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World Aug 01

EU chief’s texts to a pharma boss during pandemic were likely erased, New York Times reports

By Lorne Cook, Associated Press

Nation Jul 31

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As opioid settlement money starts to flow in, states debate how best to use it

More than $50 billion in settlement funds from pharmaceutical companies that made and sold opioid painkillers will be paid out over the next 18 years to state and local governments across the country. But the debate around how this money…

By Cat Wise, Mike Fritz

Nation Jul 28

A technician stocks the shelves of the pharmacy at White House Clinic in Berea
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How the prescription drug supply chain is killing local pharmacies

The supply chain that brings pharmaceutical drugs from the factory to the pharmacy is long, complex and unclear. Congress and several state legislatures have proposed or enacted laws to bring more transparency and curb soaring drug prices. As special correspondent…

By Fred de Sam Lazaro

Health Jul 19

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DEA official resigns amid reports of previous Big Pharma consulting work

Louis Milione’s four years of consulting for Big Pharma preceded his 2021 return to the DEA to serve as Administrator Anne Milgram’s top deputy, renewing concerns in the agency and beyond about the revolving door between government and industry and…

By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, Associated Press

Science Aug 10

FILE PHOTO: Pharmacist technician McKay Kleinman, holds a filled prescription bottle that came out from an automated drug ...
Groups make own drugs to fight high drug prices, shortages

Impatient with years of inaction in Washington on prescription drug prices, U.S. hospital groups, startups and nonprofits have started making their own medicines.

By Linda A. Johnson, Associated Press

Aug 25

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Tracking the flow of opioids across America

The manufacturers and distributors of opioid prescription painkillers have supplied billions of pills throughout the U.S. An investigative series by The Washington Post looks at the opioid epidemic through the DEA's newly public database that tracks every pain pill sold…

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May 15

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Conn. attorney general calls generic drug makers a ‘private sector cartel’

Affordable health care is a persistent concern for Americans and a topic of great political debate. Typically, generic prescription drugs offer a cheaper alternative to name brands, but a new multi-state lawsuit alleges that their manufacturers have been artificially raising…

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May 15

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How generic drug makers are responding to price-fixing lawsuit

U.S. consumers often turn to generic versions of prescription drugs to keep costs down, but dozens of states are now suing manufacturers of these drugs, saying they illegally fixed prices and divided up market share. Affected drugs include medicines used…

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May 08

Drugmakers will have to reveal medication prices in TV ads

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

"What I say to the companies is if you think the cost of your drug will scare people from buying your drugs, then lower your prices," said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.

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Apr 24

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How federal case against drug distributor could change opioid fight

Amid the ongoing opioid epidemic, drug manufacturers, doctors and pharmacists have all come under fire. But it's a drug distributor, a company called RDC, at the center of a new federal criminal case that equates its business operations with illegal…

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