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Recently, the FDA fast-tracked approval of a vaccine for the influenza strain H5N1, even though there had not yet been reported cases of H5N1, and the vaccine had been subjected to significantly less clinical research than the meningitis B vaccine. (Thinkstock)
Healthcare

FDA bureaucracy stifles access to life-saving drugs

Erik Telford -
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FDA panel again rejects wider use of J&J’s Xarelto
Healthcare

FDA panel again rejects wider use of J&J’s Xarelto

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Studies show not taking medications as prescribed leads to poorer health, more frequent hospitalization, a higher risk of death and as much as $290 billion annually in increased medical costs. But as any health care provider will tell you, the fact that actually taking a medication as prescribed is in a patient’s best interest does not lead to a patient doing what is in his best interest. (Photo: Thinkstock)
Op-Eds

Grandstanding AGs sue to stop drugmaker’s work to insure patients take medicine properly

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When it comes to biosimilars, we need to be extremely thoughtful about how we set policy relating to these promising medicines and strike a balance that promotes health and safety, rather than forcing a binary response that is driven by profits rather than patients. (Photo: Thinkstock)
Op-Eds

FDA must decide if a biosimilar rose by any other name is still a rose

Peter Pitts -
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Obama donor Jeffrey Kindler, shown here in 2009, was Pfizer's CEO during the Obamacare debate. In a corporate filing, the company justified a salary increase by pointing to his Obamacare lobbying. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Columnists

Obama’s corporatist contraceptive mandate

Timothy P. Carney -
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Electronic cigarettes give smokers a nicotine fix without the stink, tar, fire or carbon monoxide of real cigarettes, but pharmaceutical companies with competing products would like to curtail the e-cig industry. (Photo: Thinkstock) 
Columnists

Big Pharma, not tobacco companies, wages war on electronic cigarettes

Timothy P. Carney -
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This June 6, 2013 photo shows Dr. Jim Olson, pediatric oncologist at Seattle Children's Hospital and research scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Lok)
Healthcare

Pharma’s windfall: The mining of rare diseases

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If Big Pharma likes your healthcare plan, you can keep it
Columnists

If Big Pharma likes your healthcare plan, you can keep it

Timothy P. Carney -
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Drug Industry Briefing: 52,500 bought insurance on state exchanges
Beltway Confidential

Drug Industry Briefing: 52,500 bought insurance on state exchanges

Timothy P. Carney -
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Beltway Confidential

How industry captures regulatory agencies: drugmakers and the FDA

Timothy P. Carney -
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