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As part of its efforts to contain the opioid epidemic, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued warnings to opioid prescribers whose patients died of overdoses. Read More
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Low Prices Drug Act (S.3680) — a bill that would tie drug prices to drugmakers’ access to Medicare and Medicaid patients and align U.S. drug prices with those in other developed countries. Read More
The FDA announced plans Friday to collaborate with the World Health Organization (WHO) under a pilot program aimed at speeding up reviews of HIV drug applications. Read More
In a wide-ranging analysis of ways to improve access to cancer drugs, the World Health Organization found the drugs remain costly even in countries with strict drug pricing regulations, price transparency is desirable but won’t really address high prices, and initiatives like value-based pricing may not be all that its advocates promise. Read More
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring led 22 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold states’ right to hold drugmakers liable for misleading claims. Read More
The Trump administration’s plan to reduce drug prices smacks of “price controls,” more than 50 medical and conservative advocacy groups said in a letter to the White House Tuesday. Read More
The agency said sponsors intending to market multiple dose combinations should “avoid marketing excessive numbers of combinations whose components exert similar blood pressure effects.” Read More
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said value-based payment “is not a panacea…[but] it is an important part of our strategy to lower drug prices.” Read More
An audit by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that the state’s treatment programs didn’t adequately monitor patients with opioid use disorders to ensure they didn’t receive opioid prescriptions elsewhere. Read More