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Q&A: Pharmacists Drive Better Insulin Outcomes Through Teamwork, Technology

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Jennifer Clements, PharmD, FCCP, FADCES, BCPS, CDCES, BCACP, BC-ADM, discusses how pharmacists can collaborate with providers to optimize insulin therapy.

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FDA Approves Zoster Vaccine Recombinant Prefilled Syringe Presentation for Shingles Prevention

Pharmacy Times

The FDA approves a prefilled syringe for the zoster vaccine recombinant, enhancing shingles vaccination convenience and effectiveness for adults 50 and older.

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Q&A: Pharmacy Teams Leverage Technology and Collaboration to Optimize Inventory | McKesson ideaShare

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How Pharmacists Can Strengthen Completion of Vaccine Series

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An expert discusses how pharmacists can ensure completion of multidose pneumococcal vaccine series through electronic reminder systems, state immunization registries, scheduled follow-up appointments, and providing patients with printed vaccine cards for tracking purposes.

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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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Identifying, Addressing Insulin Use Challenges in the Pharmacy

Drug Topics

Pharmacists play a key role in ensuring safe and effective insulin use by identifying common challenges, providing ongoing education, and supporting patient confidence through regular engagement.

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The Pharmacist’s Role in Navigating Toxicity With TKIs

Pharmacy Times

An expert discusses how pharmacists play a crucial role in managing tyrosine kinase inhibitor toxicities through proactive monitoring strategies, patient education about adverse effects such as myelosuppression and fluid retention, and early intervention protocols to maintain treatment adherence and quality of life.

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Essential Nutrients for Longevity

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As we age, maintaining our health and vitality becomes increasingly important. Dietary supplements can play a supportive role in this journey. As a pharmacist, I make supplement recommendations every day. These suggestions tend to be similar for many individuals. The nutrients essential for bone, nerve, and gut health can often be obtained through a healthy and diverse diet.

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Pharmacists Advance Health Equity at NPhA, SNPhA Annual Convention

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Gabapentin Use Linked to Increased Dementia Risk in Chronic Back Pain Patients

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Pharmacist-Led Interventions Show Promise in Improving COPD Outcomes

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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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Vyvanse vs. Adderall dosage, equivalency, and guidelines

The Checkup by Singlecare

Many people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rely on a stimulant drug to stay focused and be able to function throughout the day. Vyvanse and Adderall are popular prescription drugs used to treat ADHD, and, in some cases, can help treat other conditions like binge eating disorder and narcolepsy. You might switch from one to another if there’s a drug shortage, you’re dealing with side effects, or what you’re using just isn’t working for you.

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Cracking Down on Illegal Online Pharmacies

Pharmaceutical Commerce

In the third part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Sean O’Hearen, founder and principal consultant at 1st Line Partners, recommends regulatory or verification mechanisms that can help safely legitimize online medicine procurement.

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HIV Reporting Meets the Front Line: How Pharmacists Translate Global Health Into Local Care

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AI model demonstrates potential for streamlining clinical trials

European Pharmaceutical Review

New research has shown that AI can improve the precision of patient selection for clinical trials. By choosing individuals who are most likely to benefit from treatment, the approach could help to reduce the cost of developing new medicines by streamlining clinical trials. Scientists tested their model on data for an Alzheimer’s drug. “Our AI model gives us a score to show how quickly each patient will progress towards Alzheimer’s disease.

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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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Mounjaro vs. Farxiga: Differences and similarities explained

The Checkup by Singlecare

Your healthcare provider might prescribe Mounjaro or Farxiga to help manage Type 2 diabetes, especially when diet and exercise aren’t enough. Both medications help control blood sugar and may also support weight loss, reducing serious risks related to diabetes. Although Mounjaro and Farxiga treat similar problems, they belong to different drug classes and work in different ways.

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Psychiatric Medication Adherence in Patients Experiencing Homelessness

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Scenario Planning for Uncertainty: How Industry Leaders Prepare for the Future

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In a world where macroeconomic shocks, geopolitical shifts, and technology disruptions seem to unfold in increasingly compressed cycles, many leadership teams are discovering that agility is no longer a competitive advantage—it’s a requirement. Yet amid this turbulence, a small subset of companies consistently outmaneuver their peers. One common thread?

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Digital twins and virtual trials: A new era in rare disease drug development

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With the rise of advanced simulation and model-informed drug development (MIDD) techniques like digital twins, researchers can now transform their strategies by using models to duplicate biological systems.

