November, 2024

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NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since. The shift could indicate Earth's continents have entered a persistently drier phase.

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Boost Alphafold2 Protein Structure Prediction with GPU-Accelerated MMseqs2

Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

The ability to compare the sequences of multiple related proteins is a foundational task for many life science researchers. This is often done in the form of a. The ability to compare the sequences of multiple related proteins is a foundational task for many life science researchers. This is often done in the form of a multiple sequence alignment (MSA), and the evolutionary information retrieved from these alignments can yield insights into protein structure, function, and evolutionary history.

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An RNAi renaissance is creating a new generation of startups

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Pioneers like Alnylam Pharmaceuticals have led the RNA interference field for years. Now, a crop of young biotechs is building on that foundation by taking the drugmaking technology in new directions.

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Beards and Respirators: Navigating No Shave November Safely

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

Introduction No Shave November is a great opportunity to grow out your beard for a good cause. But if you rely on a tight-fitting respirator for work, that extra facial hair could pose a safety concern. Respirators protect workers from harmful particles, but their effectiveness depends on forming a tight seal against your skin. So, what does that mean for your growing beard during No Shave November?

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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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Mitochondria Are Alive

Codon

An opinion essay by Liyam Chitayat The cells within our body are the remnants of an ancient alliance. In a 1967 paper called “ On the Origin of Mitosing Cells ,” American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis proposed an idea that, upon first hearing, seems ludicrous. Her paper, in fact, was rejected by 12 different journals before it was published.

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Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others: Practical Tips for Caregivers

Antidote

Being a caregiver is one of the most selfless and demanding roles you can take on. Whether you're looking after a parent, spouse, child, or loved one, juggling all of the daily responsibilities that come with it can quickly feel overwhelming. With so much focus on taking care of others, it’s easy to put yourself and your needs on the back burner. While your focus is understandably on your loved one, it’s important to remember that your own well-being matters too.

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Want to Lower Chemical Exposures in Pregnancy? Quit Nail Polish, Makeup and Hair Dye

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 19, 2024 -- Women who won't leave the house without makeup or a spritz of hairspray may want to think twice about those habits when they're pregnant or breastfeeding.New research links these and other personal care products, including.

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Surviving in biotech’s new normal: 5 tips from industry VCs and CEOs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

At an event hosted by BioPharma Dive, drugmaker executives and investors discussed the importance of focus, smart spending and maintaining lines of sight to the clinic.

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Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer

Broad Institute

Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer By Leah Eisenstadt November 6, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer Broad and Mass General researcher Alexandra-Chloé Villani and Mass General oncologist Kerry Reynolds describe their pioneering effort to better understand, diagnose, and manage dangerous complications from cancer immunotherapy.

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FDA’s Proposal to Remove Oral Phenylephrine from the OTC Monograph Isn’t a Surprise but What is Left “Over-the-Counter”?

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By Deborah L. Livornese & JP Ellison — On November 8, 2024, FDA issued a proposed order to remove the oral decongestant ingredient phenylephrine (including both phenylephrine hydrochloride and phenylephrine bitartrate) (collectively, PE) from the OTC monograph on the basis of a lack of effectiveness. FDA also noted that it has concluded that no safety signal was identified for oral PE at doses permitted under the monograph.

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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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Understanding Cybercrime-as-a-Service: A Growing Threat in the Digital World

Perficient: Drug Development

With just a cryptocurrency wallet, cybercriminals can now execute complex cyberattacks without advanced technical knowledge or sophisticated software. This alarming trend is a byproduct of the growing popularity of cloud computing and the “as-a-service” model, where services like infrastructure, recovery, and cybersecurity are now accessible on demand.

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Memories are not only in the brain, new research finds

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

It's common knowledge that our brains -- and, specifically, our brain cells -- store memories. But a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also perform a memory function, opening new pathways for understanding how memory works and creating the potential to enhance learning and to treat memory-related afflictions.

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Falling Vaccination Rates Brings Spikes in Measles Worldwide

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2024 -- Waning vaccine coverage has fueled a 20% spike in measles cases worldwide, with 10.3 million people struck by the preventable illness in 2023, health officials reported Wednesday."Inadequate immunization coverage globally.

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On Wall Street, ‘flat out’ failure of AbbVie schizophrenia drug leaves analysts stunned

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Negative drug results cost AbbVie billions of dollars in market value and convinced analysts that Bristol Myers had placed a better bet in buying Karuna Therapeutics.

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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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Study reveals how cancer immunotherapy may cause heart inflammation in some patients

Broad Institute

Study reveals how cancer immunotherapy may cause heart inflammation in some patients By Leah Eisenstadt November 6, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Study reveals how cancer immunotherapy may cause heart inflammation in some patients Myocarditis is driven by a different immune response than the anti-tumor one, suggesting that the serious complication could one day be managed without halting cancer therapy.

