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JULY 16, 2024

DECORAH, Iowa — It was livestock check-in day at the Winneshiek County Fair, and the dairy barn was consumed with a kind of pre-prom anxiety. A cow named Daiquiri was lumbering back from the milking parlor, adjusting to a new schedule that would have her “mammary system” bulging for showtime. Kennedy was getting a fresh shave, tufts of udder-fuzz drifting to the floor, revealing her resplendent venation.

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JULY 16, 2024

An industry reeling from a precarious market is showing signs of stabilizing as the future becomes a little less cloudy, an Evaluate report suggests.

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JULY 16, 2024

Facing increasing doubts that the U.S. can control the outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle, federal officials reiterated on Tuesday that they believe the country can still eliminate the H5N1 virus from dairy cows, even as it continues to spread to new herds. “All the signs that we have are, with good biosecurity, with good farmer participation, we will be able to eliminate this,” Eric Deeble, the acting senior adviser for the H5N1 response at the U.S.

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PharmaVoice

JULY 16, 2024

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine would make it easier to challenge agency regulations, such as the LDT final rule.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

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JULY 16, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just released a trove of data on Americans with disabilities that found that more than a quarter of U.S. adults have a disability — over 70 million people, a bump from prior years. This slice of the population was also much more likely to report long Covid symptoms such as chronic fatigue and brain fog.

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Pharma Times

JULY 16, 2024

The progressive neurodegenerative condition affects around 153,000 people in the UK

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The Pharmacist

JULY 16, 2024

Community pharmacies in south-east London have launched what is believed to be England’s only nationally-funded inhaler recycling pilot. NHS England (NHSE) has funded the scheme, which aims to reduce greenhouse gases from metered dose inhalers. Patients will be encouraged to return their used or expired inhalers to one of 20 participating community pharmacies.

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JULY 16, 2024

CHICAGO – The FDA’s top food regulator contended Tuesday that the agency could not have done much more to prevent the recent contamination of children’s applesauce with lead. The official, Food and Drug Administration Deputy Commissioner Jim Jones, argued that if companies like the producer of the lead-laced cinnamon in the applesauce “are hell bent about breaking the rules, they’re usually going to get away with it for a little while before they’re stop

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BioPharma Dive

JULY 16, 2024

The well-funded startup says drugs AbbVie abandoned last year could form a combination regimen with “superior efficacy” to Vertex’s market-leading medicines.

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JULY 16, 2024

A cancer care navigation startup has raised $95 million from prominent tech investors to help payers and providers spend less on cancer patients while improving their health — including by doling out incentive payments to providers and keeping a cut of insurers’ savings. Thyme Care’s Series C round included new investor Concord Health Partners, and repeat investors such as Town Hall Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Foresite Capital and CVS Health Ventures, the company tol

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Pharma Times

JULY 16, 2024

Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of blood cancers that currently affect more than 7,000 people in the UK

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JULY 16, 2024

Hepatitis C and opioid use disorder are both chronic but treatable conditions. Yet many Americans living with this deadly combination aren’t offered treatment. Imagine going to your doctor with strep throat and instead of being prescribed an antibiotic you are told it isn’t urgent and you can wait to treat it. A solution is within reach: It starts with recognizing the power of integrating hepatitis C treatment with addiction care.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 16, 2024

Novo Holdings leads $100m financing for Swiss biotech Asceneuron, which is developing an oral tau therapy for Alzheimer's disease

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JULY 16, 2024

Cardurion Pharmaceuticals, a startup that launched seven years ago with shelved cardiovascular drug candidates from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, has raised $260 million for a Series B round.  The financing was led by Ascenta Capital, a new VC firm that has quietly begun leading biotech investment deals while raising its first fund. Ascenta was started last year by Moderna’s former finance chief Lorence Kim and former head of strategy Evan Rachlin.

