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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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Abbott Laboratories, Pharmacia, Roxane Laboratories and Warrick Pharmaceuticals have paid Ohio $8.44 million to settle...
Sanofi-Aventis SA will pay $95.5 million to settle allegations that it overcharged state Medicaid programs for...
Researcher Susan Chimonas of the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University, and Jerome Kassirer, former...
NLARx believes "that the conduct of CVS Caremark threatens to harm consumers both by increasing prices and by...
Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times Lisa A. Hylton said she had skipped twice-monthly refills three times this year...
Drug-company executives are aiming to prevent steep cuts in prescription prices by joining the effort to overhaul the U.
US Rx use down but brand drug prices up sharply: report 14 May 2009 Last year, US price rises for branded drugs topped...
Wider use of generic drugs helped temper the price hikes of brand-name and specialty drugs this past year, pharmacy...
Even trivial handouts influence the brand of drugs favored by students, says new research paper
NEW DELHI: The government is laying ground rules for negotiating drug prices with multinational companies to ensure...
rebates totalled between $600-million and $800-million a year, the ministry says in a backgrounder. The rebates...
and reimbursement set to restrict pharma further 147 US - President Obama's cost-cutting strategies will drive down...
The Chinese government Tuesday announced it will institute an essential medicine system within three years to drive...
Walgreens and some other pharmacies charge more if the government is buying.
s largest retailer, is aiming its economic might at the health-care industry with a program that lowers prescription...
a lack of competition among generic drug firms and an absence of price controls on generic drugs (brand-name drug...
extended drug benefits to Medicare recipients, it prohibited, at the insistence of the Bush administration, any...
Skeptics say Obama's decision to invest heavily in research on "comparative effectiveness" will lead to...
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equivalent rent each increased 0.1%. Medical care prices rose 0.3%, including a 0.6% increase in drug prices.
drugs online from safe and licensed Canadian pharmacies. eDrugSearch.com is an impassioned advocate for consumers...
pipeline,' said Simon Friend, global pharmaceutical leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers. US healthcare reform, with...
The bill was prompted by concerns that some consumers don't take prescribed drugs because they can't afford them and...
At the checkout, I was surprised when the clerk billed me for $100 instead of my usual small co-payment.
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