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Popular drug may have new benefit in men with diabetes, but not women, study shows

15.06.2022

A new study finds that a popular erectile dysfunction drug, which is increasingly being used to try to prevent heart complications in people with type 2 diabetes, doesn’t benefit women …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Waiving intellectual property rights is a flawed solution to achieving Covid-19 vaccine equity

10.06.2022

When the history of the Covid-19 pandemic is written, readers will be as stunned by the flagrant collective flaw in not getting vaccines to all those who needed them as …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: It’s time to move past Aduhelm and focus on a broader Alzheimer’s drug pipeline

07.06.2022

When Alzheimer’s disease was believed to be caused solely by the accumulation of amyloid protein in the brain, pinning all hopes on an amyloid-targeting drug like Aduhelm — the first …

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‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli released from prison

18.05.2022

Martin Shkreli, the infamous “pharma bro” who was sentenced to prison for securities fraud, was transferred to a halfway house operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons after finishing programs …

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Health / Pharma

National Academies report cites ‘urgent’ need to recruit more diverse participants for clinical trials

17.05.2022

The persistent lack of diversity among participants in clinical trials is a critical issue that is harming both populations that have long been left out of pivotal medical studies and …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: The man behind ‘value-based pricing’ saw pharma distorting his message — and walked away

13.05.2022

When Biogen announced the price for Aduhelm, its controversial Alzheimer’s drug, the explanation the company gave — it represented the “overall value this treatment brings to patients, caregivers and society” …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Exploitation in the name of biomedical innovation cannot be tolerated

05.05.2022

Biogen’s announcement on Tuesday that it is “substantially eliminating” its spending on Aduhelm caps a remarkable story of drug development gone bad. In a controversial move in June 2021, the …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Global health should not be determined by pharma investors and shareholders

03.05.2022

What could go wrong when pharmaceutical company shareholders and investors shape the public health response to Covid-19? Everything, of course, including perpetuating the pandemic with immense avoidable suffering and death. …

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Coronavirus / Pharma

Pfizer vaccine chief Kathrin Jansen, who led Covid effort, to retire

29.04.2022

Kathrin Jansen, the vaccine researcher who led Pfizer’s collaboration with BioNTech to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, will retire later this year, the company said. “Throughout my lifetime I’ve had the …

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