Opinion: Private equity: health care’s vampire
STAT
AUGUST 19, 2024
Private equity firms are sucking the resources out of America’s hospitals and nursing homes, and feeding on doctors to generate profits. Read the rest…
STAT+: Cancer vaccine startup launches with $54 million, Spark veteran as CEO
STAT
APRIL 18, 2024
The biotech is also being led by Spark Therapeutics co-founder Steven Altschuler, who joined Ziff Capital in 2018 as its managing director of health care ventures. Ziff, who is one of the heirs to the Ziff Davis publishing fortune, was sitting on CHOP’s board of trustees.
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STAT+: Civica Rx considers moving into chemo drugs as shortages worsen
STAT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
WASHINGTON — A nonprofit formed by hospitals to deal with drug shortages is considering a move into chemotherapies. Frustrated by drug shortages and the price spikes that typically ensue, executives from large hospital systems launched the nonprofit Civica Rx to deal with the problem in September 2018.
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STAT+: FDA is still struggling to inspect clinical research sites, watchdog finds
STAT
MARCH 26, 2024
Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of clinical research in hospitals and clinics has fallen considerably in recent years, due to disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic and challenges finding and keeping investigators, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black midwives?
STAT
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The number of credentialed midwives — including both certified nurse-midwives, who can attend births in hospital settings, and a minority of certified midwives, who don’t hold a nursing degree — in the U.S. more than doubled from 1991 and 2012 and has continued to grow steadily in the years since. Read the rest…
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What will it take to end health care worker burnout?
STAT
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Researchers compared survey data from 2018 and 2022, finding that health workers experienced poorer mental health outcomes post-pandemic. Of those surveyed, 46% of health workers reported feeling burnout often or very often in 2022, compared to 32% in 2018. Read the rest…
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STAT+: First recipient of kidney transplant from genetically engineered pig has died, family says
STAT
MAY 12, 2024
Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig , has died, according to a statement from his family and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he underwent the historic operation in March. The hospital did not say how or when Slayman died. “Mr.
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STAT+: Medicare would have saved $3.7 billion on Part B drugs if inflationary rebates were around in a recent three-year period
STAT
JANUARY 3, 2023
More specifically, 70 of the 93 top-selling drugs covered by the Medicare Part B program – which are typically pricier medicines that are administered by physicians or in hospitals – between 2018 and 2020 would have been subject to inflationary rebates each year, according to the analysis published in JAMA.
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DREAM-HF trial results highlight Mesoblast’s potential to differentiate in HF space: GlobalData
Express Pharma
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Kajal Jaddoo, Senior Pharma Analyst at GlobalData, comments, Currently, the majority of marketed and pipeline drugs simply slow the progression of the disease, reduce mortality, and reduce HF hospitalizations. The treatment also demonstrated a reduction in the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and recurrent hospitalizations.
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Reducing Readmission Rates for Hospitals: 5 Essential Strategies
cureatr
JUNE 20, 2023
In 2018 (the most recent year for data), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reported a total of 3.8 million adult hospital readmissions within 30 days, with an average readmission rate of 14% and an average readmission cost to hospitals of $15,200.
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An Interview with Jamila Jorden, Pharmacy Advisor
Pharmacy Is Right For Me
MAY 22, 2023
After graduation, Jamila completed a PGY1 residency program at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital and went into hospital pharmacy in Philadelphia. From government, education, industry, hospital, and retail, to even digital healthcare. One of the key takeaways from Jamila’s experience is the varied responsibilities of pharmacists.
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SurgAR and Medexprim start surgical AR partnership with French hospital
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
France’s SurgAR has joined with imaging data firm Medexprim to form a three-year partnership with a major hospital in France, to develop augmented reality (AR) software dedicated to laporoscopic surgery. The University Hospital Centre of Clermont-Ferrand has been ranked in the top 20 French hospitals for nine years and has 7,000 staff.
