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Automated red blood cell exchange: bridging treatment gaps in sickle cell disease care

Drug Target Review

Dr Aaron Haubner, Senior Manager of North America Medical Affairs and Market Access at Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies , reveals that while promising new treatments emerge, urgent partnerships are needed to ensure this essential blood therapy reaches the patients who need it most.

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The Long Road to End Tuberculosis

Codon

In the 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain , Thomas Mann describes a sanatorium patient named Anton Ferge as he undergoes a painful tuberculosis (TB) treatment. These challenges have led to strategies such as directly observed therapy (DOT), in which nurses or physicians monitor patients to ensure they take their medicine every day.

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Redefining Medical Affairs Strategy with Data

H1 Blog

Then we can find the people that we think would best be able to answer those business questions for us based on all of the data that H1 is able to provideso claims data, treatment pattern data, past publications, past trials, whether or not theyre favorable to speaking with industry or not.

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FDA Grants Priority Review for WINREVAIR Label Update Based on ZENITH Trial

The Pharma Data

and Canada, has announced a significant regulatory milestone for its pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) treatment, WINREVAIR™ (sotatercept-csrk). Importantly, the treatment effect emerged early in the course of therapy and continued to increase over time.

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Advancing and Safeguarding Clinical Research for a Better Tomorrow

Advarra

For more than 35 years, Advarra has been committed to protecting the rights and welfare of clinical trial participants while helping to improve healthcare outcomes, advancing medical knowledge, and bringing innovative, life-extending treatments to market that benefit millions of patients worldwide.

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Aetna Endorses Moves to Simplify Prior Authorization in Healthcare

The Pharma Data

Prior authorization (PA)—the process by which healthcare providers obtain approval from insurers before delivering certain treatments or services—has long been a pain point in the healthcare system. Under this program, Aetna nurses are embedded directly within health care facilities, working shoulder-to-shoulder with hospital care teams.

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Nursing Homes Used COVID Meds Less Than Expected During Pandemic

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 -- While nursing home residents are at high risk for bad outcomes if they get COVID-19, use of antiviral treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies, was low through most of 2021 and 2022. The authors of a new study, led by.

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