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DRUG PRICES

As the prices of prescription drugs skyrocket in oncology and other disease areas, there is a danger payers will scale back coverage of these life-saving products. How can society cope with these escalating drug costs? Where is this crisis headed, and what measures are drug companies, regulators and lawmakers willing or able to implement?

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Pharmaceuticals for Freemore

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by tighter credit. Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co led declines for drug makers on speculation the government will further...

CVS Wins $3 Billion Government Benefits Contract From Medcomore

in 2010 contracts to rivals for reasons including price and service. A pharmacy- benefits manager, or PBM, negotiates...

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land there is, much of it has been diverted to grow the more profitable qat crops, the herbal drug. Prices for food...

Drug companies in America: The costly war on cancermore

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FACTBOX-Options to shore up Medicare finances in U.S.more

its authority. REDUCE SPENDING FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS Allowing Medicare to use its huge purchasing power to negotiate...

The Rhubarb Patch: Medicare reformmore

t take off the table such cost-cutting ideas as raising the eligibility age, allowing the government to negotiate drug...

Hudak borrows from Harper��s playbook to explain his health care polic...more

taken some reasonably ambitious measures to make the system more efficient including last years fight with pharmacies...

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16 to 20 percent with insurance companies," grandma continued. "That contributes to cost, along with factors...

Govt concerned about affordability of medicines: Srikant Jenamore

do you intend to bring down prices of such drugs that are outside price control? The issue of drug prices is looked...

Big savings to come from generic-drug market's imminent growthmore

University of Chicago Medical Center and a pharmacoepidemiologist who studies the quality of prescription drugs as well...

Strong AUD drives int'l drug rings to target Australiamore

dollars, stashed in household furniture. Australia Federal Police's Sydney office manager, Commander Brian McDonald,...

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million, stashed in household furniture. Australia Federal Police's Sydney office manager, Commander Brian McDonald,...

NYC offers discount card for prescription drugsmore

City has one of the nation's biggest Medicaid programs, whose recipients already get the benefit of lower drug prices.

Health Insurers Lose Push to Ease Health Law���s Price Reviewmore

chief executive officer, said policymakers should focus on lowering underlying medical costs such as hospitals,...

NYC offers discount card for prescription drugsmore

City has one of the nation's biggest Medicaid programs, whose recipients already get the benefit of lower drug prices.

Pharmaceuticals' Bitter Pricing Pillmore

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Dr Reddy's Quarterly Profit Doublesmore

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Google could pay U.S. $500M for taking illegal pharma adsmore

further. U.S. consumers often take advantage of online pharmacies, based in countries like Canada which control their...

WHO director general Margaret Chan says fight for global health on all...more

more precise definition of problems and a more targeted approach to solutions. In addition, these initiatives have...

U.K. Rejects Three Costly Leukemia Drugsmore

In another sign of growing opposition to high drug prices, an arm of the U.K.'s health-care system said Britain...

US FTC: drug patent kickback deals up by 60 pctmore

keep generics off the market are already costing consumers and taxpayers $3.5 billion a year in higher drug...

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increased from 15.7% to 15.8%. The margin development was mainly influenced by the favorable development of...

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