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Health Jun 30
Drastic price hikes hit medicines for radiology scansThe cost of two widely used radiology medicines for lung and kidney scans has jumped between 500 percent and 1,800 percent over the last four years.
Health Jun 11
FDA wants to yank an opioid painkiller over concerns about abuseThe Food and Drug Administration has asked Endo Pharmaceuticals to withdraw its Opana ER painkiller over concerns that the drug is too easily abused, the first time the agency has made such a move.
Health May 20
Sanofi rejects U.S. Army request for ‘fair’ pricing for a Zika vaccineThe rejection prompted anger from Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has pushed the U.S. Army to negotiate a more favorable agreement with Sanofi.
Nation Nov 04
Bernie Sanders requests federal investigation of insulin makers for price collusionIn his latest attack on the pharmaceutical industry, Senator Bernie Sanders has asked the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate three insulin makers for price collusion.
Health Oct 15
What side effects? Most consumers don’t read drug risk informationA new study comes amid ongoing concern that consumers do not read or have difficulty reading prescription drug risk information.
Health Aug 23
Congress scolds pharmaceutical company’s price hike on EpiPensMylan has raised the list price of EpiPens more than 450 percent since 2004, after adjusting for inflation, according to Elsevier’s Gold Standard Drug Database. A pack of two EpiPens cost about $100 in today’s dollars in 2004, but the…
Health Jul 30
Majority of Americans misuse prescription drugsMany Americans appear to be misusing their prescription drugs in ways that put their health at risk, notably combining dangerous combinations of medicines, according to a report released this week.
Health May 03
Shkreli’s old company is sued for breaching sales contract for DaraprimTuring Pharmaceuticals is being sued for more than $20 million by the drug maker that sold it the rights to Daraprim.
Health Apr 05
What’s behind skyrocketing insulin prices?The cost of insulin more than tripled — from $231 to $736 a year per patient — between 2002 and 2013, according to a new analysis.
Health Mar 15
CDC: Opioid painkillers shouldn’t be first choice for chronic painAfter months of controversy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday published prescribing guidelines to address the epidemic of deaths and overdoses attributed to opioid painkillers.