Specialty Pharmacy

With the growing use of digital patient identification to conduct business it comes as no surprise that many people have sought to take advantage of Medicare members.

New treatments for cystic fibrosis, migraines, and multiple sclerosis expected to help push specialty drug costs on the pharmacy benefit to nearly 50% of total drug spending by 2020.

Epidiolex would be the first plant-based cannabinoid approved by the FDA and would create a new category of anti-epileptic drugs.

Christopher W. Kennedy, MSM, Chief Operating Officer, Heritage Biologics, speaks about the positive effects telehealth can have on specialty pharmacy patients.

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Novel technique leverages limited DNA sequences from HIV to spark a priming effect within the patient’s immune response.

The 2019 Benefit and Payment Parameters final rule allows states to select their own Essential Health Benefits benchmark plans.

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The FDA has granted priority review to the application for the treatment of patients with small cell lung cancer whose disease has progressed after 2 or more prior lines of therapy.

New analysis from a phase 3 trial reports that oral, once-daily siponimod (BAF312) consistently reduced disability progression in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.

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Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) met its primary endpoint in the pivotal phase 3 KEYNOTE-042 trial.

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Osimertinib surpassed standard of care with a median progression-free survival of 18.9 months in clinical trials.

HDL cholesterol is known as the good kind, but too much or too little could negatively impact the immune system.

Officials with the FDA have approved fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate (Tavalisse, Rigel) for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) who have had an insufficient response to a previous treatment

Emicizumab-kxwh (Hemlibra, Genentech) is the first medication to show superior efficacy compared with prior factor VIII prophylaxis in intra-patient comparisons.

Most of the survey respondents were unaware of oncology drug shortages but would want to be told about any therapy substitutions caused by short supply.

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Until now, there has been little guidance on the safe prescribing of opioids in the inpatient, non-operative setting.

Some studies have suggested that patients with HIV have not only a higher risk of lung cancer, but also an increased risk of mortality from lung cancer than patients without HIV.

In its phase 3 trial, Pfizer’s axitinib (Inlyta) did not achieve disease-free survival in patients at high risk of recurrent renal cell carcinoma after nephrectomy.

The findings could lead to broader access to cancer drug Z-endoxifen for further clinical study

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Opdivo and Yervoy combination is the first and only treatment to show significantly superior survival compared with sunitinib in intermediate- and poor-risk advanced RCC.

There are 40 genes involved in the development of multiple myeloma, according to new research.

The guidances provide recommendations for the development and validation of tests that use next generations sequencing.

Ramucirumab improved overall survival and progression-free survival in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who have a high alpha-fetoprotein.

Although the risk of neurocognitive issues is common in survivors of childhood lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a new study suggests that the risk may actually begin before treatment.