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MedPAC has argued for Medicare drug pricing reforms for several years, and federal agencies often take their recommendations seriously. But industry opposition has been the primary roadblock to several MedPAC proposals.

Some research advocates fear the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health could be left behind in a crush of end-of-session business and lose momentum.

The lawsuits are part of the broader multidistrict litigation over Zantac and ranitidine after various drugmakers including the defendants launched recalls of their products in 2019.

In fact, the proposed drug price negotiation program does not authorize the federal government to decide which medications people on Medicare can and cannot get and does not establish or require a particular prescription drug formulary.

A notion in the policy community is that competition between biologics and their biosimilars does not save patients and taxpayers as much as well-functioning generic competition.

In his latest press conference, he implied their policies are linked to donations from big pharmaceutical firms.

The New Jersey Democrat refuses to say whether his resistance to Medicare drug bargaining will turn him against the reconciliation bill.

Medicare and a host of other federal agencies are prohibited by law from accessing this kind of purchasing power.

"Another example of Big Pharma reaping billions from public investment into research".

The 26 research institutions have run nearly 4,600 trials testing medicines and, so far, 641 sets of results have been made available.

A U.S. federal court judge dismissed a lawsuit in which the drug maker claimed a would-be rival hired one of its employees, who then allegedly transferred a boatload of confidential information about its best-selling Humira treatment.

OTBB head Sarah Yim says FDA internal thinking is not aligned on the idea and that a lot of convincing was necessary to drop the clinical study requirement for insulin biosimilars.

Vancouver City Council has voted to support a federal application that would allow a "compassion club" model and provide tested drugs in the city.

When babies are born in western Kenya, where malaria is rife, many mothers are sent home from the hospital with one all-important baby gift: a bed net treated with insecticide.

America is the cradle of breakthrough pharmaceutical innovation. U.S. biopharmaceutical companies create nearly two in every three new medicines.