Specialty Pharmacy

This week on Pharmacy Times, there are a number of important topics that will be covered and posted throughout the week.

Cheryl Larson, president and CEO of Midwest Business Group on Health, discusses current efforts to manage drug spend and the high cost of specialty drugs on the market.

The investigators concluded that a definite statement on risk or management recommendations cannot be made based on currently published data.

Specialty pharmacists’ roles have grown in new and exciting ways in recent years, and those changes have directly impacted health outcomes for all specialty patients, including patients with HIV.

It is now the only 4-dose-a-year biologic for psoriasis with options to administer via a single-dose pen or prefilled syringe, the company said.

A proactive approach can ensure that the patient is getting the right therapy at the right time and the right treatment plan with the least amount of waste.

English discussed the challenges and highlights of her time in the trial, in addition to what she feels health care professionals should learn from her own treatment experience.

The pandemic taught the pharmacy to provide a deeper level of personalized care and communication than in the past.

Julie Bullock, VP, global head of clinical pharmacology and translational medicine at Certara, discusses the FDA’s new guidance Project Optimus, which addresses issues relating to dose optimization in clinical trials assessing oncology drugs.

When trying determine which drug can be called the most expensive on the market, there are 2 potential answers depending on how you define the question.

Octagam 10% is indicated for the treatment of chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura in adults and dermatomyositis (DM) in adults

Ten quiz questions to assess your knowledge on common multiple sclerosis treatments.

Avalglucosidase alfa-ngpt is indicated for patients aged 1 year and older with late-onset Pompe disease.

Although there was a numerical difference between the mean number of new or newly enlarging T2 hyperintense lesions at week 72 of 0.05 (Q4W) and 0.20 (Q6W), this difference was not clinically meaningful in the context of the full data, according to the investigators.

Ten quiz questions to assess your knowledge on common rheumatoid arthritis treatments.

Pharmacy Times interviewed Craig Freyer, PharmD, BCOP, and Andrew Lin, PharmD, BCOP, to discuss how to manage the logistical challenges that arise during the administration of CAR T therapy in inpatient and outpatient settings for patients with multiple myeloma.

Workflow in the clinic and the pharmacy are critical for the implementation of a new and novel medication therapy, such as cabotegravir-rilpivirine.

Pharmacy Times interviewed Craig Freyer, PharmD, BCOP, and Andrew Lin, PharmD, BCOP, to discuss the updates in the prevention and treatment of cytokine release syndrome and neurologic toxicities for patients with multiple myeloma.

The research team noted that although HCL has a good prognosis for the majority of patients, a small population will develop variants of the disease do not respond well to existing FDA-approved therapies or cannot tolerate the adverse effects of established therapies.

According to a press release from Saniona, Tesomet is the first and only investigational treatment for HO to receive orphan drug designation.

The FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to alrizomadlin (APG-115, Ascentage Pharma) for the treatment of stage IIB-IV melanoma.

The FDA has approved pembrolizumab in combination with lenvatinib for the treatment of advanced endometrial carcinoma that is not microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient

Venetoclax is already approved for the treatment of adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma, and in some adults with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia.

PBMs can implement a clinically rigorous approach to specialty pharmacy management that ensures members have appropriate access while helping payers control their pharmacy spend.

Home infusion of specialty medications was an outpatient service offered to patients before the pandemic started; however, with COVID-19, home infusion became more important than ever.

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are perfectly positioned to help manage patients' transitions of care, according to experts with University of Michigan Health.

This week on Pharmacy Times, there are a number of important topics that will be covered and posted throughout the week.

Since pharmacy is a service business, the required process of communicating and educating customers, working closely with physicians, and navigating relief programs can help patients customers address the problems and stress of receiving a denial by their insurance company.

A variety of methods can be used to create an individualized approach to removing barriers for patients with cancer.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ASHP) first annual survey of health-system specialty pharmacies (HSSPs) offered insights into the concerns of specialty pharmacists and provided an opportunity for professionals in the field to outline a potential future for specialty pharmacy.