Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 16, 2024
Pharmacists are well suited to identify patients with dysphagia and educate patients and caregivers on when and how to safely crush and administer medication.
Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 16, 2024
Pharmacists play a significant role in early identification, continuous monitoring, and interventions to help minimize the risk of falls in older adults.
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Pharmacy Is Right For Me
JANUARY 18, 2024
A pharmacy education provides diverse opportunities, ranging from patient care and research to education. Truly, no one path looks the same and there is no better example than Dr. Lindsey Moseley who found her passion for teaching and education whilst pursuing her Pharm.D. degree. Facing An Identity Crisis Dr. Lindsey Moseley is the Curricular Coordinator and a faculty member at Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy.
Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 15, 2024
In 2024, Pharmacy Practice in Focus: Health Systems welcomes the launch of the peer-review process, with this issue containing our first peer-reviewed paper.
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
JANUARY 18, 2024
In 2023, the FDA approved six vaccines, including 2 for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and the first vaccine to prevent the mosquito-borne virus chikungunya.
STAT
JANUARY 19, 2024
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the nation’s leading cancer research and treatment centers, are “moving to” retract one paper and correct others amid an expanding investigation of data manipulation, officials told STAT. The investigation includes scores of papers authored by four top scientists and institute leaders, including CEO Laurie Glimcher and COO William Hahn.
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Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 19, 2024
Benzodiazepines have proven effective in managing anxiety and insomnia, but they heighten risk of falls, cognitive impairment, functional decline, and mortality among older adults.
Drug Topics
JANUARY 18, 2024
Just weeks after it gained FDA approval, pharmacy organizations have come forward to voice concerns about the safety and security of Florida’s drug importation program.
STAT
JANUARY 18, 2024
Long Covid has long eluded scientists looking for its cause. Not knowing what triggers its persistent and distressing symptoms makes the condition challenging to treat; it’s hard to even say definitively who has it. New research published Thursday in Science has identified proteins present in the blood of people with long Covid that could point the way to a much-needed diagnostic test and possibly to future therapeutic targets.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 17, 2024
Venture capital firm General Catalyst is making good on its October promise to purchase a health system with about eight months left to spare. | The venture capital firm's deal would make the Ohio nonprofit a wholly owned subsidiary of the recently launched Health Assurance Transformation Corp. The deal still requires regulatory approval.
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.
Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 19, 2024
The third edition of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance resource guide includes 40 total SDOH services and 8 new services, as well as 10 initiative updates from the previous 2 editions.
Drug Topics
JANUARY 16, 2024
By getting involved in patient care, pharmacists can help alleviate the burdens associated with the self-management of type 2 diabetes (T2D).
STAT
JANUARY 18, 2024
For three days in December, an ICU room at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania bore witness to the first-ever merging of two powerful new technologies poised to change the future of transplant medicine. On a gurney, a brain-dead patient lay connected to a whirring Rube Goldberg-esque machine: a tangle of tubes and siphons on wheels. From a cannula on one end, blood from the patient entered, was pumped full of oxygen and other nutrients, then pushed into a cozy, temperature-controlled
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 16, 2024
Demand remains high for GLP-1 drugs, and the experts at Morgan Health are aiming to support employers in managing that interest with a new report. | Demand remains high for GLP-1 drugs, and the experts at Morgan Health are aiming to support employers in managing that interest with a new report.
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Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 16, 2024
Previously, IgG-hyaluronidase recombinant was approved by the FDA in 2014 for the treatment of primary immunodeficiency in adult patients and has expanded to include some pediatric patients.
Drug Topics
JANUARY 15, 2024
Data has indicated a potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and menstruation, but there is little evidence about this association based on chart-reviewed medical record data.
STAT
JANUARY 18, 2024
Even though Erin Booth was not thrilled about having to travel to Philadelphia for a conference at six weeks postpartum, this one at least advertised having a private lactation space. This was back in 2013, when such accommodations were a rarity. The first bad sign was having to walk clear across the convention center to get there, cutting into her already brief pumping window.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 17, 2024
As the U.S. | The new program from Bloomberg Philanthropies and major systems like Mass General Brigham, HCA Healthcare and Northwell Health will build new or refurbish existing high schools in 10 urban and rural communities.
Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 18, 2024
Despite the insignificant differences in efficacy, biomarkers, therapeutic drug level, and ADAs, patients reported a significant number of nocebo effects.
Drug Topics
JANUARY 16, 2024
Real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) demonstrated benefits associated with time in range, hypoglycemia, and hyperglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D).
STAT
JANUARY 18, 2024
Timothy Stenzel, the federal regulator who led the Food and Drug Administration’s diagnostics division during the chaotic time of Covid-19 pandemic, has left the agency. The FDA confirmed Thursday that Stenzel, who led the FDA’s office of in vitro diagnostics, retired at the end of 2023. During the early days of the pandemic, Stenzel was in the middle of a turf battle between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA over the regulation of Covid tests.
The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry
JANUARY 16, 2024
Darius Hughes was a key figure in Pfizer’s pioneering Covid vaccine drive. Now he has changed companies – and sees a big future for mRNA technology The man who launched Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in the UK three years ago – when 90-year-old Margaret Keenan in Coventry became the first person in the world to receive one – is now overseeing the construction of a manufacturing and research centre in Oxfordshire for rival US jab maker Moderna.
Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 17, 2024
The co-founders of PPA discuss the importance of advocacy work at this point in the development of the psychedelic medicine industry to help cement pharmacist’s role in the continuum of care.
Drug Topics
JANUARY 19, 2024
Problematic substance use was highest among firefighters, followed by emergency medical technicians, and police officers.
STAT
JANUARY 16, 2024
Last fall, the World Health Organization and some national drug regulators urged influenza vaccine manufacturers to drop the component known as B/Yamagata from flu vaccines as quickly as possible, citing the fact that this lineage of flu B viruses appears to have been snuffed out during the Covid-19 pandemic. It might seem like that request would be as simple as deciding to leave blueberries out of a mixed-fruit smoothie.
Fierce Pharma
JANUARY 19, 2024
Following public spats with Hungary and Poland, Pfizer and its German mRNA partner BioNTech have kicked off legal proceedings against Romania. | Following public spats with Hungary and Poland, Pfizer and its German mRNA partner BioNTech have kicked off legal proceedings against Romania. The lawsuit marks the latest move in Pfizer’s campaign to press countries to honor COVID-19 vaccine contracts inked by the European Commission in May 2021.
Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 17, 2024
Multiple sclerosis and pulmonary arterial hypertension are disease states expected to have new medications in the upcoming year
Drug Topics
JANUARY 16, 2024
Within a 12-month time frame, adjusted vaccine effectiveness against diagnosed long and probable long COVID was 41.7% and 35.4%, respectively.
STAT
JANUARY 19, 2024
WASHINGTON — Theranos founder and ex-CEO Elizabeth Holmes is banned from federal health programs for nine decades, the health department announced Friday. Holmes was sentenced in November 2022 to 11 years in prison following a trial that determined she knew her blood-testing startup, which was founded in 2003 and which claimed to be able to test for a range of diseases and risks with one finger prick, produced inaccurate and faulty results.
Fierce Pharma
JANUARY 19, 2024
More than five years after an FDA accelerated approval in a subtype of progressive colorectal cancer, Bristol Myers Squibb now has data supporting its checkpoint inhibitor doublet in newly diagnose | More than five years after an FDA accelerated approval in a subtype of progressive colorectal cancer, Bristol Myers Squibb now has data supporting its checkpoint inhibitor doublet in newly diagnosed patients.
Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 19, 2024
Compared to placebo, a daily multivitamin showed consistent benefits in global cognition and episodic memory across a clinical trial and meta-analysis of 3 trials.
Drug Topics
JANUARY 17, 2024
A panel of clinicians gathered to address concerns and report preliminary findings around rates of RSV incidence, hospitalization, and vaccination.
STAT
JANUARY 16, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a CRISPR-based medicine to treat beta thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder. It’s the same potentially curative therapy cleared by the FDA in December to treat sickle cell disease. The expanded approval of the therapy, called Casgevy, was widely expected but came two months ahead of the FDA’s decision deadline, known as a PDUFA date.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 16, 2024
Innovaccer, maker of digital tools for providers, has acquired Cured, a digital marketing and customer relationship management [CRM] platform. | The strategic purchase adds more than 20 health systems and first-time digital health clients to Innovaccer’s current portfolio of customers.
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