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Moderna's New Lower-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine, mNexspike, Approved by FDA

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new lower-dose vaccine for active immunization against COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The new vaccine (mNexspike [COVID-19 Vaccine.

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Being in nature can help people with chronic back pain manage their condition

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers asked patients, some of whom had experienced lower back pain for up to 40 years, if being in nature helped them coped better with their lower back pain. They found that people able to spend time in their own gardens saw some health and wellbeing benefits. However, those able to immerse themselves in larger green spaces such as forests felt even more positive, as they were able to lose themselves in the environment and focus more on that than their pain levels.

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Bayer drug could ease side effects of common breast cancer treatment, detailed data show

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Elinzanetant proved effective for managing disruptive vasomotor symptoms in women on endocrine therapy, supporting a Bayer application for approval.

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Tea, berries, dark chocolate and apples could lead to a longer life span, study shows

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research has found that those who consume a diverse range of foods rich in flavonoids, such as tea, berries, dark chocolate, and apples, could lower their risk of developing serious health conditions and have the potential to live longer.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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J&J data support earlier use of combo pill in prostate cancer

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

According to J&J, Akeega is the first PARP inhibitor combination that’s proven effective treating earlier-stage prostate tumors that harbor mutations in genes beyond BRCA.

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Pedal proof of concept study report

Predictive Oncology

This Executive Overview outlines the proof-of-concept study completed by Predictive Oncology to illustrate the power of our active machine learning (AI) platform paired with our biobank of over 150,000 primary patient dissociated tumor samples. The described validation results demonstrate the generation of a predictive model that was able to accurately predict drug response across 130 samples and 175 drugs.

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Black holes could act as natural supercolliders -- and help uncover dark matter

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would otherwise take decades and billions to pursue.

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From Kitchen To Conversion

Perficient: Drug Development

Why Conversion Rate Optimization is The Most Important Investment You Need to Make in 2025 Imagine youve just opened a new restaurant. Youve done your homeworkpicked the perfect location buzzing with your ideal customers, surrounded by offices, nightlife, and tourist spots. Foot traffic? Check. Your food is top-notch. Youve hired talented chefs, tested your dishes through pop-ups, and received glowing feedback and reviews.

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Two “Unresolvable” Prescribing/Dispensing Red Flags Unfurled

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By Larry K. Houck We appreciate receiving feedback on our blog posts. We received a response to our post on the prescribing red flags indicating the likelihood of certain prescriptions filled by Walgreens pharmacies were invalid because they lacked a legitimate medical purpose or were not issued in the usual course of professional practice. Press Release, Walgreens Agrees To Pay Up to $350M for Illegally Filling Unlawful Opioid Prescriptions and Submitting False Claims, U.S.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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A Comprehensive Guide to Azure Firewall

Perficient: Drug Development

Azure Firewall, a managed, cloud-based network security service, is an essential component of Azures security offerings. It comes in three different versions Basic, Standard, and Premium each designed to cater to a wide range of customer use cases and preferences. This blog post will provide a comprehensive comparison of these versions, discuss best practices for their use, and delve into their application in hub-spoke and Azure Virtual WAN with Secure Hub architectures.

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Pharmacist Salaries and Employment in 2024: Retail Employment Collapse Offset by Hospital Boom

Drug Channels

Its time for Drug Channels annual look at pharmacist salaries and employment. There was more bad news, as employment in retail pharmacies and drugstores dropped by 8,500 positions in 2024, following a drop of 4,800 positions in 2023. Employment in mass merchants and supermarkets with pharmacies increased. Meanwhile, employment at hospitals surged to a new high, growing by nearly 7,000 positions in 2024.

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Redefining CCaaS Success in the Digital Era

Perficient: Drug Development

With the advancement of technology, machine learning and AI capabilities in the customer care space, customer expectations are evolving faster than ever before. Customers expect smoother, context-aware, personalized, and generally more effective and faster experiences across channels when contacting a support center. This calls for a need to revisit and redefine the success metrics for a Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) strategy.

