Medications
Mylan opens $27.14 billion hostile bid for Perrigo
Shares of Mylan are edging up before the opening bell after the pharmaceutical company went ahead with its hostile, $27.14 billion bid for Perrigo.
Sep 15, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Anti-inflammatory drug may shorten COVID-19 recovery time
A drug company says that adding an anti-inflammatory medicine to a drug already widely used for hospitalized COVID-19 patients shortens their time to recovery by an additional day.
Sep 14, 2020
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Medical research
Cost of translating consent documents may hinder participation of underrepresented groups in clinical trials
Cancer research centers conducting clinical trials could enroll more patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups by placing greater emphasis on relieving investigators of the costs of translating consent documents ...
Aug 2, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Canada OKs remdesivir for use against coronavirus
Canada on Tuesday gave the green light for people with severe symptoms of COVID-19 to be treated with the anti-viral drug remdesivir.
Jul 28, 2020
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Medications
Using nature's designs will speed up critical development of new antibiotics
"I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.—Alexander Fleming
Feb 23, 2018
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Medications
Psychedelic drugs' therapeutic potential for a range of psychiatric disorders
There's been newfound attention to, and a new respect for, so-called psychedelic drugs—chemicals that alter our senses, emotions, thought processes and/or behavior. Robert Malenka, MD, Ph.D., the Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Medications
Analysis finds big drugmakers could lose $1 trillion in sales and still be most profitable industry
A new analysis of publicly reported financial data published today by researchers at West Health Policy Center and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that large, brand-name drug manufacturers would still ...
Nov 14, 2019
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Pediatrics
Big drug costs for small patients with rare diseases, study finds
Only about one in every 170 children take them. But 'orphan drugs' accounted for 1 in every 15 private insurance dollars spent on children's health care in the United States in 2018, according to a new study. That's up 65% ...
Oct 6, 2020
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Medications
Drug company used rap video to push for higher doses, sales
Employees at a drug company accused of bribing doctors rapped and danced around a person dressed as a bottle of the highly addictive fentanyl spray in a video meant to motivate sales reps into getting patients on higher doses.
Feb 15, 2019
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Medications
Drug companies' patent-extending strategies substantially increase health care costs
Evergreening strategies—where pharmaceutical companies slightly change the formulation of their brand drug into "follow on" drugs by combining formulations or producing slow-release forms, for example, so that they can ...
Jun 4, 2013
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