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Court Ruling Could Bring Higher Patient Costs for PrEP, and More HIV Infections

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a lifeline for Americans, many of them gay men, who are at high risk of contracting the virus that causes AIDS.But a case that is winding its way through the court system might push.

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JPM24: Pfizer’s tough sell, the next Karuna and building a biotech platform

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Albert Bourla acknowledged Pfizer’s difficult 2023, while a biotech CEO spoke with BioPharma Dive about building neuroscience startups.

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Medical Device Industry Trends for 2024

Perficient: Drug Development

Medical device industry trends for 2024. The medical device industry is in a constant state of evolution. We are seeing more sophisticated consumer expectations, advancements in technology, regulatory changes, and changing healthcare needs – just to name a few. As we gaze into our crystal ball, five key trends have bubbled up. Let’s look at what is poised to impact the medical device industry in 2024.

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Philadelphia Measles Outbreak Has Officials Concerned

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- Eight Philadelphia residents are known to have contracted measles, the city's department of health said in an update on the outbreak released Monday.Measles is highly infectious, and Philadelphia health care staff are.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

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

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Stranger than friction: A force initiating life

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

As the potter works the spinning wheel, the friction between their hands and the soft clay helps them shape it into all kinds of forms and creations. In a fascinating parallel, sea squirt oocytes (immature egg cells) harness friction within various compartments in their interior to undergo developmental changes after conception.

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Therapeutic Vaccine Could Fight Pancreatic Cancer

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Jan.9, 2024 -- Patients with the most common form of pancreatic cancer could benefit from an experimental therapeutic vaccine, a small new clinical trial shows.The vaccine, called ELI-002 for now, is targeted to what are known as.

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Addiction Treatment for Teens in Crisis Is Often Hard to Find

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TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- A 'secret shopper' study finds that for many American families, accessing inpatient treatment for a teen battling addiction can be next to impossible.“If you are a family in crisis and you have a kid for whom outpatient.

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NPR on how low Drug Prices can Shortages

Drug Patent Watch

A recent story by NPR echoes the findings of a collaboration between DrugPatentWatch and Bloomberg, which examined increasing competition between generic drug makers. The NPR article discusses the challenges in… The post NPR on how low Drug Prices can Shortages appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Getting Hospital-Level Care at Home Is Safe, Effective: Study

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- It's an approach that's becoming more widespread: Receiving hospital-level care in the home.A new study finds that folks "hospitalized" at home tend to do at least as well as if they’d been checked into a hospital for.

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The Big Three PBMs’ 2024 Formulary Exclusions: Biosimilar Humira Battles, CVS Health’s Weird Strategy, and the Insulin Shakeup

Drug Channels

For 2024, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and OptumRx (United Health Group)—have again each excluded 600 or more drugs from their standard formularies. You can find our updated counting below. This year, Humira and its 13 biosimilars will provide the most intriguing formulary drama. Unfortunately, the gross-to-net bubble will remain a fixture for this category, despite a price war led by almost half of the biosimilars.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Teen Sports Pay Dividends for Bone Health Decades Later

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 — Teens who are active are doing their bones a lasting favor, Japanese researchers report."Physical exercise in adolescence affects BMD [bone mineral density] more than 50 years later in older adults," said lead researcher.

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Meteorite analysis shows Earth's building blocks contained water

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Analysis of iron meteorites from the earliest years of the solar system indicate that the planetary 'seeds' that ultimately formed Earth contained water.

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Is Occupational Physical Activity Harmful to Health?

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

A recent webinar from the National Occupational Research Agenda’s Cancer, Reproductive, Cardiovascular, and Other Chronic Disease Prevention (CRC) cross-sector council describes research related to the potential effects of occupational physical activity on workers’ cardiovascular health. This blog summarizes the webinar and discusses the differences between (1) leisure-time physical activity, and (2) occupational physical activity in relation to cardiovascular health and other potential health c

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Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease welcomes new co-editor-in-chief Paula I. Moreira, PhD

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Amsterdam, January 9, 2024 – The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (JAD), published by IOS Press, is pleased to announce the appointment of new co-Editor-in-Chief, Paula I. Moreira, PhD. Dr.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Latest Data Show 22 U.S. Teens Die of Overdoses Each Week

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- An average of 22 U.S. teens die each week from drug overdoses, a death toll driven by the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, a new study reports.Researchers also have identified 19 “hotspot” counties where fatal ODs.

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Scooters are increasingly associated with traumatic injuries that require surgery

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Key takeaways Credit: American College of Surgeons Key takeaways The prevalence and severity of scooter-related injuries, as well as associated health care costs, have significantly increased in the U.S. Compared to bicycle-related injuries, scooter-related injuries more often require surgical management and are associated with greater risks of long bone fractures and paralysis.

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'Blob-like' home of farthest-known fast radio burst is collection of seven galaxies

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

In summer 2022, astronomers detected the most powerful and most distant fast radio burst (FRB) ever observed. Now, astronomers have pinpointed the extraordinary object's birthplace -- and it's rather curious, indeed. Using images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the researchers traced the FRB back to not one galaxy but a group of at least seven galaxies.

