Tag: Pharmaceutical Industry

Â Dems want information on sales, the cost of active pharmaceutical ingredients and how much Valeant spends on marketing.Â (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)

Dems push for subpoena over drug price hike

Robert King · September 28, 2015 6:41 pm

Clinton unveiled a plan this past week to combat rising prices, proposing reforms long championed by Democrats such as allowing Medicare the power to negotiate over drug prices. (AP)

Doubts emerge on Clinton drug price plan

Robert King · September 26, 2015 4:01 am

With competition killed, drug prices are soaring

With competition killed, drug prices are soaring

Robert King · September 24, 2015 4:01 am

Democrats have decried the skyrocketing prices of some medications and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have proposed new regulations on pharmaceutical companies intended to drive prices down. (AP file)

Drug lobby to name medical device exec as new CEO

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 23, 2015 4:20 pm

The price hike gained attention just as Americans have said in recent polls they were concerned about high drug prices. (AP file)

CEO relents on pricey pill

Robert King · September 23, 2015 2:33 pm

Rep. Elijah Cummings wrote on Tuesday to the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the drug Daparim. (AP Photo)

Dem slams ‘overnight’ drug price hike

Robert King · September 22, 2015 7:29 pm

Bayer CropScience will pay $5.6 million as a part of a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency for an explosion in 2008 that killed two people at a West Virginia facility. (AP FIle Photo)

Energy and Environment

Bayer to pay $5.6 million in settlement with EPA

Kyle Feldscher · September 21, 2015 10:02 pm

Presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill earlier this month that proposes a series of reforms targeting high drug prices. (AP)

Don’t expect congressional action on high drug prices

Robert King · September 16, 2015 4:01 am

Obama said he has picked Robert Califf as his selection to become the FDA commissioner and replace Margaret Hamburg (pictured), who left the agency in March.Â (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama picks new FDA commissioner

Robert King · September 15, 2015 8:50 pm

The Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule that allows the agency to destroy a drug valued at $2,500 or less that was refused admission into the United States. (AP Photo)

FDA gets new authority to stop fake drugs

Robert King · September 14, 2015 3:39 pm

Positive opinion has since slipped to 35 percent, and negative views are up from to 43 percent. (AP file)

Americans back to hating drug industry

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 14, 2015 2:01 pm

OxyContin pills are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

FDA looks at two painkillers that hinder abuse

Robert King · September 10, 2015 4:01 am