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While the Orphan Battles Wages, Jazz Takes a Loss

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By Sara W. Koblitz — The fight between Jazz, Avadel, and FDA over narcolepsy drug sodium oxybate has been a long and arduous one. Starting in 2022 with a patent certification requirement, both Jazz and Avadel have sued FDA over this drug, with Jazz most recently bringing suit challenging FDA’s decision that Avadel’s Lumryz (sodium oxybate) is clinically superior to Jazz’s Xywav (sodium oxybate) in 2023.

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Intelligently Automating Prior Authorization to Build Consumer Trust in Healthcare

Perficient: Drug Development

Healthcare leaders are engaging us in a variety of discussions to explore intelligent automation’s role for complex business challenges, ranging from efforts to enhance consumer trust and use artificial intelligence (AI) in effective ways, to navigating change that comes with prior authorization mandates. This series shares key insights coming from those discussions.

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Can we live on our planet without destroying it?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give? A new article tackles these questions.

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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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Ozempic Could Help Curb Alcoholism

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 2024 -- The blockbuster GLP-1 drug semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) could curb drinking for people battling alcohol use disorder, helping them to avoid crises that require hospitalization, new research shows. Numerous studies had.

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Merck, facing threat to Keytruda, buys into new kind of cancer immunotherapy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company is paying China-based biotech LaNova Medicines $588 million for the type of dual-pronged antibody drug that recently bested Keytruda in a clinical trial.

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A Genetic Crystal Ball: When Newborn Genome Sequencing Findings Explain Illnesses in Relatives

PLOS: DNA Science

In 2019, I wrote about how sequencing the genomes of newborns might compromise their privacy if genetic information was not adequately protected as they grew up. Now five years later, researchers are recognizing a perhaps unexpected benefit of newborn DNA analysis – explaining seemingly unrelated symptoms in relatives. Newborn Screening for Metabolites, not DNA Screening newborns for telltale molecules other than DNA has been around for decades.

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Some Thoughts on Splitting Chemical Datasets

Practical Cheminformatics

Introduction Dataset splitting is one topic that doesn’t get enough attention when discussing machine learning (ML) in drug discovery. The data is typically divided into training and test sets when developing and evaluating an ML model. The model is trained on the training set, and its performance is assessed on the test set. If hyperparameter tuning is required, a validation set is also included.

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What are Patient Support Programs?

thought leadership

Patient Support Programs (PSPs) in the pharmaceutical sector offer a range of services to help patients start and adhere to their therapies, including Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs), patient education, provider support, field role partnerships for injection and device training, concierge services for travel and lodging, and clinical trial support.

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Sleepiness during the day may be tied to pre-dementia syndrome

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Older people who are sleepy during the day or lack enthusiasm for activities due to sleep issues may be more likely to develop a syndrome that can lead to dementia, according to a new study.

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Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Early Promise in Mice

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2024 -- An experimental vaccine has shown promise in protecting against the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, researchers report.Lab mice given the vaccine were able to rapidly clear subsequent chlamydia infections, and were.

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Eisai wins over European regulators on Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A key regulatory committee sided against the drug this summer. But an appeal from Eisai appears to have worked, teeing Leqembi up for authorization in a major market.

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Top 10 Challenges in Generic Drug Development

Drug Patent Watch

Generic drug development is a crucial aspect of the pharmaceutical industry, providing cost-effective alternatives to brand-name medications. However, this process is not without its challenges. Here are the top 10 challenges faced by generic drug developers: Generic drug development involves navigating complex regulatory frameworks, including the U.S.

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Medicare Part D in 2025: Preferred Pharmacy Networks Fade in a Collapsing PDP Market

Drug Channels

Uh oh. As I predicted, the stand-alone Medicare Part D prescription drug plans (PDP) market is vanishing. For 2025, DCI’s exclusive analysis of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) data reveals that the number of PDPs will drop to a historic low. What’s more, the share of plans with a preferred cost sharing pharmacy network will fall to its lowest rate in more than 10 years.

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Patient Support Programs in India: Overcoming Barriers with Healthcare Access

thought leadership

Current Landscape of Medication and Healthcare Access in India India's healthcare system is a complex landscape with significant disparities in access to medical services and medications. Despite progress over the years, challenges such as high out-of-pocket costs, geographical disparities, and cultural barriers continue to affect healthcare accessibility, especially for economically vulnerable populations.

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First amber find on the Antarctic continent

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.

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FDA Proposes Ban on a 'Useless' Decongestant, Phenylephrine

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Nov. 7, 2024 -- More than a year after its advisory panel unanimously declared the drug phenylephrine to be useless against nasal congestion, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing that it be removed from common.

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BioNTech to buy Biotheus, gaining control of cancer bispecific

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Biotheus’ antibody drug targets PD-L1 and VEGF, a design that’s high on drugmakers’ radars after the success of Summit Therapeutics’ ivonescimab over Keytruda.

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Managing Drug Patent Portfolios Effectively

Drug Patent Watch

Effective management of drug patent portfolios is crucial for pharmaceutical companies to maintain market exclusivity, protect revenue streams, and drive innovation. A robust patent strategy aligned with business goals is essential for maximizing value and staying competitive in the pharmaceutical landscape.