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PrEP school: a field manual for the battle over HIV prevention drug pricing
29 August 2019 - Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—an HIV prevention intervention consisting of a daily drug cocktail, quarterly HIV/sexually transmitted disease screening, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Aug 2019
Prescription 2020: Democratic candidates and drug pricing
29 August 2019 - Prescription drug pricing appears poised to be an important issue in the 2020 presidential election. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Aug 2019
Are reasonable restraints on drug price increases doomed by pharma lobbying?
29 August 2019 - In a rare but important display of congressional bipartisanship, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Dutch health minister threatens to name and shame pharma over prices
28 August 2019 - In an unusual move, the Netherlands health minister wrote an open letter to the pharmaceutical industry ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Dutch minister warns big pharma to come clean on drugs prices
27 August 2019 - Health minister Bruno Bruins has warned the pharmaceuticals industry that he considers the way drugs firms ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Aug 2019
Reining in the spending on drugs: What Massachusetts can learn from other states
27 August 2019 - Two years ago, New York leaders required drug companies to get serious about negotiating lower prices ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Aug 2019
Aust stent costs five times higher than NZ
23 August 2019 -FactCheck Investigation: Do heart stents cost Australian private health funds five times more than they cost in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Aug 2019
More competition will improve drug affordability
26 August 2019 - Making medicines more affordable for patients promises to be a top policy priority for Congress when ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Aug 2019
Conservative group launches ad campaign against Democratic drug pricing plan
26 August 2019 - A conservative advocacy group is launching a seven-figure ad campaign across dozens of House districts to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Aug 2019
Drug-price reforms need not affect research on rare diseases – or the Canadians who have them
26 August 2019 - On 9 August, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board of Canada announced new drug-pricing regulations for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Aug 2019
The nation’s first drug affordability board is set up in Maryland, but it has no money
22 August 2019 - Maryland’s presiding officers and its attorney general on Thursday announced the members of the nation’s first ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Aug 2019
Trump has made a priority of trying to lower drug prices. But many of his most ardent supporters don’t know it.
23 August 2019 - The contrast between the two Trump rallies was striking: At one event here in the first ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Aug 2019
China vows to maintain stable drug prices
22 August 2019 - Chinese authorities vowed to take actions to make sure the drug prices are set reasonably by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Aug 2019
Companies file suit in Canada challenging new rules to lower drug prices
23 August 2019 - Five pharmaceutical companies said on Friday they have filed a complaint in a Canadian court challenging ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Aug 2019
ABPI position on US trade deal and medicines pricing
21 August 2019 - In response to concerns about the impact a US trade deal would have on medicine pricing, ...