Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Reese Pharmaceutical’s ColoTest has a suggested retail price of $19.99 and will also be sold on major retail shelves later this spring.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By understanding the nuances of PBM audit strategies, pharmacies can implement proactive measures to mitigate risks of recoupment, payment suspensions, and, in severe cases, network termination.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that “extrauterine embryos” are considered children, causing some infertility clinics to halt IVF processes.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The outage caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack could last weeks, a top UnitedHealth executive suggested in a Tuesday conference call with hospital cybersecurity officers, according to a recording obtained by STAT. UnitedHealth Group Chief Operating Officer Dirk McMahon said the company is setting up a loan program to help providers who can’t submit insurance claims while Change is offline.

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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.

Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Nicole Bernabe, CPhT, customer success specialist at TelePharm, discusses how the company is helping pharmacies increase operational efficiency while providing care to patients in need.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When Joseph Schneier, a transgender man then in his early 40s, started experiencing unusual spotting and elevated progesterone levels in 2021, his partner urged him to get checked out. | When Joseph Schneier, a transgender man in his early 40s, started experiencing unusual spotting and elevated progesterone levels in 2021, his partner urged him to get checked out.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Pfizer spent more than four hours Thursday laying out its oncology program to investors. But the company also spent some time talking about the effects of the Inflation Reduction Act on its pipeline. The drug giant, which is facing investor dissatisfaction after a year in which its stock dropped 44%, said it would be focusing on drugs that are based on proteins, not small molecule pills as it has traditionally developed.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to provide the best care, it’s crucial that pharmacists stay up-to-date on the latest guidance and data for flu, COVID-19, and RSV—even when that information is constantly changing.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2024

As the disruption caused by the cyberattack at Change Healthcare stretches beyond its tenth day, cybersecurity experts say that the incident could spur greater emphasis on enhancing protocols | As the disruption caused by the cyberattack at Change Healthcare stretches beyond its tenth day, cybersecurity experts say that the incident could spur greater emphasis on enhancing protocols — and greater oversight from the feds.

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Pharmacy Times

MARCH 1, 2024

Although regulation takes time, real safety concerns for patients in the rapid development of AI technology in health care are present today.

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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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STAT

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

LEXINGTON, Mass. — New obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound are currently taken once a week, indefinitely. But what if they could be taken once a year instead, like a vaccine? That’s a question that Novo Nordisk, the pharma company behind Wegovy, is exploring as it faces increased competition from other drugmakers aiming to develop similar GLP-1-based treatments for obesity.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Analysis of participants who never used tobacco cigarettes showed that daily cannabis use was associated a higher risk of both heart attack and stroke.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Telemedicine clinic Virta Health believes its members can achieve significant and sustained improvement in weight loss, even if a patient has stopped taking a GLP-1 drug, a newly released paper in | A new study in Diabetes Therapy from Virta Health says the company's carbohydrate restricted nutrition therapy allows patients who no longer want a GLP-1 prescription to still keep the weight off.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The podcast highlights addressing misinformation, the impact of celebrity endorsements in pharmaceuticals, and the important role of pharmacists in educating patients.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An expert panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines on Wednesday recommended that people 65 and older should get an additional Covid-19 vaccine shot this spring. The recommendation was approved by CDC Director Mandy Cohen, allowing the United States to join Canada and the United Kingdom in offering a spring booster this year to people at high risk of severe disease if they contract Covid.

