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OCTOBER 16, 2023

But while generally safe for short-term use, long-term steroids pose significant dangers. Today, many other treatments exist, but doctors often stick with the tried-and-true steroids. There are good reasons for this: They are low-cost and readily approved by insurance companies. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Nearly 1 in 10 adolescents around the globe have used non-prescription weight loss products like these already in their lifetime, according to new research published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open. Experts say the use of such products at a young age can pose both immediate and longer-term health risks. Read the rest…

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

The post Positive safety data for long-term use of MS drug Kesimpta appeared first on. Kesimpta, a repurposed cancer drug approved in July 2020 by the FDA, was seen as strong competition for Ocrevus thanks to a comparatively lower price and an injector pen that allows for home, rather than clinic, administration.

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STAT

JANUARY 25, 2024

WASHINGTON — For an app that helps pharmacies in Africa manage their medicines, the term “pharmacy benefit manager” has become a dirty word. as the enemy, we don’t ourselves use that term,” said Maisha Meds’ founder and CEO, Jessica Vernon. By definition, it’s a PBM.

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APRIL 23, 2024

With so little known about the long-term risks of gene therapy, we contend that the safest and best value to both patients and society will emerge within a framework of early evidence-development strategies following early coverage decisions. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) Now in their early days, gene therapies represent an evidence problem.

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MARCH 14, 2024

On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized limits on a carcinogenic gas called ethylene oxide that is used to sterilize most medical devices. Ethylene oxide is the most frequently used sterilizing chemical for devices that can’t be exposed to steam. It’s used to sanitize 20 billion devices in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

At the height of the pandemic, when everything was shut down, a patient with whom I had a long-term relationship developed suicidal ideation. And he was ashamed to use his parents’ telephone because of privacy issues. The good news was that I could still have used this bricked phone to call 911 in the event of an emergency.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Richard Nisbett was used to research showing poorer mental skills among elderly adults, but his work found they were better at recognizing multiple perspectives, encouraging compromise, and acknowledging the limits of their own knowledge. Now 82 years old, Nisbett recognizes the improvement in himself.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The questionnaire also facilitates the adoption of trauma-informed care, enabling providers to sensitively address traumatic experiences, and more broadly is useful for research into the long-term effects of the ongoing gun violence epidemic.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Their products aren’t cheap, but in the long term, they pitch to health plans and employers that these digital tools will help cut health care costs by preventing serious complications like amputation and kidney failure.

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STAT

MAY 25, 2023

” The idea is that the word will help identify and intervene on harmful substance use earlier and more effectively. While it’s an admirable goal, the term fails to align with the evidence. Read the rest…

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MARCH 4, 2024

Using terms like “clearinghouse” and “electronic data interchange” are quick ways to lose an audience. The cyberattack on Change Healthcare has fractured the country’s health care payment infrastructure. But it also exposed how complicated and vital these electronic pipes are.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 5, 2023

Pharmacists can use their knowledge and professional judgment to educate patients about when it is appropriate to take these medications and when to avoid them.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The update offers new examples to illustrate the terms, metrics, and numerous red flags included in the original 2020 report, which was authored by senior biotech writer Adam Feuerstein and the late Sharon Begley, who was STAT’s senior science writer until her death in 2021. ”  Read the rest…

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The startup’s leaders and investors tell STAT they’re betting that their medical knowledge, agility, and willingness to co-develop features with customers makes it a more attractive long term option than Nuance, which Microsoft says is currently used by most U.S.

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STAT

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Who gets better medical care in the United States: “addicts,” or “people with substance use disorders”? The terms, of course, mean functionally the same thing. But in the field of addiction medicine, the question presents something of a crisis.

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Outsourcing Pharma

MARCH 22, 2021

The results of a recent Phase III study show caregivers can gauge by individual age, functional status to adapt treatment approaches to specific patients.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Federal health officials on Thursday updated their recommendations for using opioids to treat pain, removing specific dose and duration targets that pain experts said had caused unintended harm. Read the rest…

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The term “excited delirium” has been used for years by law enforcement and other first responders, including health care workers, to describe people who exhibit behavior that is considered “out of control.”

