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California’s low-cost insulin plans receive $100m manufacturing boost

Pharmaceutical Technology

Insulin prices made the headlines again as California governor Gavin Newsom announced plans on 7 July for the state to manufacture low-cost insulin. The state plans to work directly with a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) to manufacture low-cost insulin. In-house manufacturing the norm.

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Eli Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy for Home Delivery of Drugs

XTalks

LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions, Eli Lilly’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) drugs website, is teaming up with Amazon Pharmacy to deliver select medications to people’s homes. The drugs include Lilly’s newly approved GLP-1 obesity drug Zepbound (tirzepatide), around a dozen of the company’s insulins and migraine drug Emgality (galcanezumab).

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SmithRx Takes on Diabetes, Partners with TheracosBio for Brenzavvy Distribution

XTalks

Conventional PBMs administer prescription drug benefits for health insurers, Medicare Part D drug plans, major employers and various payers. PBMs play a pivotal role in managing drug expenditure through negotiations with drug manufacturers and pharmacies.

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Biosimilars vs. Interchangeable Biological Products: FDA Fact Check

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In order to fact-check some of these misconceptions, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently hosted a webinar on biosimilar and interchangeable biological products to help healthcare professionals understand more about these treatment options. Biosimilars are the “genericdrugs of the biopharma world.

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Amazon’s Pharmacy Doesn’t Break Big Pharma’s Hold of America’s Neck

Pharmacy Checkers

Not only do drug manufacturers have patents: they have special international trade protections where companies cannot import these same drugs from foreign wholesalers who charge much lower prices in Canada, not to mention the even lower prices in the UK and European Union countries – unless the drug manufacturers do the importing or authorize it.

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Health Canada’s proposed amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations and the Medical Devices Regulations

Pharma in Brief

Terms and conditions would be imposed after discussions with the manufacturer and would obligate them to take steps to manage risks and resolve uncertainties. An RMP summarizes the risks of a drug and the pharmacovigilance activities and other measures that a manufacturer puts in place to monitor and manage any identified risks.

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Top 30 Pharma and Biotech Companies in 2023: Statistics and Trends

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Most of the company’s revenue comes from the manufacture and sale of biopharmaceutical products. billion the drug generated in 2021. every eight weeks for the 90 mg dose, according to the manufacturer. First FDA-approved in March 2017, the list price of Ocrevus was about $75,102 annually, as reported by the manufacturer.

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