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5 Questions With a Pharmacist: Lea Wolsoncroft from Remedies Pharmacy

Drug Topics

In an installment of Drug Topics’ 5 Questions With a Pharmacist, Lea Wolsoncroft of Remedies Pharmacy in Hoover, Alabama, discussed what is going on in her pharmacy practice.

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Op-Ed: Lower Prescription Drug Costs, Pass PBM Reform Legislation

Pharmacy Times

Lowering prescription drug costs for patients, saving taxpayers money, helping small businesses level an anti-competitive playing field: all of this is at stake.

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Was Missouri’s bird flu case a one-off or something more? Quest for answers faces testing delay

STAT

U.S. health officials have run into obstacles in their efforts to determine whether a Missouri person infected with H5N1 bird flu passed the virus on to others, causing a delay that will likely fuel concerns about the possibility that there has been human-to-human transmission. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has blood samples from several health workers and a household contact of the Missouri case that it plans to test for antibodies that would indicate whether they too had been

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Wyden, Brown urge FTC to investigate PBM 'co-manufacturing' arrangements

Fierce Healthcare

Two key senators are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "co-manufacturing" arrangements that they fear pharmacy benefit managers may be using to stymie competition. | Two key senators are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "co-manufacturing" arrangements that they fear pharmacy benefit managers may be using to stymie competition.

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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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Senators Call on FTC to Investigate PBM Co-Manufacturing Tactic

Drug Topics

Senators Ron Wyden and Sherrod Brown wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission calling to explore yet another PBM tactic impeding competition.

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Accelerated Radiation Therapy Course is Non-Inferior to Traditional Radiation in Patients Undergoing Breast Reconstruction

Pharmacy Times

The accelerated course was safe and effective and did not increase complications in patients with breast cancer post-mastectomy undergoing breast reconstruction.

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Big Pharma's layoff wave in New Jersey rolls on with hundreds of J&J cuts, 57 at Bayer

Fierce Pharma

Johnson & Johnson is laying off 231 employees in New Jersey and Bayer is cutting 57 positions in the state, according to separate Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN)

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Diabetic Emergencies Led to Decreased Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Heart Failure

Drug Topics

Researchers compared the cardiovascular outcomes of patients hospitalized for heart failure that did or did not experience diabetic emergencies.

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RSV Vaccination Among Older Adults With Chronic Conditions Could be Cost Effective

Pharmacy Times

Adults with underlying medical conditions, resulting in an increased risk of respiratory syncytial virus disease are more likely to be cost-effective than general age-based strategies.

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Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda draws concern over possibility of international spread

STAT

A large outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda is drawing international concern about the possibility of spread beyond the country’s borders. The number of cases detected so far, 27 , already makes the outbreak one of the biggest involving Marburg on record. Nine of those individuals have died. There are currently no licensed vaccines to combat the disease.

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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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New analysis points to troubling trends as U.S. healthcare costs rise, but health outcomes worsen

Fierce Healthcare

A new analysis points to troubling trends in the U.S. healthcare market as costs continue to rise but health outcomes are declining. | "The inputs of the U.S. healthcare system, as measured by cost, exceed the outputs, as measured by the actual value or benefits received by Americans," Sanjula Jain, Ph.D., Trilliant Health's chief research officer, said.

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Influenza Vaccination and Risk of Stroke in Older Adults

Drug Topics

Researchers addressed the association between older individuals who received an influenza vaccine and their risk of stroke following vaccination.

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Insufficient Vitamin D Levels in Children Connected to Slow Fracture Healing Process

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacists and health care providers can counsel around vitamin D supplements and natural intake to increase a child’s vitamin D consumption.

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STAT+: Health care CEOs dialed back their pay in 2023. They still made $3.5 billion

STAT

Health care stocks stumbled compared with the rest of the market in 2023. Companies missed their profit targets. Some CEOs even lost their bonuses. But the biggest names in health care still made $3.5 billion combined last year, compared with $4 billion in 2022. The average chief executive brought home $11 million, while the median was $4.1 million.

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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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At-home hospital care popular with patients and clinicians, but data backing quality, costs are limited, CMS finds

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital programs providing at-home acute care are widely appreciated by patients and clinicians but still don’t have a bulletproof argument in respect to quality and costs as compared to a brick-a | A new 79-page government report on the soon-to-expire Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative outlines both clear-cut and muted wins for advocates.

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Beyond Blood Glucose: Addressing Adolescent Diabetes Challenges

Drug Topics

Social pressures, physiological changes, mental health challenges, and burnout all complicate diabetes management among adolescents.

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Managing and Monitoring Cardiotoxic Risks During Cancer Treatment

Pharmacy Times

Aaron Adkisson, PharmD, discusses the importance of considering factors such as age, gender, and cardiovascular comorbidities when monitoring and managing cardiotoxic risks in patients with cancer. also emphasizing patient education on recognizing early heart failure symptoms.

