XTalks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Being hailed as the world’s shortest and thinnest needle for insulin injection, Droplet Micron has recently been introduced into the pen needle market by HTL (High Tech Lab)-STREFA, Inc. These are important feature innovations for those that depend on insulin injections. Droplet Micron is now available at local pharmacies.

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Drug Channels

JANUARY 9, 2024

For 2024, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and OptumRx (United Health Group)—have again each excluded 600 or more drugs from their standard formularies. You can find our updated counting below. Read on for my deep dive into these two therapeutic categories.

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XTalks

JULY 24, 2024

Amazon Pharmacy launched a pair of TV spots last month to showcase the ease of its drug delivery service for consumers. One of the ads is titled “Mom,” in which a man is seen waiting in a long line at a pharmacy to pick up his mom’s medication because she didn’t listen to him when he told her to send her prescription to Amazon Pharmacy.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 29, 2021

Food and Drug Administration approved the first interchangeable biosimilar insulin product, indicated to improve glycemic control in adults and pediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus and in adults with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. for the treatment of diabetes. Biosimilars marketed in the U.S.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

While the approval pathway for biosimilar products was established 12 years ago, there are still misconceptions about how biosimilars are approved, biosimilarity versus interchangeable status and which patients can be treated with biosimilars. What is an Interchangeable Biological Product? What is a Biosimilar?

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 28, 2021

When Merck launched Ontruzant last April, the trastuzumab market became the most competitive to date with five biosimilars competing against the reference product. Pegfilgrastim and Infliximab follow closely behind with four and three biosimilars respectively competing against the reference product in each market. “We

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STAT News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We do hope you have a meaningful and productive experience. … UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy benefits manager, OptumRx, will keep AbbVie’s Humira alongside up to three biosimilar medicines next year, Bloomberg News writes. And as always, we invite you to keep in touch. Optum Rx, which is the third-largest U.S.

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Drug Channels

JANUARY 19, 2022

For 2022, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and OptumRx (United Health Group)— increased the number of drugs they excluded from their standard formularies. Each exclusion list contains 400 to 500 products.

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XTalks

MARCH 17, 2025

In return, Zealand Pharma will pay Roche $350 million for the fixed-dose combination product involving petrelintide and Roches lead incretin asset CT-388. Amylin, a hormone co-secreted with insulin, plays a key role in regulating appetite by enhancing leptins effects the hormone that signals fullness after eating.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 20, 2022

For 2022, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and OptumRx (United Health Group)— increased the number of drugs they excluded from their standard formularies. Each exclusion list contains 400 to 500 products.

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Drug Channels

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

I'm rerunning this post to provide context for manufacturers' recent actions regarding 340B contract pharmacies. Yesterday, Eli Lilly announced that its products can be dispensed only at covered entities and their child sites, but not via external pharmacies. per 3 mL pen or $0.10 per 10 mL vial.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 3, 2024

For 2024, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and OptumRx (United Health Group)—have again each excluded 600 or more drugs from their standard formularies. Click here to see the original post from January 2024. Read on for my deep dive into these two therapeutic categories.

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STAT News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

… Pharmaceutical companies could be made to disclose prices and deals for products they make to fight future global health emergencies, under new rules that would govern a World Health Organization-backed pandemic accord , Reuters reports. A Or you may want to take stock of your life. Well, whatever you do, have a grand time.

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Drug Channels

MARCH 30, 2023

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for tomorrow’s live video webinar: Discount Cards, Cost-Plus Pharmacies, and PBMs: Trends, Controversies, and Outlook. Its strategy echoes the pricing of the first interchangeable insulin biosimilars— as I predicted in 2021. In February, AbbVie stated that U.S.

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Druggist

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Most of the drugs which are recommended in the symptomatic management of IBS can be purchased over the counter from pharmacies, supermarkets and online. Customers may need to get larger Fybogel packs from a pharmacy counter as products available for self-selection may be smaller in size. £9.99 Buy on Amazon Price incl.

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Drug Channels

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released the redacted version of administrative complaint against the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first interchangeable biosimilar insulin product: the insulin glargine-yfgn injection from Viatris.

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XTalks

JUNE 5, 2023

GLP-1 stimulates insulin production, thus reducing blood glucose levels, and it interacts with the brain to suppress appetite and create a feeling of fullness. mg and 1 mg doses will be available to wholesalers for distribution to retail pharmacies. mg and 2.4 mg doses of Wegovy.

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Druggist

MAY 12, 2021

Unfortunately, Celevac was discontinued , and now it is impossible to get it on prescription or purchase from the pharmacy. In this post, I will briefly review the use of Celevac,:what it is and talk about alternative options (prescription and over the counter products) which have similar use to Celevac. What is Celevac?