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Episode 1007: What the New SCCM Sedation Guidelines Say About Melatonin
Pharmacy Joe
MARCH 9, 2025
Episode 1007: What the New SCCM Sedation Guidelines Say About Melatonin Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher The 2018 SCCM guidelines on pain, agitation, delirium, immobility, and sleep have received a focused update which has been published in the journal Critical Care Medicine.
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Hospital Pharmacy FAQ
RX Note
AUGUST 4, 2023
What can I expect once I entered hospital provisional registered pharmacist training? In most hospitals, you first introduction to your workplace is through an induction period during which you are shown many different areas and meet many new people.
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Hospitals: Do You Know Where Your Controlled Substances Are?
FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars
MAY 16, 2024
Houck — Employee diversion of controlled substances from hospitals has been an issue since at least 1986 when I became a diversion investigator with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”). UMHS agreed to resolve the allegations in August 2018 for $4,300,000 and compliance with a three-year Memorandum of Agreement (“MOA”).
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Penile Lesion with a Poor Prognosis
ALiEM - Pharm Pearls
DECEMBER 4, 2023
A 49-year-old male presented to the emergency department of an academic hospital with the chief concern of penile pain. The patient was recently admitted to the hospital eight days prior to presentation for purulent urethral discharge where he received a course of topical antibiotics and was discharged. 2018 May 9;13:158-163.
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Boost for Amazon’s telehealth business, as Hilton signs up
pharmaphorum
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Amazon can also offer prescription medicine delivery services within a few hours through its recently-launched Amazon Pharmacy service, kicked off with its acquisition of PillPack in 2018. It is also entering the health wearables market with its own Halo device, and bolstering the health-related capabilities of its Alexa virtual assistant.
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SAEM Clinical Images Series: Incidental Finding on Bedside Echo
ALiEM - Pharm Pearls
MARCH 6, 2023
Author information Kelly Dougherty, MD Resident Physician Department of Emergency Medicine Temple University Hospital | The post SAEM Clinical Images Series: Incidental Finding on Bedside Echo appeared first on ALiEM. References Bernatchez, J., Gaudreault, V., Vincent, G., & Rheaume, P. Annals of vascular surgery, 53, 266-e13.
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ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: The Heart Won’t Go On and On
ALiEM - Pharm Pearls
JUNE 15, 2023
2018 Oct;32(8):e22583. PMID 12801736 Author information Sheila Goertemoeller, PharmD, DABAT, ICPS Clinical Toxicologist and Educator Drug and Poison Information Center Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | The post ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: The Heart Won’t Go On and On appeared first on ALiEM. Dasgupta A, Bourgeois L.
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Novartis hails digital strategy as profits hold up during pandemic
pharmaphorum
JANUARY 26, 2021
Novartis has said that its investment in digital technology has helped it to ride out the worst of the pandemic, although sales of some of its newly-launched products have been affected by a fall in prescriptions and hospital visits. billion and profits growing 2% to just over $3 billion.
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Phenobarbital as First-Line Medication for Alcohol Withdrawal: Have You Switched From Benzodiazepines Yet?
ALiEM - Pharm Pearls
JUNE 1, 2023
More rigorous studies are needed determine dose thresholds that warrant hospital admission. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antiepileptic Drugs in Epilepsy: A 2018 Update. Patients in the ED often can be safely phenobarbital-loaded and discharged, assuming hemodynamic stability, normal alertness, and resolution of withdrawal symptoms.
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Why cell therapy manufacture is a team sport
pharmaphorum
JANUARY 6, 2021
In 2018, we were preparing to build a European facility to produce individualised cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. But backtrack to August 2018 and the very first European patients were also receiving treatment, part of an expertly crafted operation that ran in parallel to the build. Individualising the approach.
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SAEM Clinical Images Series: An Unusual Foreign Body
ALiEM - Pharm Pearls
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Author information Benjamin Deschner, MD Resident Physician Emergency Medicine HCA Kendall Florida Hospital | The post SAEM Clinical Images Series: An Unusual Foreign Body appeared first on ALiEM. Imaging should be obtained to confirm diagnosis, and broad-spectrum antibiotics with CNS coverage should be started early.
