Prescriptions for Extended-Release Drugs Cost Health Care System Billions
March 4th 2020Using the 2012 to 2017 Medicare Part D Drug Event and Medicaid Spending and Utilization data sets, the researchers analyzed 20 extended-release drugs with 37 Medicare formulations and 36 Medicaid formulations. The analyses were conducted from January to December 2019.
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New Genes Controlling HIV Infection Discovered That Could Help Make Predictions About Pharmacy
March 4th 2020Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have cataloged host proteins that physically bind to HIV proteins, which identify human proteins that the virus can use to infect cells and spread.
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Colorado Aims to Let Pharmacists Write Own Prescriptions for HIV Prevention Drugs
March 3rd 2020The bill is intended to "prevent a health insurance carrier from requiring a covered person to undergo step therapy or to receive prior authorization before receiving HIV infection prevention drugs."
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FDA Grants Fast Track Designation to Treatment for Systemic Sclerosis
March 3rd 2020The designation was granted to Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals’ EHP-101, an oral formulation of a novel aminoquinone synthetic derivative of cannabidiol endowed with dual peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma and cannabinoid receptor type 2 agonist activity.
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U=U Continues to Unite HIV Community, Dismantle Stigma Around the Epidemic
March 3rd 2020The Undectectable = Untransmittable (U=U) campaign started in early 2016 and has been sharing the message to dismantle the stigma surrounding HIV ever since. More than 970 community partners from 101 countries have come together to clear up the confusion about the science behind U=U.
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4 Pharmacy Groups Document Support in Supreme Court Case Seeking to Limit PBMs
March 3rd 2020The National Community Pharmacists Association, the Arkansas Pharmacists Association, the American Pharmacists Association, and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations took the joint action of filing an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case [Arkansas Attorney General Leslie] Rutledge v. the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, scheduled to be heard in Washington, DC on April 27, 2020.
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