MedCity News

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Weaving companionship into health care as we would a blockbuster drug can help us circumvent expensive healthcare services like emergency department visits and hospitalizations.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 12, 2023

As prescription drug abuse has grown in the US and Europe, the diversion of such treatments from legitimate sources has also increased. Drug diversion is the channelling of prescription drugs from a medical source into the illegal market. The post The rise of prescription drug abuse and drug diversion appeared first on.

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Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Thanks to a new FDA green light, Lillys dual GIP/GLP-1 blockbuster Zepbound has become the first prescription medicine cleared to treat adults with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea and obesity. The nod marks the second indication for Zepbound behind the inaugural obesity approval it scored in November 2023.

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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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European Pharmaceutical Review

APRIL 13, 2023

6 Therefore, the quality of data provided to regulators will be key in obtaining MAs and subsequently marketing of psychedelic medicines. 6 Therefore, the quality of data provided to regulators will be key in obtaining MAs and subsequently marketing of psychedelic medicines.

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MedCity News

APRIL 28, 2023

The Rockefeller Foundation is funding two produce prescription pilot programs at VA healthcare systems in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas.

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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.

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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. A great example of poorly timed DTC is Humira.

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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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World of DTC Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2022

These cost estimates include cancer-attributable costs for medical services and oral prescription drugs. According to a team of Penn State College of Medicine researchers, care for the 15 most prevalent types of cancer in the U.S. National costs for cancer care were estimated to be $190.2 billion in 2015 and $208.9 population.

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World of DTC Marketing

APRIL 21, 2021

Ed Silverman in STAT News wrote “as states struggle to control the cost of prescription medicines, a new report found pharmacy benefit managers pocketed more than $89 million collected on behalf of the Florida Medicaid program — and the consultants who ran the analysis recommended state officials rework the arrangements.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 27, 2023

So, here are three “best guesses” for what 2023 will hold for the off-patent medicines segment — which accounts for roughly 70% of medicines prescribed worldwide (including the vast majority of system-critical antibiotics and ICU therapies), but only about 20% of the total cost.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Among adults 65 and older with Medicare coverage, average annual out-of-pocket costs for medical services and prescription drugs were highest in the initial phase of care (first 12 months after diagnosis) — $2,200 and $243, respectively — and the end-of-life phase (12 months before death) — $3,823 and $448, respectively.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Many have never heard of a pharmacy benefit manager, mega-profitable companies that control what consumers pay for prescription drugs. The FTC’s new probe needs to go far to change the status quo.

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World of DTC Marketing

JUNE 20, 2022

Mounjaro’s homepage is a callout about patients losing “up to 25 pounds” Is Lilly responsible for informing patients that using this drug requires a diet modification, and doesn’t that someone can order a double quarter pounder at McDonald’s after using the medicine? The post Uniqueness if pharma DTC.

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PharmExec

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Healthy Food Rx provides home-delivered medical prescriptions of healthy food to help address diabetes.

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Contrarian Sales Techniques

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Did you know not all medicines in Malaysia need a prescription? You know how we’re always told to see a doctor before taking certain medicines? Some medications that are supposed to need a prescription – like antibiotics – can still be bought over the counter at smaller pharmacies. Is it the right medicine?

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pharmaphorum

JULY 11, 2024

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 (..)

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2021

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. Prescription drugs costs are just a small part of healthcare costs (11%). health care system. Value-based models encourage a team-oriented approach to patient care.

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World of DTC Marketing

AUGUST 7, 2022

Researchers with Aimed Alliance , a non-profit that seeks to protect and enhance the rights of health care consumers and providers, say that doctors are so fed up with the constant headaches caused by insurers that two-thirds would recommend against pursuing a career in medicine. Nearly half (48%) are considering a career change altogether.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

prices on seven of the 10 costliest prescription drugs in 2020 without justification, increasing drug spending by $1.67 group that reviews the value of medicines said on Tuesday. According to Reuters “drugmakers hiked U.S. billion, a U.S. leading to an almost $1.4 billion increase in U.S. The total impact on U.S.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

One-quarter of all cancer patients chose not to fill a prescription due to cost, according to a 2013 study in The Oncologist. According to a study published in the American Journal of Medicine, more than 42 percent of the 9.5 million people diagnosed with cancer from 2000 to 2012 drained their life’s assets within two years.

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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 has filed for 165 patents on Imbruvica, and officials have granted 88 of them, the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge reports.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Colonis Pharma’s melatonin oral solution for the treatment of sleep-onset insomnia in children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Prescription-only vs OTC. Colonis Pharma is a subsidiary company within Clinigen.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Novo Nordisk has admitted that it would not be able to keep up, adding that it would likely take until early 2022 for the supply to stabilize and that some patients “are experiencing an approximate one month or longer delay in filling prescriptions for Wegovy.”

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

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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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 1, 2022

According to KFF, “ the cost of health care often prevents people from getting needed care or filling prescriptions. Three in ten (29%) also report not taking their medicines as prescribed at some point in the past year because of the cost. Half of U.S. As t stands now, our healhealthcaretem is too profitable.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 11, 2022

Patients in the US want to see a broader sense of urgency in the development of new medicines for non-COVID conditions relevant to their own lives. However, the public is aware that they may need prescription drugs to manage chronic health conditions. Even patients will still line up if a prescription drug shows promise.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Pharma companies are still too focused on profits while people continue to rely on prescription drugs to compensate for unhealthy lifestyles. While pharma continues to advertise help for prescription drug prices, 25% of people say they can’t afford their medications. Are prescription drugs priced too high?

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JULY 4, 2024

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PharmExec

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Ph.D., is in trouble for "misleading" and "overly promotional" claims he made during a BBC interview late last year about their COVID-19 vaccine for younger kids, which was not approved at the time.

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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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World of DTC Marketing

MAY 30, 2021

Via The New Republic “whether it believes its own rhetoric—or just smells another profit opportunity—the tech industry shows little sign of slowing its march into the world of commercialized medicine. Amazon also has a forthcoming public health care offering known as Amazon Care, in which it will offer telemedicine and in-person care.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Contributing factors include greater demand for prescription drugs , advancements in the designing and printing of labels, high investments as well as pharmaceutical sales, plus high research and development (R&D) expenditures on pharmaceuticals and government initiatives. percent between the forecast period: 2023 and 2028.

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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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