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Opinion: How physician wellness programs keep doctors captive

STAT

The American College of Surgeons recently announced its new well-being initiative for surgeons. This wellness program has lofty goals: [The ACS] recognizes the need to foster well-being, resilience, and work-life integration for all surgeons, regardless of their career stage. Fostering the growth of both the surgical expertise and the person as a whole is paramount.

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11 Tips to Improve Epistaxis Management in the Emergency Department

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

Managing epistaxis is often challenging, time-consuming, and takes practice. Even under the best circumstances, epistaxis often results in return visits for rebleeding and poor outcomes. Rarely should you do “nothing” for adults who present to the ED with or following epistaxis. If it produced enough blood to seek care (even without hemodynamic compromise), epistaxis frequently recurs even if currently resolved.

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As clinical trials face a hiring crunch, here’s how research organizations can pivot

PharmaVoice

Staffing shortages are causing inefficiencies in clinical trials, but one leading CRO is finding ways to adapt.

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Positive CHMP opinion for Janssen’s AKEEGA

Pharma Times

If approved company’s prostate cancer therapy will be the first dual-action tablet available in EU

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

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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Report: Obesity could cost the world over $4 trillion a year by 2035

STAT

The costs of obesity are projected to soar globally, in step with rising prevalence, according to a new report from the World Obesity Federation, the only group focused solely on tracking global obesity trends and a partner of the World Health Organization. Over half the world’s population will be either overweight or have obesity by 2035, the report projected, while the economic impact of a high BMI could reach $4.32 trillion annually, if current trends continue and policy inertia around

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Why Congress should prioritize fixing the 340B program

PhRMA

Nearly all Americans nationwide agree: Lowering out-of-pocket costs for health care should be a top priority for policymakers. Luckily, there are commonsense policies Congress could implement to meaningfully address the cost burdens Americans face. These include things like making sure patients aren’t paying more for their medicines than their health insurance company or requiring first-dollar coverage, so insurance companies cover the cost of certain lifesaving medicines from day one of the pla

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Amniotics’ PulmoStem receives positive safety data

Pharma Times

Treatment is a lung-specific stem cell therapy designed for hospitalised patients with respiratory infections

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STAT Madness 2023

STAT

Welcome to STAT Madness, a bracket-style contest to find the best innovation in science and medicine. Click on each matchup for a short summary of each school’s pioneering research. Then pick your favorites. Help us crown a champ!

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ALiEM AIR Series | Orthopedics Lower Extremity Module

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

Welcome to the AIR Orthopedics Lower Extremity Module! After carefully reviewing all relevant posts in the past 12 months from the top 50 sites of the Social Media Index, the ALiEM AIR Team is proud to present the highest quality online content related to related to neurologic emergencies in the Emergency Department. 4 blog posts met our standard of online excellence and were approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board.

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Multimillion-dollar therapies are changing how payers foot the bill

PharmaVoice

With more gene therapies headed to market, novel payment methods are emerging from regulators and academia.

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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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CN Bio launches single-organ higher throughput system PhysioMimix

Pharma Times

Tech was created to overcome adoption obstacles currently reducing the use of predictive human liver models

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Advocates, lawmakers warn that Biden telehealth rule will worsen opioid crisis

STAT

Doctors, public health experts, and even Democratic members of Congress are sounding the alarm on a new Biden administration proposal to restrict access to a key addiction-treatment medication. The proposal would curtail access via telehealth to buprenorphine, a common and highly effective drug used to treat opioid use disorder. While doctors can currently give out both new buprenorphine prescriptions and refills after telemedicine visits, the new rule would require an in-person examination for

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Insurer and PBM tactics are shifting higher costs to patients with chronic and complex conditions

PhRMA

Health plans are increasingly using deductibles and coinsurance to shift more of the cost of care to chronically ill patients taking brand medicines. As data from IQVIA show, this alarming trend is especially burdensome for patients with cancer, who pay nearly 10X more on average per year for their medicines when they face deductibles and coinsurance versus patients with only fixed copays.

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Who is Vivek Ramaswamy — the biotech entrepreneur turned presidential candidate?

