Correction: In the November 2 edition of Buzz, we implied that Hyrimoz is the first biosimilar version of Humira. It is the latest biosimilar. Sorry for any confusion.

It’s here!

Epidiolex — the first FDA-approved drug derived from the marijuana plant. (Approved for use in patients two years old and older with Dravet or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.)

Llama-based flu vaccine?

The latest candidate for a universal flu vaccine requires llamas (the bigger, nastier cousins of alpacas). It creates a bigger, nastier antibody.

Hope for a better vaccine emerged when scientists discovered that people sometimes produce rare antibodies that work against a range of flu strains. […] The authors of the new study wondered if they could string together these broadly neutralizing antibodies into a sort of mega-antibody. They isolated four of them, and then they created a gene that manufactured all four as a single mega-antibody.

The Rolling Stones would probably like this moss

So you know marijuana’s two cannabidiol compounds — CBD and THC, right? Now there’s a new* kid on the block: PET, or perrottetinene. It comes from a relative of the liverwort moss of all things, and it seems to be a lot like THC.

Notably, though…

Although PET’s psychoactive effects were less potent, it reduced certain molecules associated with inflammation, says study author Michael Schafroth, currently a postdoctoral researcher at The Scripps Research Institute.

*Not really new, ’cause it’s been known since the mid-’90s, but it’s now that its relationship to THC is being examined

If you have $2 billion lying around…

…you could think about buying Pfizer’s women’s health business.

Stand and deliver

You probably have to worry more about sore feet, but think about your patients who sit a lot. Apparently "Dead Butt Syndrome" is now a thing.

Americans are sitting so long that their butts are literally falling asleep. “Dead butt syndrome,” or gluteal amnesia, is a condition that occurs when your gluteus medius gets inflamed and forgets to function normally.

But the best comment:

“If you imagine making a panini sandwich where you take high pressure and high temperature and make a grilled cheese, sitting on your glutes all day is a little like this.”

Obligatory reminder that Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday morning

Fall back.