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WeightWatchers To Acquire Chronic Weight Management Digital Health Platform

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WeightWatchers will acquire Sequence, a platform that allows patients to have virtual appointments with a clinician, gives access to a dietitian and fitness coaching and provides prescription medications, including Ozempic and Wegovy.

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2024: A Pivotal Year in Curbing Pharmacy Costs

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In 2023, prescription drug costs rose by 8.4%, a 31% increase from the prior year. If these dual forces converge, they have the power to bring about a transformative shift that can lower drug spend for millions of American patients. 2024 stands at a critical juncture in the battle against soaring pharmacy costs.

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Why script-to-dispense conversion will take centre stage in 2023

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In 2023, expect manufacturers to further shift their focus away from acquiring new patient prescriptions to retaining existing customers. The account carried an official blue check mark, but in fact it did not belong to the prescription drugmaker. Ensuring patient access. Preventing patient drop-off.

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What Pear Therapeutics’ Bankruptcy Has Left the DTX Industry to Ponder

MedCity News

The goal was simple: provide access and focused support to patients remotely while simultaneously relieving overtaxed healthcare facilities. Combined, DTx and DCTs improve patient recruitment, retention, and access, allowing researchers to pull from underserved communities, including rural populations.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

Ben Locwin will discuss the potential effects of this draft, along with the pharmacological and toxicological considerations for optimizing doses of prescription drugs. Learning Objectives: Dose-response curves and patient treatment: How do pharmacologic and toxicologic principles apply to the dosing of drugs in clinical development?

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7 commercial, sales, and marketing predictions for 2023

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In 2022, life sciences companies have been hard at work breaking down silos to better serve patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs). And in 2023, these investments will hopefully pay off. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion ( OPDP ).”.

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Bill that would cut down ‘patent thickets’ clears Senate

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The US Senate has come together to pass a bill that aims to prevent pharma companies from filing multiple patents around biologic drugs as a way to delay biosimilar competitors.Lawmakers unanimously passed the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act of 2023 (S-150), which is part of a lengthening list of measures being taken by Congress to curb the (..)