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APRIL 23, 2024

Case in point: Under the seemingly benign title, “Clinical Benefit and Regulatory Outcomes of Cancer Drugs Receiving Accelerated Approval,” an article published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association claims that among “cancer drugs granted accelerated approval from 2013 to 2017, 41% (19/46) did not improve (..)

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The act would have permitted health care facilities to stock up on compounded medications without forcing the supplying 503A pharmacies to register as outsourcing facilities.

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MARCH 25, 2024

The initial effort to raise and sell chickens without using antibiotics began in 2017 as the company bet consumers would absorb the added expense. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 7, 2024

years after accelerated approval for cancer drugs to be pulled from the market if follow-up trials didn’t show a benefit; by 2017, that timing dropped to 3.6 The study also found evidence that drugs granted accelerated approval, meant to be a temporary designation, are spending less time in limbo. In 2013, it took an average of 9.9

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

“We looked at anything and everything,” said Novak, who stepped down as CEO in 2017 but remained on the board until this year.  His company, along with two others, were founded to commercialize the new revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 , which promised to cure numerous genetic diseases.

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MARCH 5, 2024

The first continuous glucose monitor was approved by the FDA in 2017. The sensor will pair with a smartphone app, which will provide blood glucose measurements every 15 minutes. Dexcom has not yet released the price of the device.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Founded in 2017, HumanFirst maintains a meticulously organized library of digital measurement tools, their underlying evidence, and information about how they have been used in clinical trials.

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Med Ed 101

DECEMBER 3, 2017

For those of you looking for BCPS help in the next year or two, you better not wait any longer – This one time only initial offer will end Monday December 4th, 2017! The post Day 1 – ASHP Midyear Meeting 2017 appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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MARCH 26, 2024

By comparison, the FDA inspected 976 clinical study sites in 2017. In 2022, the health regulator inspected 537 hospitals and clinics that were conducting studies of medicines for which drug manufacturers were seeking approvals.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

In 2017, he was elevated to CEO. Samarth “Sam” Kulkarni has been there from almost the beginning. The former McKinsey partner joined CRISPR Therapeutics in 2015 as its chief business officer. STAT spoke to Kulkarni about how the company reached this point, and where the field of CRISPR-based medicine is going.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Its trial was completed in 2017, but the company missed a deadline to seek a reporting extension. A  rule  went into effect in 2017 to strengthen reporting requirements. After receiving the FDA letter, Light Sciences posted results on Aug. 2, although outstanding issues remain with its submission.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Where are we at with 2017 Pharmacist Provider Status? The post 2017 Pharmacist Provider Status Update appeared first on Med Ed 101. Since the heated election, a host of topics and discussions have been held on National debt and Healthcare. There is really positive news regarding pharmacist provider status.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Although the first CAR-T was approved in 2017 for children, after it cleared malignancies in some on the brink of death, researchers hoping to use the tool in other pediatric cancers have struggled.  The therapy eventually reached market as Breyanzi, one of three CAR-Ts approved for adult leukemia.   The story was emblematic.

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JUNE 30, 2023

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 and had bilateral mastectomies , I had more reconstruction options than my mother did. In 1983, I flew home from college to be with my mother as she woke up from a mastectomy. She opted out of breast reconstruction, choosing to “go flat” instead. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

The post ASHP Midyear 2017 Day 4 appeared first on Med Ed 101. Hope you all enjoyed it, and maybe I will head back next year…we’ll see! Day 4 of ASHP Midyear took on a medication safety theme. I took part in a pain management in opioid use […].

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Med Ed 101

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The post ASHP Midyear Day 2 2017 appeared first on Med Ed 101. With ongoing discussions today with more pharmacists, residents and students, I can’t help but think what pharmacy is going to look like in 10 or 20 years. I think the key to identifying what’s going to happen is to think […].

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Med Ed 101

JANUARY 7, 2018

I’m a few days late to the game here, but I wanted to share my 3 biggest clinical pharmacy changes from 2017. My opinion of course, and I’d love it if you would post one or two things below that you felt were important clinical updates in 2017. How did I select these? Without further […].

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Med Ed 101

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The post New Hypertension Guideline Update – 2017 appeared first on Med Ed 101. I outline some of the important differences in the presentation below. I have also added this to the 20+ hour BCPS pharmacotherapy webinar. I’m giving year long access for […].

