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The first cells Siddhartha Mukherjee ever saw were T cells, pulled from a mouse spleen and plated onto the microscope slide, given chemicals to coax them to grow. When he …
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STAUNTON, Va. — Honest Rx operates like any other pharmacy in the United States — with one big exception. It does not accept health insurance. Pharmacist and owner Matthew Garner …
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BOSTON — As Pfizer prepares to hike the price of its Covid-19 vaccines, the company’s CEO, Albert Bourla, maintained at a conference this week that the jabs will continue to …
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Over the last decade, investors in biotech and pharmaceutical companies have been taking risks that aren’t commensurate with the rewards. That’s what our new analysis of health care investing shows. …
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As the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the world two years ago, one of India’s leading biotech companies was racing to develop a vaccine with crucial backing from the Indian government. …
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WASHINGTON — The midterm elections this year are centered on weighty topics: the economy looms large, as does the existential future of democracy. But there are plenty of health and …
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The pandemic is a prime case study of what can be accomplished when science delivers. The pharmaceutical and biotech industry harnessed new technologies, collaborated in new ways, and worked at …
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On Wednesday, the FDA advisory committee that oversees obstetrics, reproductive, and urologic drugs voted 14-1 that the drug Makena was not effective at reducing the risk of preterm birth, and …
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The biopharma industry is failing Americans, economically and medically. U.S. biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, like all for-profit corporations, have a primary duty baked into their corporate charters: maximize profits and …
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