Medications
Q&A: Can you use medicine and prescriptions past the expiration date?
When a headache calls and the only ibuprofen in the house is a bottle that is expired, is it worth a trip out to replace it?
Oct 24, 2023
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News tagged with pharmaceutical manufacturers
Medications
Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find
Past public ire over high drug prices has recently taken a back seat to a more insidious problem—no drugs at any price.
Jul 20, 2023
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Vaccination
Moderna to set up $500 mn mRNA vaccine facility in Kenya
US biotech company Moderna has finalized an agreement to set up a $500 million mRNA vaccine facility in Nairobi, Kenyan President William Ruto said Thursday.
Mar 30, 2023
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Medications
US has capacity to make essential drugs, study finds
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Sept. 12 to launch a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, noting the United States relies too heavily on foreign materials and foreign bioproduction. Offshoring ...
Oct 3, 2022
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Medications
New study shows path to uninterrupted supply of safe, effective drugs for U.S. consumers
A combination of factors including the current corporate tax rate makes pharmaceutical production in the United States more attractive now than investing in either China or India. And adopting advanced technologies such as ...
Sep 30, 2021
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Medications
The FDA's weak drug manufacturing oversight is a potentially deadly problem
The latest setback for Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine was the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's order on June 11, 2021, to discard 60 million doses that failed to meet quality and safety guidelines. A Baltimore manufacturing ...
Jun 24, 2021
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Medications
When drug manufacturers raise the list price for prescription drugs, do patients' out-of-pocket costs rise too?
When drug manufacturers raise the list price for brand-name prescription drugs, do patients' out-of-pocket costs rise too? A new study published in JAMA Network Open by Dr. Benjamin Rome and colleagues in the Brigham's Division ...
May 4, 2021
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Medical research
The world is hungry for mRNA COVID vaccines like Pfizer's, but short of vital components
Given the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is no longer recommended for under-50s following news of very rare blood clots, Australia is looking to other vaccines to plug the gap.
Apr 28, 2021
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Vaccination
Countries urge drug companies to share vaccine know-how
In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Medications
Extending Medicare Part D rebates to beneficiaries would save seniors $29 billion over seven years
A new assessment of the Medicare Part D program based on a proposal from the West Health Policy Center finds that Medicare beneficiaries would save $29 billion if drug manufacturer rebates were used to reduce their out-of-pocket ...
Dec 19, 2019
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