Presently, Medicare is forbidden by law from paying for antiobesity prescriptions. But should the bipartisan The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act get reintroduced and passed by Congress, Medicare will be compelled to cover drugs for weight loss.
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Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sent a letter to Sanofi and Novo Nordisk urging them to lower insulin prices.
Dealing with the seismic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the biopharma industry continues to break new ground during a transformative era of product innovation.
The FDA issued a complete response letter refusing accelerated approval for Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s disease candidate donanemab, the Indianapolis-based company announced yesterday.
Drugmakers are prioritizing complex biotech medicines over treatments that can be given as pills because recent U.S. legislation gives biologics a longer runway before becoming subject to government price limits, top industry executives said this week.
Roche announced its investigational antibody gantenerumab failed to meet the primary endpoints in GRADUATE I and II – two Phase III studies in Alzheimer’s disease.