Luke Halpern, Associate Editor

As the end of this Congress approaches, the National Community Pharmacists Association is lobbying members to pass pharmacy benefit manager reforms.

Three of the largest pharmacy benefit managers ––Express Scripts, Optum, and Caremark––are listed in the suit.

The rare disease can result in progressive neurological symptoms and organ complications.

Improvements in survival outcomes were seen among those at high risk for DLBCL who received 6x R-CHOP21 + 2R.

Though hospitalizations and test positivity remain at modest levels, wastewater analysis indicates high circulation of SARS-CoV-2, especially in western states.

In a patient with long-shedding SARS-CoV-2, transfusion-related acute lung injury developed after intravenous immunoglobulin, emphasizing careful treatment considerations.

In 2021, cancer diagnosis rates remained low after major disruptions during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The non-opioid drug can induce healing of joint cartilage in patients with osteoarthritis.

Abstracts from the OrigAMI-1 and MARIPOSA-2 trials indicated the treatment benefits of amivantamab-vmjw and chemotherapy in multiple cancer indications.

In the absence of a common treatment for long COVID, researchers from around the world documented the best currently available therapies.

Subcutaneous administration of atezolizumab and hyaluronidase-tqjs had similar efficacy to intravenous administration.

These results build off the PURPOSE 1 trial, contributing to the wealth of evidence surrounding lenacapavir’s positive effects in patients with HIV.

Promising abstracts surrounding DLL3 targeting for patients with lung and neuroendocrine cancer were presented at WCLC 2024.

Highlights from multiple trials investigating novel treatments for mNSCLC were presented at 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Tocilizumab reduced relapses in 4 patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD).

When IVIG was administered within 48 hours of hospital admission, hospital and ICU length of stay were dramatically shortened.

Presentations highlighted the potential of tarlatamab in treating solid tumor cancers.

Datopotamab deruxtecan was effective in patients with TROP2-QCS biomarker-positive tumors for non–small cell lung cancer

Lazertinib with amivantamab was found to be similar in efficacy to osimertinib in the MARIPOSA study.

Full traditional approval follows accelerated approval of the medication last year.

New transparency initiatives will go into effect on January 1, 2025, building off previous actions by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Surprisingly, those with overweight BMI at diagnosis did not have a poor prognosis.

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy was found to have statistically significant positive effects on live birth rates, implantation rate, and other indicators.

These companion diagnostics are poised to provide simpler and detailed insights into a patient’s genomic alternations, which could improve outcomes for patients with prostate cancer.

In a promising development in multiple sclerosis research, tolebrutinib delayed the onset of disability progression in patients with nrSPMS.

Patients with DLBCL on Medicaid had worse survival outcomes than those on commercial insurance, but there were no statistically significant differences in survival between races.

Bezisterim, an anti-inflammatory insulin sensitizer, will be authorized to proceed to a phase 2 clinical trial.

For those with unexplained pregnancy loss, these results could prove promising improvements to birth outcomes.

The request comes as increased scrutiny is levied toward pharmacy benefit managers for alleged unfair business practices.

Pharmacists play an essential role in ensuring the medication is dispensed to patients with high atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk.