Wed.Aug 10, 2022

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This week’s reading list: All the reasons the Senate-passed drug pricing bill is bad policy

PhRMA

Last weekend, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act which includes dangerous price-setting provisions. The bill now heads to the House for consideration, where it is not too late for them to stand up for patients and medical innovation by opposing the bill.

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A Pharmacist’s Path Towards Developing Medical Strategy for Field-Based Teams

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

There are so many different types of careers within the field of pharmacy—from research and drug development to pharmacy informatics! To highlight some of the more unique career settings in the industry, we’re introducing a new page on our website— Novel Pharmacy Practice Settings —where you can explore these unique career pathways. In addition to learning more about unique pathways on our new webpage, we’ll also be featuring pharmacists who work in these unique settings on our blog.

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Value assessment should include all aspects of value that matter to patients

PhRMA

We need to move toward a more value-driven health care system that centers around patients’ needs. Sound evidence can help guide us toward that, and we’re committed to developing tools to help patients, physicians and others make informed decisions.

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Clinical Overview: Certain Antihypertensive Drugs Can Lower Risk for New Onset Type 2 Diabetes

Pharmacy Times

Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials adds to growing evidence around certain antihypertensive drug classes showing promise for primary or secondary prevention of diabetes.

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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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The Price of Innovation: ‘Paying for a Cure’ Remains Costly Proposition

PharmExec

Curative-type therapies offer great hope in further transforming treatments for cancer and other diseases, but addressing the economics of these products—and ultimately the cost-benefit equation—is daunting. What is being done to smooth the path for pricing and reimbursement?

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Survey Finds Strong Link Between Migraine Symptoms and Mental Health

Pharmacy Times

Survey finds that 91% of health care providers and 67% of people with migraines feel that individuals who are able to successfully manage stress and mental health conditions can also better manage the symptoms of migraine.

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How Pharmacists Can Help Seniors Age in Place

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists can play an important role in helping ensure compliance with prescribed medications, which can help seniors maintain their health and quality of life while aging at home.

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Woman of the Week: COTA’s Miruna Sasu

PharmaVoice

Miruna Sasu is on a mission to use real world data to help wipe out cancer. She believes this audacious goal is within reach, and as president and CEO of COTA, she is inspiring her team to create a “path to care” for oncology patients.

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Study Results Show 86.6% of Individuals With OUD Do Not Receive Life-Saving Medication

Pharmacy Times

Investigators from NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine sound alarm on treatment gap and suggest ways to remove barriers, as opioid overdoses soar to historic levels.

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Environmental Sustainability: An Imperative for the Life Sciences Sector

Pharmaceutical Commerce

Recognizing the sustainability issue is an important step, but the biopharmaceutical sector encompasses a complex set of networks and supply chains, so it is not straightforward to shift towards net zero across all operations.

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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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Rise in Cardiovascular Diseases Could Have Greatest Impact on Ethnicity, Race Minority Groups by 2060

Pharmacy Times

A new study predicts significant increases in cardiovascular issues in the United States, highlighting racial and ethnic inequality of future patients.

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Cerevance and Merck partner to detect new Alzheimer’s targets

Pharmaceutical Technology

Cerevance has entered a multi-year strategic research partnership with Merck (MSD outside North America) to discover new targets for Alzheimer’s disease. Under the alliance, the companies will use the Nuclear Enriched Transcript Sort sequencing (NETSseq) technology platform of Cerevance to identify the targets. Furthermore, Cerevance will simultaneously out-license a discovery-stage programme to Merck under the partnership.

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Study Results Link Menopause Before 40 to Increase in Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Failure

Pharmacy Times

Analysis supports positive lifestyle habits, such as exercising and quitting smoking, investigators say.

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Walgreens played ‘substantial’ role in San Francisco opioid crisis, judge finds

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

The pharmacy chain failed to properly investigate suspicious opioid orders, according to federal ruling Walgreens “substantially contributed” to San Francisco’s opioid epidemic by failing to perform due diligence on prescriptions that flooded into the city for 15 years, a federal judge has found. The city won what local media has called a “ landmark trial ” against Walgreens, with the judge, Charles Breyer, finding that the pharmacy chain had failed to properly investigate suspicious opioid orde

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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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AI Opens Door To Improving Patient Experience

PharmExec

The technology is not just about digital enablement anymore.

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How does irradiation sterilisation impact herbal medicines?

European Pharmaceutical Review

In order to meet microbiological quality standards, herbal medicine pills are often irradiated at the primary package or final product stage. Radiation is chosen over thermal terminal sterilisation to minimise decomposition of crude drug components, volatilisation of essential oils and changes in colour. However, with limited evidence on the impact ionising radiation has on the constituents of such products, researchers set out to investigate whether irradiation impacts drug quality beyond micro

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The Silver Lining Of Innovation in Genetic Medicine

PharmExec

Failed efforts do not overshadow field’s progress, resolve.

