PhRMA

MAY 8, 2023

Indiana just joined West Virginia and Arkansas in delivering an important win for Hoosiers who are struggling to afford their medicines. This week, Governor Holcomb signed into law Senate Bill 8 recently passed by the Indiana legislature. This new law will ensure that Indiana patients aren’t paying more for their medicines than their health insurance company or the middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

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Drug Topics

MAY 8, 2023

A new CDC report on data collected by the Maternal and Infant Network to Understand Outcomes Associated with Medication for Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy, indicates that medication for opioid use disorder is more often given to individuals who are White, older, and have private insurance.

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PhRMA

MAY 8, 2023

Researching and developing new medicines for children is a priority for the biopharmaceutical industry. Despite the scientific complexity and challenges inherent to developing treatments for our youngest patients, there has never been more progress in pediatric health outcomes. The progress we are seeing in pediatric health outcomes is in part due to the advancement in medicines that have been specifically studied in and approved for use in children.

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Drug Topics

MAY 8, 2023

Patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer treated with Keytruda plus chemotherapy had improved progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone.

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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.

Pharmacy Times

MAY 8, 2023

Due to the disease’s chronicity, the variability in treatment response and drug safety profiles, and the availability of multiple therapies, switching or discontinuing treatments is common in psoriasis.

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Drug Topics

MAY 8, 2023

The brand-new treatment from Elanco is currently the only approved therapeutic solution proven to treat canine parvovirus.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 8, 2023

Pharmacists, in particular, must be cautious and deliberate in using ChatGPT to ensure that its benefits are fully realized while minimizing risk and misinformation.

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

Plummeting costs of DNA sequencing technologies are injecting urgency into the longstanding debate over whether to dive deeper into the genomes of more infants — even apparently healthy ones. Experts are divided about how helpful DNA sequencing data really are. The tests often identify mutations that raise someone’s risk of developing a condition, but don’t necessarily cause the disease.

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Drug Topics

MAY 8, 2023

Common treatments for acne are known to be unsafe for pregnant women, but alternative treatments exist that are safe for use; however, actual treatment patterns within this patient population are unclear.

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

“S o, you don’t have it in liquid form?” I asked. The answer, as usual, was no. I hung up the phone and sighed.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 8, 2023

UnitedHealth extends its hot streak as the most profitable payer in Q1 pminemyer Mon, 05/08/2023 - 13:28

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

Ever since fentanyl came to dominate the U.S. illicit drug supply, doctors and patients have found buprenorphine, a key addiction-treatment medication, increasingly difficult to use. All too often, fentanyl’s potency has meant that patients transitioning to buprenorphine , a far weaker drug, experience excruciating symptoms known as “precipitated withdrawal.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 8, 2023

Comorbidities and cognitive impairment worsen non-adherence to anti-seizure medications in older adults.

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs and be revived if they take too much. The grant provides more than $5 million over four years to New York University and Brown University to study two sites in  New York City and one opening next year in Providence, R.I.

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The People's Pharmacy

MAY 8, 2023

You have no doubt heard about “ steroids.” By the way, this is a terrible term! It causes nothing but confusion. We promise not to overwhelm you with chemistry. The core structure of steroids can be found in hormones like estrogen, progesterone and testosterone as well as in corticosteroids like cortisone and prednisone. The steroid injections we are referring have nothing to do with body building.

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

Amid rising demand for drugs like Wegovy , Ozempic, and Mounjaro that can lead to significant weight loss , some obesity experts are concerned about the drugs’ costs — both to patients’ finances and to their health. Speaking at a panel on new obesity treatments at the STAT Breakthrough Summit in San Francisco on Thursday, one expert cited a large clinical trial for Wegovy that showed that about 40% of the weight participants lost was lean mass.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 8, 2023

Digital health companies making a long-term play for the $100B weight loss drug market hlandi Mon, 05/08/2023 - 06:53

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

If you have been looking for a sense of pandemic closure, the World Health Organization’s declaration Friday that it was ending the Covid global health emergency was about as close to it as you are likely to get. The reality is that although battlefield metaphors are often employed to describe humankind’s struggle with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, there will be no 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month-like moment signaling that an armistice has been achieved.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

MAY 8, 2023

ACE inhibitors | ARBs | Diuretics | Beta blockers | Calcium channel blockers | Efficacy | Safety | Warnings and Contraindications | FAQs High blood pressure or hypertension affects millions of people in the United States. As it presents no noticeable symptoms, high blood pressure is often called a “silent killer.” High blood pressure can lead to severe consequences, including heart attacks, heart failure, and strokes if left untreated.

