STAT
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
A large outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda is drawing international concern about the possibility of spread beyond the country’s borders. The number of cases detected so far, 27 , already makes the outbreak one of the biggest involving Marburg on record. Nine of those individuals have died. There are currently no licensed vaccines to combat the disease.
vizient
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The awards recognize the achievements of participating hospitals and health systems in patient care quality and supply chain excellence and were announced Sept. 17 in Las Vegas.
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Ramblings of a pharmacist
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
“It’s not the way I wanted it to go,” he says sadly. “You do what you’re supposed to do. You go to college, get a doctorate, start a small business in a small town, support the community and it’s not even close to being a viable option.” “This isn’t because the community didn’t support us. It’s because we lose money on every prescription we fill.” Those are the words of Tom Wullstein, owner of Brandon Pharmacy.
BioPharma Dive
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
In testing, Cobenfy eased schizophrenia symptoms without some of the disruptive side effects typical of existing drugs. The results have been met with excitement, as well as caution.
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pharmaphorum
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
After various twists and turns in the regulator path, Ipsen has secured EU approval for Kayfanda, its treatment for severe itching (pruritus) in patients with the rare liver disease Alagille syndrome (ALGS).Kayfanda (odevixibat) is labeled in the EU to treat cholestatic pruritus – itching caused by impaired bile formation or flow – in children aged six months and over with ALGS, a disease caused by a genetic mutation that leads to liver damage and jaundice.
The Pharmacist
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has proposed new guidance to safeguard against the risks of online prescribing, including of weight loss medication. This follows 'significant risks to patient safety when online questionnaires have inappropriately been the only mode of consultation used', which the GPhC said it had observed through its inspections and investigations.
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Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Coverage for its long-acting insulin, Levamir, dropped from 90% to about 35% when the company dropped its list price by 65%.
EMCrit Project
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
The HAPPEN Trial on NIPPV for AECOPD EMCrit Project by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM.
BioPharma Dive
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Over the past 10 years, PD1-blocking medicines have transformed cancer care. But the steady expansion of their use has slowed and, despite much trying, pharmaceutical companies have largely failed to top the drugs’ successes.
pharmaphorum
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Listen to the podcast interview with Manny Belabe from ArisGlobal as he discusses The Life Sciences Generative AI Council and its role in creating a sustainable technological future. Gain insights into the future of AI in life sciences.
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.
Pharmaceutical Commerce
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Why looming benefit changes—and the resulting unintended consequences—are a concern for patients.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
An investigation into the still unexplained human H5N1 bird flu infection in Missouri has turned up four additional health care workers who developed mild respiratory illness symptoms after caring for the patient in hospital in August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday. It is not clear if any of these people were actually infected with H5N1; they were not tested at the time when they were ill.
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
While Lykos Therapeutics’ MDMA therapy was rejected by the FDA, psychedelic therapy advocates remain optimistic about the sector.
PharmaTech
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Qualifying material suppliers is a crucial step in ensuring safe and effective drug products.
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.
BioPharma Dive
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The offerings by Bicara, Zenas and MBX give a glimpse into what industry insiders describe as a backlog of mature startups waiting for the right opportunity to test public markets.
pharmaphorum
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
A "small number" of AstraZeneca employees have been detained in China in an investigation into suspected data privacy and drug import breaches
Pharmacy Times
SEPTEMBER 28, 2024
Adults with underlying medical conditions, resulting in an increased risk of respiratory syncytial virus disease are more likely to be cost-effective than general age-based strategies.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Despite no known infections of H5N1 bird flu among its dairy cows, Missouri recently detected a case in a person with no apparent exposure to possibly infected animals or related products (i.e., raw milk). A close contact and two health workers who cared for the person all developed respiratory symptoms , but were never tested. There has not yet been a wider uptick of other potential cases in the same community to indicate efficient human-to-human transmission — the evolution of which is
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Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
The US FDA has granted orphan drug designation (ODD) to Abdera Therapeutics’ ABD-147 aimed at neuroendocrine carcinoma.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
For decades, doctors caring for people with schizophrenia have relied on mood-regulating drugs that target the brain chemical dopamine. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration approved for the first time a new type of medicine that may change the way the psychiatric disorder is treated. The drug, called Cobenfy, will be sold by Bristol Myers Squibb.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Pfizer’s decision Wednesday to pull its sickle cell pill off the market because of safety concerns shocked advocates and doctors, leaving many searching for answers and scrambling for ways to notify their patients about a drug that has long divided the community. The move underscored the severity of the risks recently seen in studies of the drug, Oxbryta , in which researchers have reported a number of deaths among patients who were receiving it.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
She knew what it was to have pain she couldn’t put into words, but this was worse. As a child, Nana-Bilkisu Habib had felt it in her arms or legs or back, but this was everywhere, as if her whole body were shutting down. She couldn’t move. Her dad had to carry her into the car and lay her in the backseat. She spent the drive to the hospital reciting verses of the Quran, praying that she would make it through.