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Gilead to acquire MiroBio for $405 million

European Pharmaceutical Review

Gilead Sciences has signed a definitive agreement to acquire outstanding share capital of clinical-stage biotechnology company MiroBio for around $405 million. The deal includes MiroBio’s proprietary I-ReSToRE ( RE ceptor S election and T argeting t o R einstate immune E quilibrium) discovery platform and its entire portfolio of immune inhibitory receptor agonists.

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HHS Guidance for Pharmacists Following Supreme Court Abortion Decision Creates Confusion

Pharmacy Times

Although the guidance has created some confusion around pharmacists’ responsibilities on the federal and state levels, Lanton said it will take time to find cohesive solutions.

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Amgen to acquire ChemoCentryx for $3.7bn

European Pharmaceutical Review

Amgen has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ChemoCentryx Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on orally administered therapeutics to treat autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders and cancer. Under the agreement, ChemoCentryx will be acquired for $52 per share in cash, for a total enterprise value of approximately $3.7 billion. “The acquisition of ChemoCentryx represents a compelling opportunity for Amgen to add to our decades-long leadership in inflammation and nephro

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Daily Medication Pearl: Cangrelor (Kengreal)

Pharmacy Times

Cangrelor (Kengreal) is indicated as an adjunct to percutaneous coronary intervention for reducing the risk of periprocedural myocardial infarction, repeat coronary revascularization, and stent thrombosis.

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Pharma’s Training Transformation: COVID Forces Compliance Revamp, Re-education

PharmExec

How one company in particular has adjusted its internal and customer-facing strategies in compliance training amid today’s heightened business-risk climate.

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HOPA President Addresses, Acknowledges the Achievements of PGY2 Pharmacy Residents This Year

Pharmacy Times

Heidi D. Finnes, PharmD, BCOP, FHOPA, president-elect of Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA), explains how HOPA can help prepare PGY2 pharmacy residents to obtain and maintain their BCOP certification.

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Proteomics Keys Promise Of Predictive Medicine

PharmExec

Major stakeholders—including policymakers, public-private interests, and academia—are increasingly embracing the potential of proteomics technology in reshaping diagnostics and patient care.

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A Step in The Right Direction: Optimization of STOPP/START Recommendations for Pharmacists

Pharmacy Times

Health care professionals need to work closely with patients in understanding polypharmacy and the risk/benefit of pharmacotherapy.

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Catalent to purchase Metrics Contract Services from Mayne Pharma

Pharmaceutical Technology

Catale n t has signed an agreement for the acquisition of full-service specialty Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) Metrics Contract Services for $475m from Mayne Pharma. The takeover of Metrics will bolster the expertise of Catalent in the development of integrated oral solid formulation, production and packaging to aid customers in streamlining and expediting their programmes.

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How Specialty Pharmacies Can Increase Visibility on the Shipment of Critical Patient Medication, Ensure On-Time Delivery

Pharmacy Times

Part 3 in a series outlining 5 crucial steps pharmacies can take to enhance patient engagement and lower operational costs.

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Measure Stewardship with Expert Input and Consensus-Based Process

PQA

PQA follows a systematic, transparent and consensus-based development?process?to ensure that measures are important, scientifically acceptable, feasible and usable. However, the measurement lifecycle does not end when a measure is endorsed. Previous blogs have?walked through?the?measure conceptualization,?measure specification and measure?testing and measure endorsement phases?

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Getting ‘Personal’ With Vaccine Development

PharmExec

Innovative and continuous remote patient monitoring, along with AI-based predictive analytics, are advancing progress toward replacing the one-size-fits-all, population-driven vaccination model.

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North America is seeing a hiring boom for AI roles in the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

North America extended its dominance for artificial intelligence (AI) hiring among pharmaceutical industry companies in the three months ending June. The number of roles in North America made up 53.2% of total AI jobs - up from 47.6% in the same quarter last year. That was followed by Asia-Pacific, which saw a 0.9 year-on-year percentage point change in AI roles.

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A Cross-Functional Formula: Operationalizing the Broader Role of Access

PharmExec

The BCG Market Access Roundtable outlines the new and advanced access competencies required to enable functional operationalization and delivery of this critical role in biopharma—today a key strategic partner in achieving overall business goals.

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Industrial automation hiring levels in the pharmaceutical industry rose to a year-high in July 2022

Pharmaceutical Technology

The proportion of pharmaceutical companies hiring for industrial automation related positions rose in July 2022 compared with the equivalent month last year, with 58.3% of the companies included in our analysis recruiting for at least one such position. This latest figure was higher than the 48.8% of companies who were hiring for industrial automation related jobs a year ago and an increase compared to the figure of 53.9% in June 2022.

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Navigating the Financial Meltdown for Biopharma

PharmExec

A review of pharma and biotech equity market, IPO, and M&A trends and outputs through the first half of 2022—and implications for the future as disruptions continue to have an impact.

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CMO checklist: Selecting a partner that’s right for you?

Pharmaceutical Technology

Working with a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) in the pursuit of bringing a new product to market can deliver a range of significant benefits. A good CMO can assist with everything from clinical supply and formulation challenges to risk mitigation, as well as general challenges that can arise through the scale-up process, such as market demand fluctuation.