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Health minister disputes claim he sided with big pharma, interfered with drug price consultations
1 March 2023 - Review board 'will never be subjected to political interference,' Duclos said. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2023
ABPI response to Government Statutory Scheme rise
2 March 2023 - The Government has confirmed plans to raise the revenue clawback rate paid by pharmaceutical firms subject ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2023
ABPI sets out new proposals to support the NHS and economic growth
1 March 2023 - The pharmaceutical industry’s offer includes an annual £1 billion boost to the NHS as well as an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2023
The drug prices review board was once a solution. It’s now a problem.
1 March 2023 - Anti-drug company activists are repeating ill-informed myths about controlling drug prices in Canada. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Feb 2023
Member of Canada’s drug pricing regulator quits over ‘lack of support’ for medicine cost reforms
23 February 2023 - A member of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, Canada’s drug pricing regulator, has resigned over ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Feb 2023
High drug prices are not justified by industry’s spending on research and development
15 February 2023 - Aris Angelis and colleagues argue that by refocusing their spending drug companies could provide more innovative ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Feb 2023
Germany proposes to fix shortages in certain medicines
15 February 2023 - Germany's health ministry on Tuesday vowed to fix shortages in medicines for children, antibiotics and cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2023
The EU butts heads with big pharma to make medicines cheaper
2 February 2023 - The bloc’s pharma reform aims to get new drugs to patients faster, for less money. But it ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Feb 2023
Pharma industry urges halt to further rises in record revenue clawbacks
2 February 2023 - The pharmaceutical industry is calling on the government to scrap plans to raise the statutory revenue clawback ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jan 2023
UK's voluntary scheme for branded medicines, pricing and access (VPAS) faces a potential crisis
19 January 2023 - The UK has a “voluntary scheme for branded medicines, pricing, and access” or VPAS, which sets a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jan 2023
The battle over European drug pricing
19 January 2023 - UK and EU must balance health cost control with plans to grow life sciences. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jan 2023
Innovative Medicines Canada proposes framework for innovative agreements for drug reimbursement
16 January 2023 - Pharmaceutical manufacturers in Canada often enter into product listing agreements, particularly with public payers, to facilitate their ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2023
AbbVie and Eli Lilly, two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, have sent a warning signal to the UK government by leaving the voluntary medicines pricing agreement in protest over increasingly punitive revenue clawbacks
16 January 2023 - AbbVie and Lilly have left the UK’s Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access, a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2022
Prices soar for antibiotics as desperate parents search for strep A medicine
11 December 2022 - Drug companies have been accused of “cartel behaviour” for increasing the costs of antibiotics during the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Dec 2022
Germany's use of reference pricing for biologics: lessons for the US
5 December 2022 - A redesign of consumer cost sharing in the US is important to accelerate the adoption of biosimilars ...