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Drug Topics

MARCH 1, 2024

The decision comes a year after a group of conservative attorneys generals threatened the chains with legal action.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Two of Trinity Health’s affiliate hospitals mounted lawsuits against a large anesthesia group alleging that non-compete and non-solicitation clauses included in its providers’ contracts restrict co | The latest pushback against large anesthesiology groups' market power and practices alleges "millions of dollars" in damages for each hospital due to "exorbitant" payment demands.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Investigators continue to conduct regulated and controlled clinical trials to build compelling, high-quality evidence on their therapeutic potential.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Of all the lingering symptoms of long Covid , difficulty focusing and thinking, known as brain fog , may be the most frightening and baffling. A new study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, which looks at how much cognition is impaired in the months after a coronavirus infection, shows that Covid-19’s impact can be measured in the equivalent of IQ points.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Physician assistants have pulled well ahead of pharmacists in a recent listing of top jobs in the health care profession.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

LOS ANGELES — AI took center stage at the ViVE 2024 conference this week and health systems across the country are deploying the tech to tackle issues from easing the drudgery of medical docum | AI took center stage at the ViVE 2024 conference this week and health systems across the country are deploying the tech to tackle issues from easing the drudgery of medical documentation to making it easier for patients to get information about their medical care.

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Fierce Pharma

MARCH 1, 2024

Moderna is laying off employees within its manufacturing unit, with the move tied to a resizing of its COVID production work. | Moderna is laying off some employees within its manufacturing unit after shaving COVID production costs. The company previously disclosed plans to rightsize its COVID vaccine production footprint.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a bid to combat prescription drug costs, the White House will hold a listening session on Monday in search of ways to reform pharmacy benefit managers , according to people familiar with the plans. The list of attendees includes representatives from the federal government and industry, who are expected to provide insights into how the largest pharmacy benefit managers determine which medicines are covered by insurers and employers, as well as prices that are paid at pharmacy counters.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If approved, KnowU will become the world’s first non-invasive blood glucose monitor introduced to the global marketplace.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2024

Payers, providers and pharmacies are scrambling to keep up after a high-profile cyberattack against a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary took down critical systems. | Payers, providers and pharmacies are scrambling to keep up after a high-profile cyberattack against a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary took down critical systems.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

India’s Tata Institute has developed a tablet combining resveratrol and copper that has the potential to prevent the recurrence of cancer.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In 2023, enrollment in Medicare Advantage, the version of Medicare run by private insurers, surpassed 50% of eligible beneficiaries for the very first time. Going by this headline, or perhaps the predictable flood of advertisements for plans during the fall’s open enrollment period, you might be fooled into thinking 2023 was MA’s best year yet.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

AstraZeneca and FibroGen have finally reached the end of the road for their U.S. collaboration on the oral anemia drug roxadustat. | More than two years after a high-profile FDA rejection, AstraZeneca has backed out of a collaboration with FibroGen for the latter’s oral anemia drug roxadustat in the U.S. Still, AZ left the partners' China pact intact.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

LOS ANGELES — Healthcare data and tech company Veradigm is picking up ScienceIO in a $140 million deal to build out large language models for healthcare. | Veradigm plans to use the company's platform to create its own proprietary large language models on its own massive dataset, which includes 400,000 providers and over 200 million patients.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Explore how innovation in healthcare can be scaled across hospitals and nations, driving transformation through research & development, biotech collaborations, and fostering start-ups in the industry.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable as it was avoidable. At least 16 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean are dealing with cholera outbreaks. According to the latest report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control , between Dec. 23 and Jan. 23, nearly 50,500 people contracted cholera and nearly 500 died.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Amgen is now open for business in Central Ohio after cutting the ribbon at its “most advanced facility to date.” | Amgen is now open for business in Central Ohio after cutting the ribbon at its “most advanced facility to date.” Dubbed “Amgen Ohio,” the nearly 300,000-square-foot biomanufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio, is set to employ 400 full-time employees and leverage the “latest innovation and technology.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Providers, researchers and government officials gathered Tuesday to discuss the "urgent public health crisis" of gun violence and throw their weight behind a new multimillion-dollar aware | The event, which emphasized the role of healthcare professionals in addressing gun violence, came with the announcement of an industry-backed, multimillion-dollar awareness and prevention campaign.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly focusing on radiopharmaceuticals due to their potential in oncology and therapeutic applications. Learn more about why the industry is excited about radioisotopes in this article.

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