Medications
Is it time to nationalize the drug industry?
Critics of the pharmaceutical industry say it is misaligned with public interest. So is it time to nationalise the sector? Experts debate the issue in The BMJ today.
Mar 4, 2020
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Medications
US reports first drug shortage tied to virus outbreak
Health officials reported the first U.S. drug shortage tied to the viral outbreak that is disrupting production in China, but they declined to identify the manufacturer or the product.
Feb 28, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
As superbugs spread, WHO raises alarm over lack of new antibiotics
The World Health Organization warned Friday that a dire lack of new antibiotics was threatening efforts to curb the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, which kill tens of thousands of people each year.
Jan 17, 2020
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Medical economics
US announces plan to import drugs from northern neighbor, Canada objects
Donald Trump's administration unveiled a plan Wednesday to allow imports of lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada and other countries, but it was opposed by Ottawa, which said the scheme threatened its own medicine ...
Dec 19, 2019
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Medications
Drugmakers, distributors facing federal opioid probe
At least a half-dozen companies that make or distribute prescription opioid painkillers are facing a federal criminal investigation over whether they violated federal law as they shipped more drugs amid the growing nationwide ...
Nov 27, 2019
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Health
Food and Drug Administration delays plan to lower nicotine levels in traditional cigarettes
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a list of regulations it plans to work on in 2020, omitted from that list was a regulation to reduce nicotine levels in traditional cigarettes. That regulation was initially ...
Nov 21, 2019
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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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Medications
Expert: Opioid settlements come with limitations
The nation's three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker agreed to a $260 million settlement Monday over the toll taken by opioids in two Ohio counties, averting the first federal trial over the crisis.
Oct 23, 2019
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Health
Study highlights the benefits of a salt reduction strategy to US food industry
New research, published in the Milbank Quarterly, highlights the potential health and economic impact of the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) proposed voluntary salt policy on workers in the US food ...
Jul 24, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Novel PET staging system may help monitor Alzheimer disease
(HealthDay)—A staging system of β-amyloid (Aβ) accumulation may be useful for monitoring patients throughout the course of Alzheimer disease (AD), according to a study published online July 17 in JAMA Neurology to coincide ...
Jul 18, 2019
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