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In order to be cost-effective relative to standard Alzheimer’s care, Aduhelm — the newly approved Alzheimer’s antibody — would have to cost no more than $3,000 per year, rather than the current $56,000 price tag. Read More
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended including transverse myelitis, a rare form of spinal inflammation, to the list of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine side effects. Read More
Moderna and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are in a patent dispute over the company’s messenger RNA (mRNA)-based COVID-19 vaccine developed with the aid of government scientists. Read More
Ten of the nation’s highest-ranked hospitals charge health insurance companies and patients paying out of pocket far more than the amount Medicare pays for several infused drugs, according to a report published in the Nov. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine. Read More
A single dose of Regeneron’s COVID-19 antibody cocktail, REGEN-COV, slashed the risk of contracting the coronavirus by 81.6 percent up to eight months after treatment in a phase 3 trial. Read More
Two U.S. subsidiaries of Indian generics company Sun Pharmaceutical Industries have reached settlements totaling $85 million with plaintiffs in the companies’ drug-pricing antitrust litigation, said Sun in a statement. Read More
Can the federal government force drugmakers to participate in the controversial 340B drug discount program, punishing them with fines if they don’t? Read More
Since 2016, the number of businesses and clinics selling stem cell therapies has quintupled, says a University of California at Irvine professor. Read More