What States are Doing to Regulate Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Drug Topics
MARCH 25, 2024
In a poster presented at the 2024 American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, researchers assessed state-level regulations for PBMs.
March, 2024
247 
As Cannabis Use Increases, Pharmacists Must Be Prepared to Counsel Patients
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 22, 2024
As more states have legalized cannabis use—both medicinal and recreational—Sera said pharmacists’ roles in counseling will become even more important.
Join 18,000+
Insiders
Sign Up for our Newsletter
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Trending Sources
Five Things To Know: How To Use Artificial Intelligence To Be A Better Clinical Pharmacist
IDStewardship
MARCH 17, 2024
In this article a clinical pharmacist with experience and knowledge about using artificial intelligence describes how it can be used to be a better clinical pharmacist. Authored By: Steven Smoke, Pharm.D., BCIDP, BCPT Article Posted 18 March 2024 In healthcare’s evolving landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) promises to redefine pharmacy. AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini offer not-so-subtle hints at AI’s transformative potential.
Navigating the Psychedelic Renaissance: Emerging Mental Health Therapies and the Pharmacist’s Role
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 27, 2024
Psychedelic medicines such as psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, and LSD have been shown to have a significant impact on conditions such as major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder in clinical trials.
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.
Covid’s scientific silver lining: A chance to watch the human immune system respond in real time
STAT
MARCH 28, 2024
While an increasingly anxious world watched a new coronavirus spread across the globe in early 2020, veteran immunologist Rafi Ahmed quickly grasped that his field was about to experience something truly extraordinary. His former student Ali Ellebedy was gnawed by frustration as Covid shutdowns stalled his influenza research; it took until the summer, when mass vaccination planning hit his radar, before the same realization kicked in.
With Pfizer struggling in 2023, CEO Bourla hit with 35% pay cut to $21.6M
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 15, 2024
Pfizer knew 2023 was going to be a challenging year of transition. But even the drugmaker was surprised by the plummeting demand for its COVID-19 products, missing badly on its 2023 guidance. | After a difficult year for Pfizer, in which its share price fell by 44%, CEO Albert Bourla’s compensation fell by 35% from $33 million in 2022 to $21.6 million in 2023.
Signup to get articles personalized to your interests!
Pharmacy Technician Pulse brings together the best content for pharmacy technicians from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
More Trending
Providers 'wasted' $10.6B in 2022 overturning claims denials, survey finds
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 21, 2024
More than 100 provider organizations want the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take a tougher stance on Medicare Advantage (MA) plans’ practices following an industry survey es | Providers spent nearly $20 billion in 2022 pursuing delays and denials across all payer types, yet those efforts are substantially more costly on average when dealing with private plans, hundreds of hospitals and health systems told Premier in a recent survey.
When £17m isn’t enough: FTSE firms plead to pay bosses millions more
The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry
MARCH 10, 2024
Confronted by the huge salaries on offer in the US, London boardrooms are lobbying to be allowed to make their own bosses even wealthier There was a sharp intake of breath last month when the pharmaceuticals group AstraZeneca cemented chief executive Pascal Soriot’s position as the best-paid FTSE 100 boss with a £17m pay package , up from £15.3m a year earlier.
FDA Approves Semaglutide for New Indication Involving Cardiovascular Disease
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 8, 2024
Semaglutide (Wegovy; Novo Nordisk) reduces the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke in adults with cardiovascular disease and either obesity or overweight when combined with the standard-of-care.
FDA authorizes new drug to protect immune compromised from Covid-19
STAT
MARCH 22, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized a new antibody to protect immunocompromised individuals against Covid-19. The drug, known as Pemgarda and marketed by the biotech Invivyd, is the first such drug to become available since the agency pulled AstraZeneca’s Evusheld off the market in January 2023. New Omicron variants had rendered Evusheld ineffective.
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.
BioNTech hit with 'notice of default' from NIH in COVID-19 vaccine royalty dispute
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 25, 2024
Even as Germany's BioNTech deals with ongoing declines of its revenue and share price, it's facing another serious concern: U.S. | Even as Germany's BioNTech deals with ongoing declines of its revenue and share price, it's facing another serious concern: U.S. officials are pressing the company to pay royalties linked to the commercialization of its lucrative Pfizer-partnered COVID-19 vaccine.
Disparities in Digital Health Portal Use Persist Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
Drug Topics
MARCH 4, 2024
Although the pandemic spurred a greater need and use of online health resources, certain demographics continue to report significantly low participation in digital health portals.
Google's healthcare AI ambitions: New model for personal health coaching and next steps for gen AI
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 19, 2024
Google is doubling down on its ambitions for healthcare AI by exploring how generative AI can help clinicians in medical decision-making, understand lab and imaging information and provide con | Google is hyper-focused on generative AI in healthcare, pushing forward research to advance gen AI capabilities that can help clinicians in medical decision-making, understand lab and imaging information and provide consumers with personalized health insights based on their wearable data.
Cannabinoids show promise in acute migraine clinical trial
pharmaphorum
MARCH 4, 2024
Inhaled cannabinoids have been shown to perform better than placebo in providing pain relief for people suffering from acute migraine in a clinical trial
5 Reasons to Upgrade Your Pharmacy Management Software
Advertisement
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.
Study: Researchers Identify 25 Air Pollutants Associated With Asthma Symptoms
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 16, 2024
Investigators found that 1,1,1 trichloroethane; 2-nitropropane; and 2,4,6 trichlorophenol were significantly associated with asthma symptoms for 3 exposure periods.
Why researchers think human milk could repair the gut microbiome and reduce infections
STAT
MARCH 29, 2024
For babies who are breastfed, their first source of sustenance is filled with proteins, sugars, hormones, vitamins, and minerals — just the right amount of nutrients for an infant. That milk could also lower the risk of asthma , diabetes, and allergies. And it could make low-birth-weight, preterm babies up to 10 times less likely to develop necrotizing enterocolitis , a common intestinal disorder.
FDA approves first MASH drug: Madrigal's Rezdiffra breaks ground in notorious biopharma graveyard
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 11, 2024
The decades-long wait for an effective treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) has ended, as the FDA has approved the first drug for the fatty liver disease. | The decades-long wait for an effective treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) has ended. The FDA has approved Madrigal's resmetirom under the brand name Rezdiffra as the first drug for the fatty liver disease.
Government, Industry Leaders Address the Growing Issue of PBM Practices
Drug Topics
MARCH 5, 2024
Health care professionals, industry leaders, and politicians gathered for a virtual roundtable to discuss the state of the PBM industry.
Under new management, and under the cloud of the Change hack, HIMSS24 kicks off in Orlando next week
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 6, 2024
One of the largest health IT conferences, HIMSS24, will kick off in Orlando on Monday as a revamped trade show following a deal with Informa Markets last fall. | One of the largest health IT conferences, HIMSS24, will kick off in Orlando on Monday as a revamped trade show following a deal with Informa Markets last fall.
Nanoscope preps filing for retinitis pigmentosa gene therapy
pharmaphorum
MARCH 26, 2024
Nanoscope Therapeutics is on the brink of filing for FDA approval of what could be the first gene therapy for incurable eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) that can be used regardless of underlying genetic mutations.
FDA Expands Label for Bempedoic Acid to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk, With or Without Statins
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 22, 2024
Bempedoic acid (Nexletol; Esperion) and bempedoic acid and ezetimibe (Nexlizet; Esperion) are the only LDL-C lowering non-statin drugs indicated for primary prevention patients.
STAT+: Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a living patient for the first time
STAT
MARCH 21, 2024
In a new test of xenotransplantation, a medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital announced Thursday that, for the first time, it had transplanted a kidney from a CRISPR gene-edited pig into a living patient. Surgeons performed the milestone procedure over four hours on Saturday, March 16, without complications. As of Thursday morning, the organ recipient, a 62-year-old man named Richard Slayman, was “recovering well” and expected to be discharged soon, the hospital said in a
BioNTech's shares tumble—again—amid continued COVID vaccine sales slide
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 20, 2024
Four months ago, when BioNTech slashed its 2023 revenue projection from 5 billi | When BioNTech reported its fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday, it was another harsh reminder of the plummeting demand for COVID-19 vaccines. Sales came to 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) for the fourth quarter and 3.8 billion euros ($4.1 billion) for 2023, coming up short of expectations.
