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Inside the quiet strategy pharma giants are using to fend off generics and drive up the cost of medicines
18 September 2024 - Amid debate over potential abuse of the US patent system by the pharmaceutical industry, moves by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Apr 2023
Blocking FDA approval of abortion pill could stifle innovation in the biopharma industry, experts say
13 April 2023 - If courts affirm US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision to suspend the FDA’s approval, it could make ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2023
Bipartisan senators introduce bill to close pharma competition loophole
1 March 2023 - Senators Maggie Hassan and Mike Braun on Wednesday reintroduced legislation intended to close a loophole that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2022
Big pharma may have to reveal government deals in WHO's draft pandemic rules
17 November 2022 - Pharmaceutical companies could be made to disclose prices and deals agreed for any products they make ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Sep 2022
FDA’s drug industry fees fuel concerns over influence
15 September 2022 - The pharmaceutical industry finances about 75% of the agency’s drug division, through a controversial program that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Aug 2022
FDA boldly bows to big pharma at Americans’ expense
29 August 2022 - A Wall Street Journal headline went this way: “Latest Covid Boosters Are Set to Roll Out ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2022
FDA official: patients play an increasing role in rare disease drug development
1 August 2022 - Patients have a critical role in drug development, from identifying unmet medical needs to assessing meaningful ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jul 2022
Despite their anger over high drug prices, Americans are giving pharma credit for helping contain COVID-19
26 July 2022 - Nearly three quarters of Americans give the pharmaceutical industry credit for helping contain COVID-19 — and for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Aug 2021
Pharmaceutical companies should pay for raiding nature's medicine cabinet
11 August 2021 - In 2019, the pharmaceutical industry profited from US$1·2 trillion of global spending on medicines. Most of this ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2021
Making pharmaceutical companies report what matters about innovation
29 July 2021 - There is a lack of transparency about the cost of innovation of the pharmaceutical industry even ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2021
House report: drug companies spent more on buybacks, dividends than research
8 July 2021 - House Democrats on Thursday released a report that found that the 14 leading drug companies paid ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jun 2021
FDA’s decision on Biogen Alzheimer’s drug will be a watershed moment for the agency — and the biotech industry
4 June 2021 - In the coming days the FDA will make one of its most important — and controversial — ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2021
Vaccine patent waivers deserve a warning label
13 May 2021 - The move to suspend patents on COVID-19 vaccines opens up a major risk to the way the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 May 2021
The pharma industry needs to measure patient experience from the patients’ perspectives
10 May 2021 - The relationship between clinical outcomes and the patient experience — the sum of all of interactions ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2021
ALS groups to the FDA and drug sponsors: ‘We won’t be played again’
30 April 2021 - Working to improve the fight for therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou ...