STAT

MAY 10, 2024

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended this week that dairy and poultry farms with infected animals supply protective gear to workers in a bid to stave off human transmission of the H5N1 virus. The challenge now is making it happen. The CDC has no legal authority to order those protective measures, and health officials in some of the nine states with reported outbreaks in cattle have had little luck getting farmers to take them up on offers of free persona

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PharmaVoice

MAY 8, 2024

Partnerships have been key to building the company’s AI capabilities and patient-focused R&D, said AstraZeneca’s head of U.S. oncology.

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ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

MAY 6, 2024

It has been 3 years since the 8-week, self-guided Bridge to Emergency Medicine (EM) curriculum was launched to help graduating medical students prepare for EM residency. The curriculum has been viewed over 43,000 times and we have awarded over 5,000 ALiEMU course certificates. It is now a part of many residency programs’ intern boot camp. Launching the 2nd edition of Bridge to EM (2024) We are thrilled to announce that we launching the second edition of the curriculum.

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BioPharma Dive

MAY 7, 2024

Pfizer said the patient, a young boy who was treated earlier last year, had died suddenly. The company is working with trial researchers to investigate further.

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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.

pharmaphorum

MAY 9, 2024

A UK report has said that inflation and geopolitical instability have led to a “dramatic drop” in investment in smaller companies developing new medicines, with a knock-on effect on the entire life sciences industry.

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STAT

MAY 10, 2024

WASHINGTON — The federal government will provide livestock farms as much as $28,000 apiece to bolster protective measures and testing for the avian flu virus spreading among dairy cows, officials said Friday. The Agriculture Department also allotted $98 million to aid states restricting the interstate movement of affected cattle, and health officials announced they would put an additional $101 million toward expanded surveillance, tests, treatments, and vaccines for the virus, which has n

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European Pharmaceutical Review

MAY 8, 2024

New data from a Phase IIa trial in moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis has demonstrated that a novel monoclonal antibody (mAb) could facilitate dosing every 12 weeks for induction therapy. This is due to a 31-day half-life at anticipated therapeutic dose levels, Inmagene Biopharmaceuticals confirmed. Humanised anti-OX40 IgG1 mAb IMG-007 works via a silenced antibody -dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) function, Inmagene explained.

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BioPharma Dive

MAY 8, 2024

Intellectual property is the foundation of the drug industry’s business model. This database will track key patent expiry dates for 30 top-selling medicines.

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The Pharmacist

MAY 9, 2024

Eight in 10 pharmacy team members report that medicine shortages are putting patients’ health at risk, according to a survey by Community Pharmacy England (CPE). The Pressures Survey, completed by more than 900 pharmacy owners and over 2,000 pharmacy team members, found that medicine supply issues were affecting the majority of pharmacy teams (72%) ‘multiple […] The post Patients 'put at risk' as pharmacies face medicine shortages 'multiple times a day' appeared first o

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STAT

MAY 9, 2024

Twenty-seven years ago today, a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong developed a sore throat, spiked a fever, and started to cough. Six days later, he was hospitalized; six days after that, he died of acute respiratory distress caused by viral pneumonia. Testing showed the toddler, who’d had contact with sick chickens before becoming ill, had been infected with H5N1 bird flu.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 10, 2024

Sanofi has licensed joint commercial rights to Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine and will work with the biotech on the development of combined flu/COVID shots in a deal worth up to $1.2 billion.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

MAY 4, 2024

Lost documents prevented victims from finding out the truth, official inquiry told Disastrous failures that caused the contaminated blood scandal were denied by ministers for decades after officials destroyed, lost and blocked access to key documents, memos submitted to the official inquiry reveal. Several batches of files involving the work of a blood safety advisory committee were shredded as the government faced the threat of legal action, documents show.

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BioPharma Dive

MAY 8, 2024

The move ends a turbulent saga for AstraZeneca, which successfully developed a coronavirus shot but struggled to sell it amid competition and the emergence of rare but serious side effects.

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The Pharmacist

MAY 9, 2024

Community pharmacists must be kept better informed about medicine shortages, with greater transparency required from supply chains, the chief executive of the Independent Pharmacies Association (IPA) has urged. Dr Leyla Hannbeck also said the fact that pharmacists are unable to make minor amendments in the case of medicines shortages ‘has to change’.

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STAT

MAY 10, 2024

LONDON — Novavax, the beleaguered maker of a Covid-19 vaccine, just got a boost of its own.   The French pharma company Sanofi on Friday said it had reached a licensing deal to sell Novavax’s Covid shot going forward as well as to try to combine the vaccine with Sanofi’s own flu shot. The pact includes a $500 million upfront payment, with up to $700 million more on the table if certain regulatory and launch milestones are reached.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 8, 2024

Get to know Ariel Buda-Levin from the IPG Health Network better with these 12 insightful questions. Learn more about her background, expertise, and experiences.

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PharmaTech

MAY 8, 2024

The company is presenting preclinical data at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy annual meeting that supports the potential of the company’s CAP-002 gene therapy for correcting neurological phenotypes associated with genetic epilepsy due to syntaxin-binding protein 1 (STXBP1) mutations.

