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Pfizer’s heart med Vyndaqel off and running thanks to diagnosis push: execs

Early in its launch for rare heart disease meds Vyndaqel and Vyndamax, Pfizer is fielding an awareness and diagnosis push that’s paying off big-time. Thousands of patients have been diagnosed, sales have mounted to almost a half-billion dollars—and much more opportunity’s yet to come, execs said Tuesday. Vyndaqel and its sister formulation Vyndamax scored FDA approvals last May to treat wild-type… Read More »

Intermountain at Home looks to push the boundaries of tech-enabled virtual care

Intermountain Healthcare will expand its longtime Homecare & Hospice program into a new technology-supported initiative called Intermountain at Home, the health system announced last week. Intermountain at Home will use telemedicine and remote monitoring along with homecare visits to expand the program from palliative care and dialysis, which the system already offers at home, to… Read More »

Insys founder ran bribe scheme to push opioid: U.S. prosecutor

BOSTON (Reuters) – Insys Therapeutics Inc’s one-time billionaire founder directed a vast scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray as opioid addiction was spiraling into a public health crisis, a U.S. prosecutor said on Monday. John Kapoor, the billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc, arrives at the federal courthouse for the first… Read More »