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Earlier this month, study results showed that molnupiravir, Merck’s investigational antiviral pill, cut hospitalization rates of Covid-19 patients by about half. Molnupiravir is the first oral treatment that has shown …
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Scientists Benjamin List and David MacMillan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discovering a new way to construct molecules. By allowing chemical reactions to happen faster, with fewer …
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The announcement that a pill from Merck and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics kept Covid patients out of the hospital made headlines and moved stocks late last week. But as is so …
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I recently tried to order white blood cell growth factor (pegfilgrastim) biosimilar for one of my patients. This is a drug that helps prevent fever and infection associated with low …
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For the first time, a World Health Organization committee has recommended the global agency form a working group to explore policies for contending with the high prices of medicines that …
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As the government wrestles with lowering health care costs, one strategy gaining momentum is allowing Medicare to negotiate prices for brand name drugs. There is no doubt that such a …
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Public outcry about the shockingly high cost of brand-name drugs and a demand for new laws to rein in the cost of these medicines has persisted for years. But more …
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The resurgence of Covid-19 cases in the United States and around the world, in large part due to the highly transmissible Delta variant, makes it even more crucial to step …
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A lasting memorial may be emerging for the millions of people who will have tragically died of Covid-19 by the time the pandemic ends: the demonstration that breakthroughs can happen …
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