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The financial toxicity of treating cancer

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billion in 2015 and $208.9 These cost estimates include cancer-attributable costs for medical services and oral prescription drugs. National costs for cancer care were estimated to be $190.2 billion in 2020 (2020 U.S. dollars), an increase of 10 percent that is only due to the aging and growth of the U.S. population.

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The discovery of a new and compounding cybersecurity threat to pharmacies

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Sam Crowther, founder and CEO of cybersecurity company Kasada, tells us about a recent discovery his company made that revealed tens of thousands of accounts with prescription drug attachments in major online pharmacies had been compromised. So, suppose I want to go and buy some Oxycodone, Adderall, or any other prescription painkiller.

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FDA tackles opioid crisis with OTC Narcan approval

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Between 1999 and 2021, overdose deaths from synthetic opioids excluding methadone increased 97-fold, and prescription opioid overdose deaths increased 4.9-fold, The FDA first approved Narcan 4mg nasal spray as a prescription drug in 2015. fold, with fentanyl overdoses being a major problem.

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Senju Pharmaceutical and Novaliq close agreement for dry eye disease therapy

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NOV03 is the first and only water-free and preservative-free prescription treatment for dry eye disease, and targets the evaporation of tears by forming a monolayer at the tear film’s air-liquid interface. The agreement covers rights for the development, manufacture and commercialisation of NOV03 in the country. to treat dry eye disease.

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Abiogen Pharma acquires 97.09% stake in EffRx Pharmaceuticals

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EffRx Pharmaceuticals develops and sells prescription drugs focused in particular to musculoskeletal and rare pathologies in European and international markets. This deal will help Abiogen to consolidate its internationalisation strategy that commenced back in 2015.

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Value-Based healthcare won’t work

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In actual numbers, in 2015, poor diet was associated with over 52,200 colorectal cancer cases; over 14,400 mouth, pharynx and larynx cancers ; nearly 3,200 uterine cancers ; just over 3,000 cases of breast cancer in postmenopausal women; 2,000 kidney cancers ; nearly 1,600 stomach cancers ; and 1,000 liver cancers. . —

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Thursday pharma headlines

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million, his first big raise since 2015, thanks to incentive pay that jumped by about $1.2 prescriptions of finasteride, as the drug is known, for hair loss increased to over 2.4 million in 2020, more than double the number in 2015, according to health data company IQVIA. million while the company’s pipe line falters.

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