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Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of the settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by hemophilia patients in Japan who contracted HIV through the administration of untreated blood products. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/29/japan/crime-legal/hiv-tainted-blood-scandal-30-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hemophilia #covid19 #drugmakers #pharmaceuticals #health #hiv

Boston to curb insurance coverage of GLP-1 drugs for city workers

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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/545348/

Boston to curb insurance coverage of GLP-1 drugs for city workers

The PEC voted unanimously on Tuesday to …
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https://www.newsbeep.com/au/564505/

#Drugmakers plan 2 raise #US #prices on at least 350 branded #medications including vaccines against #COVID, #RSV and #shingles & blockbuster #cancer treatment #Ibrance even as #Trump administration pressures them for cuts, according to data provided exclusively by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.. The number of price increases for 2026 is up from same point last year, when drugmakers unveiled plans for raises on more than 250 drugs. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-350-medicines-despite-pressure-trump-2025-12-31/ #healthcare #pharmaceuticals

Exclusive: #Drugmakers raise #US #prices on 350 medicines despite pressure from #Trump

Drugmakers plan to raise US prices on at least 350 branded #medications including #vaccines against #COVID, #RSV & #shingles & blockbuster #cancer treatment Ibrance, even as the Trump admin pressures them for cuts, acc/to data provided exclusively by #healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.

#law #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #medicine #BigPharma
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-350-medicines-despite-pressure-trump-2025-12-31/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced deals with nine pharmaceutical companies, the latest in a series of pacts designed to lower drug prices for some in exchange for a three-year reprieve from threatened tariffs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/20/world/science-health/drugmakers-trump-price-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #us #drugmakers #health #medicine #donaldtrump #republicans #democrats #congress

Chinese vaccine makers are caught in a steep downturn as intensifying competition pushes prices lower and erodes their profits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/02/companies/china-flu-shots-vaccine-makers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #pharmaceuticals #china #drugmakers #covid19vaccines #vaccinations

https://www.europesays.com/ie/155199/ FDA says drug makers have recalled a blood pressure medicine tainted with a cancer-causing chemical #AmerisourceHealthServices #BloodPressure #CancerCausing #DrugMakers #Éire #FoodAndDrugAdministration #Health #IE #Ireland #Medication #TevaPharmaceuticalsUSA

How #PrivateEquity Oversees the #Ethics of #DrugResearch

Many #DrugTrials are vetted by companies with ties to the #drugmakers, raising concerns about #ConflictsOfInterest & #patient #safety.

#law #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/health/drug-trials-ethics-ozempic.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Texas lawmakers approved bill allowing nearly anyone to #sue providers, manufacturers and even delivery companies like #FedEx for #shipping #abortion pills into state. Gov. #GregAbbott will sign w backers calling it a #blueprint for other states to copy. This deputizes citizens as #bounty hunters, weaponizing lawsuits to intimidate #doctors,#drugmakers, couriers nationwide. It exports Texas’s #abortion ban across state lines. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/texas-senate-abortion-pills-bill.html #womenshealth #pubichealth #medicine

This would be a surprisingly good thing if it happened. Somehow I doubt #BigPharma & #Republicans will allow it.

#Drugmakers have been warned that the #Trump Administration is considering linking US #medicine #prices to lower amounts paid by other developed countries, acc/to 2 company sources who called the option the pharmaceutical industry's top concern.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-looking-cutting-us-drug-prices-international-levels-sources-say-2025-04-22/

#BioTech industry responsible for more than 115,000 #Massachusetts jobs is struggling amidst a slump. The #Boston area is a bio research hub with 1,000 #drugmakers, but part of problem for the NE Democrat political and #science edu stronghold is higher costs of operations than elsewhere.

For example, In burgeoning #RaleighDurham NC Triangle drugmakers face far lower taxes and can pay lower wages.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/biotech-boston-area-slump/

#GiftArticle on #SCOTUS’ ruling on #PurduePharma #opioid case

The #SupremeCourt blocked a controversial proposed Purdue #Pharma bankruptcy plan that would have provided billions to help address the nation’s #OpioidCrisis in exchange for protecting the #Sackler family from future lawsuits.

The closely watched fight involving the maker of #OxyContin is part of a national reckoning over the role of #drugmakers & others in the #PublicHealth opioid #addiction crisis.

#law
https://wapo.st/3VLn8UX

#Drugmakers Are Set to Pay #23andMe Millions to Access Consumer #DNA
#GSK will pay the DNA testing company $20 million for non-exclusive access to #genetic data. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/23andme-will-give-gsk-access-to-consumer-dna-data?leadSource=reddit_wall

#Drugmakers Are Set To Pay #23andMe Millions To Access Consumer #DNA - Slashdot
#privacy #genetics

https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/10/30/2259251/drugmakers-are-set-to-pay-23andme-millions-to-access-consumer-dna?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Drugmakers Are ‘Throwing the Kitchen Sink’ to Halt Medicare Price Negotiations

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations-lawsuits.html

#Drugmakers #MedicarePriceNegotiations #Lawsuits #Healthcare #Pharmaceuticals #Medicare #Politics #News

Standard Electronic Biomarkers Validated for Schizophrenia

A new #study validates #standard #electronic instrument #measures of healthy individuals and people with #schizophrenia to enable reliable clinical trials for treating the disease.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44583

#News #Science #Business #MentalHealth #ClinicalTrials #Collaboration #Consortium #Pharmaceuticals #DrugMakers #EEG #MedicalDevice

RSV Vaccine Breakthrough Examined at AAAS Meeting

As three #vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus reach #FDA review, a scientific conference explored a key breakthrough researchers achieved to get to this point.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44528

#News #Science #AAAS #AAASmtg #RSV #Biotechnology #Antibodies #Proteins #Chemistry #ClinicalTrials #NIH #DrugMakers #Pharmaceuticals

Pricy #inhalers remain expensive due to device tweaks that keep competitors at bay
#Drugmakers incremental adjustments to older inhaler products to fend off #generics. Feldman found that just 1 of 62 approved by #FDA 1986-2020 had a new mechanism of action
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