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Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread

STAT

Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and thought that at least some virus was getting off of farms and going downstream — onto store shelves. He knew the Food and Drug Administration was working on its own national survey of the milk supply.

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As Lilly and BMS invest in manufacturing, demand for drugs still outweighs supply

PharmaVoice

From popular weight loss drugs to lifesaving cancer therapies, recent pharma deals show the industry is doubling down on manufacturing capacity to meet demand.

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STAT+: After AI protein folding, David Baker’s lab identifies millions of smaller drug candidates

STAT

University of Washington professor David Baker has made a name for himself by borrowing computer science concepts like machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve problems in biology. A few years ago, his lab surprised scientists by constructing an AI-powered protein-folding prediction system rivaling Google’s DeepMind AlphaFold. Now Baker is pushing forward in a different area of drug discovery research.

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Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

Exclusive: MSF calls for transparency after its bill for a trial of TB treatment came to a fraction of the billions claimed by pharmaceutical companies Doctors have for the first time released details of their spending on a major clinical trial, demonstrating that the true cost of developing a medicine may be far less than the billions of dollars claimed by the pharmaceutical industry.

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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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STAT+: Generative AI is supposed to save doctors from burnout. New data show it needs more training

STAT

After stratospheric levels of hype, early evidence may be bringing generative artificial intelligence down to Earth. A series of recent research papers by academic hospitals has revealed significant limitations of large language models (LLMs) in medical settings, undercutting common industry talking points that they will save time and money, and soon liberate clinicians from the drudgery of documentation.

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AstraZeneca’s Lynparza to dominate PARP inhibitors market with $4 bn in sales by 2027: GlobalData

Express Pharma

In 2014, the FDA approved the first (adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor AstraZeneca /Merck’s Lynparza (olaparib) for use in breast cancer gene (BRCA)-mutated metastatic ovarian cancer patients who have received three or more prior lines of chemotherapy. Since then, the PARP inhibitors market has made significant strides, but Lynparza maintains its dominance with projected global sales of $4 billion by 2027, according to an analyst consensus forecast by GlobalData.

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Bristol Myers to cut 6% of workforce, trim drug pipeline

BioPharma Dive

The layoffs will impact some 2,200 employees, the company said, as it repositions its business ahead of looming patent expirations for top-selling products.

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STAT+: Washington kicks into gear on H5N1

STAT

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.  Sign up here  to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Why did the dairy cow cross state lines? After weeks of concern that the U.S. Department of Agriculture wasn’t doing enough to quell the spread of H5N1 bird flu, the agency announced Wednesday that it’s going to require testing for dairy cattle crossing sta

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Regeneron expands in gene editing with Mammoth deal

BioPharma Dive

“With each passing year, we're more committed to becoming a serious player in the genetic medicine space,” a Regeneron executive said.

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Opinion: The grim reality of relocating to get access to gender-affirming care

STAT

In my work as a pediatric psychologist, I’ve been seeing a surge in the number of families with transgender or nonbinary children who are moving to Connecticut, where I live and work. In the past month, a real estate agent colleague has worked with 30 families with transgender children who were trying to find homes in central Connecticut, where they could get access to gender-affirming care.

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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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Projects using drones to deliver medicines receive investment

The Pharmacist

Five projects that use drones to deliver medicines and medical supplies have been given £500,000 between them as part of a development programme co-funded by the government. The programme, called the UKRI Future Flight Challenge, is a £300m project to support the creation of an ‘aviation ecosystem’ to help accelerate the introduction of drones and […] The post Projects using drones to deliver medicines receive investment appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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STAT+: Vertex offers limited access to a cystic fibrosis drug in South Africa — and may undercut a court case

STAT

After months of sustained criticism, Vertex Pharmaceuticals reached an agreement to provide a pricey cystic fibrosis treatment in South Africa, but the move prompted a mixed reaction from consumer groups, some of which complained the deal is geared toward people with expensive health coverage. Under the arrangement, the company is making its Trikafta medication available through a government mechanism that allows a medicine that is not registered for sale in the country to be made available to i

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WuXi AppTec denies client data sharing allegations and defends industry integrity

Outsourcing Pharma

Wuxi AppTec says recent allegations made by the US government that it has shared clients' data with Beijing without consent are âmisleadingâ and âinaccurateâ.

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STAT+: Amid layoffs and a hit to earnings, Bristol’s new CEO shares his vision for the future

STAT

Christopher Boerner, 53, took over as the chief executive officer of Bristol Myers Squibb last November, and immediately made a big move: a series of three acquisitions totaling $24 billion that would give BMS a new schizophrenia drug, a targeted cancer medicine, and radiopharmaceuticals used to treat cancer. On Thursday, Bristol released first quarter earnings and showed the price for those acquisitions.

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MPE launches English Myeloma and AL Amyloidosis European Clinical Trial Navigator

Pharma Times

The tool will help people find out about clinical trials for myeloma, MGUS, SMM and AL amyloidosis

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STAT+: Bernie Sanders targets ‘outrageously high price’ of Ozempic

STAT

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?  Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. Here in Chicago, residents are reeling over the  removal of the famed rat hole,  a rat-shaped indentation on a piece of sidewalk that drew crowds, fans, and even a proposal and a marriage. The need-to-know this morning AstraZeneca reported first-quarter  sales and profits  that topped analyst estimates, buoyed by its blockb

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Price concession changes 'likely' behind April wait, suggests CPE

The Pharmacist

Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has suggested that the ‘extended period of time’ taken to determine this month’s concessionary prices was ‘likely’ due to an imposed change designed to manage margins. In a newsletter sent last night, the negotiator said it was still waiting for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to determine price […] The post Price concession changes 'likely' behind April wait, suggests CPE appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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STAT investigative series ‘Denied by AI’ wins major journalism prizes

STAT

Dear Readers, Please bear with me as I brag about two of STAT’s most accomplished (and humble) reporters: Casey Ross and Bob Herman.

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BioMarin drops drug programs in pipeline cull

BioPharma Dive

The cuts of four pipeline prospects come as BioMarin resets its priorities following the slow launch of its hemophilia gene therapy Roctavian.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Senate probe into Novo pricing, a new UTI antibiotic, and more

STAT

Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. We can tell because countless birds are chirping outside our window, the pace of motor vehicles passing by is picking up, and the official mascots are busy foraging for snacks on the official grounds. As for us, we are engaged in the usual ritual of brewing cups of stimulation. Our choice today is orange cream.

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One2Treat - observing emerging trends and reshaping approaches to R&D

Outsourcing Pharma

Last month, OSP was excited to write about One2Treat, a progressive startup specializing in digital health solutions, which has launched a forward-thinking approach aimed at tackling key challenges in the biopharma industry.

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STAT Virtual Event | Tomorrow’s Trailblazers in Science

STAT

Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. Each year, STAT chooses a new class of Wunderkinds, showcasing stars of science and medicine who are in the midst of launching their careers. Join for a conversation with past all-star Wunderkinds to see where they are now, how their journeys have unfolded, and hear their most inspiring and innovative ideas.

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CMT Research Foundation funds study investigating treatment for CMT1X disease

Pharma Times

X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth is the second most common form of the rare peripheral neuropathy disease

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STAT+: Profiting from ‘legal’ insider trading isn’t always easy

STAT

This is the online edition of Adam’s Biotech Scorecard, a new subscriber-only newsletter. STAT+ subscribers can sign up here to get it delivered every Thursday to their inbox. Last night, we held our 2024 STATUS List dinner, honoring  50 influential people shaping the future of health, medicine and life sciences. It was an amazing evening, and a chance to eat and chat with some brilliant and engaging honorees.

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Eli Lilly Purchases Nexus Pharmaceutical Injectables Manufacturing Plant

Pharmaceutical Commerce

The deal further grows the Big Pharma company’s US production capabilities, especially when it comes to global parenteral products.

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Opinion: Shortages of generic drugs can’t be blamed solely on group purchasing organizations

STAT

The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984, which gave rise to the modern generic drug market, was one of the most significant cost-reducing policy innovations of the last 40 years. In 2021 alone, the use of generic and biosimilar drugs saved $373 billion in health expenditures. More than 90% of prescriptions filled that year were for generics or biosimilars, up from just over 18% the year that Hatch-Waxman was passed.

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Rates of Burnout Among Employees Is on the Rise. How Can Management Support?

The Script

We've all seen the rates of burnout rise over the last decade. Our team at Rx relief explains how management can support.

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Lupin Digital Health’s Lyfe Platform gets Class C Medical Device License from CDSCO

Express Pharma

Lupin Digital Health’s Lyfe platform has received approval as a Class C Medical Device from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). A press statement informed that Lyfe is now India’s first clinically proven remote cardiac rehabilitation program, designed to enhance heart health and quality of life. By providing tailored, accessible solutions in the comfort of patients’ homes, Lyfe empowers individuals to confidently manage their heart health.

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Cidara buys back rights to flu therapy from J&J for $85m

Pharmaceutical Technology

Marking another chapter in the long-running saga, J&J has deprioritised the CD388 influenza programme allowing Cidara to buy it back.

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Generics propelling pharmaceutical parenteral packaging market

European Pharmaceutical Review

Research on the global pharmaceutical parenteral packaging market by InsightAce Analytic Pvt. Ltd. has predicted that the sector will value $18.85 billion by 2031. This is aligned with a CAGR of 4.47 percent between 2024 and 2031. Main drivers for the market were reported to be rising popularity of generics together with blockbuster and other small-molecule drugs going off-patent globally.

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AskBio receives FDA Fast Track Designation for AB-1002 investigational gene therapy program in congestive heart failure

World Pharma News

Bayer AG and Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio), a gene therapy company wholly owned and independently operated as a subsidiary of Bayer AG, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation for the AB-1002 program. AB-1002 is an investigational one-time gene therapy that is administered to the heart with the intention of helping to promote the production of a constitutively active form of protein inhibitor 1 (I-1c) designed to block the action

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BigHat Biosciences partners with Janssen Biotech

Express Pharma

Strategic collaboration to leverage BigHat’s AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning) guided Milliner platform to design high-quality next-generation protein therapeutics BigHat Biosciences, a biotechnology company with an artificial intelligence/machine learning-guided antibody discovery and development platform announced a collaboration with Janssen Biotech Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company.

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Is precision psychiatry possible?

pharmaphorum

On today’s podcast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Dr Amit Etkin, founder and CEO of Alto Neuroscience, a recently IPO'd biotech that wants to bring precision medicine to psychiatry. But what do we mean when we talk about precision, especially in a discipline like mental health that has historically involved a lot of objectivity?

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Stress impact on protein particle formation for monoclonal antibody formulation

European Pharmaceutical Review

A study has determined that for biologics subject to multiple stresses during bioprocessing and manufacturing , “exposure to air-liquid interfacial dilatational stress is the predominant mechanism impacting protein particle formation, [both] at the interface and in the bulk solution” Researchers established a “unique” set-up using a peristaltic pump and a Langmuir-Pockels trough to study the impact of hydrodynamic shear stress due to pumping and interfacial dilatational stress, on the form

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Prism BioLab and Ono Pharmaceutical enter joint research and licensing agreement

Pharmafile

Prism BioLab has announced that it has entered into a target-exclusive research and licensing agreement with Ono Pharmaceutical. Under the terms of this agreement, the two companies will collaboratively develop a candidate for Ono’s oncology target using Prism’s PepMetrics technology. Once a candidate is identified, Prism is expected to license its right to Ono for […] The post Prism BioLab and Ono Pharmaceutical enter joint research and licensing agreement appeared first on Pharmafile.

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