STAT

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A Texas woman’s unsuccessful legal fight for an abortion on medical emergency grounds drew nationwide headlines in recent days, but her plight is hardly a rare occurrence amid vague and highly restrictive state laws in the post-Roe era. Kate Cox is likely one of hundreds, if not thousands, of Texans who’ve faced a similar struggle this year to get an abortion for medical reasons, according to a STAT review of studies and abortion data from other states.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Dr. Julie Gerberding, now president and CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, shares lessons learned from a long career in academic, public health and industry.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

A new sickle cell disease therapy developed by CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals is now approved in the U.S. and U.K. This is the story of how it came to be.

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A new national vaccine strategy for England promises to ‘take vaccines into the heart of communities’ and overcome vaccine hesitancy. The plan, published today by NHS England (NHSE), designates community pharmacy as a ‘core’ setting for adult seasonal vaccinations, with local systems expected to ‘enable community pharmacy to play a greater role in seasonal vaccination […] The post NHSE plans ‘greater role’ for pharmacies in delivering seasonal jabs appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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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.

STAT

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the health insurance giant Humana illegally used an algorithm to prematurely cut off payment for rehabilitation care after patients suffered serious illnesses and injuries. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Western Kentucky, argues Humana’s reliance on the algorithm, known as nH Predict, was part of a fraudulent scheme to reap a windfall by systematically denying claims to desperately ill people

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Genentech’s chief diversity officer Quita Highsmith is on a crusade to prove that much of what the industry believes about clinical trial diversity is wrong.

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A report by UK public health officials has highlighted stark inequalities in the complications of flu and Covid infection related to deprivation and ethnicity. Hospital admission rates for flu and Covid are more than two times higher for people living in more deprived areas, the analysis by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has concluded. […] The post Covid and flu hospital admissions twice as high in deprived areas, UKHSA warns appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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STAT

DECEMBER 13, 2023

PHILADELPHIA — The meds Shelby Campbell needed for her rare blood disorder stopped working just after her sixth birthday. She lost her appetite and was often doubled over in pain. She continued getting blood transfusions but her doctors struggled to manage side effects that threatened her organs. By the time she turned 7, the doctors told her parents they had to do something — soon.

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PharmaVoice

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Markups for generics can be as high as 7,000%, the researchers said.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

Within the past year, two major societies have released guidelines on ARDS: the ATS (American Thoracic Society) and the ESICM (European Society of Intensive Care Medicine). Don’t be fooled by their names – both of these organizations are fundamentally international in scope. Some authors on the ATS document were from Europe, and similarly some authors […] EMCrit Project by Josh Farkas.

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A scam alert has been issued over fraudsters phoning patients and pretending to be from a pharmacy. The scammers claim to be ringing to arrange delivery of medication, and ask patients to confirm their full name, date of birth, address and some banking details. According to Audit Yorkshire, which runs a counter fraud service for […] The post Warning issued over fake pharmacy scam callers appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

BOSTON — Chongcan Zhu, an 83-year-old longtime resident of Boston, lives alone — but she doesn’t feel a sense of isolation when it comes to receiving health care. That’s thanks to the van that comes straight to the senior residential community where she lives, providing services to people dealing with conditions like high blood pressure and cholesterol, diabetes, and substance use disorders.

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BioPharma Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2023

According to Apellis executives, reviewers in Europe are skeptical of the benefits of its geographic atrophy medicine, Syfovre, and appear poised to recommend against approval at a meeting next month.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Lisa Conte, founder, president, and CEO of Jaguar Health, discusses how a climb up Mount Kilimanjaro would vault her to her true career calling—and spark a decades-long quest to accelerate breakthroughs in plant-based pharmaceuticals and supportive care.

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 13, 2023

An innovative scheme at a south coast general practice aims to improve antimicrobial stewardship and speed up time between symptoms and treatment of winter infections. Every patient under the age of 12 at the Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre GP practice has received a ‘winter pack’, containing information about common winter conditions and what a […] The post Pharmacist in practice: tackling winter infections and improving AMS appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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STAT

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Oliver McGowan was 18 years old when he was hospitalized in England with recurrent seizures and pneumonia. He was autistic, and he and his parents had one specific request for the medical team: no antipsychotic medications. When he had taken them in the past, they made his seizures worse and had devastating effects on his mood. Despite the family’s vehement protests, doctors gave him an antipsychotic.

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BioPharma Dive

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Study results disclosed at the American Society of Hematology meeting Saturday suggested potential for cell therapy in lupus and pointed out drug trial limitations.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Results from MaaT Pharma’s Early Access Program (EAP) for its microbiome-based therapy MaaT013, have demonstrated positive overall response and overall survival rates in European patients with graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). The findings were presented at the 2023 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting. MaaT013 is an off-the-shelf, pooled-donor, enema Microbiome Ecosystem Therapy TM.

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 13, 2023

‘Skewed’ funding arrangements mean that insufficient pharmacists are being employed by primary care networks (PCNs) in the most deprived areas of England, according to new research from the Health Foundation. The report Doing More For Less said that areas with high deprivation were missing out because the greater health needs of their populations were not adequately taken […] The post Not enough pharmacists in England’s most deprived PCNs appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Lawmakers on Tuesday will debate an addiction medicine proposal that would have been considered unthinkable just years ago: giving a select group of doctors the power to prescribe methadone directly to patients. With no end in sight to the deadly U.S. drug overdose crisis, which claims nearly 110,000 lives a year, many advocates have zeroed in on methadone as a potential game changer.

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BioPharma Dive

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Just before clearing Pfizer’s buyout of Seagen, the regulator threatened to block Sanofi’s licensing deal with Maze Therapeutics, a challenge the biotech called ‘‘unprecedented.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

The collaboration aims to develop biomarker-based diagnostics for the condition - News - PharmaTimes

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A London pharmacist has encouraged members of the profession to help the homeless this Christmas by volunteering for the charity Crisis. The charity will be providing accommodation to more than 590 people who would otherwise be sleeping rough in London this Christmas, as well as opening three-day centres for hundreds of people stuck in insecure […] The post Volunteer to help homeless this Christmas, pharmacists urged appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

On June 24, 2022, Aaron Campbell turned away patients at his abortion clinic for the first time. Earlier that day, the 32-year-old doctor had received word that the Supreme Court had just handed down a consequential decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, upending the constitutional right to an abortion in the U.S. The lawyers at Campbell’s clinic, the Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health in Knoxville, Tennessee, urged him to stop performing all abortions immediately.

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BioPharma Dive

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AbbVie’s blockbuster medicine topped a list of treatments that, combined, elevated U.S. healthcare spending by $1.3 billion in 2022, according to the price watchdog’s latest yearly report.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of regulatory decisions, the quest for safeguarding public health remains paramount. Decisions to remove medicines from market are not taken lightly and are often based upon all evidence available to inform a benefit/risk balance. This evidence can come from a range of sources, such as randomised controlled trials (RCTs), observational studies, and spontaneous reporting.

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has predicted that proposed legislative changes to supervision could free up time for between 29% and 40% of pharmacists. And it could save the community pharmacy sector anywhere between £15m and £150m, documents released last week suggested. In an impact assessment, the DHSC said that cost and […] The post Supervision proposals could benefit less than half of pharmacists appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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STAT

DECEMBER 11, 2023

WASHINGTON — The House passed a relatively major health care package late Monday, an end-of-year victory after the same policies had to be yanked from consideration in September because they lacked bipartisan support. Though the package is unlikely to pass the Senate and become law as-is, its advancing through the House does make each included policy more attractive for a potential government funding deal, as lawmakers draw closer to the Jan. 19 deadline to fund the government and extend

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Pharma Times

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In England, ruptured brain aneurysms occur in around one in 15,000 people every year - News - PharmaTimes

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Drug Patent Watch

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors, accurate valuation of post-revenue drug assets stands as the linchpin for informed and strategic decision-making. The significance of this valuation… The post Decoding Pfizer’s Portfolio: A New Model for Precision in Pharma Investments appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Heat-related deaths are estimated to increase by one and a half times in the 2030s, while mosquito-borne diseases are also likely to come to the UK in the ‘near future’. These are stark warnings featured in today’s UKHSA report on the effects of climate change – the first of its kind since 2012. Threats from […] The post Climate change likely to bring mosquito-borne diseases to UK, UKHSA warns appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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STAT

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A National Institutes of Health working group on Friday recommended a sizable increase in salaries of postdoctoral researchers and a cap on the length of the position in an effort to secure the future of academia’s research workforce amid an unprecedented exodus of young life scientists to industry. The group called for raising minimum postdoc salaries to $70,000 beginning next year — an increase of more than 20% — and adjusting wages for annual inflation, as well as limitin

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

New data highlights the inequalities in emergency hospital rates and vaccinations - News - PharmaTimes

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ID Stewardship

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this article a clinical pharmacist discusses ways that preceptors may integrate generative artificial intelligence programs into pharmacy education for student and resident learning experiences. Authored By: Timothy P. Gauthier, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCIDP Generative artificial intelligence was NOT used to create this text. Although, maybe it would be better if I had used it!

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 14, 2023

NHS England (NHSE) and the government will undertake a ‘cost-benefit analysis’ examining the case for central procurement of adult flu vaccines, a new vaccine strategy published this week has revealed. NHSE also said that it would pursue legislative change ‘that could enable the safe movement of vaccines across providers where appropriate and thereby support collaboration […] The post Central procurement of adult flu vaccines in England to be explored appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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