Tag: Pharmaceutical Industry

A surprise insurance practice is making prescription drugs unaffordable for DC patients

Carl Schmid · August 30, 2018 6:45 pm

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar looks on as President Trump speaks during an event about prescription drug prices in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 11, 2018, in Washington.

Trump administration moves to give Medicare drug plans more control over their offerings

Robert King · August 29, 2018 10:13 pm

In this June 14, 2011 photo, the blood thinner medication Plavix is displayed at Medco Health Solutions Inc., in Willingboro, N.J. The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet.The next 15 months will bring generic versions of seven of the world's 20 best-selling drugs, including the top two: cholesterol fighter Lipitor and blood thinner Plavix.

Medicare could have saved nearly $1 billion by using generics, study finds

Robert King · August 21, 2018 9:51 pm

Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier listens as President Trump speaks during a meeting with pharmaceutical industry leaders. "You folks have done a tremendous job, but we have to get prices down," Trump said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Pharma industry sales climb despite Trump’s pressure on prices

Joe Williams · August 21, 2018 6:15 pm

The opioid epidemic is a cultural problem, it requires cultural solutions

Ericka Andersen · August 21, 2018 12:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about prescription drug prices with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 11, 2018.

Trump administration says its drug blueprint has already lowered prices

Robert King · August 20, 2018 8:40 pm

A pharmacist holds a package of EpiPen epinephrine auto-injectors.

FDA approves first generic competitor for EpiPen

Robert King · August 16, 2018 7:19 pm

President Trump this week slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for asking the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General to investigate alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump urges federal lawsuit against opioid manufacturers

Melissa Quinn · August 16, 2018 5:16 pm

Drug middlemen push back that rebates are to blame for high drug prices

Robert King · August 15, 2018 5:26 pm

Syringes of the opioid painkiller fentanyl are pictured in an inpatient pharmacy.

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Drug companies opposed to the death penalty have changed executions

Erin Dunne · August 14, 2018 10:11 pm

FILE- In this June 1, 2018 file photo, small vials of fentanyl are shown in the inpatient pharmacy at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. Nebraska state officials are preparing for their first execution in two decades on Aug. 14 at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Neb., and their first-ever lethal injection with an untried combination of drugs. The new execution protocol calls for an initial IV dose of diazepam, commonly known as Valium, to render the inmate unconscious; the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl; cisatracurium besylate to induce paralysis and stop the inmate from breathing; and potassium chloride to stop the heart.

Nebraska the first to use fentanyl to carry out death penalty

Kimberly Leonard · August 14, 2018 5:10 pm

Carl Icahn, billionaire activist investor, waits for Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, to speak at an election night event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Trump, the billionaire real-estate mogul, got a major boost in his quest to secure the Republican nomination with a majority of delegates but could not eliminate the possibility of a contested convention.

Carl Icahn drops opposition to Express Scripts-Cigna merger

Robert King · August 14, 2018 4:04 pm