Drug companies typically have less than 10 years of exclusive rights once a drug hits the marketplace. By Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News David Herzberg was alarmed when he heard that Richard Sackler, former chairman of opioid giant Purdue Pharma, was listed as an inventor on a new patent for an opioid addiction treatment. […]
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Drug Companies Play Patent Game To Lock In Prices, Block Competitors
Posted on 06 October 2018.
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Trump Administration Sinks Teeth Into Paring Down Drug Prices, On 5 Key Points
Posted on 12 August 2018.
Three months after President Donald Trump announced his blueprint to bring down drug prices, administration officials have begun putting some teeth behind the rhetoric.
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Hopes Rise Again For A Drug To Slow Alzheimer’s Disease
Posted on 03 August 2018.
An experimental therapy slowed mental decline by 30 percent in patients who got the highest dose in a mid-stage study.
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Dissecting The Rhetoric Vs. Reality Of Trump’s Tough Talk On Drug Prices
Posted on 30 April 2018.
President Donald Trump has railed against the high price of prescription drugs and famously bemoaned how pharmaceutical companies are “getting away with murder.” Yet, many Americans aren’t seeing a change in what they pay out-of-pocket.
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As States Target High Drug Prices, Pharma Targets State Lawmakers
Posted on 03 February 2018.
About 10 pharma lobbyists flooded the room in Baton Rouge’s art deco state Capitol, some of them hired guns; lobbyists who’d never represented drug companies before.
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Arthritis Drugs Show How U.S. Drug Prices Defy Economics
Posted on 27 December 2017.
Renda Bower knows well the cost of drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis; her husband, son and daughter all have the painful, disabling autoimmune disease. And the family’s finances revolve around paying for them.
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