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Shingles vaccine reduces risk of stroke and heart attack from virus: Study
Express Pharma
JULY 26, 2023
Results are based on analysis of data from 278,375 adults in New Zealand who got the vaccine between April 2018 and July 2021. Results are based on analysis of data from 278,375 adults in New Zealand who got the vaccine between April 2018 and July 2021. Shingles is caused by the same virus, varicella zoster, that causes chicken pox.
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ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearls: On the Mark
ALiEM - Pharm Pearls
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Give 600 mg IM every 5 min prehospital or 1-2 g loading dose IV in hospital with optional repeat bolus after 1 hour or continuous infusion. 2018 Jan 5;359(6371):23. Pralidoxime must be given minutes to hours after nerve agent exposure because the AChE-nerve agent complex “ages”. The time to aging is unique for each nerve agent.
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MindMaze raises $105m to seek out new neurological DTx
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Last year, the Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital (RBH) in Aylesbury became the first UK hospital trust to deploy a MindPod platform, which has been shown in clinical trials to double the effectiveness of conventional rehabilitation therapy for the upper limbs during the sub-acute phase after a stroke.
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Episode 1016: Melatonin for Sleep Disruption in the ICU But You Pick the Dose
Pharmacy Joe
APRIL 9, 2025
Episode 1016: Melatonin for Sleep Disruption in the ICU But You Pick the Dose Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher The Society of Critical Care Medicine has published a focused update to its 2018 Pain, Agitation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep guidelines. Melatonin reduced the prevalence of delirium with a relative risk ratio of 0.7.
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NICE says yes to Novartis’ multiple sclerosis therapy Kesimpta
pharmaphorum
APRIL 20, 2021
According to Novartis, Kesimpta is the first targeted B cell therapy for RMS that can be self-administered at home once a month using an autoinjector, avoiding the need for patients to travel to hospital during the pandemic, and easing the pressure on clinicians. It was backed by NICE for NHS use in July 2018. billion in sales in 2028.
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From Healing to Harm: The Unintended Consequences of Polypharmacy in Seniors
PharmD Live
MAY 30, 2024
Every day, 750 seniors (age 65 and older) in the United States are hospitalized due to serious side effects from one or more medications.(Shehab People over 65 make up only 14% of the population but account for 56% of hospitalizations for adverse drug events (ADEs) (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ, 2021). Shehab et al.
Antimicrobial Stewardship in Turkey – A Clinical Pharmacist’s Perspective
ID Stewardship
AUGUST 1, 2023
That is the driving force behind this series of articles which has been ongoing since 2018, bringing insights from Nigeria , India , Bangladesh , Uganda , Thailand , Japan , Costa Rica , Australia , New Zealand , Canada , Spain , and the United Kingdom. I graduated from Pharmacy in June 2014.
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New report sets out clear steps pharma cos to curb AMR risk in antibiotic production
Express Pharma
AUGUST 22, 2023
Notably, three companies in scope of the report – Fresenius Kabi, Sandoz and Viatris – were awarded with tenders as part of the Norwegian Hospital Procurement Agency’s 2019 sustainable pilot procurement programme. Despite progress, significant gaps remain.
Labelling of Dispensed Medicine
RX Note
DECEMBER 25, 2024
Labelling Requirements A ll dispensed medicine should be labelled according to the requirement stated by the law. Complete the course" for antibiotics, "May cause drowsiness" for sedating drugs, etc.)
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Developing the EU’s first intestinal microbiota-based biologic
European Pharmaceutical Review
JUNE 12, 2024
Since 2018, biotech company Mikrobiomik has been researching, development and producing innovative biological medicines based on the human microbiome. Clin Infect Dis 2018; 66: 987–94. 2018; 66(5): 645–50. She worked at Cruces University Hospital focusing on pediatric brain tumours. 2019; 13(1):16-24. Clin Infect Dis.
