Sat.Mar 02, 2024 - Fri.Mar 08, 2024

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Early Impact Of The Inflation Reduction Act On Drug Discovery

Forbes: Drug Truths

There is another aspect of this provision of the IRA that is starting to be felt – "the small molecule penalty"

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FDA Warns of Toxic Lead in Cinnamon Products

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a health advisory Wednesday warning consumers that six brands of ground cinnamon are tainted with lead. The FDA urged folks to throw away and not buy the following brands of.

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A smart molecule beats the mutation behind most pancreatic cancer

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have designed a candidate drug that could help make pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, a treatable, perhaps even curable, condition.

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Amylyx ALS drug fails crucial study, putting company’s future in doubt

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The results have led Amylyx to pause promotion of Relyvrio and potentially pull it from the market in the coming weeks, a major blow to the company and ALS patients.

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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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Does Federally Funded Research Justify A Piece Of Pharma’s Profits?

Forbes: Drug Truths

The thought that all drugs arise from government funded research is a fallacy.

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Schizophrenia and aging may share a common biological basis

Broad Institute

Schizophrenia and aging may share a common biological basis By Allessandra DiCorato March 6, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Schizophrenia and aging may share a common biological basis Tightly synchronized genetic changes in two types of brain cells may underlie cognitive impairment in both conditions, offering potential therapeutic clues. By Allessandra DiCorato March 6, 2024 Credit: Ricardo Job-Reese, Broad Communications A new study of aging and schizophrenia reveals synchronized gene expression in astr

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Carcinogen Benzene Can Form in Some Acne Treatments: Report

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, March 7, 2024 -- Some acne treatments may may banish blemishes but carry hidden dangers: A new report reveals high levels of the carcinogen benzene can form in products that contain the zit-fighting ingredient benzoyl peroxide.According.

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Achieving New Heights in Healthcare Marketing With Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization

Perficient: Drug Development

In December 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services released a bulletin announcing additional compliance requirements for healthcare marketers when it comes to third-party trackers. The guidance lays forth expectations for how healthcare organizations collect data on activities that take place on their website and mobile apps. So, what’s the problem?

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Study reveals genetic clusters that may explain differences in type 2 diabetes risk

Broad Institute

Study reveals genetic clusters that may explain differences in type 2 diabetes risk By Corie Lok March 8, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Study reveals genetic clusters that may explain differences in type 2 diabetes risk The clusters point to a range of biological processes that likely contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes. By Brandon Chase, Massachusetts General Hospital Communications March 8, 2024 Related content Largest and most diverse genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes revea

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Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new research shows. The findings raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from that meteor, as was widely reported.

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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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Boundless Bio, a Bayer-backed cancer biotech, seeks an IPO

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The startup, which has raised nearly $254 million privately, is in early testing with drugs designed to target particularly tough-to-treat tumors.

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Co-founder of Company Behind Deadly 2012 Meningitis Outbreak Gets Up to 15 Years in Prison

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- Barry Cadden, co-founder of a specialty compounding pharmacy behind a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012, has been handed a prison sentence of 10 to 15 years in Michigan for involuntary manslaughter.On Tuesday, Cadden.

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#ScienceSaturday: March 2, 2024

KIF1A

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research SPARKing New Insight Into Autism Across the Lifespan When I was growing up, autism was still unfamiliar to many; people may had heard the term but families often had to educate themselves, their

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Orcas demonstrating they no longer need to hunt in packs to take down the great white shark

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An orca (killer whale) has been observed, for the first-ever time, individually consuming a great white shark -- and within just two minutes.

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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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FDA delays decision on Lilly’s closely watched Alzheimer’s drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The agency expects to convene a group of outside experts to more closely scrutinize the safety and efficacy of the medicine, donanemab, pushing back the timing of its potential approval.

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FDA Approves Wegovy to Help Prevent Heart Attack, Stroke

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 8, 2024 -- Wegovy (semaglutide), the weight-loss version of blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic, was approved on Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help prevent heart attack, stroke and heart death.“Wegovy is now the.

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It’s Time To Update Your Data Lake Ingestion Strategy

Perficient: Drug Development

If you built your data lake in the last 5-7 years, you probably are ingesting data into the data lake using many batch jobs that ingest and update data in the data lake. There is nothing wrong with what you did, but data technology has continued to move forward and in my opinion, the time has come to change your data lake ingestion strategy to reduce the number of high-latency batch jobs and move toward primarily using real-time change data capture (CDC).

