Tag: Pharmaceutical Industry

Former interviews with President Trump's pick for Health and Human Services shed some light on his stances regarding pharmaceutical pricing and Obamacare.
(AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Trump’s health secretary pick called Obamacare ‘fundamentally broken,’ faces drug pricing questions

Kimberly Leonard · November 13, 2017 10:28 pm

The challenge of helping individuals with severe pain often leads physicians to overextend the dosage, or, due to fear of over-prescribing, they provide too little. (iStock Photo)

Caregivers need help navigating the opioid crisis

Peter Rosenberger · November 12, 2017 5:01 am

According to the DEA official, drug manufacturers are making "tweaks" to the chemical structure of legal fentanyl and other opioid drugs, which allows them to skirt U.S. scheduling laws when importing the drugs. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Justice Department and DEA expand scheduling and charging for fentanyl-related substances

Kelly Cohen · November 9, 2017 7:32 pm

Ohio is expected to defeat a measure that would have required state health agencies to buy prescription drugs at prices that aren't any higher than those paid by Veterans Affairs, which negotiates steep discounts with drug companies. (iStock)

Ohio voters projected to defeat drug price ballot measure

Robert King · November 8, 2017 1:54 am

FDA hints at pulling more opioids from the market

Robert King · November 7, 2017 10:33 am

The off-election year ballots Tuesday include proposals that will affect Obamacare and drug prices, while other states have elections that could have a more indirect impact on healthcare policy. (iStock)

5 major healthcare measures on the ballot today

Kimberly Leonard · November 7, 2017 5:01 am

The legislation introduced Thursday would eliminate a tax break for research on rare disease treatments and kill a deduction on out-of-pocket medical expenses. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Drug tax break, medical expense deductions eliminated in GOP tax reform bill

Robert King · November 2, 2017 7:11 pm

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported over 18,000 deaths related to opioid overdose in the U.S. in 2014. In 2015 that number nearly doubled and 45 percent of those deaths involved a prescription. (iStock)

A better strategy for treating chronic pain: Rely less on opioids

Paul Christo · November 1, 2017 4:01 am

FILE - This June 14, 2011 photo, shows various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions, in Willingboro, N.J. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The siren song of disastrous price controls on prescription drugs is playing again

Larry Hart · October 27, 2017 10:37 pm

President Trump on Thursday will declare a public health emergency over the opioid epidemic. Trump will direct other agencies to "reduce the death and devastation by the opioid epidemic," according to a senior administration official. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump will declare opioid epidemic a public health emergency

Kimberly Leonard · October 26, 2017 12:28 pm

"It has to have Trump's support, no doubt about it," Rep. Cummings said of the Medicare negotiations bill. "If Trump came out and made it clear that he would do everything in his power and put his efforts behind it, I think it would have a fairly good chance." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Democrats want Trump to ‘put up or shut up’ on drug prices

Robert King · October 25, 2017 3:40 pm

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., accompanied by Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 8, 2107, following their meeting with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats: Trump giving cold shoulder on tackling high drug prices

Robert King · October 25, 2017 12:00 pm