Medications
Pfizer lowers cost of Prevnar vaccine for some charity use
Drugmaker Pfizer says it's reducing what it charges humanitarian groups for its blockbuster vaccine against pneumonia, ear and blood infections.
Nov 11, 2016
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Medications
On its own, Trump admin's price disclosure policy unlikely to help curb drug prices
The Trump administration's proposal to require pharmaceutical companies to publish drug prices in TV ads is unlikely to help control drug prices, according to a study publishing Jan. 22 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Jan 22, 2019
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Health
Intended to help human, planetary health, EAT-Lancet diet too costly for 1.6 billion people
A new study estimates that a diet meant to improve both human and planetary health would be unaffordable for at least 1.58 billion people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Nov 8, 2019
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Berkeley's soda tax election changed drinking habits months before prices went up
Sticker shock may not have been the only force driving the decline in soda consumption in Berkeley after residents voted to enact the nation's first soda tax in November 2014.
Apr 2, 2019
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Medical economics
First nationwide, small-area analysis study details US health spending by region
A new study by researchers at Yale, Stanford, and Dartmouth provides the first nationwide, small-area analysis of the variation in spending by the three main funders of health care in the United States: Medicare, Medicaid, ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Medications
Multiple factors cause high prescription drug prices in US
Sticker-shocked patients increasingly wonder why prices for prescription drugs continue to rise in the U.S.
Sep 25, 2015
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Medications
Long-acting cabotegravir not necessarily cost-effective for PrEP
(HealthDay)—For men who have sex with men and transgender women (MSM/TGW) at very high risk for HIV (VHR), the benefits of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) in terms of life expectancy do not necessarily justify ...
Feb 1, 2022
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The tobacco industry plays price games to make it even tougher to quit smoking
It is thought about two in three smokers want to kick their deadly habit, and with good reason – the same proportion of them are believed to die prematurely because of smoking. Around the world, the habit kills more than ...
Nov 8, 2018
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Medications
Study shows how drug manufacturers use FDA, patent strategies to keep insulin prices high
Over the last four decades, insulin manufacturers have extended their periods of market exclusivity on brand-name insulin products by employing several strategies, including filing additional patents on their products after ...
Nov 16, 2023
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Taxing sweet snacks may bring greater health benefits than taxing sugar-sweetened drinks
Taxing sweet snacks could lead to broader reductions in the amount of sugar purchased than similar increases in the price of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), according to new research published in BMJ Open.
Apr 26, 2018
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