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Clinical Care
Prominent Doctors Aren't Disclosing Their Industry Ties in Medical Journal Studies. And Journals Are Doing Little to Enforce Their Rules
The dean of Yale's medical school, the incoming president of a prominent cancer group and the head of a Texas...
340B Final Rule Will Launch on January 1, 2019
HHS shortens the 340B final rule implantation by six months after determining that it would not 'interfere' with the departments...
Strategy
'We Will Go Further': Azar Eyes Mandate Despite PhRMA's New Approach to TV Ads
The HHS secretary called PhRMA's voluntary action 'a small step in the right direction' but vowed to carry the Trump...
Strategy
In The Battle To Control Drug Costs, Old Patent Laws Get New Life
The strategies involve repurposing two obscure and rarely deployed workarounds in patent law. These ideas also are finding traction among...
Drugmakers Play The Patent Game To Lock In Prices, Block Competitors
The patenting of a small change in how an existing drug is made or taken by patients is part of...
Clinical Care
Black Patients Miss Out On Promising Cancer Drugs
A ProPublica analysis found that black people and Native Americans are under-represented in clinical trials of new drugs, even when...
Finance
New Medicare Advantage Tool To Lower Drug Prices Puts Crimp In Patients' Choices
Starting next year, Medicare Advantage plans will be able to add restrictions on expensive, injectable drugs administered by doctors to...
Strategy
Insurer To Purdue Pharma: We Won't Pay For OxyContin Anymore
This move could reduce fraudulent prescriptions to street dealers or drug-seeking people with active addictions and cut down on costly...
Clinical Care
The Remedy For Surprise Medical Bills May Lie In Stitching Up Federal Law
While states increasingly pass laws to protect patients from balance bills as more hospitals and doctors go after patients to...
Strategy
PhRMA, AHA Trade Blame, Barbs on High Drug Prices
Drug makers launch PR campaign blaming higher drug costs on hospital markups. Hospitals call the claims 'a brazen misrepresentation of...
Clinical Care
Proposed House Bill Seeks to End Drug Price 'Gag Clause'
Pharmacists should be able to freely tell patients that a drug will cost less out-of-pocket.
Strategy
Azar Asks Congress, Pharma to Do More to Cut Drug Prices
Remarks came during a call that the agency convened to mark 100 days since President Trump released his plan to...