Tag: Pharmaceutical Industry

Industry groups try to deflect blame, while being chided by senators for the rising cost of prescription drugs. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Senators want to clamp down on drugmakers’ patent protections

Robert King · December 12, 2017 8:33 pm

"No one ever told me they were dubious about this bill when it was going through," Hatch said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans frustrated over backlash on opioid law

Kimberly Leonard · December 12, 2017 4:42 pm

House Republicans and their counterparts in the Senate must sort out the differences between their two tax reform bills in order to meet the arbitrary Christmas deadline they set for themselves. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans race the clock to finish tax reform before Christmas

Joseph Lawler · December 7, 2017 5:01 am

Fewer people were prescribed medication to cure hepatitis C, prices slowed, and fewer new drugs hit the market. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Prescription drug spending slows after two-year surge

Kimberly Leonard · December 6, 2017 9:00 pm

Alex Azar, President Trump's HHS secretary nominee, served as the head of Eli Lilly's U.S. division from 2012 to 2017. During that time, the price of the Eli Lilly-made insulin drug Humalog rose from $122 for a vial in 2013 to $274 in 2017. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

HHS nominee Alex Azar takes heat for raising insulin prices

Robert King · November 29, 2017 6:21 pm

Alex Azar, who was deputy secretary of HHS under former President George W. Bush, said that his experience implementing part D of Medicare, the portion of the program that pays for medicines, made him qualified to tackle the issue of drug prices. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

HHS nominee Alex Azar vows to tackle rising drug prices

Kimberly Leonard · November 29, 2017 2:09 pm

We must shed light on the activities of the PBMs and expose them as the mobsters they are. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Beltway Confidential

The Sopranos of the pharmaceutical industry

Kevin Campbell · November 27, 2017 4:58 pm

FDA pushes for generic painkillers intended to deter abuse

Robert King · November 21, 2017 3:35 pm

People in Ohio, including some residents of Steubenville, voted against a ballot initiative that would require the state to pay no more for prescription drugs than the federal Department of Veterans Affairs does. However, the man behind the ballot, Michael Weinstein, hopes to get it on several states' ballots ahead of next year's mid-term elections. (Jmiller wiki / Wikimedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

The Drug Price Relief Act, defeated soundly in Ohio last week, is coming to a state near you in 2018

Salena Zito · November 15, 2017 10:45 pm

Kratom tastes like green tea when it's brewed and sometimes is taken as a pill. (AP Photo/Mary Esch, File)

Kratom, a possible heroin treatment, faces unclear fate after FDA warning

Steven Nelson · November 14, 2017 7:54 pm

President Trump on Monday picked Alex Azar to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, drawing immediate scrutiny from Democrats who pointed out his tenure at the helm of drug maker Eli Lilly's U.S. division. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Democrats plan to use HHS pick Alex Azar to push Trump on high drug prices

Robert King · November 14, 2017 5:01 am

The Abilify MyCite drug has a digital tracking system that will tell doctors whether patients have swallowed their medication. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FDA approves first-of-its-kind antipsychotic that tracks whether patients are taking it

Kimberly Leonard · November 14, 2017 2:04 am