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Sinking land increases risk for thousands of coastal residents by 2050

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study provides a new comprehensive look at the potential for flooding in a combined 32 cities along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts. It predicts as many as 500,000 people will be affected by flooding alongside 1 in 35 privately owned properties within the next three decades, and it highlights the racial and socioeconomic demographics of those potentially affected.

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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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Novo’s latest obesity pill spurs major weight loss in small trial

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Early results from a Phase 1 study suggest the drug, amycretin, could be as potent as injectable medicines already sold by Novo and rival Eli Lilly.

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Wegovy, Ozempic Use Could Complicate Your Surgery

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- Weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic can increase a person’s risk of throwing up during surgery while under anesthesia, a new study reports. People are typically asked to fast prior to surgery because general.

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A close research partnership with African scientists helps solve the mystery of malaria-like illnesses

Broad Institute

A close research partnership with African scientists helps solve the mystery of malaria-like illnesses By Claire Hendershot March 8, 2024 Breadcrumb Home A close research partnership with African scientists helps solve the mystery of malaria-like illnesses Two scientists discuss how they used genetic sequencing to identify causes of malaria-mimicking infections in Senegal.

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Lack of focus doesn't equal lack of intelligence -- it's proof of an intricate brain

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Imagine a busy restaurant: dishes clattering, music playing, people talking loudly over one another. It's a wonder that anyone in that kind of environment can focus enough to have a conversation. A new study provides some of the most detailed insights yet into the brain mechanisms that help people pay attention amid such distraction, as well as what's happening when they can't focus.

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Alnylam, Roche blood pressure drug scores in second mid-stage trial

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The study results further validate Roche’s recent decision to acquire rights to the drug, which is being developed for people with a stubborn form of hypertension.

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U.S. School Shootings Have Risen 12-fold Since 1970

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 8, 2024 -- During the past half-century, the United States’ annual number of school shootings has increased more than twelvefold, a new study finds.What’s more, children are now four times more likely to be a school shooting.

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Maintaining Your Adobe Launch Implementation

Perficient: Drug Development

Adobe Launch is a valuable tool to help you manage the tags placed across your website, including Facebook, Pinterest, and Bing pixels as well as Adobe Analytics and Target depending on your property. Many of these tags are either deployed via custom code or via one of the many extensions within Launch’s extension to help you manage your tags. However, as your implementation grows over time, you may find that it becomes difficult to handle due to several factors, including any dependencies on ex

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Children surpass a year of HIV remission after treatment pause

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Four children have remained free of detectable HIV for more than one year after their antiretroviral therapy (ART) was paused to see if they could achieve HIV remission, according to new research. The children, who acquired HIV before birth, were enrolled in a clinical trial in which an ART regimen was started within 48 hours of birth and then closely monitored for drug safety and HIV viral suppression.

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NodThera says inflammation drug has positive effect in Parkinson’s

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The results from the privately held biotech add to early evidence supporting the potential of an increasingly popular drug target known as NLRP3 inflammasomes.

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FDA Clears First OTC Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the country's first continuous glucose monitor for type 2 diabetes.The new Dexcom Stelo Glucose Biosensor System, which will be available by summer, is intended.

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LACTOSE-Free Medicines: Which Drugs Contain LACTOSE?

Drug Patent Watch

LACTOSE-Free Medicines, 2024 is part of DrugPatentWatch’s deep library of business intelligence on biopharmaceutical drugs. Buy Lactose-Free Medicines from Amazon This guide is designed to provide information for healthcare providers to… The post LACTOSE-Free Medicines: Which Drugs Contain LACTOSE? appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Astronomers spot oldest 'dead' galaxy yet observed

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a 'dead' galaxy when the universe was just 700 million years old, the oldest such galaxy ever observed.

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Bayer pays $310M to buy into BridgeBio heart drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The deal gives the German pharma partial rights to a closely watched medicine for transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy that analysts expect to become a multibillion-dollar product.

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Drug-Emitting Vaginal Ring Safely Protects Pregnant Women From HIV

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- A vaginal ring that emits the antiviral dapivirine has passed safety trials and could shield vulnerable women against HIV infection during pregnancy, a new trial shows."We now have data on the ring’s safety during all.

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How to Use the Personalization Connector for Salesforce Sales and Service Clouds

Perficient: Drug Development

Have you ever wondered what happens if you connected Personalization with Sales and Service Clouds? The Personalization connector for Sales and Service Clouds exposes user data and server-side campaigns in Salesforce CRM for your contacts and leads. The Key for Success To use Personalization for Sales and Service Clouds, you’ll need to have: User identity systems fully working.

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