Tag: Pharmaceutical Industry

On Thursday, leaders from the House and Senate were on track to reaching a spending deal that would fund the government continuously for two years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress on track for Thursday vote to avoid government shutdown, lay groundwork for budget deal

Susan Ferrechio · February 8, 2018 6:36 pm

Republican leaders said Wednesday they support the deal as a way to ensure more defense spending, and note it would also create a bipartisan committee that will try to recommend new budgeting reforms. (iStock photo)

Conservatives accuse GOP of ditching fiscal restraint with new spending deal

Pete Kasperowicz · February 8, 2018 12:54 pm

The Food and Drug Administration keeps a database of reported medical device failures, injuries, and even deaths, but navigating it presents an obstacle to most users. (Al Drago/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

FDA must make medical device complaints transparent

Terry Turner · February 8, 2018 5:01 am

Mac Thornberry on budget deal: ‘If you vote ‘no,’ you are voting against fixing the military’

Travis J. Tritten · February 7, 2018 10:40 pm

Data showed doctors are still prescribing too many opioids, a key driver that fueled the opioid epidemic that federal data shows kills 91 people each day. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Doctors are prescribing too many stronger opioids, says insurance lobby

Robert King · February 7, 2018 5:24 pm

President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

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Trump already making progress on making prescription drugs affordable

Sally Pipes · February 6, 2018 11:37 pm

The FDA already has a "compassionate use" program that allows use of an experimental drug outside of a clinical trial. But the Senate legislation would let patients bypass that program, which can help monitor the safety of the drug's use. (AP Photo)

Trump aims to get ‘right to try’ drug law across the finish line

Robert King · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

Vice President Mike Pence will be a key fundraising and bankrolling figure as the Republican Party approaches what looks to be brutal midterm elections this year. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Mike Pence prioritizes Trump loyalists, swing districts in 2018 fundraising

David M. Drucker · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

The White House and Republicans in Congress are pushing for a new law allowing terminally ill patients bypass Food and Drug Administration regulations to get access to experimental treatments. (iStock)

Right-to-try advocates push for quick House vote

Robert King · February 6, 2018 1:37 am

A sign outside Bristol-Myers Squibb offices in New Jersey. The pharmaceutical company reported a fourth-quarter loss after a $2.9 billion charge related to the GOP tax overhaul. (Christopher Barth/ Bloomberg News)

Drugmaker Bristol-Myers sticks to buybacks, acquisitions as tax rate slides

James Langford · February 5, 2018 6:05 pm

President Trump has made an open push for Congress to approve "right to try" legislation. "Right to try" lets a patient with a terminally ill disease and no other options bypass the Food and Drug Administration to use an experimental drug. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump pushes anew for ‘right to try’ drug law

Robert King · February 1, 2018 6:53 pm

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump did not say he had any intention of eliminating any other part of Obamacare, after the law's individual mandate was repealed last year. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Republican lawmakers take Trump’s Obamacare repeal snub in stride

Robert King · January 31, 2018 5:01 am