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Shareholders versus patients: Who is more important?

World of DTC Marketing

SKIMMERS SUMMARY: There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. billion to $29 billion on the drug in a single year.

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Can we get healthcare right?

World of DTC Marketing

Patients on Medicare who don’t qualify for low-income subsidies could see out-of-pocket costs for the drug of over $12,000. A bill to lower drug prices via negotiations with Medicare is finally moving forward, but PhRMA has bought some politicians. Innovation and Competition Act. Administration on Aging.

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Uri Goren

Cadensee

It might be silly question but bringing a drug to market takes many, many years. So, do you listen to them at the point when a pharma company decides what drug it needs to make? Do you listen to them to improve your marketing and the way they should take the drug or the drug should be administered and so on so forth?

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FDA AdCom votes unanimously in favour of OTC oral contraceptive

Pharmaceutical Technology

A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee (AdCom) has voted unanimously in favour of giving HRA Pharma’s Opill (norgestrel) over-the-counter (OTC) availability. The FDA approved Opill for prescription use in 1973. The therapy only contains the hormone progestin and is taken once daily.

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OTC Narcan will cost ‘less than $50’, company says

Pharmaceutical Technology

Public interest groups including government agencies, harm reduction groups, and emergency responders pay less than $50 out of pocket for one carton of the spray, according to Emergent. On March 29, 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval that made Narcan the opioid treatment drug to be sold without a prescription.

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Q&A: As RSV vaccine approvals loom, regulators need to devise vaccination strategies

Pharmaceutical Technology

After a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) Advisory Committee (AdCom) meeting in March 2023 voted unanimously in support of GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine, the odds for an approval have increased.