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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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NLARx believes "that the conduct of CVS Caremark threatens to harm consumers both by increasing prices and by...
Researcher Susan Chimonas of the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University, and Jerome Kassirer, former...
Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times Lisa A. Hylton said she had skipped twice-monthly refills three times this year...
Choosing Medicare prescription coverage for 2009 will get even harder for South Florida seniors, as monthly premiums...
Wal-Mart in Talks With Several Companies To Expand Prescription Drug Discount Program for Employees [Mar 30, 2009]...
British ministers are in talks with the drugs industry on how to speed up the approval process for new treatments The...
Drug-company executives are aiming to prevent steep cuts in prescription prices by joining the effort to overhaul the U.
When a company stumbles, it's often a great opportunity for competitors to step in and fill the void. Unfortunately for...
...falsely reported wholesale drug prices to the ... in attorneys’ fees and costs. ... agreement will govern Hospira’s...
Cites National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which found that a branded drug sold to an elderly consumer covered...
Even trivial handouts influence the brand of drugs favored by students, says new research paper
reject the charge, pointing to initiatives on pricing. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)...
The UK body that decides which drugs are cost-effective is often attacked when it decides new treatments that offer...
American consumers and health insurers saved about $1 billion on generic drugs this year as “fierce” competition among...
Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Charles Schumer of New York, Democrats both, asked the Government Accountability...
Thailand’s new Public Health Minister, Chawarat Charnveerakul, has said that imposing compulsory licensing (CL) is...
t’s natural for the price of drugs to rise a little every year, just like the price of everything else.
Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly hiking the prices of specialty medications by 100 percent or more --...
Abbott settles a suit alleging it improperly raised the price of its HIV drug by 400%.
...on to reduce health care costs, especially for ... states already negotiate Medicaid drug prices) and no
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world's biggest maker of generic drugs, paid $7 million to settle a suit...
The grocer aims to help shoppers trying to make ends meet.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle allegations it was violating a 2003 antitrust...
think prices are likely to fall providing the governments don't step up their efforts to intercept supplies.
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