Pharmacy Times
MAY 30, 2024
Lenora Newsome, PD, president of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, explores how pharmacists can support mental health through private conversations, and educating about prescriptions.
Drug Topics
MAY 30, 2024
Chris DesRochers, a pharmacy technician who works at a CVS in Wakefield, Rhode Island and is active in the recent organizing, discusses what motivated him and his coworkers to unionize.
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STAT
MAY 31, 2024
More than three years ago, the National Institutes of Health launched a $1 billion-plus initiative to find the root causes and potential treatments for long Covid , the chronic disease that has quickly changed the lives of millions of Americans. But a lack of visible progress from the initiative, called RECOVER, has drawn months of criticism from patient advocates, researchers, and lawmakers, including at a Senate hearing last week on the NIH’s budget.
pharmaphorum
MAY 30, 2024
COVID-19 vaccination rates have fallen precipitously in Europe and should be ramped up this autumn so they are at least in line with influenza vaccine uptake.
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 27, 2024
UC Davis Health researchers uncover substantial treatment disparities and inequal access to autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation therapy among multiple myeloma patients.
Drug Topics
MAY 28, 2024
A recent study found that if community pharmacists were utilized to treat common conditions, it could result in significant cost-savings for the health care system.
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Fierce Pharma
MAY 28, 2024
A recently announced $900 million restructuring drive is already making waves at Takeda, wi | From early July to March 2025, the Japanese drugmaker will cut 495 staffers at its Cambridge location and 146 in Lexington, Massachusetts. Takeda is the largest life sciences employer in the state.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 27, 2024
Australia, Québec, and Sweden have defined processes for reimbursements by health technology assessments, but the United States has a low reliance rate.
Drug Topics
MAY 30, 2024
The approval of Lisocabtagene maraleucel (Breyanzi; liso-cel) was based on data from the TRANSCEND-NHL-001 study, in which the therapy showed rapid and durable response rates.
STAT
MAY 30, 2024
A third human case of H5 bird flu tied to the ongoing U.S. outbreak in cattle has been detected in a farm worker in Michigan, state health authorities confirmed on Thursday. The unnamed individual worked on a dairy farm and was in close contact with infected cows, the state health department said in a statement. The farm involved is different from the one where an earlier human case was detected last week.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 30, 2024
WASHINGTON D.C. — CVS Health continues to invest heavily in healthcare delivery services with a focus on affordability, convenience and better access to primary care. | CVS Health continues to make investments in healthcare delivery services with a focus on affordability, convenience and better access to primary care.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 30, 2024
Tune into this special episode of “Public Health Matters” to hear Emma White, the founder and president of the nonprofit organization Life Is Worth It, discuss her mental health journey and how she used it to educate adolescents, teenagers, and young adults on mental wellness.
Drug Topics
MAY 28, 2024
Research exploring the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care sheds a light on the potential of the technology to improve skin cancer detection and awareness among patients and health care professionals.
STAT
MAY 29, 2024
Menstruation is a critical indicator of health. Whether and when someone with a uterus gets their period — for the first time, and throughout their life — can reflect not only their reproductive health, but their risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, miscarriage, and premature death. That also makes menstruation a useful measure of population health.
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Outsourcing Pharma
MAY 30, 2024
In an intriguing interview with Cybinâs CEO, Doug Drysdale, OSP senior editor, Liza Laws found out how second-generation psychedelics could be the biggest breakthrough in psychiatry in 40 years.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 29, 2024
Penelope Murphy discusses the role that preceptors play in mentoring students and new pharmacists to help bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world practice.
Drug Topics
MAY 29, 2024
While US health officials continue to monitor the outbreak in dairy cattle across the country, a second human recently tested positive after a mutation of the bird flu virus.
STAT
MAY 30, 2024
Most physicians who endorsed a prescription drug or medical device on X — formerly known as Twitter — also received payments from the manufacturers of these products, according to a new analysis that highlights ongoing concerns about financial ties between doctors and industry. The study found 26 of 28 physicians, or 93%, received at least one payment, and the average was more than $27,400 for such things as food and beverages, speaking, consulting, or travel.