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 15, 2022

Insulin prices made the headlines again as California governor Gavin Newsom announced plans on 7 July for the state to manufacture low-cost insulin. The state plans to work directly with a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) to manufacture low-cost insulin. In-house manufacturing the norm.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 1, 2022

Semglee (insulin glargine-yfgn) is the first biosimilar available at the retail pharmacy counter, and it obtained interchangeable status. And, manufacturers will likely pay close attention to the impact of Semglee’s interchangeable designation on the adoption of biosimilars in the retail pharmacy space.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It has been estimated that 90% of medical device waste consists of single-use products or components, so a new initiative by Novo Nordisk to recycle pre-filled injection pens used by people living with diabetes, obesity, and growth disorders is a welcome step forward. “By recycling them, we can help to give these materials new purpose.”

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XTalks

JANUARY 5, 2024

Among its services, Lilly said LillyDirect provides disease management resources that include access to independent healthcare providers, personalized support and direct delivery of select Lilly medications to homes via third-party pharmacy dispensing services.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 6, 2023

On 14th November 2022, Eli Lilly apparently wrote on its Twitter account, “We are excited to announce insulin is free now.” Manufacturers can use 2023 as a time to examine these and other causes of patient drop-off in greater detail, and develop actionable solutions for each product in their portfolio. Industry frustrations.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 24, 2023

It won’t, of course, at product level, be limited to EBP – large pharma will also see restructuring of portfolios as weaker projects fall by the wayside. Wholesalers and pharmacies operate under regulations which define storage, supply, and service standards, and these come with energy requirements.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It is only the second fully interchangeable biosimilar to be approved by the US regulator, after Viatris got a green light for its Semglee (insulin glargine) product in the summer, which can now be substituted for Sanofi’s Lantus on dispensing at a pharmacy.

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XTalks

JUNE 12, 2023

In Medtronic’s annual report, CEO Geoff Martha attributes their success in this area to their comprehensive suite of products and solutions, which equip clinicians with the tools necessary for optimal atrial fibrillation care. Internationally, Medtronic expanded its MiniMed 780G insulin pump and Guardian 4 sensor.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 13, 2022

Soturi, a product co-developed by Healthware and Orion Pharma, was not at the PharmStars event but is working in a similar vein to the startups that were present. And based on our pharmacy model for (Parkinson’s drug) Levodopa, we recommend that the patient should have this dosage and this frequency with dispensive changes.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Manufacturers must also ensure that all electronic FDA listings and all NDC listings with the electronic database vendors used to process pharmacy claims, including information about discontinued drugs, are up to date for all applicable drug and selected drug NDCs. covered insulin product or vaccine). 1395w-114c(b)(4)(B)(i).

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pharmaphorum

MAY 13, 2022

Arkansas has become the latest US state to issue a legal challenge to the big three insulin producers – Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk – accusing them of deceptively driving up the price of the medicines. Today we begin the fight to stop this outrageous inflation of insulin pricing.”

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. Originating as a pharmacy founded in Darmstadt in 1668, it was in 1827 that Heinrich Emanuel Merck began the transition towards an industrial and scientific concern, by manufacturing and selling alkaloids.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 10, 2021

The fundamental misconception among the public, the media and even some lawmakers is that higher drug list prices are the result of drug manufacturers being in a monopolistic position to endlessly raise prices on critical drugs like insulin and then rake in big profits. Is the Middleman at Fault?

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STAT News

MARCH 10, 2023

Enjoy, and see you soon … By law, Medicare will have to take a medication’s efficacy and its research and development costs into account when it starts to negotiate drug prices — but recent research shows pharma companies ignore those factors when they pick prices for their products , STAT explains. Two

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The Pharma Data

MAY 13, 2021

Product Name: Which Arthritis Painkiller Works the Fastest? If within the first 60 days of receipt you are not satisfied with Wake Up Lean , you can request a refund by sending an email to the address given inside the product and we will immediately refund your entire purchase price, with no questions asked.

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Pharmacy Checkers

JULY 2, 2019

Determinants of Health: Providing regulatory space to promote safe international Internet pharmacy practice in furtherance of SDG 3.8 the Internet, via international online pharmacies, has helped tens of millions of Americans obtain medicines from pharmacies in other countries. [v]. My comment is below. Author: Gabriel Levitt.

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STAT News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Kansas attorney general Derek Schmidt filed a lawsuit accusing three insulin manufacturers — Eli Lilly, Sanofi, and Novo Nordisk — and some of the largest pharmacy benefit managers of deliberately inflating insulin prices over the past two decades. Food and Drug Administration.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In its 2022 financial report, Sanofi reported that sales of the long-acting insulin dropped 27.6 percent in the US, impacted by prior formulary losses as well as “erosion of the basal insulin market,” the company said in the statement. In its 2022 financial report, Sanofi reported that sales of the long-acting insulin dropped 27.6

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XTalks

JANUARY 24, 2024

This disparity can be attributed to various factors, including the lack of government regulation on drug prices and the complex web of negotiations between drug manufacturers, insurers and pharmacy benefit managers.

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