Newsom committed California to making its own insulin. It’s at least a year behind his schedule
Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 signed a law allowing California to manufacture its own insulin, an effort to bring down the cost ...
Scientists and Doctors Reveal How Genes are Mapping Cures for Cancer
Like many cancer patients, Michael Wolff wanted answers. But, like many cancer patients in 2015, he wasn't getting them.
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FTC: 3 Companies Massively Jacked Cost of Lifesaving Drugs
The Big 3 companies acting as intermediaries between drugmakers and insurance providers made billions by needlessly jacking ...
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Federal watchdog cites concerns with FDA’s accelerated approval process
The review, which was spurred by controversy over the FDA's Aduhelm approval, recommends two main changes in agency ...
FTC releases new findings in drug price inflation investigation
A new report from the Federal Trade Commission is uncovering what appears to be a major driver of the high cost of ...
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Watchdog flags flaws in FDA's fast-track drug approvals
The OIG report points to gaps in documentation and decision-making transparency, particularly in the case of Aduhelm, where FDA records indicated only 13 meetings with Biogen, but congressional ...
FTC report shows $7.3 billion in drug price inflation by leading pharmacy benefit managers
From 2017 to 2022, the companies marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent, netting them $7.3 ...
Biden’s big semiconductor law will ramp up US chip production -- but at a high cost, report finds
A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and reduce reliance on ...
Regulator accuses drug middlemen of wild price hikes, possibly steering business to themselves
CVS Caremark, OptumRx and St. Louis-based Express Scripts — are part of huge health conglomerates that also own insurers, ...
Top three insurers reaped $7.3 billion through their drug middlemen's markups, FTC says
Regulators published their most detailed findings yet on how some of the nation’s largest companies profited from "excess" ...
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United Nations Millennium Development Goals
The new Agenda calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the next 15 years. “The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are our shared vision ...