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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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Why MAHA’s push on Coca-Cola and ice cream is ‘nutritionally hilarious’

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Pop quiz: What’s Coca-Cola with cane sugar and ice cream made with natural dyes? Answer: Coca-Cola and ice cream. Getting Coca-Cola to use cane sugar rather than corn syrup and ice cream manufacturers to stop their use of synthetic dyes are the latest achievements trumpeted by the Make America Healthy Again movement as part of its quest to reform the U.S. food supply.

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Innovation Scouting: How to Spot Emerging Tech Before Your Competitors

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Innovation rarely announces itself with a headline. More often, it appears at the margins—inside obscure academic journals, startup patents, or niche use cases in emerging markets. For companies seeking sustainable differentiation, developing an edge in identifying emerging technologies before they gain mainstream traction is no longer optional. It’s a strategic imperative.

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An overlooked demographic has the highest suicide risk — and it’s been rising

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After a decade-long rise in suicide rates among young Americans — and with depression diagnoses soaring in this age group during the pandemic — the U.S. surgeon general issued a report in 2021 warning about the “devastating” state of youth mental health. The American Psychological Association declared it a “crisis.

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The 6-Stage Compounding Framework Every Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Professional Should Know

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Seaport Therapeutics begins phase 2b trial of GlyphAllo for major depression

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Subscribe Advertise About us Follow Follow Follow Follow GO Magazine PharmaTimes Magazine Archive Web Exclusives News Competitions Appointments Business Insights Webinars Thought Leadership Seaport Therapeutics begins phase 2b trial of GlyphAllo for major depression by John Pinching | 17th Jul 2025 | News First patient dosed in BUOY-1 study targeting MDD with or without anxious distress Seaport Therapeutics has dosed the first patient in its phase 2b BUOY-1 trial of GlyphAllo, a novel oral prodr

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Medical chatbot firm OpenEvidence raises $210m

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OpenEvidence has raised $210m to expand the capabilities of its physician decision-making tool and launch a new service offering 'PhD-level' research

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Fierce Pharma

Taking a page from Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, who have launched online programs to sell their diabetes and obesity drugs directly to patients, Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer are doing the same with their mega-blockbuster blood thinner Eliquis.

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Four AIs for spinal fractures can be used by NHS, says NICE

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AIs that detect spinal fractures during routine CT scans could help the NHS reduce hip fractures and other costly complications, says NICE.

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The Biosimilar Void

Pharmaceutical Commerce

In the fourth part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Murray Aitken, executive director, IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, outlines what he anticipates for the biosimilar adoption curve in key markets moving forward.

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Industry Landscaping: How to Get a Clear View of Competitive Terrain

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Whether assessing a market for entry, defending share, or planning for the next fiscal cycle, understanding who’s moving, how fast, and in what direction enables smarter, faster decisions. Yet “industry landscaping” often gets reduced to static quadrant models or outdated market reports. Sophisticated strategists know that mapping the competitive terrain requires more than a list of names.

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Insulin Efsitora Alfa Demonstrates A1C Reduction in Various Clinical Trials

Pharmacy Times

Once-weekly efsitora alfa shows promising hemoglobin A1C reduction in type 2 diabetes (T2D), simplifying insulin therapy and reducing injection frequency significantly.

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EVERSANA unveils new AI-powered pharmacovigilance suite

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EVERSANA has launched a new pharmacovigilance platform to answer the need for advanced analytics and AI in drug safety monitoring and risk management.

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Reconsidering Later-Line Therapies in CML Management

Pharmacy Times

An expert discusses how traditionally later-line therapies such as ponatinib and asciminib are now being reconsidered for earlier use, with asciminib approved for frontline treatment and ponatinib potentially used as second-line therapy for patients with specific mutations or comorbidities.

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Biogen and Stoke report positive results for Dravet syndrome drug

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Biogen and Stoke Therapeutics have shared encouraging new data for their experimental treatment, zorevunersen, which is being developed for Dravet syndrome – a rare, severe form of epilepsy. The results, presented at the European Paediatric Neurology Society Congress in Munich, Germany, showed that patients treated with zorevunersen experienced improvements in cognition and behaviour after a […] The post Biogen and Stoke report positive results for Dravet syndrome drug appeared first on Ph

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Mounjaro vs. Jardiance: Differences and similarities explained

The Checkup by Singlecare

If you have Type 2 diabetes , you may have heard about prescription drugs like Mounjaro or Jardiance. These medications are prescribed to help people lower their blood sugar levels and slow disease progression. Both Mounjaro and Jardiance are brand-name diabetes medications, but they belong to different drug classes and work in different ways to help control blood sugar.