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Why the World Looks to Switzerland for Pharmaceutical Excellence

Drug Patent Watch

"The Secret to Swiss Success: How a Small Country Became the World's Pharmaceutical Powerhouse In a world where pharmaceutical innovation is a matter of life and death, one country stands out from the rest: Switzerland. With a reputation for precision, quality, and cutting-edge research, the Swiss have become the gold standard for the industry.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Perficient Included in Forrester’s AI Technical Services Landscape, Q2 2025

Perficient: Drug Development

As we move through 2025, artificial intelligence especially generative AI continues to redefine how enterprises operate and compete. What began as experimentation has rapidly evolved into large-scale adoption, with organizations embedding AI into core strategies, operations, and customer experiences. From intelligent automation and predictive insights to dynamic content generation, AI is now a driving force behind innovation, agility, and growth.

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Baboons walk in line for friendship, not survival, new study finds

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have discovered that baboons walk in lines, not for safety or strategy, but simply to stay close to their friends.

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Access to Care Is Evolving: What Consumer Insights and Behavior Models Reveal

Perficient: Drug Development

Consumers arent waiting for healthcare to evolvetheyre already redefining what access means. They expect care to be affordable and available, but thats only the beginning. Increasingly, they also demand experiences that are convenient, personalized, and digitally seamless. When those expectations arent met, they dont hesitate to look elsewhere. Understanding this shift requires more than demographic segmentation or digital analytics.

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Scientists say next few years vital to securing the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four meters of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds of years according to a new study. However, the authors emphasize that immediate actions to reduce emissions could still avoid a catastrophic outcome.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Ritesh Sachdeo Shatters Boundaries in Perficient’s Quality Assurance Practice

Perficient: Drug Development

Perficient embraces a culture of continuous learning by providing opportunities for our colleagues to enhance their skillset and drive exponential growth for our partners, clients, and global teams. We bring a commitment to excellence that resonates with every project. Our skilled Quality Assurance (QA) strategists employ a holistic approachcovering the full spectrum of strategy, testing, automation, toolsets, and additional support systems ensuring that all products and applications exceed exp

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More Seniors Are Regular Weed Users

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 Add weed use to goofy jokes, outdated clothes, old music and other things Grandpa and Grandma enjoy that could potentially embarrass their kids and grandkids.Marijuana use has increased dramatically among seniors 65 and o.

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First direct observation of the trapped waves that shook the world in 2023

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September -- October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became trapped standing waves. Using a brand-new type of satellite altimetry, the researchers provide the first observations to confirm the existence of these waves whose behavior is entirely unprecedented.

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Moderna's New Lower-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Approved by FDA

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new lower-dose vaccine for active immunization against COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.The new vaccine (mNexspike [COVID-19 Vaccine.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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DNA floating in the air tracks wildlife, viruses -- even drugs

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Environmental DNA from the air, captured with simple air filters, can track everything from illegal drugs to the wildlife it was originally designed to study.

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Breast Cancer Screening In Women's 40s Can Save Lives, Study Says

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 Starting breast cancer screening in womens early 40s will save more lives, a new study argues.Nearly 3 in 4 women (73%) in their 40s find out they have breast cancer only after theyve developed symptoms, researchers repor.

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Particles energized by magnetic reconnection in the nascent solar wind

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful phenomena as the spacecraft dipped in and out of the solar corona.

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How Can A Daily Cup Of Beans Improve Your Health?

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 Beans arent just the musical fruit, they can be pure magic for your health, a new study says.Eating a daily cup of beans significantly improved the health of a small group of people with prediabetes a condition in which el.

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CDD Vault Update (June 2025): ELN Version Control, User Mentions, and Linking Inventory Samples

Collaborative Drug

CDD Vault Update (May 2025): New PDB Viewer, AI Similarity Searches, Registered IDs in AI Results, Inventory Unit Conversion, Visualize Batch Data, Nucleotide to Amino Acid Sequence Translation

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Tiny Baby’s Life-Threatening Wound Healed With Fish Skin

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 When Eliana DeVos plays with her Ariel doll, her mom cant help but get emotional.I call her my little mermaid, Krystal DeVos, who lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, told CNN.What makes that nickname extra special is the surpr.

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Understanding the Importance of The Dose-Response Curve

Collaborative Drug

Learn the importance of dose-response curves in drug discovery, how to create them, and why they are essential for assessing compound potency. Discover key concepts like the Hill equation and the differences between dose-response and drug-response curves for optimized pharmaceutical analysis.

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Study Finds Powerful Sweetener in Vapes Marketed to Teens

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 A new study has found a super-sweet chemical in illegal flavored e-cigarettes that may make them more appealing to kids and teens.The sweetener, called neotame, is up to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar and is usually used in.

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