MedCity News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Foodsmart is rolling out its new program that enables doctors to refer their patients to Foodsmart’s dieticians and healthy eating platform, as well as write prescriptions for healthy food just as easily as they might a normal pharmacy prescription.

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World of DTC Marketing

JUNE 20, 2022

In addition, the patient journey is different for each product category and audience. The hottest pharma product is Lilly’s diabetes drug, hyped by the media as helping patients lose weight. Whose responsibility is it to remind patients of the drug’s side effects? TV, alone, is not the answer.

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World of DTC Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2022

When they say compare prescription drug prices, they mean the cost of a prescription if you aren’t using insurance. Do you want your employer, or your insurance company, or anyone else to know you’re on anti-depressants, HIV medication, Viagra, or that you regularly get medicine for genital warts? And advertising?

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Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 13, 2023

Pharmacists can improve patient access to both healthful foods and necessary medicines as a continuum of care in underserved communities.

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MedCity News

JUNE 21, 2022

CVS Health intentionally prevented certain Medicare beneficiaries from accessing less expensive, generic prescriptions, according to a whistleblower lawsuit from a former senior CVS executive.

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World of DTC Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

SUMMARY: Medicare spent nearly $600 million over a three-year period to pay for four cancer drugs with no clinical benefit an analysis published Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine found. Between 2011 and 2018, cumulative spending on 44 FDA-approved oral targeted therapy drugs was $3.5

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World of DTC Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2022

(Stat News) Today, a study followed 380 patients being treated at community oncology groups across the U.S. Patients who experience financial hardship during cancer treatment are at higher risk for treatment nonadherence, poor quality of life, and worse survival. after they were diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer. population.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 26, 2023

Guidance on the way pharma companies communicate about prescription medicines has been updated in the UK to cover use of social media channels for the first time. “With its wide reach and international audience, information on medicines can be seen by audiences it wasn’t intended for.”

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 1, 2021

SUMMARY: Online health seeker numbers are still very high, indicating that people are doing their research first before asking for a prescription drug. Online ads for prescription drugs are unique. Nobody will see an online ad for a prescription drug and ask their doctor about it without doing some research first.

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Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

For patients with opioid use disorder, medication-assisted treatment programs are a clinically effective approach.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 23, 2020

According to a study in the Journal for American Board of Family Medicine “respondents (76%) said they were likely to ask a health care provider about advertised drugs; 26% said they had already done so. Online research is used to evaluate new prescription drugs. What are other patients saying about it?

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Healthcare Success

MAY 9, 2022

The QR code allows hospitals and healthcare providers to satisfy this need with immediate physician-patient interaction and engagement – all through smartphones and tablets. . In this blog post, you’ll learn: Why QR codes have made a comeback, When to use them, And, 8 ways to improve the patient experience and drive leads with QR codes. .

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 11, 2022

Most patients completely trusted their physicians “to put their needs above all other considerations” (69%). According to Accenture, “the pharma industry has ‘earned’ some modest gains in trust from patients due to vaccine development. Even patients will still line up if a prescription drug shows promise.

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Legacy MEDSearch

JUNE 15, 2023

Cala , the bioelectronic medicine leader setting a new standard of care for chronic disease, today announced the commercial launch of its next generation system: the Cala kIQ System, the first and only FDA-cleared wearable device that delivers effective therapy for action hand tremor relief in people with essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Value-based healthcare is a healthcare delivery model in which providers, including hospitals and physicians, are paid based on patient health outcomes. Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that a value-based healthcare model can help solve the cost and quality problems that plague the U.S.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Cyrus Massoumi, founder of Dr. B, tells us about his online platform that makes physician assessment readily available to patients and provides access to COVID-19 therapeutics that may otherwise be difficult to obtain. Dr. B was founded in 2021 to connect providers with leftover COVID vaccines to the patients seeking to receive them.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 10, 2022

The cost of Humira, which is injected via syringe, was more than $72,000 a year on prescription drug websites this week and is not expected to come down until at least 2023. AbbVie significantly inflated prices over the past two decades for patients in the U.S. Richard Gonzalez, C.E.O. So how do people who work for AbbVie feel?

