The Pharmacist

APRIL 15, 2024

The NHS national booking system for spring Covid-19 vaccination bookings via pharmacies in England is now open. Those eligible to book appointments are able to do so for next week. The […] The post NHS opens national booking system for spring Covid-19 vaccinations appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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JULY 28, 2023

A new Netflix TV show about the origins and consequences of the opioid epidemic is coming to the small screen. The show, “Painkiller,” is a fictional story based on real events that transpired around the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma, and the marketing and distribution of their drug, OxyContin.

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The Honest Apothecary

MAY 27, 2023

As a pharmacist in a management and leadership role, I’m always looking for books with ideas about how to lead better. l love books about creating a better working environment, and anything that may uncover some blindspots I may have about my own organization. When I stumbled across the book Fish! it caught my eye.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In explaining its new policy statement , the FTC noted that some drug companies have failed to follow requirements for listing patents in the so-called Orange Book in hopes of thwarting competition from lower-cost generic medicines. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 1993, I published “Listening to Prozac,” a book that grew out of my clinical experience prescribing what was then a new class of medications, ones thought to moderate depression through their effect on the way that the brain handles the neurotransmitter serotonin. How malleable is the self?

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JUNE 13, 2024

Koblitz — As we have noted for the last year or so, the FTC has been on a mission to clean up the Orange Book by removing what it deems to be “improper” patents. FTC, deep in its foray into the Orange Book, filed an Amicus Brief in the case arguing that the patents do not claim any FDA-approved drug. And on X (R.I.P.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 27, 2022

Our book Applied Virtual Reality in Healthcare provides an overview of innovative approaches, best practices, and coherent solutions to common concerns. The book notes pharma can utilise VR for clinical trials as it allows for a better understanding of the research subject. To learn more about the IVRHA conference, click here.

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Drug Patent Watch

JANUARY 22, 2024

A recent article published in Health Affairs, delves into the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) concerns regarding the inclusion of improper patents in the FDA’s Orange Book by pharmaceutical manufacturers.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

From the Margins: Gilead book launch shines light on health inequalities Mike.Hammerton Thu, 14/09/2023 - 10:54 Bookmark this

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JULY 1, 2024

The agency sent a civil investigative demand requiring Teva to provide information related to the patents listed in the so-called Orange Book, which is maintained by the Food and Drug Administration.

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MAY 10, 2024

Coloring books. Goody bags. They could be activities at a 5-year-old’s birthday party. But they’re not: These are many employers’ attempts to lift the morale of nurses on the frontlines of chronically understaffed organizations.

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APRIL 24, 2024

In addition, farms that move cattle across state lines and have animals that test positive for H5N1 or any influenza A virus will be required to open their books to investigators, so they can trace movement of cattle from infected herds. Read the rest…

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

In their recent book “ We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care ,” Finkelstein and Stanford economist Liran Einav describe how years of research have led them to the conclusion that the best way forward is for the U.S. Fixing the U.S. health care system can seem like a herculean task.

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APRIL 24, 2023

A new book on the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic paints a picture of a country ill-prepared to cope with a dangerous biological foe, riven by partisan politics, and led by people who saw little political gain in taking ownership of managing the crisis.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

lawmaker is pushing the Food and Drug Administration to provide more guidance on listing patents for drug-and-device combination products, such as asthma inhalers and auto-injectors for diabetes treatments, in a highly important agency registry known as the Orange Book. In a letter dated Monday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) Bill Cassidy (R-La.)

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A writer working on her book manuscript, she’d be unable to change a word without questioning the entire project’s value altogether. Every day, Marisa Russello was overwhelmed by suicidal thoughts. Even one negative thought might cause her to spiral. Her depression made it hard to fall and stay asleep.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A book by Mehrnaz Campbell charts a way forward Pharma has embraced digital and omnichannel to transform sales engagement, but has little to show for the effort.

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Med Ed 101

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

We are offering a ONE TIME ONLY discount of $100 on the 1 year BCPS all-access pass and I also have 10 Free Audible books to give away. ONLY the first 10 purchases will get the Free Audible version of my Drug Interaction Book (10+ hours of bonus content) as I only have a limited […] The post One Time ONLY!

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AUGUST 6, 2024

For my new book, “Progress Notes,” I spent a couple years observing seven medical students in an experimental curriculum. I believe it can also be seen as a characterization of work in a hospital, in which future physicians are simultaneously gaining remarkable skills and enduring career-altering abuse.

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JUNE 3, 2024

S TAT is putting together a list of books and podcasts that deal with health, medicine, and the life sciences that would be great to check out this summer. We invite our readers to fill out the form below, and you may see your pick in our upcoming annual roundup.

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Drug Patent Watch

AUGUST 7, 2023

Brinckerhoff discusses trends in Inter Partes Review (IPR) and Post Grant Review (PGR) proceedings involving Orange Book and biologic patents, based… The post Insights into Shifting Dynamics: Orange Book and Biologic PTAB Trends appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

“It’s really easy to move money around inside the books of a vertically integrated organization,” said Karen Van Nuys, a senior fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. But don’t take their numbers as gospel, experts warned.

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APRIL 18, 2024

With everyone scrubbing their groceries, mail, even library books, good luck finding antibacterial wipes or disinfectant sprays back then. In the chaotic first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic, stores faced shortages of all kinds — toilet paper, canned food, and especially, cleaning supplies.

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The Pharmacist

AUGUST 11, 2023

While the flu vaccination service will officially begin in October, pharmacies will still be paid for vaccinating eligible patients who have already booked appointments for September, NHS England (NHSE) has announced.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s approach to health care and co-authored the 2023 book “ The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond, ” calls it “the most transformative tool ever developed in all aspects of health care and medicine.” Generative AI is having a moment.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her book, “ Fatal to Fearless ,” was blurbed by everyone from newsman Tom Brokaw to research scientist Eric Topol. Thanks in part to better treatments that help patients stay alive, the number of people in the U.S. who live with myeloma has increased 80% to 180,000.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Natterson-Horowitz is a cardiologist, psychiatrist, and evolutionary biologist who co-authored the 2012 book “ Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health.” 

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MAY 13, 2024

Known as the Orange Book , it holds a key, behind-the-scenes role in shaping the competitive landscape of the pharmaceutical industry. Here’s why: The patents listed in the registry are cited by brand-name drugmakers to put their generic rivals on notice about certain types of patents that are claimed for a medicine.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

But as historian Evelynn Hammonds points out in her powerful book , “Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930,” public health authorities were more optimistic — and more pragmatic.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Today, STAT published our  annual list of the top books and podcasts  to check out this summer. Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?    Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

“Its parts need upkeep, piece by piece,” she wrote in her acclaimed 2022 book, “The Invisible Kingdom.” The chronically ill patient dejected after fruitless interactions with doctors was nearly invisible, and solitary. She saw the body, within the paradigm of Western medicine, as a car.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Natterson-Horowitz is a cardiologist, psychiatrist, and evolutionary biologist who co-authored the 2012 book “ Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health.” 

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EMCrit Project

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In many countries, pulmonary and critical care are commonly bundled together. Consequently, a single person will often be responsible for both inpatient ICU management as well as inpatient pulmonary consultation. Honestly, I have some doubts about whether this is an ideal system.

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MAY 17, 2023

The stream of books about the government response to the pandemic that began with Michael Lewis’ “The Premonition” has just yielded its most important product to date. But the book ultimately comes up a bit short, in ways that interestingly mirror the national response it chronicles and critiques.

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MAY 20, 2024

In her new book , “Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare,” which will be released on Tuesday, she looks at what she calls the “toxicities” that drive medical crowdfunding campaigns.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Have you ever seen a mouse with a set of muscles more appropriate for a bodybuilder or comic book superhero? Well, 25 years ago, researchers at Johns Hopkins University made it happen.

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MARCH 7, 2024

A new study shows that some nursing homes are shunting the majority of their profits off of their own books and into less-visible corners of their owners’ pockets.

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