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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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What Obama Means for Biotechsmore

worried that Obama's prescription for health care reform will squeeze the sector's growth by imposing lower drug prices...

Web site gives the lowdown on medical pricesmore

more expensive ($45 for a three-day supply) than the twice-a-day version ($4 for a three-day supply). Looking at drug...

Leslie's List outs medical prices in Chicago [Chicago Tribune - Triage...more

more expensive ($45 for a three-day supply) than the twice-a-day version ($4 for a three-day supply). Looking at drug...

Tweaking inputs no ground for raising drug prices: NPPAmore

hrs IST, Sushmi Dey & Khomba Singh, ET Bureau Discuss Text: NEW DELHI: The drug price regulator has ruled that...

Report: Cocaine Price Plunges Amid Recessionmore

think prices are likely to fall providing the governments don't step up their efforts to intercept supplies.

In praise of ... Andrew Wittymore

construct that must rest upon an ethical foundation. Andrew Witty tells today's Guardian that he will slash drug prices...

Drug Side-Effects Costing Wasting NHS Cashmore

A recent study has found that one in seven patients experiences side effects from their medication while in hospital,...

UK's NICE Considering Giving Statins To Healthy Patientsmore

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is considering whether to review the use of statins in the...

Skyocketing Health-Care Costs Could Double Premiums for Many Americansmore

Unless health-care reform becomes a reality, most Americans can expect to pay health insurance premiums that will...

Pharmaceutical disobedience: Consumers break drug lawsmore

Healthcare consumers, benefits managers, and even government officials are using the internet to buy unapproved...

Pfizer Weds Wyeth--A desperate unionmore

The acquisition by Pfizer,, the world's largest drug company, of rival Wyeth, for $68 billion, is something of an act...

More Americans Skipping Necessary Prescriptions, Survey Findsmore

One in seven Americans under age 65 went without prescribed medicines in 2007 as drug costs spiraled upward in the...

Abbott Drug Pricing Condemned by AIDS Advocates in International Prote...more

as TV Commercial on Select Chicago Area Television Stations As part of an ongoing multinational campaign to lower drug...

McKesson swings to lossmore

$291 million, or $1.05 a share. The settlement relates to allegations that the company helped to increase drug prices...

Cut health costs, not your caremore

Balancing your budget shouldn't mean your health pays the price. Here are smart ways to manage both. This is an...

Pfizer buying Wyeth for $68 billion in cash and stockmore

Pfizer Inc., the world's top drug maker, said Monday it will buy rival Wyeth for $68 billion in the biggest...

Roche Fraud Case Exposes Corruption Encouraged by Drug Pricing Politic...more

Roche has emerged as both victim and enabler in a big corruption case whose basis was the arcane pricing policies of U.

PhRMA CEO Tauzin Expresses Opposition to Government Negotiating Medic...more

PhRMA CEO Tauzin Expresses Opposition to Government Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices [Jan 15, 2009] Allowing Medicare...

Recognizing drug firms' role in researchmore

AMID CONCERN that money from drug makers was unduly influencing medicine, Governor Deval Patrick recently signed a law...

What Does the Recession Mean for Pharmaceutical Prices: New Cutting Ed...more

Recessionary times put tremendous pressure on everyone -- consumers, companies, governments -- to spend less.

Calif. pharmaceutical firm settles Miss. lawsuitmore

Hood said Dey's agreement is the first in the Average Wholesale Price litigation that he filed against 54 drug...

Teva settles MassHealth fraud lawsuitmore

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world's biggest maker of generic drugs, paid $7 million to settle a suit...

National healthcare rate of spending slows, for nowmore

National healthcare spending in 2007 increased at the slowest rate since 1998 but still grew faster than the economy at...

Medicare Changes Benefit Formula for 2010 Drug Plansmore

Medicare banned a pricing technique that lowered costs for health insurers and drug-benefits managers while pushing...

UK Extends Access to Drugs for Terminally Illmore

Nice: NHS drugs body puts higher value on extra months for the terminally ill Thousands of terminally ill patients will...

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