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Drugmakers push back on a clever tactic employers use to avoid paying for specialty medicines

22.03.2023

In the face of rising drug prices, health plan sponsors have quietly used a clever, but questionable tactic over the past few years to deflect costs. And now, some pharmaceutical …

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Coronavirus / Pharma

Stéphane Bancel, Bernie Sanders spar over what Moderna owes the federal government

22.03.2023

WASHINGTON — Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel and Senate health committee Chair Bernie Sanders shook hands amicably before Wednesday’s hearing examining the company’s vaccine pricing strategy began. That’s about where the …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Drug developers navigating ‘biology’s century’ need a model. We made one

15.03.2023

STAT’s Matthew Herper struck an industry nerve when he wrote that the drug development industry is “not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovation.” His report ends on a …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Clearing the patent thicket: A pathway to faster generic drug approvals

10.03.2023

Revelations that AbbVie, the manufacturer of Humira, made more than $100 billion in extra profits by abusing the patent system to delay generic competition has spurred efforts by the Biden …

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Pharma

A dozen states sue the FDA in hopes of easing abortion pill restrictions

25.02.2023

In the latest flare up over access to the abortion pill, a dozen states filed a lawsuit to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ease restrictions on how …

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Health / Pharma

‘A slippery slope’: A looming nationwide abortion pill ban could undermine the entire drug approval system

23.02.2023

Soon after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a former Republican congressman made what might sound like an unusual offer. Did abortion pill makers want him to try to …

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‘Caught in the middle’: A battle between Vertex and insurers is leaving cystic fibrosis patients with crushing drug costs

20.02.2023

Dan Brickey was stunned when he learned the news. The cost of the cystic fibrosis medicine that his 2-year-old daughter, Ali, had recently started taking was about to climb from …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Another pharma industry flip-flop: Claims about the IRA’s effect on small-molecule versus biologic drugs

17.02.2023

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes provisions requiring Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for some of the United States’ most costly drugs, marks the first time in …

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Pharma

Watch: Blockbuster drug Humira has new competition. Here’s why that matters

13.02.2023

Humira has been the world’s best-selling medicine since it arrived on the market in 2002. Now, it is finally getting competition with the release of Amgen’s biosimilar drug, Amjevita. Humira’s …

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