Specialty Pharmacy

The AMCP Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy Annual Meeting featured various discussions on strategies to manage complex patients and achieve optimal outcomes, highlighted by an exciting string of innovations and policy shifts.

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As specialty pharmacies continue to grow, health systems will need to evaluate whether an integrated specialty pharmacy is right for them.

Romosozumab-aqqg (Evenity, Amgen) works to decrease the risk of fracture by increasing new bone formation in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis.

On Tuesday, a US Senate Finance Committee hearing on drug pricing focused on addressing the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in determining cost to patients.

Approximately 1 in 5 patients in a study were misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis before being referred to treatment centers.

Lisa Holle, PharmD, BCOP, FHOPA, associate clinical professor at the University of Connecticut, explains which patient populations would best benefit from either apalutamide versus enzalutamide in the treatment of non-metastatic prostate cancer.

Updated clinical practice guidelines from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) review patient selection for the use of agents such as ibrutinib for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

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With this approval, patients with HIV who have never been treated have the option of a 2-drug regimen in a single tablet.

Adenosine deaminase is an ultra-rare and inherited disorder that is detrimental to the immune system and causes severe combined immune deficiency.

Brain stem cells of patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis appear to age faster.

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Physicians who used an electronic health record system found to have a better cognitive workload and performance.

Enfortumab vedotin is being investigated for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer following both platinum-containing chemotherapy and a PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor.

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The matching of optimized technologies and novel approaches has provided investigators with a framework to assess and understand neurologic conditions.

Specialty pharmacy can benefit from having definitive a center of excellence model that caters to respective therapies and disease states.

An implantable form of naltrexone was more effective in improving HIV outcomes in patients compared with oral naltrexone.

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Rizaport is an oral film formulation of rizatriptan benzoate, the active drug in Maxalt, for patients with migraine who experience dysphagia or migraine-related nausea.

The daratumumab (Darzalex) combination therapy would be the first for use in the frontline setting for transplant-eligible patients with multiple myeloma.

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HIV infection is associated with higher rates of hepatitis C replication.

Although lung cancer screenings are covered at no cost by most insurers, state Medicaid programs are not required to offer coverage for this service.

Immune Globulin Intravenous, Human – slra 10% Liquid (Asceniv) is indicated for use in the treatment of primary humoral immunodeficiency disease in adults and adolescents.