Fierce Pharma
MAY 30, 2024
As various efforts to produce next-generation vaccines in Africa are being carried forward by the likes of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BioNTech | Under an expansion of the partners’ existing deal, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is committing up to $145 million to bolster BioNTech’s efforts to establish vaccine R&D and manufacturing capabilities at the German company’s facility in Kigali, Rwanda.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 28, 2024
Although sun-protective measures have been increasing, the incidence of skin cancer has also increased, suggesting better targeted interventions and patient education are needed.
Drug Topics
MAY 31, 2024
In an interview with Chris Schaffner, PharmD, owner of Schaffner Pharmacy and Apothecary Coffee in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, he discussed his unique pharmacy operation with the help of coffee shop revenue.
STAT
MAY 27, 2024
Here are some things A. was told when she arrived at the hospital one night in June 2023. That she couldn’t have the pain medicine she usually got for a sickle cell crisis because she was six weeks pregnant, but she could have Tylenol. That if she just took her blood thinner everything would be fine. That she needed to leave, and if she still felt bad by the time she’d wheelchaired out into the parking lot, she could turn around and check herself back into the emergency room.
Fierce Pharma
MAY 30, 2024
In the span of half a year, Gilead Sciences' Trodelvy has flopped a second phase 3 trial. | Following a high-profile lung cancer setback in January, Gilead said Thursday that Trodelvy also failed to move the needle in a bladder cancer study. The flop threatens the ADC's accelerated approval in the tumor type.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 31, 2024
Almost half of independent pharmacy owners/managers participating in an NCPA survey said that ESI was the pharmacy benefit manager causing the most financial stress in Medicare Part D.
Drug Topics
MAY 31, 2024
According to a survey, 18.9% of respondents said that the person they knew who died of a drug overdose was a family member or close friend.
STAT
MAY 29, 2024
STAT teamed up with Word In Black, a network of 10 Black news publishers, to report over the past year on the impact of new weight loss drugs on Black America. Jonathan Gustave was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last August after decades of struggling with his weight. To help lower his blood sugar levels, his doctor prescribed Ozempic, the diabetes drug that has become wildly popular for its weight loss effects.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 30, 2024
UnitedHealth is predicting an upcoming “disturbance” among its Medicaid programs as members continue to disenroll after the COVID-19 public health emergency. | UnitedHealth gave an overview of areas in which the insurer can improve upon, how Medicaid redeterminations will affect the company and thoughts on OptumRx.
Pharmacy Times
MAY 31, 2024
Topline results of QWINT-2 and QWINT-4 met the primary end point of change in hemoglobin A1c compared to degludec and glargine, respectively, for those with type 2 diabetes.
Drug Topics
MAY 31, 2024
Researchers addressed the association between COVID-19 vaccination status and incidents of post-COVID condition.
STAT
MAY 28, 2024
When Yilai Shu was training to be an otolaryngologist in Shanghai, in the mid 2000s, he often met parents with congenitally deaf kids. “They always asked me, ‘Do you have any drugs to treat our kids?’ said Shu, who is hearing and a professor at Fudan University in China. “That’s what really inspired me to think about developing a drug.
Fierce Pharma
MAY 30, 2024
The United States Department of Health and Human Services has expanded its avian flu pandemic preparedness partnership with CSL Seqirus, lining up the vaccine specialist to
Pharmacy Times
MAY 29, 2024
Gender disparities among oncology health care professionals have significant consequences for both the physicians and the patients they treat.
Drug Topics
MAY 28, 2024
Emergency department visits tripled by December 2022 compared with the pre-legalization period from January 2015 to September 2018.
STAT
MAY 27, 2024
At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, 25 heads of government issued an extraordinary call for a new international treaty for preventing, preparing for, and responding to pandemics. For two years, World Health Organization member states have been negotiating an international agreement scheduled for adoption at the World Health Assembly this month. Yet, late Friday in Geneva, negotiations ground to a halt.
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