Sentences with phrase «for rising drug prices»

Express Scripts argued that Meridian's projections had failed to account for rising drug prices.

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The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

Spending on new drugs for those diseases is expected to rise 7 % in 2018, and it's less due to price hikes as it is for the high prices associated with these specialty therapies.

For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug priDrug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug pridrug prices.

Both companies have since rolled back their price increases, and experts say that while drug prices will continue to rise the practice of hiking prices purely for profit may be on the wane.

Prices for the top 20 drugs prescribed to seniors rose by an average of 12 percent every year from 2012 to 2017.

When discounts are given, he said later price rises on branded drugs, sometimes occurring twice a year, usually more than compensate for the prior markdowns.

Home Office minister Norman Baker said the ban would lead to rising street prices for the drug, but insisted it was «too early» to judge the extent to which this will lead to rising crime.

For the second year in a row, Governor Cuomo's executive budget calls for aggressive action to slow rising drug pricFor the second year in a row, Governor Cuomo's executive budget calls for aggressive action to slow rising drug pricfor aggressive action to slow rising drug prices.

«A civil war has broken out among the most powerful players in the pharmaceutical industry — including brand - name and generic drug makers, and even your local pharmacists — with each blaming others for the rising price of medicine.»

He pointed to the sudden rise in share prices for pharmaceutical firms working on Ebola vaccines as one type of economic spur to ensure that medicines are there in an emergency, along with WHO's capacity to «prequalify» drugs as safe and effective so that they can be sold more cheaply and widely.

In a report to the White House released today, an independent advisory group called for «urgent action» to address rapidly rising prices for cancer drugs and the burden cancer patients and their families can face because of the high cost of cancer care.

The rise of the low - price chemist — able to buy products in bulk at a cheaper price — has taken the sting out of paying for both prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP recently published an article on the «Top 10 Updates on Canadian Market Access, Exclusivity and Pricing Issues» for the Food and Drug Law Institute's March / April 2018 issue of Update Magazine.