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STAT
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Many disabled people are not included in official U.S. data. This is because there is “ No Box to Check ” to indicate their particular disability on surveys from the U.S. Census Bureau and other federal agencies. The questions used to identify people with disabilities are missing millions. Two question sets are most often used to assess disability in U.S. federal surveys: the American Community Survey Six (ACS-6) or the Washington Group Short Set (WG-SS).
STAT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Prostate cancer presents a tricky screening challenge. Catching it early could mean dodging a painful journey with advanced cancer. Yet a sizable majority of prostate cancers are “indolent” — slow growing tumors that most likely would never metastasize during the patient’s lifetime, and whose treatment would do more harm than good.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
The health data company Particle Health has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Epic Systems, alleging that the electronic health record vendor has used its control of patient data to thwart competition and undermine its business. The suit filed Monday in federal court in the Southern District of New York is a full-throated assault on Epic’s dominance in the market for electronic health records, charging that the privately held company has become a “behemoth” and a “mo
STAT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Recent headlines about a potent new immunotherapy have mostly focused on the U.S. company helping to develop it. Less attention has been paid to Akeso, a Chinese biotech that had kept a low profile until its drug bested Merck’s mega-blockbuster Keytruda in a late-stage lung cancer trial. Now, Akeso’s leaders want you to know that its recent success isn’t a one-off.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Pfizer said Wednesday that it was removing Oxbryta, a pill for the treatment of sickle cell disease, from all markets globally due to high risks of severe safety events, including deaths. The decision is a stunning blow for a drug that was approved in 2019 , heralded as a new way to treat the inherited blood disorder. Pfizer acquired the maker of Oxbryta, a biotech company called Global Blood Therapeutics, in 2022 for $5.4 billion.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
When I was a medical student in the 1980s, the school hired “pelvic instructors” who taught us how to do exams in a painless and respectful way. They even allowed us to perform practice examinations on them. But at the same time, senior doctors urged me to perform pelvic exams on anesthetized women about to get surgery — women who never gave consent.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
In the latest slap at a pharmaceutical company by a local government, the city of Baltimore has filed a lawsuit accusing Biogen of striking an “unlawful” scheme with the largest pharmacy benefit managers to block generic competition of a best-selling multiple sclerosis treatment. The effort allegedly originated as Biogen planned to fend off generic companies that hoped to sell lower-cost alternatives to Tecfidera which, several years ago, had been a franchise product and generated
STAT
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Prime Medicine, founded with gene-editing tech from the lab of star Harvard biochemist David Liu and backed by blue chip investors, made little secret of its ambition. It laid out plans to use its new gene-editing technology across 18 different diseases, listing conditions as disparate as ALS, congenital blindness, and muscular dystrophy.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Usually, introductory meetings with startup executives are perfunctory and fade to irrelevance within an hour. But I still remember the first moment I met 23andMe CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki in 2007. My editor at the time had set up a meeting between my reporting partner and I and Wojcicki, along with 23andMe co-founder Linda Avey, at an upscale sandwich shop on East 13th Street in New York City.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Over the three decades that I have worked in animal health, I have borne witness to the mounting effects of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animals. Just like in people, while bacterial infections in animals were once predictably treatable with routine antimicrobials, we now face resistant infections that make it harder to treat animals. Then we end up on a slippery slope of needing to use newer antimicrobials, helping to treat the infection but adding risks for development of even more resist
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