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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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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Medicare got it right: Unproven Alzheimer’s drug would have threatened the financial stability of 60 million Americans

08.04.2022

In a clash of two American health care giants, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had locked horns over Aduhelm, a …

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Biotech / Pharma

He was creating the building blocks for drug developers worldwide. Then Russia started to bomb Kyiv

14.03.2022

It was just last month, with the Covid-19 situation having calmed down in Kyiv, that Ivan Kondratov had been able to return to his office a couple days per week. …

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‘Scum of the earth’: Opioid crisis victims face Purdue Pharma owners

10.03.2022

NEW YORK — More than two dozen Americans whose lives were upended by the opioid crisis finally had their long-awaited chance Thursday to confront in court some members of the …

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Biotech / First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: The U.S. must fix its innovation engine: the patent system

08.03.2022

If your car starts to smoke and sputter, you’d take it to an auto repair shop right away. The U.S. patent system — the engine driving the country’s innovation economy …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Finding cures faster: Bring the FDA into the 21st century with advanced testing

04.03.2022

From every sector, the cry is being raised: “We can’t go back to the way things were before the pandemic.” CEOs and politicians, educators and entrepreneurs, health professionals and scientists, …

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