Tag: Pharmaceutical Industry

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Inc. said late Wednesday that federal prosecutors are seeking information on the drug developer's drug pricing, distribution and patient assistance program. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Drug maker faces federal probe over high prices

Robert King · October 15, 2015 2:28 pm

Clinton also would impose federally dictated prices on new medicines by forcing drug makers to calculate, using some sort of pseudo-scientific formula, each new drug's R&D cost. (Bloomberg/Daniel Acker)

Hillary on drugs: Bad prescription

John Graham · October 14, 2015 4:01 am

Kaiser estimates that the average Part D premium, Medicare's prescription drug plan, will increase from $36 to $41 per month next year.Â (AP file photo/Morry Gash)

Medicare drug plan premiums to shoot up next year

Robert King · October 13, 2015 3:49 pm

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie SandersÂ won't vote for Robert Califf as the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.Â (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Sanders won’t back Obama’s pick for FDA chief

Robert King · October 9, 2015 6:05 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, accompanied by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said thatÂ Turing Pharmaceuticals' Martin Shkreli hasn't lowered the price of a drug that he jacked up 5,000 percent. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Lawmakers ‘sickened’ over drug CEO

Robert King · October 9, 2015 4:44 pm

Trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim nations negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement pose for a group photo at a meeting in Lahaina, Hawaii on Thursday, July 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Early signals point to big wins in trade deal

Alex Armlovich · October 9, 2015 4:01 am

Wall Street drubbed drug industry, but it won’t last

Robert King · October 8, 2015 4:01 am

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Tuesday that he wants a commitment that the agency will be held responsible on opioid approvals after several controversial decisions. (AP Photo)

‘Rogue’ FDA could stoke painkiller abuse: Senator

Robert King · October 7, 2015 4:01 am

The White House's last-minute compromise on drug copyright protectionsÂ in the Trans-Pacific PartnershipÂ appears to have pleased nobody. (AP Photo)

Why everybody hates the drug deal in the trade pact

Robert King · October 6, 2015 4:01 am

Nationwide there are nearly 2 million people living with hepatitis B and 3.2 million who have hepatitis C.Â (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Health insurers accused of discrimination

Robert King · October 5, 2015 6:19 pm

All of the bills to lower costs wereÂ filed earlier thisÂ year, but so far none hasÂ advanced out of their respective legislative committees.Â (AP Photo/Kelley McCall)

States try to rein in pricey drugs

Robert King · October 3, 2015 10:28 am

Called the Improving Regulatory Transparency for New Medical Therapies Act, the bipartisan bill from Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., was approved unanimously by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and next goes before the full Senate.Â (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Senate panel OKs drug competition bill

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 30, 2015 8:16 pm