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Legend Biotech has removed Genscript Biotech as its majority shareholder, in a move coinciding with rising US concerns over Chinese ties within the biotech sector. 24 October 2024
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), yesterday released new data showing that nearly 1.5 million people with Medicare Part D saved nearly $1 billion in out-of-pocket prescription drugs costs in the first half of 2024 because of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. 23 October 2024
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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) says it has submitted comments to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to inform the agency’s 2025 National Trade Estimate (NTE) Report on Foreign Trade Barriers. 21 October 2024
Generics
CMS released a Request for Information (RFI) and a sample list of prescription drugs that the agency preliminarily intends to include under the proposed Medicare $2 Drug List Model. 10 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released final guidance for the second cycle of Medicare drug price negotiations. 3 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) is continuing its legal challenge against the US government’s drug pricing reforms. 24 September 2024
Pharmaceutical
Scarcely anything unites lawmakers in America these days, but the ostensible iniquities of Big Pharma could be a rare exception. 22 September 2024
Pharmaceutical
Research from AARP has found that around $1,100 in prescription drug costs could be saved by more than a million seniors, due to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). 2 September 2024
Pharmaceutical
US President Joe Biden has announced an additional $150 million in funding as part of the ongoing Cancer Moonshot initiative. 15 August 2024
Biotechnology
Efforts to end US business deals with certain foreign biotechs considered threats are gaining traction again, with House Speaker Mike Johnson stating his intention to hold a vote on the BIOSECURE act this year. 11 July 2024
Pharmaceutical
A report released by the non-profit group No Patient Left Behind has claimed that it has found critical flaws in a key metric used by US insurance companies and foreign governments to determine whether to cover prescribed treatments at low out-of-pocket costs. 2 April 2024
Pharmaceutical
An attempt from the conservative Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine to ban mifepristone, a medicine used to induce an abortion, threatens to undermine confidence in the American regulatory regime. 27 March 2024
Biotechnology
Politics has entered the scientific realm in the form of new US legislation that has prompted the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) to come into line with Congress’s position on Chinese companies. 14 March 2024
Pharmaceutical
President Joe Biden’s actions to cut prescription drug prices through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and other means have been far from popular with big pharma and its lobbyists. 7 March 2024
Pharmaceutical
All manufacturers participating in the first cycle of the US Medicare drug price negotiations have responded with counter offers, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 5 March 2024
Pharmaceutical
In another legal blow for opponents of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a federal judge has now rejected a bid from AstraZeneca to prevent price negotiations on its diabetes med Farxiga (dapagliflozin). 4 March 2024
Pharmaceutical
In the USA, there is growing resistance to a bid from the White House to exercise so-called march-in rights, a process whereby the federal government requires patent holders to agree to a licence. 27 February 2024
Pharmaceutical
US trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has made clear its opposition to the drug price-setting provisions in the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). 14 February 2024
Pharmaceutical
An Expert View from Ross Maclean, Precision Health Economics, Outcomes Research and Head of Medical Affairs,
Precision Value and Health, and the same company's Jon Bambalas, Senior Vice President Business Development, Products Senior Vice President Business Development. 5 February 2024
Pharmaceutical
In the USA, the House of Representatives have voted overwhelmingly in favor of legislation which would restore the ability of drugmakers to fully expense R&D costs incurred within the same tax year. 5 February 2024
Biotechnology
Legend Biotech has removed Genscript Biotech as its majority shareholder, in a move coinciding with rising US concerns over Chinese ties within the biotech sector. 24 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), yesterday released new data showing that nearly 1.5 million people with Medicare Part D saved nearly $1 billion in out-of-pocket prescription drugs costs in the first half of 2024 because of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. 23 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) says it has submitted comments to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to inform the agency’s 2025 National Trade Estimate (NTE) Report on Foreign Trade Barriers. 21 October 2024
Generics
CMS released a Request for Information (RFI) and a sample list of prescription drugs that the agency preliminarily intends to include under the proposed Medicare $2 Drug List Model. 10 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released final guidance for the second cycle of Medicare drug price negotiations. 3 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) is continuing its legal challenge against the US government’s drug pricing reforms. 24 September 2024
Pharmaceutical
Scarcely anything unites lawmakers in America these days, but the ostensible iniquities of Big Pharma could be a rare exception. 22 September 2024
Pharmaceutical
Research from AARP has found that around $1,100 in prescription drug costs could be saved by more than a million seniors, due to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). 2 September 2024
Pharmaceutical
US President Joe Biden has announced an additional $150 million in funding as part of the ongoing Cancer Moonshot initiative. 15 August 2024
Biotechnology
Efforts to end US business deals with certain foreign biotechs considered threats are gaining traction again, with House Speaker Mike Johnson stating his intention to hold a vote on the BIOSECURE act this year. 11 July 2024
Pharmaceutical
A report released by the non-profit group No Patient Left Behind has claimed that it has found critical flaws in a key metric used by US insurance companies and foreign governments to determine whether to cover prescribed treatments at low out-of-pocket costs. 2 April 2024
Pharmaceutical
An attempt from the conservative Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine to ban mifepristone, a medicine used to induce an abortion, threatens to undermine confidence in the American regulatory regime. 27 March 2024
Biotechnology
Politics has entered the scientific realm in the form of new US legislation that has prompted the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) to come into line with Congress’s position on Chinese companies. 14 March 2024
Pharmaceutical
President Joe Biden’s actions to cut prescription drug prices through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and other means have been far from popular with big pharma and its lobbyists. 7 March 2024
Pharmaceutical
All manufacturers participating in the first cycle of the US Medicare drug price negotiations have responded with counter offers, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 5 March 2024
Pharmaceutical
In another legal blow for opponents of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a federal judge has now rejected a bid from AstraZeneca to prevent price negotiations on its diabetes med Farxiga (dapagliflozin). 4 March 2024
Pharmaceutical
In the USA, there is growing resistance to a bid from the White House to exercise so-called march-in rights, a process whereby the federal government requires patent holders to agree to a licence. 27 February 2024
Pharmaceutical
US trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has made clear its opposition to the drug price-setting provisions in the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). 14 February 2024
Pharmaceutical
An Expert View from Ross Maclean, Precision Health Economics, Outcomes Research and Head of Medical Affairs,
Precision Value and Health, and the same company's Jon Bambalas, Senior Vice President Business Development, Products Senior Vice President Business Development. 5 February 2024
Pharmaceutical
In the USA, the House of Representatives have voted overwhelmingly in favor of legislation which would restore the ability of drugmakers to fully expense R&D costs incurred within the same tax year. 5 February 2024
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