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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 25 Mar 2021
Taxpayers fund research and drug companies make a fortune
24 March 2021 - The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t want things to change, but Americans can have both lower prices and innovation. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Feb 2021
It’s time to fast track innovation in medical devices for children
11 February 2021 - When a baby arrived at Children’s National Hospital with a critically underdeveloped heart, it was clear ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Feb 2021
Repurposing of prescription medicines
4 February 2021 - The Therapeutic Goods Administration is conducting a public consultation that seeks to understand potential obstacles and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jan 2021
Funding of pharmaceutical innovation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
14 January 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the available mechanisms for funding research, development, manufacturing, and distribution in the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Dec 2020
CDER focuses on novel drug development tools to help speed creation of new therapies
7 December 2020 - There are many novel drug development tools that incorporate the latest advances in science and technology but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2020
Financing drug innovation in the US: current framework and emerging challenges
19 August 2020 - The current US drug innovation financing framework rests on the notion that a defined period of marketing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Aug 2020
Trump’s call for essential drugs to be made in US threatens innovation, says trade group
11 August 2020 - The trade group for the US pharmaceutical industry has warned that President Donald Trump’s latest executive ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Aug 2020
Australian start-ups push for bigger role in vaccine making
9 August 2020 - An Australian startup racing to develop a successful coronavirus vaccine has urged the federal government to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2020
Harnessing real world data for regulatory use and applying innovative applications
22 July 2020 - A vast quantity of real world data are available to health care researchers. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 May 2020
Drug innovation is back in fashion
21 May 2020 - Big pharma is no longer the villain. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Apr 2020
Big pharma has the chance to come to the world’s rescue
20 April 2020 - The pandemic may finally do for the pharmaceutical industry what relentless TV advertising cannot: show off its ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Feb 2020
Australia's biotech innovations heading offshore, prompting calls for greater funding to bring them to market
11 February 2020 - The demand on the health sector has never been more evident, as the world scrambles to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
Do large pharma companies provide drug development innovation? Our analysis says no.
10 December 2019 - Large pharmaceutical companies oppose legislation being considered by Congress to lower the prices of prescription drugs. ...