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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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JULY 16, 2024

A digital diagnostic for ADHD called QbTest should be used by the NHS as an add-on to standard assessment, says new NICE guidance

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JULY 16, 2024

UnitedHealth Group’s CEO said Tuesday that his team was “over-optimistic” about the pace at which providers would reconnect with Change Healthcare after the claims-processing unit sustained a sweeping cyberattack. Andrew Witty’s comments came toward the end of the company’s second-quarter earnings call, in which UnitedHealth disclosed it now expects to shoulder an up to $1.9 billion post-tax hit from the mid-February cyberattack, higher than the $1.6 billion es

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Express Pharma

JULY 16, 2024

Lupin today announced that it has received tentative approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application for Sodium Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate, and Potassium Chloride Tablets, 1.479 g/0.225 g/0.188 g , to market a generic equivalent of Sutab Tablets, 1.479 g/0.225 g/0.188 g, of Braintree Laboratories. “Lupin is the exclusive first-to-file for this product and may be eligible for 180-day exclusivity.

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JULY 16, 2024

Most pregnant people are in regular touch with their maternity care providers over the course of nine months, with ever-more-frequent visits, tests, and scans as their due date nears. For many patients, this is the first time in their lives they’ve been in such close, routine contact with the health system. Then, after delivering the child, this attention all but vanishes.

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JULY 16, 2024

CordenPharma has launched a €900 million ($981 million) investment programme to prepare for an expected surge in demand for peptide production capacity – driven by GLP-1 receptor agonists.The three-year plan revolves around parallel programmes in the US and Europe that will include new builds and upgrades and expansion to its existing facilities, according to the German contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO).

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JULY 16, 2024

Top of the morning to you. Another steamy day is unfolding here at the Pharmalot campus, where the official mascots are scampering about and enjoying summertime fun.  As for the rest of us, well, we can only dream. But our to-do list will keep us busy, including chats with some interesting folks. Hopefully, you can relate. Either way, it is time to get cracking.

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JULY 16, 2024

Natural killer cell therapy specialist Artiva Biotherapeutics has another go at an IPO, hoping to raise up to $135m

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JULY 16, 2024

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. The weather here in Chicago has been super volatile. We’ve had thunderstorms the last few days, and last night I heard for the first time a  tornado warning. Truly an ominous start to the week!

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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.

Drug Patent Watch

JULY 16, 2024

Introduction Patent oppositions are a crucial tool in the pharmaceutical industry, allowing civil society to challenge the validity of patents […] Source

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PioneerRx

JULY 16, 2024

If you’re a long-time reader of our blogs, you might be familiar with the phrase “ is the name of the game,” and rightfully so. The pharmacy industry consists.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 16, 2024

AstraZeneca has closed the acquisition of Amolyt Pharma, a company specialising in treatments for rare endocrine diseases.

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Express Pharma

JULY 16, 2024

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has received final approval by the United States Food & Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) for Topiramate Capsules USP, 15 mg and 25 mg. Glenmark’s Topiramate Capsules USP, 15 mg and 25 mg has been determined by the FDA to be bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent ( 1) to Topamax ( 2) Capsules, 15 mg and 25 mg of Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and will be distributed in the U.S. by Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, USA.

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Safe Biologics

JULY 16, 2024

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2024 – The Alliance for Safe Biologic Medicines (ASBM) announces the publication of a paper underscoring the critical role of the FDA’s interchangeable biosimilar data requirements in maintaining the safety and efficacy of biosimilar substitutions. Titled “Misinformation about interchangeable biosimilars undermines US health policy, physician confidence, and patient health,” the paper discusses the successes of the FDA’s data-driven approach in building physicia

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World Pharma News

JULY 16, 2024

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced that based on results from the ongoing pharmacokinetic study (NCT06153758), the company has selected its preferred once-daily modified release formulation for danuglipron, an oral glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist. Pfizer plans to conduct dose optimization studies in the second half of 2024 evaluating multiple doses of the preferred modified release formulation to inform the registration enabling studies.

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JULY 16, 2024

The pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in global supply chains, particularly in the healthcare sector, concerning the production and distribution of essential medical supplies, such as antibiotics and other medications. Learn more about the impact and potential solutions.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 16, 2024

Kyverna’s CEO Peter Maag said the biotech is “eager to start generating data” from a Phase II trial.

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Pharmaceutical Commerce

JULY 16, 2024

The latest news for pharma industry insiders.

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