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McKesson offers strategies to overcome access barriers

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 12, 2017
The information provided to attendees will provide them with the information they need to understand patient adherence barriers.

McKesson, the platinum sponsor of CBI’s Formulary, Co-Pay and Access Summit is presenting a new approach to patient-centric behavioral coaching with the overall goal of improving adherence despite affordability and other barriers. Read More »

PCMA critical of PhRMA ad, calling it an attempt to deflect blame

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 12, 2017
The PCMA calls the new ad campaign a “losing strategy.

Prescription drug costs battles are far from over as PCMA calls for the drug lobby to stop deflecting blame in an effort to maintain profit margins. Read More »

Biologics to be exclusive provider of breakthrough medication

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 11, 2017
BAVENCIO showed that 78.6 percent of patients responded to the medication in seven weeks' time.

Biologics Inc., which is owned by McKesson Specialty Health, has been chosen as the exclusive specialty pharmacy provider for BAVENCIO (avelumab). Read More »

Daiichi Sankyo sells Pennsylvania plant to Sharp Packaging

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 11, 2017
Though Sharp has gained ownership of the property, it has extended employment to former employees of the plant.

Daiichi Sankyo Inc.has sold its pharmaceutical packaging plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Sharp Packaging Services, a division of UDG Healthcare. Read More »

FDA grants priority review for Bristol-Myers' Opdivo sBLA

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 10, 2017
This milestone illustrates Bristol-Myers Squibb’s continued efforts to evaluate the potential of Immuno-Oncology in a broad range of cancers.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. a priority review for the company’s Opdivo Biologics License Application. Read More »

Walgreens, Prime Therapeutics to form AllianceRx Walgreens Prime

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 10, 2017
Walgreens and Prime Therapeutics to offer mail services and specialty pharmacy services.

Walgreens and Prime Therapeutics LLC merge to offer specialty pharmacy and mail services Read More »

AbbVie's Imbruvica sNDA accepted for review by FDA

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 10, 2017
 Imbruvica inhibits a protein called Bruton's tyrosine kinase that is a key signaling molecule in the B-cell receptor.

AbbVie's supplemental new drug application for ibrutinib, a product for treating chronic graft vs. host disease (cGVHD) after failure of one or more lines of systemic therapy, has received FDA approval. Read More »

Daiichi Sankyo enrolls first patient in Eliminate-AF study

Mark Iandolo | Apr 10, 2017
Lixiana is designed to fight Vitamin K antagonists in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing catheter ablation.

Daiichi Sankyo Inc. recently announced the enrollment of the first person for its Eliminate-AF study. Read More »

Bracco Imaging invests in health technology company

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 9, 2017
Bracco will be better able to give health care leaders and organizations higher standards of patient safety.

Bracco Imaging has invested in PHS Technologies Group to solidify Bracco's role in the industry and increase the scope of its portfolio software applications related to dose management. Read More »

FDA approves application for breast cancer drug from Pfizer

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 9, 2017
The approval comes after a Phase 3 study that evaluated Ibrance first-line therapy in combination with letrozole.

Pfizer Inc.'s supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Ibrance, its first-in-class cyclin dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK 4/6) inhibitor, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read More »

Panacea Pharmaceuticals shares news about cancer biomarkers

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 9, 2017
Exosomes are said to be nanoparticles which serve as biomarkers, increasing the information about the cancer.

Panacea Pharmaceuticals Inc. presented its paper, "Improved Detection of Cancer Specific Serum Exosomal Aspartyl (Asparaginyl) beta Hydroxylase," and its findings on the company's multi-cancer HAAH exosome detection assay during the annual American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Washington, D.C. April 1-5. Read More »

Allergan uncovers potential for using Botox to treat depression

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 9, 2017
The women were assigned to three different groups, each of which received a 30 U Botox injection, a 50 U Botox injection, or a placebo.

Popularly known for its ability to enhance facial appearance cosmetically, Botox is now under scrutiny for its possible application for treating major depressive disorder, based on data from a study undertaken by Allergan. Read More »

Panacea successfully targets, kills leukemia cells

Ruth de Jauregui | Apr 8, 2017
A Phase I trial for prostate cancer patients using the PAN-301-1 therapeutic cancer vaccine was recently completed.

The paper "Radioimmunotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Targeting Human Aspartyl (Asparaginyl) β-Hydroxylase” was presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting by Panacea Pharmaceuticals on April 3. Read More »

Purdue Pharma participates in North Carolina drug disposal program

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 8, 2017
Interventions such as prescription take-back events and drop boxes are planned.

Teaming up to enhance North Carolina’s public health outcomes, Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Connecticut; nationwide Project Lazarus; and Safe Kids North Carolina recently entered a three-way collaboration via the North Carolina Disposal Initiative (NCDI). Read More »

Teva drug approved to ease chorea in Huntington's patients

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 8, 2017
Chorea is a common condition in central nervous system disorders.

To treat some of Huntington disease’s harshest symptoms and help restore quality of life to those suffering from the rare, fatal neurodegenerative disease, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a medication created by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. Read More »

McKesson Corp. completes acquisition of CoverMyMeds

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 6, 2017
McKesson Corp. collaborates with manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, governments and other entities.

Health care supply distributor McKesson Corp. of San Francisco has completed its acquisition of CoverMyMeds LLC, an Ohio-based source of electronic authorization technology for medical providers and pharmacists. Read More »

Change Healthcare unveils latest clinical support solution

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 6, 2017
Change Healthcare strives to support appropriate care while streamlining administrative burdens.

Change Healthcare recently announced the unveiling of InterQual 2017, the company’s flagship clinical decision support solution. Read More »

Phase 2 Evenity study shows promising results

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 6, 2017
For the last 12 months of the study, all patients received Evenity for 12 months.

Amgen and UCB recently announced that their phase 2 study for Evenity (romosozumab) showed positive fourth-year results for efficacy and safety as a second course of treatment for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. Read More »

Bristol-Myers and Incyte to launch Phase 3 studies of drug combination

Mark Iandolo | Apr 6, 2017

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Incyte Corp. have agreed to advance their clinical development program. Read More »

Amgen files requests to expand Xgeva's use in U.S. and Europe

American Pharmacy News Reports | Apr 4, 2017
Xgeva’s unique properties provide patients with a way to treat their multiple myeloma symptons.

Amgen recently announced that the company submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Xgeva (denosumab). The company also seeks approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Read More »

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