Improving CVD Outcomes Through Better Recommendations, Patient Monitoring
Drug Topics
MARCH 27, 2024
Researchers detailed the FDA’s recommendations on low-dose aspirin and pharmacists’ role in cardiovascular practice transformation programs.
HIMSS24: 'Fasten your seatbelts'—Hackensack Meridian CEO predicts acceleration of gen AI to help healthcare workforce
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 12, 2024
ORLANDO — It's almost impossible to have a conversation at HIMSS24 without the topic of artificial intelligence or generative AI coming up. | How will the conversations about AI in healthcare change by next year's HIMSS conference? Hackensack Meridian CEO Robert Garrett predicts that pilot projects underway now will roll out into practice.
Pain is reduced by almost half with cannabis-based medicines – report finds
Outsourcing Pharma
MARCH 11, 2024
On March 7, Celadon Pharmaceuticals plc, a leading UK-based pharmaceutical company specializing in cannabis-based medicines, unveiled promising findings from an early economic analysis of its chronic pain clinical trial, dubbed CANPAIN.
FDA Issues Paper on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Research
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 19, 2024
The agency will focus on collaboration to protect public health; advancing regulatory approaches; developing standards, guidelines, and best practices; and supporting research that evaluates and monitors AI performance.
A study says intermittent fasting is making people drop dead. Oh, come on
STAT
MARCH 19, 2024
The news is everywhere in my social news feeds this morning: A popular fad diet is apparently lethal, scientific research says. Specifically, a study found that caloric restriction, also known as intermittent fasting, has a 91% risk of death due to cardiovascular disease. Except scientific research doesn’t say that — and not only should you not be worried about this study, you shouldn’t be wasting brain glucose thinking about it.
In banner year, Lilly rewards CEO David Ricks with 24% boost in total pay to $26.6M
Fierce Pharma
MARCH 25, 2024
In 2023, Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks received a 24% boost in pay from $21.4 million to $26.6 million. The increase coincides with the company's booming sales.
Demographics Significantly Influence Common Customer Behavior at Community Pharmacies
Drug Topics
MARCH 29, 2024
Researchers found various reasons for why individuals chose a specific pharmacy and how they purchase OTC medication.
Diabetes management tools not worth the cost, study finds. But digital health companies push back on 'flawed' analysis
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 24, 2024
A new analysis pours cold water on the effectiveness of widely used digital diabetes management solutions, stirring up discussion about how best to evaluate the growing market of digital health too | The Peterson Health Technology Institute's analysis assessed whether digital diabetes solutions improve users' health outcomes over "usual care.
Employee experience in healthcare: The importance of EX for patient experience
pharmaphorum
MARCH 20, 2024
Understanding the employee experience in healthcare is essential for improving the patient experience. Learn more about the importance of employee experience in healthcare and how it impacts patient care.
Antipsychotic Prescribing Patterns in Pediatric Patients with Major Depressive Disorder
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 6, 2024
Findings emphasize the importance of further research on effective and safe alternative treatments for MDD in children and adolescents, specifically in patients who are refractory to nonpharmacologic treatment and/or standard of care antidepressants
Opinion: The evidence is clear: A liquid-only diet before a colonoscopy is unnecessary
STAT
MARCH 19, 2024
Since colorectal cancer is on the rise in people younger than age 50, national guidelines have recently pushed the starting age for colorectal cancer screening down to 45. We need to spread the word. Yet we specialists continue to provide outdated and disproven recommendations on colonoscopy bowel preparation that make the process more difficult for the millions of patients who undergo colonoscopy every year: We tell them to adopt a clear liquid diet the day before their procedure.
Let's personalize your content