In a 171 page report, the World Health Organization concluded that cancer medication prices are "impairing" the ability of governments to provide access to the potentially lifesaving treatments, STAT reports.
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Despite a recent string of controversies, Johnson & Johnson was ranked the top pharma company among Fortune's list of the world's most admired companies.
Drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb saw a fourth-quarter profit of $1.3 billion in 2018, up from a loss of $2.3 billion in the same quarter one year prior, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals fired Ian Smith, its COO and interim CFO, for unspecified personal behavior that violated the company's code of conduct.
When prices were included in television advertisements for higher-cost drugs, consumers were less likely to ask their physicians about the drug, less likely to research the drug online and less likely to take the drug, according to a consumer behavior…
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In its role as a pharmacy middleman for the Ohio Medicaid program, CVS paid some of its competitors far less than it paid its own stores, according to a copy of an unredacted report for the Ohio Department of Medicaid…
Forty-six healthcare originations penned a letter to President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers, calling for an end to the government shutdown, which entered its 33rd day on Jan. 23.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America spent $27.5 million on lobbying in 2018, breaking the previous record set by the trade group in 2009, when Congress was working to pass the ACA, according to Bloomberg.
Pharma giant Johnson & Johnson said it expects much weaker revenue growth in 2019, estimating a gain of up to 1 percent, if revenue rises at all, according to Bloomberg.