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Parenteral Nutrition
RX Note
NOVEMBER 19, 2023
Introduction Parenteral nutrition rotation is one of the elective modules that you may opt for during provisional registered pharmacist year in hospital setting. This handbook complements the limited info available in Paediatric Protocols for Malaysian Hospitals.
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Ipsen’s UK MD on adapting business to COVID-19
pharmaphorum
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Prior to the pandemic, 95% of all the company’s UK customer facing teams’ interactions took place in person at NHS hospitals. Asad Mohsin Ali joined Ipsen in September 2018 as managing director, UK & Ireland, bringing more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. About the interviewee.
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Pharma á la carte 04/21/23
The Honest Apothecary
APRIL 20, 2023
More hospitals looking at pharmacy staff burnout “The online survey, which polled nearly 1,500 hospital pharmacy leaders, found 34 percent of hospitals and health systems are measuring burnout syndrome levels, an 11 percentage point jump from 2018” READ MORE. Disruptor or Distraction?
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NICE recommends first CAR-T cell therapy on NHS in England
pharmaphorum
JANUARY 26, 2023
In 2018, England was the first country in Europe to provide access to a CAR-T cell therapy to treat these blood cancers, enabled via the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). While long-term data was collected, Yescarta has previously been available to some through the NHS via the Cancer Drugs Fund.
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FDA issues CRL to PharmaTher’s ketamine ANDA
Pharmaceutical Business Review
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Ketamine, an essential medicine for anaesthesia and analgesia, is listed on the WHO Essential Medicines List and approved by Health Canada for use as a sedative and painkiller in hospitals. Beyond these approved indications, ketamine is also administered to treat various neurological, mental health and pain disorders in hospitals and clinics.
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AbbVie announces its new CEO
European Pharmaceutical Review
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Robert’s other roles at AbbVie include: President and Chief Operating Officer in 2023 Vice Chairman and President in 2022 Vice Chairman of finance and commercial operations in 2021 Chief Financial Officer in 2018. Richard Gonzalez Richard Gonzalez is the company’s chairman of the board and CEO.
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Merck gets a leg-up for Keytruda in first-line kidney cancer
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
At the moment, Opdivo/Yervoy is generally used only for patients with intermediate or poor risk RCC, while the PD-1/TKI pairings are for all patients including those with favourable risk profiles, according to an editorial accompanying the NEJM paper by Alain Ravaud of the University Hospital Centre Bordeaux in France.
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Education and empowerment would provide more equal access to care
pharmaphorum
JANUARY 20, 2021
Growing up, I had a lot of health issues and I would be in the hospital quite a bit, getting treatment for the symptoms of CF which are, primarily, lung infections. I would spend two or three weeks at a time in hospital on antibiotics.”. As Ella got older, her fear of doctors subsided, but her infections only became more severe. “The
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The rise of prescription drug abuse and drug diversion
pharmaphorum
JANUARY 12, 2023
For example, there were 12 HCV infections associated with an emergency department nurse at a hospital in Washington in 2018, and 25 gram-negative bacteremia infections in 2011 that emerged in Minnesota. Tracking drug diversion is challenging because acquiring data on the issue from individual hospitals is often difficult.
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Palobiofarma and FPWR partner to develop Prader Willi syndrome therapy
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 5, 2023
Led by Dr Assumpta Caixàs, the clinical trial is being conducted at the university hospital Parc Taulí in Sabadell, Spain. In 2018, Palobiofarma commenced recruitment of participants for a Phase I clinical trial of PBF-999 in patients with solid tumours.
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Novartis builds radio-oncology pipeline with iTheranostics deal
pharmaphorum
MARCH 31, 2021
In 2018 it paid $2.1 Billed as a future blockbuster, Lutathera added $445 million in sales last year, although its growth was pegged back by the pandemic as it needs to be administered in a hospital location. “We believe this technology has the potential to transform many patients’ lives,” she added.
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