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Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug: What’s the price tag on hope?

World of DTC Marketing

Kesselheim, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School via the Washington Post , says “the worst thing for people with Alzheimer’s would be to put out a product that doesn’t work.” If the drug is approved you can bet that it’s going to carry a huge price tag. Biogen needs a new drug revenue badly.

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Smart pharmaceutical and healthcare labels: Lets trace medicines from its origin

Roots Analysis

Traditionally, text and images were printed on pharmaceutical products to convey important information. In recent years, the use of smart labels allows the developer to convey a greater amount of information about the product to the consumers, without the need for additional packaging space.

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STAT+: FDA scolds Sun Pharmaceutical for serious quality control problems at a key plant in India

STAT News

Food and Drug Administration for a host of serious manufacturing violations at a key plant in India, the latest instance in which the company was tagged by the regulator for quality-control problems. Sun Pharmaceutical, one of the world’s largest generic drugmakers, was scolded by the U.S.

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STAT+: Cepheid faces fresh criticism over the pricing of its TB diagnostics

STAT News

A controversy has broken out over a diagnostic for tuberculosis that, until recently, had been subsidized by the World Health Organization — the latest flare-up over access to a medical product in mostly poor countries. per cartridge, a reduction from the previous price tag of $16.86. In exchange for $11.1

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STAT+: Medicare will take R&D costs, effectiveness into account when it negotiates drug prices. But studies show that doesn’t affect prices

STAT News

By law, Medicare will have to take a medication’s efficacy and its research and development costs into account when it starts to negotiate drug prices — but recent research shows pharma companies ignore those factors when they pick prices for their products. But neither factor has much effect, the studies concluded.

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Chocolate Shortage Looms Ahead of Easter 2024

XTalks

These price hikes have put immense pressure on cocoa processors, critical in converting cocoa beans into cocoa butter and liquor for global chocolate production. This has led to reduced processing or complete halts in production. New product adaptations exemplify how companies are creatively adjusting to these constraints.

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Grand Rounds January 26, 2024: Advancing the Safe, Effective and Equitable Use of AI in Healthcare (Mark Sendak, MD, MPP; Suresh Balu, MD, MBA)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The main deliverables for the first phase of the project were developing standard key decision points for the AI product lifecycle and developing the Health Equity Across the AI Lifecycle (HEAAL) Framework. Key decision point 1 is procurement. – How do you get reliable information and data for care that is received outside of Duke?