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The anticancer therapy is now available in 21-count bottles to help accommodate dispensing.

The two organizations have created a fellowship program to help improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.

The longstanding medicine for adults is now approved to treat children 3 months to less than 12 years old with venous thromboembolism.

The therapy would be used to help prevent and treat blood clots in pediatric patients.

Understanding medication utilization patterns is important for future evaluations of clinical outcomes, investigators say.

Novartis’ investigational targeted radioligand therapy extends survival in patients with advanced metastatic prostate cancer.

Adults taking medications that cross the blood-brain barrier had better memory recall.

A longstanding four times per day testing requirement will cease, and patients using inhaled insulin now qualify for continuous glucose monitoring.

Regardless of political affiliation, the public supports congressional action to allow the federal government to negotiate prices.

Although Lorbrena can improve health outcomes, it is not as cost-effective an option compared with Xalkori.

The therapy is a modified poliovirus vaccine that not only kills cancer cells but also can trigger long-term immune memory.

The Supreme Court’s dismissal of the latest challenge means patients will have access to lower-cost therapies, an advocacy group says.

The COX-2 inhibitor Anjeso, a faster-acting injectable formulation of meloxicam, reduces opioid use after surgery.

Chances of left ventricular ejection fraction almost disappeared when patient took the ACE-inhibitor lisinopril during treatment with trastuzumab/anthracycline, according to research presented at ASCO.

Immune-related AEs can occur one to two years after treatment, are more common in combination treatments, and can be difficult to manage.

The Alzheimer's Association praises the approval but not the price tag. A Harvard Medical School professor who resigned from an FDA advisory committee says the OK "was probably the worst approval decision in recent U.S. history" in his resignation letter.

Nurtec ODT is the first oral CGRP antagonist approved for migraine prevention, says its maker, Biohaven.

Three commercial plans now cover the corticosteroid Eysuvis.

Today's approval goes against the advice of an outside advisory committee.

Semaglutide injection is a weekly injection for chronic weight management in adults.

Around 49% of the more than 300 healthcare providers, hospital/health system executives, payers, advocacy groups, and academics surveyed by Get the Medications Right™ (GTMRx) Institute said the cost of healthcare is the biggest issue they face.

Prevalent cases of opioid use disorder could total around 1.9 million in 2021 and could cost the U.S. billions to treat, data and analytics firm GlobalData said.

About 2% to 3% of patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer have EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations targeted by newly approved Rybrevant.

OptumRx had identified pegcetacoplan as one of the top 5 drugs in the pipeline this year.

Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline’s joint COVID-19 vaccine candidate achieved 95% to 100% seroconversion in a Phase 2 study.

The drugs in development include Biogen’s controversial treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and three new drugs for atopic dermatitis.

Teva is making the first generic version of Absorica (isotretinoin), a drug for the treatment of severe acne.

The AstraZeneca drug is the first SGLT2 inhibitor approved for chronic kidney disease regardless of whether the patient has diabetes.

Global drug spending — excluding COVID-19 vaccines — is expected to reach an estimated $1.6 trillion by 2025, a new report says.

The pandemic is expected to have a significant effect on drug costs this year and into 2022, a new report says.