patents.
Drug Store News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Dollar General is debuting OhGood!, a health and wellness supplements line of 18 products.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Specialty pharmacies need processes, systems and tools to quickly determine medication delivery status, reassure confidence, and alleviate patient anxiety.
Drug Store News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Dollar General is debuting OhGood!, a health-and-wellness supplements line of 18 products.
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Innovative system reveals a pair of potential therapies for autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease, which currently has no FDA-approved treatments.
Drug Store News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
DSN spent two days walking the hall and these are among some of the cool products found.
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Dry eye syndrome (DES) is an indication whose mainstay treatment has been dominated by Allergan’s Restasis (cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion 0.05%) ever since its launch in 2003 in the US. While a handful of therapies have launched since then, late-stage pipeline therapies that are currently in development reveal that drug developers are exploring a broad set of mechanisms of action (MOAs), many of which are innovative, to tackle DES.
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