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Insulin prices demonstrate pharma’s greed

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WHAT’S HAPPENING: In the Build Back Better bill , Democrats are actually proposing limiting insulin prices to $35 a month but Republicans can’t have any of that. PhRMA spent pharma’s money well and bought some politicians while people who need insulin are suffering.

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Arecor heads for London Stock Exchange with drug reformulation strategy

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Arecor Therapeutics is planning to float on the London stock market, to raise funding and awareness for its developmental portfolio of biologic drugs, which are based on already-marketed drugs reformulated to provide extra benefits for patients. .

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Pricing, Profits and Progress: Pharma’s Post-COVID Priorities

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The fundamental misconception among the public, the media and even some lawmakers is that higher drug list prices are the result of drug manufacturers being in a monopolistic position to endlessly raise prices on critical drugs like insulin and then rake in big profits. What’s Next: How Should Pharma Companies Respond?

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FDA head Califf on tighter accelerated approvals and lower drug prices at JP Morgan

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FDA director Robert Califf gave his prognosis for the pharma industry at this year’s JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco over January 9–12. That leaves three years for pharma companies to prepare. It’s much needed. It’s a hot area.” trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act.

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How the patient voice is becoming vital for drug approval

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Rebecca Sanders from Lipodystrophy UK tells us how the patient voice helped convince NICE to approve a much-needed drug for this rare disease, and explores how regulators and pharma companies can help make patient involvement in HTA more impactful. This article appears in our free digital magazine Deep Dive: Market Access 2021.

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A history of the pharmaceutical industry

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Previously a centre of the trade in textiles and dyes, Swiss manufacturers gradually began to realise their dyestuffs had antiseptic and other properties and began to market them as pharmaceuticals, in contrast to the origin in pharmacies of other enterprises. Thalidomide and the development of drug safety regulation and monitoring.

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Prescription drug prices are out of cotrol

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About eight in ten across partisans say profits made by pharmaceutical companies are a “major factor” in the price of prescription drugs. The May 2021 KFF Health Tracking Poll finds about two-thirds of adults say there is “not as much regulation as there should be” when it comes to limiting the price of prescription drugs.

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