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New cell therapy model accelerates cancer treatment development

Drug Target Review

In this model, once a product is produced and delivered to the clinical pharmacy, the clinical team takes over the trial with little to no interaction with the manufacturing team. While therapies like CAR-T have shown great success in hematologic malignancies, solid tumours remain a challenging area for current treatments.

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Buprenorphine now replaces methadone as the most common medicine for opioid dependence’: 10-year trends in opioid agonist treatment medicines in Australia

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre Blog

Kendal Chidwick NDARC’s Kendal Chidwick discusses the findings from a recently published study that examined how patterns of opioid agonist treatment medicines have changed over the past decade. Other changes around this time aimed at improving treatment accessibility included increased use of take-home doses and telehealth appointments.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. This post examines the Zarzamora pharmacy and prescribing red flags decision. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos.

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Researchers to explore potential of new treatment against vascular dementia

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

EL PASO, Texas (June 8, 2023) – Researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso’s School of Pharmacy will explore the viability of a new treatment for vascular dementia, thanks to a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

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vitaCare From GoodRx Reimagines Prescription Services for a Wider Range of Patients and Treatments Than Traditional Hub Services (Guest Post)

Drug Channels

Jon discusses vitaCare , a pharmacy services platform acquired by GoodRx earlier this year. It also offers a path for filling a prescription, primarily through their network of third-party pharmacies. Click here to learn more about vitaCare’s access and adherence solutions.

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Community Pharmacies and Harm Reduction

Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

Community Pharmacies and Harm Reduction "Community pharmacies are essential healthcare destinations that serve as an optimal resource for addressing non-urgent inquiries, such as safe injecting practices, management of adverse drug reactions, and medication provision, thus reducing the burden on general practitioners (GPs) [ 1 , 2 ].

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New JAMA Article Recommends Personal Drug Importation To Help American Patients Afford Prescription Drugs

Policy Prescription

Harvard doctors and public health experts recommend using the website PharmacyChecker.com to find international online pharmacies to order more affordable prescription drugs for personal importation when domestic savings strategies fail. Pharmacy discount cards and coupons are freely accessible on sites like GoodRx and RxSaver.