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Outsourcing Pharma

MAY 10, 2024

In an interesting development in the field of rare disease therapeutics, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., and Maze Therapeutics, Inc. have sealed an exclusive worldwide license agreement for MZE001, a novel therapeutic candidate aimed at tackling Pompe disease.

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Pharmacy Joe

MAY 8, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss what blood gas parameters can make you suspect methemoglobinemia. Episode 920: What blood gas parameters indicate possible methemoglobinemia? Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher Methemoglobin is formed when the ferrous irons of heme are oxidized to the ferric state. The ferric hemes of methemoglobin are unable to bind oxygen, therefore, causing a functional anemia.

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STAT

MAY 10, 2024

In 1995, when Marion Nestle was on the committee drafting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, things were run differently. She and other experts handled it all: deciding on nutrition-related research questions, collecting the evidence, issuing a scientific report, and then writing guidance for how Americans should eat. When it came time for that last part — the writing — Nestle and two co-authors got together at a bar, ordered glasses of wine, and got to work.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 7, 2024

Understanding complex scientific studies is often a challenge for patients as well as healthcare professionals, but one that may become easier thanks to artificial intelligence.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

MAY 7, 2024

Pharmaceutical company says newer shots led to decline in demand for AstraZeneca vaccine, which is no longer being manufactured or supplied AstraZeneca has begun the worldwide withdrawal of its Covid-19 vaccine due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” that target new variants of the virus. The announcement follows the pharmaceutical company in March voluntarily withdrawing its European Union marketing authorisation , which is the approval to market a medicine in member states.

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Express Pharma

MAY 9, 2024

Blockchain-as-a-service company Qila.io has partnered with global clinical research center Mascot Spincontrol to bring about transparency in clinical research through blockchain. The aim of the collaboration is to ensure that clinical trial data is secure, transparent and tamper-proof so that integrity of research outcomes is maintained. According to its statement, partnership will enhance transparency in clinical research, fortify data security, and instill greater confidence among stakehol

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MAY 6, 2024

By Lisa M. Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Adrienne R. Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — FDA recently issued a draft guidance which would update the agency’s Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of Premarket Submissions guidance. The draft guidance provides recommendations on what is required to meet cybersecurity obligations under section 524B of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C).

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STAT

MAY 8, 2024

Since March, when the first reported cases of H5N1 bird flu began showing up in dairy cattle in Texas, the Food and Drug Administration has been asking farmers to discard any milk from infected animals. Initially, spotting tainted milk was believed to be fairly easy because cows that get sick with H5N1 begin producing milk that is thick and yellowish.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 10, 2024

Five months after Sanofi walked away from a deal with Maze Therapeutics on an oral Pompe disease therapy, Shionogi has snapped up the drug.

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Outsourcing Pharma

MAY 9, 2024

A collaborative report released today (May 9) by Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), sheds light on the challenges facing the life sciences sector amidst recent economic turbulence.

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Express Pharma

MAY 8, 2024

In April 2024, the healthcare industry reported 96 deals worth $13.4 billion, compared to the last 12-month (April 2023 to March 2024) average of 94 deals worth $20 billion. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc, a biotechnology company, to acquire Alpine Immune Sciences Inc, a clinical stage biotechnology company, for a consideration of approximately $4.9 billion in cash; Ono Pharmaceutical, an immuno-oncology company to acquire Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc, a biopharmaceutical company focused on disco

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Pharma Times

MAY 9, 2024

The subtype accounts for 20% of all T-cell leukaemias, a rare form of blood cancer which produces too many abnormal T-cells

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STAT

MAY 8, 2024

Yes, it’s possible to have a worm living in your brain — in fact, it’s far more common than you might think, said Dr. David Hamer, a professor of global health and medicine at the Boston University School of Public Health, who also directs a travel clinic at Boston Medical Center. Brain worms became a topic of public fascination Wednesday after the  The New York Times  reported that presidential candidate Robert F.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 8, 2024

The first commercial sales of Spectral AI's DeepView wound imaging system for burns are due to start in the UK, its first market, later this year

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Pharmaceutical Commerce

MAY 6, 2024

Radio frequency identification (RFID) not only helps hospitals boost their medication safety standards, as it also allows clinicians to continue to provide quality patient care.

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Express Pharma

MAY 8, 2024

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will convene an in-person meeting of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee (PCNS) on Monday, June 10, 2024, to discuss donanemab, which Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) has submitted for the treatment of early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. The open public hearing portion of the meeting will be conducted virtually.

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Pharma Times

MAY 7, 2024

The chronic brain disease that causes seizures currently affects around 600,000 people living in the UK

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STAT

MAY 8, 2024

Two congenitally deaf children can hear for the first time after being treated with gene therapy, according to data presented at a conference Wednesday. The results are “jaw-droppingly good, just shocking how good. It exceeded the wildest expectations of anybody who started this work,” said Larry Lustig, an otolaryngologist at Columbia University and an investigator on the study.

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