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Pharma keeps ignoring its price problem
14 September 2017 - Want to get pharma companies up in arms? Tell them it doesn't cost that much to get ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Sep 2017
Medicare for all or state control: health care plans go to extremes
13 September 2017 - In one Senate office building, some of the leading lights of the Democratic Party gathered Wednesday ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Sep 2017
Confirmed 1 October 2017 prices - 2017 October cycle
14 September 2017 - Confirmed 1 October 2017 prices resulting from the 2017 October cycle of price disclosure have now been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Sep 2017
FDA’s Gottlieb plans to close an orphan drug loophole
12 September 2017 - Amid rising complaints that drug makers are exploiting loopholes to win approval of so-called orphan drugs, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Sep 2017
Bernie Sanders: why we need Medicare for all
13 September 2017 - This is a pivotal moment in American history. Do we, as a nation, join the rest ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2017
FDA is advancing the goals of the Orphan Drug Act
12 September 2017 - Three months ago, I committed to fully eliminate a backlog of about 200 orphan drug designation requests ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2017
California moves closer to adopting a drug pricing transparency law
12 September 2017 - A California bill that would require drug makers to report and justify price hikes took a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2017
Streamlined FDA reviews fail to catch dangerous glitches in health software, study finds
12 September 2017 - The FDA carefully polices many categories of drugs and devices. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2017
War on drugs: big pharma fights NHS bill curbs
10 September 2017 - With NHS budgets under pressure and medicine prices inexorably going up, something had to give. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2017
Annual performance statistics report: July 2016 to June 2017
12 September 2017 - Since the 2015-16 report, the number of submissions received across some Category 1 application types varied significantly. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2017
Premium cost hopes resting on knees, hips
11 September 2017 - Health Minister Greg Hunt will try to reduce pressure on insurance premiums by cutting the cost ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2017
How the EU regulates medicines
11 September 2017 - Awareness session for international regulators and NGOs on the work of EMA and European medicines regulatory ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2017
Health insurers demand reforms to keep premium increases low
11September 2017 - Australia’s health insurance industry has warned Health Minister Greg Hunt that if he wants consumers to have ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2017
’It’s about private healthcare, not just health insurance’
11 September 2017 - An edited transcript of a private health care insurance roundtable hosted by The Australian senior business ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Sep 2017
A GOP Senate leader calls for bipartisan compromise on ACA marketplaces
6 September 2017 - A bipartisan group of state insurance commissioners on Wednesday sketched out possible common ground where Congress ...