Recommendations for Counseling Traveling Patients with Diabetes
May 23rd 2019According to the ADA, best practice is to pack at least twice as much medications and glucose testing supplies as normally needed to minimize complications due to travel delays or lost luggage.3 Many manufacturers of insulin pumps will provide a loaner for international travel.
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Drugs of the Future Start with Regulatory Affairs
May 23rd 2019Regulatory affairs is another frontier for pharmacists to explore, and pharmacists are just scratching the surface of the opportunities in this area. In this interview with pharmacist Brendan Doran of CTI Clinical Trial & Consulting, he touches on the many phases of the drug life cycle with an emphasis on the process of bringing a drug to regulatory bodies for market approval, and gives a look into some of the current and emerging roles available in regulatory affairs.
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Investigational Inhalational Therapy Shows Benefits Over Standard Asthma Treatment in Study
May 22nd 2019The new phase 2 data for an investigational once-daily, fixed dose combination currently in development for the treatment of inadequately controlled asthma was presented at the 2019 Annual International Congress of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) in Dallas.
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Partnership Aims to Bring Novel Gastroenterology Therapies to Worldwide Market
May 20th 2019Parvus Therapeutics and Genentech have entered into a worldwide collaboration and licensing agreement for the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of treatments for inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune liver diseases, and celiac disease using nanomedicines (Navacim) developed by Parvus.
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Debate Continues Over Co-pay Accumulator Programs
May 18th 2019Bruce Feinberg, DO, vice president and chief medical officer of Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions, recently explored both sides of the debate as to whether these tools are effective for managing costs or add barriers to patient access.
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FDA OKs Expanded Indication for Short Bowel Syndrome Treatment to Include Children
May 17th 2019Officials with the FDA have approved extending the indication of Takeda Pharmaceuticals’ teduglutide (Gattex) for injection to pediatric patients age 1 year and older with Short Bowel Syndrome who need additional nutrition or fluids from intravenous feeding.
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NHIA 2019: Empowering Pharmacies to Grow in Specialty
May 17th 2019The convenience of home infusion for these products is very enticing for patients who require them and positioning home infusion pharmacies as partners with prescribers and patients is critical to help support this influx of new therapies.
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CMS Action Aims to Lower Prescription Drug Prices, Increase Cost Transparency
May 17th 2019The final rule requires Part D plans to adopt tools that provide clinicians with information that they can discuss with patients on out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs at the time a prescription is written.
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