STAT
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Lots of people struggle to get enough sleep — and the responsibility for fixing the problem tends to fall on the individual. Experts offer advice like reducing screen time, exercising more, or just going to bed earlier in the evening. But many restless nights can’t be solved with blackout curtains, ear plugs, or other typical suggestions.
PharmaVoice
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Art and science are often viewed as diametric opposites, but these industry insiders say their passion for painting blends into their pharma work.
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pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 19, 2022
A collaboration between academic centres in the UK has won government funding for a digital approach to dysfunctional breathing or dyspnoea, a symptom that affects around 10% of the population. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has set aside £400,000 (almost $490,000) for the project, which will help fund work at the Universities of Plymouth, Salford and Stirling, and the Glasgow School of Art.
Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Moderna and the UK government have entered a ten-year strategic collaboration to build a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) research, development and manufacturing facility in the country. The latest development comes after the parties announced an agreement in principle in June this year. This Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre (MITC) is expected to offer access to a locally produced future mRNA vaccine portfolio against respiratory viruses, subject to regulatory evaluation and licensure.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
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STAT
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Sepsis, a deadly overreaction of the immune system to infection, has befuddled clinicians and researchers for decades. Covid-19 made things worse. The early signs and symptoms of sepsis mimic those of both Covid-19 and influenza: fever, chills, dry cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle or body aches, sore throat, nasal congestion, runny nose, and more.
PharmaVoice
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Was it a public health victory? Or did mpox ‘burn itself out?’ An epidemiologist weighs in.
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Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 23, 2022
Eli Lilly and Company has expanded a licencing and partnership agreement with ProQR Therapeutics to discover, develop and market new genetic medicines. The companies entered the initial agreement in September last year. This alliance is utilising the Axiomer ribonucleic acid (RNA) editing platform of ProQR to address ailments affecting the liver and nervous system.
STAT
DECEMBER 21, 2022
At a far distant point in Earth’s ancient past, two separate, single-celled life forms — an archaeon and a bacteria — became one in an act either of symbiosis or enslavement, depending on which microbiologist you ask. And over the next 2 billion or so years, that bacteria evolved to be the mitochondria that power nearly every cell in the human body.
PharmaVoice
DECEMBER 22, 2022
New Alzheimer's drugs are poised to change the market — and in preclinical arenas, researchers are learning more and more about the disease.
Pharma Times
DECEMBER 21, 2022
ACD856 has also been shown across preclinical studies to improve cognition and memory
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European Pharmaceutical Review
DECEMBER 19, 2022
A new £2.4 million Phase III trial will determine if ketamine-assisted therapy can help those with severe alcohol use disorder to stay off alcohol for longer. Led by the University of Exeter and funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), “[t]his is the largest trial of its kind in the world and builds on our earlier, smaller positive trial,” stated Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes, Professor of Addiction Biology at Imperial College
STAT
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Americans have been warned — again — about lax attention to routine vaccinations. This time the warning comes from measles , an age-old, vaccine-preventable disease, with an outbreak in central Ohio among nearly 80 children and counting, almost all of them unvaccinated against measles. Once well-controlled in the U.S., which has maintained “measles elimination status” for almost 20 years, this disease may no longer be a rarity as millions of children in the U.S. are m
PharmaVoice
DECEMBER 19, 2022
A series of small successes showed promise for the future of blood cancer treatments, particularly in the arena of drug combinations.
Pharma Times
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Vital financing will help boost diagnosis, treatment and prospects of patient groups
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 Technology
DECEMBER 18, 2022
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting variation to the marketing authorization (MA) for Moderna ’s Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron BA.1 (mRNA-1273.214) booster for usage in children aged six to 11 years. The 0.25mL dose of the booster vaccine could potentially be used in the European Union (EU) following authorisation in these children a minimum of three months following a previous Covid-19 vaccination.
