Florida-based Catalyst Pharmaceuticals is attempting to show in court that the price of a newly approved treatment for a rare autoimmune disease and pressure from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders lead to the approval of a rival treatment.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Maryland’s bid to revive a law aimed at preventing price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, dealing a setback to the power of states to rein in prescription drug costs.
Study Shows Drugs on FDA Shortage List Are Likely to See Price Hikes
Annals of Internal Medicine, CAR-T Therapy, Clinical Data, Drug Shortage, EpiPen, FDA, FDA Commissioner, FDA/Regulatory, Injectables, Martin Shkreli, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Opioids, Price Gouging, Studies, United Kingdom, United StatesAccording to a drug shortage list provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, there have been more than 100 drugs that have faced shortages during 2018.
As U.S. consumer outrage grows over prescription drug prices, state authorities and patient advocates in Maryland are preparing to enforce the nation’s first law designed to punish drugmaker price-gouging.
Maryland lawmakers have passed a first-in-the-nation measure that lets the state attorney general sue generic drug makers that sharply raise prices in a move aimed at fighting “price gouging.”
The ninth batch of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails released by WikiLeaks has some biopharma gossip that includes Clinton’s team discussing the FDA’s commissioner and it’s so-called “war on pharma.”
Healthcare Agency Roundtable 2015
21st Century Cures Act, ACA, Affordable Care Act, Approvals, Biosimilars, December 2015, Digital, Digital Marketing, DTC, FDA, FDA/Regulatory, Generics, Healthcare, Healthcare Communications Agencies, Healthcare Physicians, Healthcare Practitioners, Healthcare Providers, Healthcare/Medicare/Medicaid, Issue Archives, Launches, Legislation, Marketing & Advertising, New Molecular Entities, Patient Outcomes, Politics, Presidential Candidates, Price Gouging, Price Hikes, Pricing, Product Launches, Retail Pharmaceuticals, Special Reports, Technology, WearablesExecutives from the 2015 and 2014 Manny Award winners and finalists share their views on a variety of industry-related topics.
The debate in Washington over drug pricing is getting louder and nastier, and drug marketing is getting caught in the crossfire.
A pediatric doctor in Alabama had to scramble to find a less expensive supply of a lifesaving drug to treat an infant who was suffering from a parasitic infection. In Utah, a hospital has been forced to change the way it stocks a drug critical to treating heart patients after the cost skyrocketed from […]
NEW YORK – Turing Pharmaceuticals’ Martin Shkreli, once dubbed the most hated man in America, might not have a difficult time holding onto that title after telling a healthcare panel he should have raised the price of Daraprim even higher than the 5,000 percent increase he did. “I think I could have raised it higher […]