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Teva Announces FDA Approval of Ajovy (fremanezumab-vfrm) Injection Autoinjector

02/09/2020

PARSIPPANY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE) January 28, 2020 — Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. an affiliate ofTeva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA) today announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an autoinjector device for Ajovy® (fremanezumab-vfrm) injection. “The approval of the Ajovy autoinjector is another important step forward for Teva and the migraine community,” said Brendan O’Grady, executive […]

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Medicaid expansion associated with fewer opioid overdose deaths across the US

01/10/2020

The expansion of Medicaid coverage for low-income adults permitted by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was associated with a six percent reduction in total opioid overdose deaths nationally, according to new research from NYU Grossman School of Medicine and University of California, Davis. Published online January 10 in JAMA Network Open, the study is the first to look at whether […]

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Price hikes for hundreds of medications

01/07/2020

U.S. drug companies have started the new year by raising the prices of hundreds of medications. Just a few days into 2020, the prices of 411 drugs increased an average of 5 percent, according to GoodRx. Of those drugs, 407 are brand-name products and four are generics, CBS News reported. The largest increase was a more than 13 percent rise […]

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Study urges life-saving drug treatment to combat Ukraine’s HIV epidemic

01/03/2020

Credit: Michael S. Helfenbein University researchers finds that scaling up use of methadone and buprenorphine—medications for treating opioid use disorder known as opioid agonist therapies (OATs)—could greatly reduce HIV transmission rates and prevent deaths in Ukraine, where the disease is epidemic among people who inject drugs. The study was published in The Lancet. Annual new HIV infections in Ukraine—home to […]

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Out-of-pocket costs for Medicare recipients will rise in new year

12/17/2019

(HealthDay)—Seniors on Medicare are going to take a hit to the pocketbook in 2020, with premiums and deductibles set to increase on coverage for medical services and prescription drugs. The standard monthly premium for Medicare Part B will rise $9.10, to $144 a month, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced. The annual deductible for Part B […]

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Women with a low desire to avoid pregnancy still use contraception

12/17/2019

A new study from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health challenges assumptions that women with the highest preference against pregnancy use more effective contraceptive methods and that women who might welcome pregnancy do not use contraception. Overall, women with a stronger preference to avoid pregnancy were far more likely to use […]

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Is ivermectin safe during pregnancy?

12/13/2019

Is it safe to give ivermectin to pregnant women? In order to answer this question, researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by “la Caixa,” conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that reported cases of accidental exposure to the drug among pregnant women. The conclusion of the analysis, published in The Lancet Global […]

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Prescribers be aware of fatal risks of methadone and clozapine

12/10/2019

New Zealand prescribers should be aware of the high risk of death associated with two prescription medicines, methadone and clozapine, University of Otago researchers warn. In the largest review of medicine-related deaths in the National Coronial Information System between 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2013, Dr. John Fountain and his colleagues from the Dunedin School of Medicine and Best […]

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New cancer inhibitor effective where others fail

12/09/2019

A novel agent called Selinexor has opened up new options for the treatment of patients with refractory myeloma. This was the conclusion of a major international clinical trial in which also the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems, Austria (KL Krems) participated. The results have now been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Thanks to a […]

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Anti-hepatitis medicine surprises

12/05/2019

Hepatitis C is a serious disease, but the biggest threat to someone’s health is not the virus itself. Rather, it is the diseases that can result from it such as reduced liver functioning, scar tissue in the liver and potentially cirrhosis. A new study shows that the antiviral treatment which has been used to fight the disease over the last […]

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