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April 26th 2024
Pharmacists working with long-term care centers benefit from streamlined billing to support and build patient trust.
Pediatric Medication Studies: A New Challenge for Institutional Review Boards, Ethics Committees
July 10th 2023Institutional review boards and ethics committees have seen it as their main task in the past few decades to protect children from questionable studies; however, they are faced with a new challenge with pediatric drug development.
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Have Children Truly Ever Been ‘Therapeutic Orphans?’
June 16th 2023Imposing the FDA on-label/off-label framework on administratively defined "children" resulted in a regulatory demand for pediatric studies that had no basis in clinical medicine, with the exception of the small group of preterm newborns.
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Patient Case Study: A Rare Neurological Disease Diagnostic Journey
June 8th 2023Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder is an autoimmune disease characterized by severe attacks of optic neuritis and/or myelitis, leading to possible visual loss, paralysis, cognitive impairment, sensory deficits, bladder dysfunction, and even mortality.
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Efficacy of Upadacitinib Maintained for 3 Years for Those With Psoriatic Arthritis
June 7th 2023Previously, upadacitinib improved symptoms through 2 years in the SELECT-PsA 1 trial for those with psoriatic arthritis with prior inadequate response or intolerance to ≥1 non-biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug.
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Pegfilgrastim Biosimilar for Treatment of Neutropenia Launches
May 17th 2023Pegfilgrastim-pbbk is a leukocyte growth factor developed to reduce the onset of infection in patients with non-myeloid malignancies administered myelosuppressive anticancer medications associated with a clinically significant rate of febrile neutropenia.
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Expert: Though Patients Don’t Always See Savings With Biosimilars, New Policies Could Improve Access
May 15th 2023Fran Gregory, PharmD, MBA, vice president of Emerging Therapies at Cardinal Health, discussed the role biosimilars are playing in the pharmaceutical market as well as in patient access.
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