PharmaVoice

The former CEO of Roivant, who became the face of the “anti-woke” business movement, is now running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Here’s what he stands for.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Industry research boost from University of Aberdeen

Pharma Times

The programme will support new European and national strategies to reduce exposure to hazardous chemicals

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The FDA has cleared the first home flu and Covid test — but its maker just declared bankruptcy

STAT

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the first at-home test that can detect flu and Covid-19 — but for the test’s maker, Lucira, the long-anticipated authorization may have taken too long. The company filed for bankruptcy on Feb. 22, directly blaming the “protracted” FDA authorization process for the over-the-counter combination test for its financial troubles.

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Celebrating 40 years of the Orphan Drug Act on Rare Disease Day

PhRMA

For over a decade, Rare Disease Day has been celebrated on February 28 to raise awareness and generate change for the more than 30 million patients in the U.S. living with a rare disease. This year’s Rare Disease Day is particularly special because this year also marks the 40 th anniversary of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), allowing us to celebrate all the progress that’s come to patients because of it.

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Launched with a ‘pioneer’ in RNA, aTyr Pharma is charting a new course in immunology

PharmaVoice

With a focus on rare and hard-to-treat diseases, aTyr is banking on its head start in tRNA and vast IP portfolio to build a billion-dollar company.

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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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OKYO Pharma reveals update on dry eye disease candidate

Pharma Times

Phase 2 study of OK-101 will commence soon as company hopes drug will provide unmet need

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Same patient, same drug, same insurer — coverage denied

STAT

Janice Morales-Ferrer is a planner. It’s helped her get ahead in her career and in raising three young kids. But it’s hard to plan when you’ve got a rare disease, especially one with no standard treatment regimen or predictable outcome. “I’m a data-driven person,” said the 46-year-old Boston area resident. “It’s frustrating for me to not be able to plan how long I can live for my kids.

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Is the microbiome therapy hype up for a reckoning?

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the last decade, the idea of tapping into the gut has attracted much interest from investors and the public, but recent years have showed that a lot more work needs to be done before such treatments enter the mainstream. This is largely due to the FDA’s rigorous approach to the safety of microbiome therapeutics, which has manifested in clinical holds, resulting in delays that have dimmed the enthusiasm in the space in recent times.

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PharmaVoice 100 honorees: Where are they now?

PharmaVoice

How some of our past PharmaVoice 100 honorees are transforming the life sciences industry in new roles.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

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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Hope for Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia patients

Pharma Times

Research into modified RNA messages could help treat diseases and develop new therapies

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What the dogs of Chernobyl can teach us about life at the edge

STAT

You’d think an irradiated wasteland would be a poor place to make a home, but some animals beg to differ. Since the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown 37 years ago, both wild animals and free-roaming domesticated dogs have, to the surprise and delight of environmentalists, flocked to and flourished in the evacuated,1,000 square mile zone surrounding the plant.

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Overcoming barriers to capturing data in a laboratory

European Pharmaceutical Review

What are the key data integration challenges faced in labs? At the risk of citing a circular issue, I would say two key challenges are both lack of data standards and a saturation of data standards. Other challenges include proprietary data formats, lack of up-to‑date equipment and inconsistent datasets. An important aspect of data integration is having different datasets in the same format (or at least a format that can be converted to match the other).

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The ‘recovering academic’ leading Allogene to the next stage of cell therapy

PharmaVoice

Zachary Roberts joined Allogene at the beginning of this year to lead the company's R&D and bring allogeneic cell therapy to the forefront.

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.

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New ABPI proposals provide NHS and industry impetus

Pharma Times

Pharma’s offer includes a yearly £1bn boost to the NHS and a new investment facility

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STAT+: As a U.S. agency denies permits to import monkeys for research, industry starts pushing back

STAT

In a little-noticed move, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently began denying company requests to import certain monkeys from Cambodia for use in early-stage drug research. Now, the pharmaceutical industry is trying to push back by lobbying Congress. The National Association for Biomedical Research argues the situation is a “crisis,” with 60% of the supply of non-human primates “critical” to early-stage research now out of reach.

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PhRMA's Change Agents bring awareness and value of HBCUs and their impact to STEM

PhRMA

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (“HBCUs”), federally designated as any college or university established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans, play a pivotal role in the education of people of color and in our society. In 1837, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania made history by becoming the first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the United States.

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Do R&D costs justify the price of drugs? Nope, new study says

PharmaVoice

A BMJ study found that spending on drug sales vastly outstripped spending on drug development.

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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.