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JUNE 29, 2023

Roctavian is a one-time therapy that, in clinical trials, dramatically reduced bleeding episodes and helped patients live without the blood transfusions used to treat the disease. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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MAY 3, 2023

Researchers found that long-term beta blocker use wasn’t associated with improved cardiovascular outcomes in this group. One study , published Tuesday in Heart, looked at people who experienced a heart attack but didn’t develop heart failure or dysfunction in their heart’s pumping. Read the rest…

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MARCH 13, 2023

When NaviHealth began building a business around using algorithms to scrutinize the care of older patients a decade ago, one of the country’s largest chains of inpatient rehab and long-term care hospitals was among the first to invest. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT

APRIL 6, 2023

The wholly synthetic mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 saved nearly 20 million lives in just their first year of use, according to data published in 2022 by The Lancet. That success stands as the most prominent example of the power of synthetic biology, a field whose possibilities have excited me since I first heard the term more than 15 years ago.

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STAT

JUNE 15, 2023

It’s to be expected, says two-time Pro Bowler Julius Thomas, that “colliding into other people for a living” might result in some long-term injuries. The analysis controlled for seasons of play, field position, self-reported concussion symptoms during active play, body mass index, and current use of pain medications.

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STAT

MAY 26, 2023

Both will likely be in use this fall, in time to protect seniors going into the next RSV season. A second, made by Pfizer, is expected to follow by the end of May.

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STAT

MARCH 15, 2024

Final approval will be contingent on the results of an ongoing study designed to show the drug can improve long-term outcomes for patients. The analysts also note their view reflects the belief that generic and biosimilar competition will only moderately temper growth in the near term.

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MAY 12, 2024

Biocon Biopharma announced the signing of a semi-exclusive distribution and supply agreement with Medix, a specialty pharmaceutical company in Mexico, for the commercialisation of its vertically integrated drug product, Liraglutide (gSaxenda), used in the treatment of chronic weight management.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

And about 63% of participants who took crinecerfont were able to lower their dose of glucocorticoids to levels researchers think would be safer for prolonged use, compared to 18% of those on the placebo.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 4, 2023

Substance use disorders leave people with long-term negative mental and physical health implications and can lead to death.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

I first met Wes Ely in 2016, when I wrote about ICU delirium and Ely’s attempts, as a critical-care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to urge fellow health care workers to rethink the use of heavy sedation in ICUs. Well, a lot’s happened since 2016.

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Express Pharma

APRIL 18, 2024

Semaglutide (gOzempic), which is used to improve glycemic control in adults with type-2 diabetes Biocon announced the signing of an exclusive licensing and supply agreement with Biomm S.A., Biomm focuses on developing, manufacturing and commercialising complex biotech and biosimilar drug products at their production facility in Nova Lima.

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STAT

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Researchers also found that 30% of people taking crinecerfont lowered their dose of the current standard-of-care medications, glucocorticoids, to levels researchers say would be safer for long-term use, while none on placebo did so. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In my studies with the world’s top medical statistics experts at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, I’ve also seen how flawed many datasets are, missing critical data pieces and definitions, and yet still used by the industry to make key decisions.

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STAT

MAY 14, 2024

The drugmaker presented the new long-term data on Tuesday at the European Congress on Obesity in Venice, Italy, in a new analysis from a large study for which substantial results had been published last year. made vaccine was tested in clinical trials but never approved for use. An American woman who took part in the U.S. where the U.K-made

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STAT

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Illumina will either sell Grail to another company or list it on capital markets, consistent with an order from the European Commission, and aims to finalize the terms of the deal by the end of the second quarter of 2024. The decision opens what should be the final chapter in one of the most disastrous attempted mergers in biotech history.

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PharmaTech

MAY 12, 2024

Within a year, using a risk-based, collaborative approach, both teams were able to thoroughly characterize incoming specific raw materials and implement proactive measures for reducing the risk of impurities, ultimately providing the company with a long-term risk mitigation strategy.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In the world of patents, the right to exclude others from using or selling an invention is granted only during the patent’s validity. The post Understanding Patent Term Extensions: An Overview appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions. Once a patent expires, this exclusivity vanishes.…

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