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

NEW YORK — The Bronx auditorium was bustling with pregnant people, and Detective Fred Washington of the police department’s community affairs bureau had a promise. “If anyone goes into labor, NYPD is here to help!” he shouted to the hundreds of people who had come from around the Bronx to the community baby shower to receive donated diapers, pacifiers, and children’s clothing.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

MAY 8, 2023

If your goal is to prevent pregnancy, oral contraceptives are a safe, effective form of birth control. The pill has other perks too—from improved acne to reduced menstrual cramps and more regular periods. And while it’s one of the easiest methods of hormonal contraception out there, there are many different brands of birth control pills to choose from.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 8, 2023

The pharmaceutical industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the evolution of new treatment paradigms, and the gravity of unmet needs, as well as the growing importance of technologies such as pharmacogenomics, digital therapeutics, and artificial intelligence. In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Immuno-oncology in Pharmaceuticals: Microbio t a rest

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

For season 2 of “Color Code,” we’re zooming into the birthplace of American suburbs and the place where I grew up: Long Island, N.Y. Suburban communities in the U.S. have a reputation for being largely white, wealthy, and healthy, but the reality is much more complex. People from a wide swath of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds call suburbia home.

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The FDA Law Blog

MAY 8, 2023

By Lisa M. Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Philip Won & Gail H. Javitt — FDA recently published a long-awaited draft guidance aimed at reducing the need for prior FDA authorization of modifications to artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled device software functions (ML-DSFs). The draft guidance, “Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Enabled Device Software

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

A long-running flurry of hospital and medical group acquisitions in Pennsylvania — especially among the giants UPMC and Highmark Health — forced Geisinger to make a bigger move of its own and to sell to Kaiser Permanente. That’s according to Gail Wilensky, who has been on the board of Geisinger since 2010. Wilensky is an economist by training, and also is well-known in health policy circles.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 8, 2023

The pharmaceutical industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the evolution of new treatment paradigms as well as the growing importance of technologies such as pharmacogenomics, digital therapeutics, and artificial intelligence. In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Anti-influenza antibody compositions.

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

When   Herlda Senhouse looks back — way back — in time, she vividly remembers the smells — the sour tang of the beer she siphoned into bottles on her first job while still in grammar school in the early 1920s and the pervasive   rotten egg odor from the paper mill near her childhood home in West Virginia. Sitting at   the dining room table in her Wellesley, Mass., apartment, Senhouse, a slight woman with a smooth-as-honey Southern accent, is quick to summon me

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 8, 2023

Ei s ai and Bliss Biopharmaceutical have entered into a joint development agreement for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), BB-1701, to treat cancers. This deal also includes option rights for a strategic collaboration. The collaboration will help in further development of BB-1701 across the world and advance the ADC towards late stage of development. Currently, BB-1701 is being evaluated in Phase I/II trials in China and the US.

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was refreshing and inspiring, because that oh-so familiar routine of online meetings, phone calls, and deadlines has predictably returned. But you knew this would happen, yes? So to cope, we are firing up the trusty coffee kettle to brew some needed cups of delicious stimulation.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

MAY 8, 2023

Waking up in the middle of the night or in the morning with a dry mouth is not an uncommon occurrence. A dry mouth occurs when the salivary glands in the mouth do not make enough saliva. Saliva, or spit, is crucial because it breaks down food, washes away food particles, helps with swallowing, keeps teeth strong, and fights tooth decay. Having an unusually dry mouth is a problem that can be due to many causes, including medication side effects, certain health conditions, or sleeping with the mou

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STAT

MAY 8, 2023

You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money in medicine. Sign up to get it in your inbox every Monday.  Gail Wilensky on Geisinger’s sale to Kaiser No deal is bigger in health care right now than Kaiser Permanente’s takeover of Geisinger. It came out of nowhere and will lead to the formation of a new national mega-system of integrated health systems.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 8, 2023

A 'reckoning' in healthcare: The climate crisis and what the industry can do about it agliadkovskaya Mon, 05/08/2023 - 18:13

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Drug Store News

MAY 8, 2023

New launches include the Spa Renewing Wash and Spa Calming Cleansing Cloths, which look to combine daily cleanliness with elevated self-care, the company said.

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PharmaVoice

MAY 8, 2023

The nonprofit generics maker still sees a need for low-cost insulin despite recent moves by major drugmakers to slash the prices of their popular products.

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