STAT
DECEMBER 23, 2022
Flu activity across the United States continues to decline, though it remains at high levels in most parts of the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday in its weekly influenza update for the week ending Dec. 17. The percentage of people seeking medical care for influenza-like illness dropped for the third straight week, and hospitalizations due to flu declined for the second week in a row.
PharmaVoice
DECEMBER 21, 2022
For Lightship, increasing patient access to clinical trials is about meeting them where they are — literally.
pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 19, 2022
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Swiss drugmaker Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ Adstiladrin (nadofaragene firedenovec-vncg) for the treatment of adult patients with high-risk Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with carcinoma in situ (CIS), with or without papillary tumours. Bladder cancer is one of the more common forms of cancer.
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.
Pharma Times
DECEMBER 20, 2022
ColoAlert research could identify advanced adenomas among colorectal cancer patients
STAT
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Life expectancy for Americans fell for the second straight year in 2021, largely driven by increases in deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A baby born in the U.S. in 2021 has a life expectancy of 76.4 years, down from 77 years in 2020 and the lowest level the CDC has recorded since 1996.
PharmaVoice
DECEMBER 20, 2022
A look back at some of the most inspirational quotes from the Women of the Week podcasts in 2022.
EMCrit Project
DECEMBER 22, 2022
All the resus/acute critical care literature goodness for December 2022. EMCrit Project by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM.
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European Pharmaceutical Review
DECEMBER 22, 2022
The success of mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 has quickly catapulted mRNA therapeutics as a disruptive, expanding drug category” The term ‘mRNA’ has become commonplace globally. mRNA technologies have emerged as an innovative and effective approach to developing new drugs that can potentially transform existing therapies or target difficult‑to‑treat indications including respiratory, cardiac, metabolic and autoimmune diseases, as well as cancer.
STAT
DECEMBER 23, 2022
Congress is expected to pass a massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package that includes numerous provisions aimed at addressing the opioid epidemic. I have been advocating for greater access to opioid addiction treatment for more than two decades. While the spending package contains many positive opioid treatment reforms, I am deeply concerned that Congress and others without on-the-ground experience will continue pushing dangerous policies to solve the opioid epidemic in the next Congress.
Pharma Times
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Study uses carious drug combinations to increase survival among lung cancer patients
Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Fentanyl is a powerful opioid (a narcotic analgesic that is at least partly synthetic) that is being trafficked in increasing quantities from Mexico to the US by cartels. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently announced that it had seized 10,000 pounds of illicit fentanyl in 2022 and pointed out that this volume represented enough fentanyl to kill every American.
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European Pharmaceutical Review
DECEMBER 21, 2022
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) created live biotherapeutic products (LBP) as a new category in the 2012 guidelines. 1 It defined LBPs as drug products containing live microorganism(s) to be used to prevent, treat or cure a disease or condition in human beings. 1 The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare (EDQM) also accepted LBP as a new category of medicinal products for the European market in 2019. 2.
STAT
DECEMBER 23, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO — A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men’s skin and injecting it into their veins. Two dermatologists at the University of California, San Francisco — one of whom remains at the university — conducted the experiments on men at the California Medical Facility, a prison hospit
Pharma Times
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Drug is the first heart failure medication to provide mortality benefit across entire ejection fraction range
pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 20, 2022
In the past two decades, global spending on health has doubled. Yet, optimal healthcare remains out of reach for most of the world as many countries continue to struggle with the burden of disease, growing complexity of healthcare, and persistence of health disparities. The problem is not a lack of innovation. Advancements in technology and medicine have made it possible to improve nearly every aspect of care by analysing vast amounts of data, uncovering insights into each person’s disease and e
European Pharmaceutical Review
DECEMBER 21, 2022
The European Commission (EC) has approved Lynparza (olaparib) in combination with abiraterone and prednisone or prednisolone for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) in male adults in the European Union for whom chemotherapy is not clinically indicated, making it the first approved PARP inhibitor to demonstrate clinically meaningful benefits in combination with a new hormonal agent.
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