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At the 2018 National Community Oncology Dispensing Association (NCODA) Spring Summit, Howard Cohen, RPh, MS, FASHP, from Smilow Cancer Hospital, Yale-New Haven Health, discusses how information technology can be utilized to improve medication adherence on patients with cancer.

Patients treated with erenumab had nearly 3-fold higher odds of having their migraine days cut by at least 50%.

Study finds improving adherence to disease-modifying multiple sclerosis medications could reduce clinical relapses while saving on medical costs.

A review found an elevated risk of cancer progression with increasing wait time between positive screening and start of diagnostic testing.

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Last year, 41% of pharmacy drug spending was for specialty drugs compared with 59% for traditional drugs.

The drive towards value-based care could accelerate through competition among health plans.

Pharmacy benefit manager study indicates that moving patients with hemophilia from standard half-life to extended half-life coagulation factor products carries a significant cost increase.

Nivolumab showed major tumor responses in early stage lung cancer patients and an increase in anti-tumor T-cells that remained after the tumor was removed.

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At the 2018 National Community Oncology Dispensing Association (NCODA) Spring Summit, Ray Bailey, BPharm, RPh, Pharmacists Director at Florida Cancer Specialists, discusses important considerations for managing oral chemotherapy care plans and improving adherence in patients.

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.