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JUNE 12, 2024

The ongoing legal dispute involving Johnson & Johnson has again thrust the topic of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) into the spotlight. Ann Lewandowski, a J&J employee, sued the company for overpaying for its employees’ prescription drugs through its PBM, Express Scripts, claiming that these overpayments resulted in higher health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket drug costs for employees.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Small biotechs are saving time and money leveraging AI to develop new drugs, but incomplete data and disease complexity remain hurdles for the space.

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JUNE 12, 2024

For weeks now, as the H5N1 bird flu has been spreading into dairy cattle herds in more and more places, one state continues to lead the pack. With reports of infections in 25 herds, Michigan currently accounts for about one-third of the country’s confirmed cases in livestock. And of the three people known to have contracted the H5N1 virus from sick cows since the outbreak began, two of them are farmworkers in Michigan, including one who experienced respiratory symptoms.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Two support cells, microglia and astrocytes, were found to communicate with each other

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Although a third U.S. dairy worker has been confirmed to be infected with the H5N1 bird flu, many dairy farms are still unwilling to use even freely offered personal protective equipment (PPE). This is cause for alarm. Working with a pathogen assigned a biosafety level of 3 — meaning it “can cause serious or potentially lethal disease through respiratory transmission” — with at best BSL 2 level protections is playing with fire.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Nearly a quarter of a century after the 9/11 attacks in New York City, first responders continue to face steep health consequences for their exposure to particulate matter in the aftermath of the World Trade Center’s collapse. More than 10,000 people who were in the area have been diagnosed with cancer , with an incidence 30% higher than in the general population, and more first responders have died from long-term health issues associated with the collapse than during the attack.

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JUNE 12, 2024

EXCLUSIVE The most deprived areas in England have lost nearly five times as many community pharmacy premises as the least deprived areas in the last five years, new analysis from The Pharmacist has found. The 10% most deprived areas saw a net loss of around 250 local pharmacies between March 2019 and April 2024, while […] The post Pharmacy closures nearly five times higher in more deprived areas appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Pfizer said Wednesday afternoon that a closely watched gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy failed to slow the disease’s progression in a phase 3 trial. This is now the second large, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of a Duchenne gene therapy to fail to reach its primary endpoint, a composite scale of muscle function designed specifically for the rare disease.

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PharmaVoice

JUNE 12, 2024

Although the rebuff makes approval “a bit more challenging,” Lykos is moving forward with the psychedelic-based treatment for PTSD.

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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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JUNE 12, 2024

Government researchers hoped to attract a more diverse group of patients for clinical research by paying for the travel expenses of cancer patients seeking to volunteer for trials. It didn’t work. Patients don’t pay for the care they receive as part of clinical trials run by the National Institutes of Health. But patients, and often their caregivers, incur other costs such as travel, food and lodging, child care, and absences from work.

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JUNE 12, 2024

The negative results from the Phase 3 study, called Ciffreo, come a little more than a month after Pfizer said a patient died in another trial of the gene therapy.

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JUNE 12, 2024

This is Part 2 of “Behind the Counter,” an in-depth video series demystifying the complex world of patents and drug pricing. The point of prescription drugs is to help people improve their quality of life. When a doctor writes a prescription and sends it along to the pharmacy, oftentimes they’re more focused on the drug’s effectiveness than its cost.

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BioPharma Dive

JUNE 12, 2024

Study results indicated Avidity’s medicine muted target genes. Elsewhere, Syntis revealed obesity drug plans and Nodthera chalked up more positive data for its NLRP3 inhibitor.

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JUNE 12, 2024

This is Part 1 of “Behind the Counter,” an in-depth video series demystifying the complex world of patents and drug pricing. Prescription drug costs are remarkably higher in the United States than in other countries, so it’s no surprise that more than half of U.S. adults say they are worried about being able to afford their medications.

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The Pharmacist

JUNE 12, 2024

Primary care is the ‘bedrock of the NHS’, but a ‘modern vision’ is needed to meet new demands, delegates at the NHS Confederation Expo heard this week. The 2022 Fuller stocktake report, which gives a central role to community pharmacy, is one such vision that 'we can all get behind', NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard […] The post NHSE chief: GP workforce can't be only solution for primary care appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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JUNE 12, 2024

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice claim they’re getting serious about clearing store shelves of illegal vapes. Lawmakers made clear Wednesday they aren’t buying it.

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JUNE 12, 2024

By Sara W. Koblitz & Jeffrey N. Gibbs — It’s been over a year and a half since Over-the-Counter (“OTC”) hearing aids became legal, and it’s not clear that they’ve made the difference in hearing loss treatment that Congress anticipated. (FDA once estimated that OTC hearing aids would save patients over $3000.) A recent GAO Report hasn’t found that OTC hearing aids have had much impact.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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JUNE 12, 2024

To non-pathologists, the histology slide looked, as all histology slides do, like a sea of mottled lilac and burgundy. Oblong pink spots, like sprinkles on a cookie at a Barbie-themed birthday party, spotted the left side of the image. To LLaVA 1.5, an open-source artificial intelligence mode, the cells looked like they were from the cheek. LLaVA-Med, a version of LLaVA trained on medical information, told researchers the cells were from breast tissue.

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JUNE 12, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: The Pharmacist mapped community pharmacy closures across England over the last five years, and uncovered a net loss of more than 1,000 bricks and mortar pharmacies since 2019. Read the first article in our series on how pharmaceutical services are changing in England: Of the 11,893 community pharmacies registered with the General Pharmaceutical […] The post Revealed: Map of community pharmacy closures over last five years appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Avidity Biosciences said Wednesday morning that an experimental medicine successfully knocked down the gene behind a form of muscular dystrophy being pursued by a fleet of drug companies. The early-stage study examined patients with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, or FSHD, who generally experience slowly progressive muscle loss in the face, shoulder blades, arms, or lower legs.

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JUNE 12, 2024

This partnership will focus on developing a translational medicine ecosystem and launching innovative research initiatives in Abu Dhabi. The second MoU outlines plans to design and develop a translational medicine ecosystem inspired by Penn’s Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT). The aim is to utilise Abu Dhabi’s advanced infrastructure alongside Penn Medicine’s expertise to foster new treatments and discoveries within the region.

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JUNE 12, 2024

If it were common knowledge that a company was targeting kids to consume highly addictive and dangerous products, you’d expect the government to do something about it. Yet millions of illegal vapes are being smuggled into the U.S. and sold widely — mainly to kids — and the Food and Drug Administration is doing little about it. The FDA needs to step up and end this scourge before the country finds itself in another vaping epidemic , this one caused by government inaction.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Sure, here’s a more detailed explanation with examples: Drug Patent Duration Drug patents are granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a period of 20 years… Source

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JUNE 12, 2024

Johnson & Johnson has slammed a decision by NICE not to carry out a new appraisal of its antidepressant Spravato, claiming it has “grave concern” about access to new mental health treatments through NHS England.

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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.