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MARCH 7, 2024

From 2017 to 2020, the company implanted nearly 8,000 patients with these devices. Under her leadership, Stimwave distorted the design of the device to better fit insurance codes, resulting in unnecessary plastic components that allowed the company to sell its products for thousands of dollars more than it otherwise could.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Her closely watched trial centered on both the human errors and the shortcomings at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that may have contributed to the 75-year-old patient’s death in 2017. But in her Zoom presentation on Tuesday , Vaught spent more time emphasizing the latter.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Laronde was founded by biotech creation firm Flagship Pioneering in 2017 to develop a new type of genetic medicine called endless RNA. RNA medicines startup Laronde is merging with another startup in the wake of a scientific misconduct issue that affected its leading drug candidates.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Her mom, Kathy Cronin, lived her life in fear of the disease, an anxiety both her children and her doctors dismissed, until, in the summer of 2017, she developed symptoms that were impossible to ignore.  It took her great-grandfather before she was born and her grandmother when she was 6 years old.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Boger, 72, founded Vertex in 1989 and served in various roles until 2017. Vertex Pharmaceuticals made history Friday when it received regulatory approval for a medicine that could alter people’s DNA. While the company celebrated, its founder, Joshua Boger, looked on like a proud parent.

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APRIL 5, 2023

are charged with knowingly selling defective lead testing machines between 2013 and 2017 that generated inaccurate results for tens of thousands of children across the country and for clients of at least one international relief organization, federal prosecutors said. Three former executives at Magellan Diagnostics Inc.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Less than half of the cancer therapies given accelerated approval by the FDA in 2013 to 2017 showed a clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial within the next five years

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JULY 13, 2023

New HIV infections were down 12% from 2017 to 2021, thanks to successful prevention efforts, including PrEP. In May, just before Pride Month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released news worth celebrating: 2021 saw the  lowest numbers  of new HIV diagnoses in decades.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

Day 3 at ASHP 2017 has been a little more depressing due to the pharmacist job market. The post Pharmacist Job Market Outlook – ASHP Midyear 2017 Day 3 (Tuesday) appeared first on Med Ed 101. The post Pharmacist Job Market Outlook – ASHP Midyear 2017 Day 3 (Tuesday) appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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MAY 23, 2023

Overall estimated new infections dropped 12% in 2021 compared to 2017, according to data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest accounting of HIV incidence in the United States is a mixed bag. But the American South — which has had a longtime HIV problem compared with other areas across the U.S.

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JUNE 9, 2023

In 2017, the Massachusetts state Legislature passed a law to ensure ease of access to birth control. It says there should be no copay for hormonal birth control prescriptions. It also allows women to fill a 12-month prescription at once. Infertility care has similar protections.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

If the recent acceleration of new diagnoses persists, then 220,000 people younger than 20 would have type 2 diabetes in 2060, compared with 28,000 in 2017, the latest year for which data is available, according to projections published this month in Diabetes Care. The number of young people in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

From 2017 to 2020, the company implanted nearly 8,000 patients with these devices. Under her leadership, Stimwave warped the design of the device to better align with insurance codes, resulting in unnecessary plastic components that allowed the company to sell their products for thousands of dollars more than they otherwise could.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

The company — which is a major supplier of non-human primates to corporate, government, and academic research laboratories — received a voluntary request last May for documents dating back to December 2017 about importing non-human primates from Asia, according to a regulatory filing. ( See page 42.)

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

” But based on a final regulation published Monday, Medicare is going against that public interest by giving a free pass to Medicare Advantage plans for any erroneous codes they submitted between 2011 and 2017. The amount of taxpayer money that insurers will get to keep because of that decision: $2 billion.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One expert views Amtagvi’s approval as a catalyst for further investment in TIL therapies, akin to how Kymriah’s 2017 clearance buoyed CAR-T treatment.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Smith was in STAT’s 2017 class of Wunderkinds , an annual selection of standout researchers who are launching their careers. Still, she knew from a very young age that she wanted to help people living with sickle cell disease. Now, as a research director at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, she is working on potential sickle cell medicines.

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MAY 11, 2023

In 2017, a new law was passed that permanently lowered corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%. Senate Committee. Specifically, the average effective tax rate for seven of the biggest drug makers fell by 40% — dropping to 11.6% in 2020, down from 19.6% Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. After four torrential days, 75 people had died, and Houston — America’s fourth largest city — was deep under water.

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