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I continue to believe that there are very good people who care about patients working within pharma but it’s hard to understand how anyone who works for AbbVie can feel good about their employer. prices on seven of the 10 costliest prescription drugs in 2020 without justification, increasing drug spending by $1.67 billion, a U.S.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 25, 2023

ATI-1501 has been designed to enable the wider use of metronidazole in patients who have difficulty swallowing. The US Food and Drug Administration has set 23 September 2023 as the prescription drug user fee action date for ATI-1501.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Rapamycin was approved in 1999 and it’s also worth noting their Phase II was a tiny patient population. ” Research shows that cancer patients are more likely to declare bankruptcy than the average person. According to a study published in the American Journal of Medicine, more than 42 percent of the 9.5

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 5, 2022

Imagine a medicine that reduced the death rate of breast cancer and risk of recurrent breast cancer by 50% lowered the risks of colon cancer and type 2 diabetes by two-thirds, and those of heart disease, hypertension, and Alzheimer’s’ disease by 40%. But… Only 23% of Americans Get Enough Exercise.

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Referral MD

JULY 10, 2023

These intelligent digital assistants are revolutionizing how healthcare providers interact with patients, boosting engagement, streamlining support services, and enhancing patient experiences. Let’s explore the potential of AI chatbots in the sphere and find out how this technology can benefit healthcare providers and patients.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 27, 2023

Johnson & Johnson has been cleared to continue a lawsuit filed last year against drug benefit programme SaveOnSP, which claims it defrauded a payment assistance programme for patients out of “at least $100 million.” The case is Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems v.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 1, 2022

According to federal data, annual per-person spending growth for workplace health insurance has exceeded the spending growth among Medicare and Medicaid patients in nine of the past 13 years. According to KFF, “ the cost of health care often prevents people from getting needed care or filling prescriptions. Half of U.S.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Along their journey, specialty pharma patients interact with a series of siloed institutions: clinics, specialty pharmacies, copay program vendors, patient assistance programs, nurses, etc. Not unlike the financial industry, these institutions still exchange patient information via fax machines. and the financial wherewithal ?

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

It can be used as a monotherapy or along with cholesterol-lowering medicines. The regulatory approval was based on the findings obtained from a double-blind, multinational, placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial conducted in 5,522 chronic coronary disease patients.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 19, 2022

US startup Dr B – formed in 2021 to help match patients seeking a COVID-19 vaccine to suppliers with leftover stock – is branching out into antivirals with the help of an $8 million fundraising. The “visitless prescription” service will be available for free for people with low incomes, according to Dr B’s website.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 25, 2024

Within the EU, patient information leaflets (PILs) are not merely a regulatory requirement but a cornerstone of patient safety. They are vital to ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines, making them an integral part of healthcare in Europe. percent as EU average with some Member States as high as 25 percent).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 7, 2023

The recently closed Amazon-One Medical acquisition focuses on a “longitudinal relationship” with individual members and has nothing to do with patient data, said One Medical’s CEO Amir Dan Rubin, amidst data privacy concerns surrounding the deal, at a recent panel.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Pharma companies are still too focused on profits while people continue to rely on prescription drugs to compensate for unhealthy lifestyles. I understand the hard-working people who really believe in what they’re doing for patients, but senior executives continue to bow to Wall Street. Are prescription drugs priced too high?

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 24, 2023

Efforts by Amazon to disrupt the healthcare sector just stepped up a gear, with the launch of a subscription service for Prime members that will ship generic medicines to patients’ homes in return for a $5 monthly fee. The drugs can be delivered on either a monthly or quarterly basis, depending on the needs of patients.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 31, 2023

Medication is a staple of modern medicine, with almost 50% of adults in the United States taking at least one prescription medication. This lack of trust in such a crucial industry can lead to decreased compliance, poor treatment adherence, and negative health outcomes for patients.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Patients want quick fixes, and the idea of losing some weight because of a new drug is enticing to them. In response, the company has been providing six-month waivers to some insured patients that will cap the drug’s out-of-pocket costs at $25 a month, though the long-term picture of coverage is still in flux. Click to Tweet.

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World of DTC Marketing

MAY 30, 2021

Google has signed an agreement with the Mayo clinic to help analyze data as they want a slice of healthcare dollars but what’s missing from these tech companies is “the human touch” that patients want. The problem is that VC sees opportunities that don’t necessarily align with patients’ needs.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 20, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now granted fast-track and rare paediatric disease designations, and the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has also granted promising innovative medicine status to vamorolone for DMD.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 2, 2023

The regulatory body has also granted priority review to the application and set 28 August 2023 as a target date for the prescription drug user fee act (PDUFA). The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has also validated the Type II variation application for Reblozyl.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ Relyvrio (sodium phenylbutyrate and taurursodiol) to treat adult patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The FDA approval is based on findings from the multicentre Phase II CENTAUR clinical trial that enrolled 137 ALS patients.

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