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Vaccine boosts innate immunity in people with dormant immune cells

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Humans are protected by two branches of the immune system. Innate immunity provides built-in defense against widespread characteristics of bacteria and viruses, while adaptive immunity memorizes individual pathogens that a person has already encountered. Vaccines teach the adaptive immune system about new pathogens without having to go through an actual infection.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Black Teens Gain Mental Health Boost From 'Connectedness' at School

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- "School spirit" appears to provide long-lasting mental health benefits for Black teens, new research finds.School connectedness – the degree to which students feel like part of to their school community – is a.

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Discovering a new mechanism of vestibular neuritis

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Prof. Sun-Uk Lee of the Department of Neurology and Prof. Euyhyun Park of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology from Korea University’s Anam Hospital discovered a new mechanism of vestibular neuritis. Credit: none Prof. Sun-Uk Lee of the Department of Neurology and Prof.

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GSK to buy asthma drug startup Aiolos for $1B

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Aiolos, which raised a Series A round three months ago, is developing an antibody that shares a target with Amgen and AstraZeneca’s Tezspire.

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Protecting newborns: Research lays the groundwork for a lifesaving vaccine

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Researchers from Binghamton University, State University of New York are unraveling the workings of Group B Strep (GBS) infections in pregnant women, which could someday lead to a vaccine. Credit: “pregnant woman” by kylieaquino01 is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. BINGHAMTON, N.Y.

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Reddit Posts Show Ozempic, Wegovy Cutting Users' Alcohol Use

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- Social media is abuzz with the possibility that newfangled weight loss drugs can also reduce cravings for alcohol, a new study says.Across a number of Reddit threads, users of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic reported that.

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Main regulator for the body`s oven discovered

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Brown fat cells convert energy into heat – a key to eliminating unwanted fat deposits. In addition, they also protect against cardiovascular diseases.

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TACACICLIB, AUR-102, AURIGENE

New Drug Approvals

Tacaciclib 2768774-66-7 AUR-102 Tacaciclib SCHEMBL24548621 GTPL12880 528.6 g/mol C 30 H 36 N 6 O 3 INN 12755 UNI D3G4JKK1MA (2 S )- N -(5-cyclopropyl-1 H -pyrazol-3-yl)-3-methyl-2-[3-[6-[[( E )-4-morpholin-4-ylbut-2-enoyl]amino]pyridin-3-yl]phenyl]butanamide (αS)-N-(5-Cyclopropyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)-α-(1-methylethyl)-3-[6-[[(2E)-4-(4-morpholinyl)-1-oxo-2-buten-1-yl]amino]-3-pyridinyl]benzeneacetamide Benzeneacetamide, N-(5-cyclopropyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)-α-(1-methylethyl)-3-[6-[[(2E)-4-(4-morpholinyl)

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Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Lithuania?

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the pharmaceutical companies with the most patents in Lithuania. Patents must be filed in each country (or, in some cases regional patent office) where patent protection is… The post Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Lithuania? appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Pregnancy-Linked Depression Raises Odds for Suicide Years After Delivery

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- Depression that emerges around the time of pregnancy raises a woman's risk for suicide sharply and for many years, new Swedish research shows.The study found that a new mom's odds for suicide soars seven-fold in the year.

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New patent for Pacira Pharms drug EXPAREL

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for EXPAREL Exparel is a drug marketed by Pacira Pharms Inc and is included in one NDA. It is available from one supplier. There are nine… The post New patent for Pacira Pharms drug EXPAREL appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Biological robots: a new therapeutic tool

Drug Target Review

Tiny biological robots have been created by scientists at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute. Named ‘anthrobots,’ they are derived from human tracheal cells and can move across a surface. Ranging in size, they can self-assemble and have a profound healing effect on other cells. Prior to the new study, the laboratories of Dr Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology at Tufts University School of Arts & Sciences, and Dr Josh Bongard at the University of Vermont, c

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New patent for Indivior drug SUBLOCADE

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for SUBLOCADE Sublocade is a drug marketed by Indivior and is included in one NDA. It is available from one supplier. There are eleven patents protecting… The post New patent for Indivior drug SUBLOCADE appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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2024 Drugs to Watch: From R&D Promise to In-market Wins

Fierce BioTech

2024 Drugs to Watch: From R&D Promise to In-market Wins swheeler Tue, 01/09/2024 - 17:53 Tue, 02/20/2024 - 10:00 Resource Type Webinar Mike Ward Renée Aguiar-Lucander Duration 60 minutes Lessons from companies featured in the 2024 Drugs to Watch Report™ This webinar delves into the strategic transformation of research and development (R&D) companies into thriving commercial entities, whether taking on established big pharma incumbents, focusing on orphan diseases, or launching first-in-class med

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New patent for Deciphera Pharms drug QINLOCK

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for QINLOCK Qinlock is a drug marketed by Deciphera Pharms and is included in one NDA. It is available from one supplier. There are nineteen patents… The post New patent for Deciphera Pharms drug QINLOCK appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Exploring jQuery’s Tree Traversing: Unleashing the DOM Navigation Potential

Perficient: Drug Development

The popular JavaScript library jQuery simplifies DOM manipulation with powerful traversal methods. Web developers need to traverse the DOM tree to interact with HTML components. This blog covers jQuery’s DOM traversal using simple examples to teach navigation techniques. Understanding the DOM Tree: Let’s define the DOM tree before learning jQuery’s tree traversal techniques.

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