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America’s healthcare costs are in deep crisis

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SUMMARY: The media loves to blame pharma companies for high healthcare costs, but unless we start to invest in healthy lifestyles, we’re headed for a healthcare crisis the likes of which we have never experienced. Forget the fact that prescription drugs only account for $.10 This means higher healthcare costs.

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Why is the healthcare industry hesitant to join the metaverse?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The Covid-19 pandemic pushed the healthcare industry toward rapid digitalisation, with the rise of telehealth, telepresence systems, remote diagnostics, predictive AI, and wearable technology now changing the way healthcare is delivered and improving patient outcomes.

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Biden proposes subsidizing drug middlemen for insulin

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Under the bill proposed, Medicare beneficiaries and those insured through private plans would pay no more than $35 for a 30-day insulin prescription, or the lesser of $35 or 25% of the plan’s negotiated price for a 30-day prescription. He says that there are a limited number of manufactures in the U.S., billion to $5.7

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Why script-to-dispense conversion will take centre stage in 2023

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In 2023, expect manufacturers to further shift their focus away from acquiring new patient prescriptions to retaining existing customers. The account carried an official blue check mark, but in fact it did not belong to the prescription drugmaker. in 1979 to 2.8%in Ensuring patient access.

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Should we be worried about pharma’s supply chain?

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Pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors work together in a robust system to deliver high-quality products, but drug manufacturing and distribution have become increasingly complex in recent years. The answer lies in both an outdated way we develop prescription drugs and the continued quest for the next big blockbuster.

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New FDA head needs to examine the accelerated approval program

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More than $170 million of this spending was for products voluntarily withdrawn by their manufacturers after clinical trials showed that they did not improve overall survival in people with various types of cancer. This is another example of just how screwed up our healthcare system really is.

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AbbVie sucks

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AbbVie, Humira’s manufacturer, kicked off 2020 with a price increase in excess of 7 percent on its mega-blockbuster brand-name treatment. The cost of Humira, which is injected via syringe, was more than $72,000 a year on prescription drug websites this week and is not expected to come down until at least 2023.