Pharmacy

A new study found dozens of FDA approved drugs can increase the risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, a rare and often fatal brain infection, by an average of eight times.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Representative and Senator-elect Peter Welch sent a letter to Pfizer Dec. 12 to seek reasoning behind the company's proposal to "quadruple" the cost of its COVID-19 vaccine" with "a 10,000 percent markup over what…

Biogen, along with 18 other drugmakers, are shortcutting the 340B law by restricting their involvement in the drug pricing program, nonprofit organization 340B Health said Dec. 13. 

Pfizer nearly doubled its total revenue compared to 2020's list of the top 10 drugmakers, according to Yahoo Finance data. 

Moderna and Merck scored promising results from their joint project to test the mRNA-based technology used in COVID-19 vaccines combined with cancer drug Keytruda, the two companies said Dec. 13. 

The most popular drugs, on average, have 74 patents each — and these "patent thickets" are "enormous legal fortresses" stomping out competition to keep drug prices high, according to Anthony Barrueta, a senior vice president at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente. 

The world's first patient to be infused with base-edited T-cells is in remission for leukemia 28 days after receiving the gene therapy, according to the U.K.-based Great Ormond Street Hospital. 

Among mpox vaccine-eligible men in the U.S., two doses of the Jynneos vaccine reduced the risk of mpox by 9.6 times and one dose reduced the risk by 7.4 times, according to the CDC.

Ozarks Healthcare, a 114-bed hospital based in West Plains, Mo., recently began offering specialty treatments through its pharmacy. 

Amgen plans to scoop up Horizon Therapeutics for $27.8 billion, which would be the most expensive healthcare acquisition announced in 2022.