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Why a map of a fruit fly’s brain has neuroscientists ‘blown away’

STAT

Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge number of cells and cell connections. It took almost 50 labs around the world to create a new neural map, or connectome, of an adult fruit fly — the largest map of its kind, and an effort that will allow researchers to better understand the brain’s inner workings. Access to the full connectome, as published Wednesday in a series of papers in Nature , could represent a new era for neuroscience, according to some re

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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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Rippl announces $23M series A to expand virtual dementia care

Fierce Healthcare

Rippl, a virtual dementia care company, secured $23 million in series A funding to expand its services to patients in more states. | Rippl, a virtual dementia care startup, plans to use its series A funding to expand into new states, build out its value-based contracts and participate in CMS' GUIDE program.

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Q&A: Impact of Stigma on Pharmacists with SUD, Importance of Mental Health Care

Drug Topics

Sara T. Thomason discuses the impact of stigma on pharmacists who are dealing with substance use disorder, the importance of mental health care, and how schools support pharmacy students dealing with addiction.

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Expert: Patients With C. difficile Can Have Difficulty Advocating For Themselves

Pharmacy Times

C. diff survivor and Peggy Lillis Foundation Board Member Maryann Webb discusses how her experience with the infection encouraged her to advocate for patients who are struggling to advocate for themselves.

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Scientists may have found the reason why people with schizophrenia hear voices

STAT

Schizophrenia is a poorly understood illness, but scientists now have greater insight into one of the disorder’s hallmarks, auditory hallucinations, thanks to new research published Thursday. People with schizophrenia often “hear” voices and sounds even when there are none — up to 80% of people with the mental illness have auditory hallucinations.

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SCAN taps Instacart for new grocery allowance benefit

Fierce Healthcare

Food insecurity is a critical challenge facing seniors, and SCAN Health Plan is teaming up with Instacart to roll out a new grocery benefit as part of its 2025 Medicare Advantage plan lineup. | Food insecurity is a critical challenge facing seniors, and SCAN Health Plan is teaming up with Instacart to roll out a new grocery benefit as part of its 2025 Medicare Advantage plan lineup.

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Small Doses: September 23 to September 27

Drug Topics

Check out a recap of important pharmacy news you might have missed this week, dispensed in small doses.

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FDA Approves Ustekinumab-Aauz as Biosimlar for Stelara

Pharmacy Times

Ustekinumab is a human monoclonal antibody targeting the cytokines interleukin (IL)-12 and IL-23, which play a rule in the inflammatory and immune responses.

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Opinion: The fraught history of the pelvic exam

STAT

When I was a medical student in the 1980s, the school hired “pelvic instructors” who taught us how to do exams in a painless and respectful way. They even allowed us to perform practice examinations on them. But at the same time, senior doctors urged me to perform pelvic exams on anesthetized women about to get surgery — women who never gave consent.

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CMS authorizing accelerated, advance payments for hurricane-impacted providers, suppliers

Fierce Healthcare

Providers and suppliers feeling the weight of Hurricane Helene and its aftermath will see accelerated and advance Medicare payments, alongside other assistances and flexibilities, the Centers for M | CMS said it wants to head off “significant cash flow issues from the unusual circumstances impacting facilities’ operations.” It is also offering other flexibilities around debt repayments.

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SGLT2i Reduces Hospitalizations, Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure

Drug Topics

The Heart Failure Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting featured presentations exploring the benefits of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) for patients with heart failure.

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HER2-Targeted Treatments for NSCLC: Introducing Zongertinib

Pharmacy Times

Currently, standard first-line chemotherapy with or without immunotherapy for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with HER2 mutations has limited efficacy.

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Q&A: NIAID’s Jeanne Marrazzo speaks on bird flu, mpox, and succeeding Anthony Fauci

STAT

A year ago last week, Jeanne Marrazzo stepped into a very big pair of shoes.  Marrazzo became the first new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in decades, taking over a job held for 38 years by Anthony Fauci, whose long-term status as a science god in Washington gave way to Covid-19 fall guy in some quarters during and after the pandemic.

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US' top IV fluid maker Baxter voices uncertainty about recovery timeline at NC facility hit by Helene

Fierce Pharma

After announcing the closure of its biggest manufacturing site Sunday due to flooding caused by Hurricane Helene, Baxter International—the U.S.’ top supplier of hospital IV fluids—is laying out det | While progress is already being made after Hurricane Helene, which resulted in water “permeating” Baxter’s large IV fluid production plant in North Carolina, the company cautioned that it does not yet have a timeline for when operations will be back online.

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FDA Roundup: Biosimilar Approval, Hereditary Angioedema Treatment Receives Orphan Drug Designation

Drug Topics

Check out important updates from the FDA for the week of September 30.

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FDA Approves Nivolumab for the Treatment of Adult Patients With Resectable NSCLC

Pharmacy Times

Nivolumab is the only PD-1 inhibitor to show statistically significant and clinically meaningful benefits in non-small cell lung cancer compared with chemotherapy.