by Jordana Choucair | Jun 8, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it will investigate the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and how they influence drug prices and the pharmacy business. The FTC unanimously voted Tuesday to require the six biggest PBMs — CVS...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 8, 2022 | Life Sciences
New research published in JAMA found that nearly half of all drugs launched in the last two years initially cost above $150,000 a year. From 2008 to 2021, launch prices for new drugs increased by 20 percent per year. In 2020-2021 alone, prices rose 11 percent per year...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 8, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine advisory panel voted to authorize Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in adults. The panel voted 21-0, with one abstention. Novavax’s two-dose vaccine was about 90 percent effective at preventing mild, moderate, and...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 8, 2022 | Mental Health
America’s Health Insurance Plans released a survey indicating that 73 percent of insured Americans said that getting mental health care was easy. The survey polled 500 insured Americans who have sought professional mental health care for themselves or for...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 7, 2022 | Life Sciences
An investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that roughly two-thirds of more than 600 biomedical research institutions had violated at least one disclosure agreement The HHS OIG said...
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