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STAT+: Mid-year drug price hikes are back despite Inflation Reduction Act

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At the start and halfway points of each year, many pharmaceutical companies raise drug prices to bolster revenue and reportedly fund new research. “It’s not just all selling new drugs,” said Juliette Cubanski, deputy director of the Program on Medicare Policy at Kaiser Family Foundation.

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How will NICE fare in a post-Brexit world?

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Long headquartered in London, the EU drug regulator is now severed from the country both physically and systematically, with its base now in Amsterdam and the UK now assessing drugs through its own regulatory agency, MHRA. This additional effort could lead to poorer patient access. “It

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US legislative update: takeaways for European pharma

European Pharmaceutical Review

In the current US Congressional session, Congress has focused heavily on legislation directed at reducing prescription drug prices. The new law will also require drug manufacturers to pay rebates to Medicare if they increase drug prices faster than consumer inflation. 136 (2013), [link] opinions/12pdf/12-416_m5n0.pdf.

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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Patents are often described as the ‘lifeblood’ of pharmaceutical companies. 1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment. 23 April 2013.