At least 17 pharmaceutical companies saw stock prices tumble after President Donald Trump gave a speech earlier this month in which he lambasted the industry.
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday suggested the U.S. could impose a 20 percent tax on Mexican goods as one way to pay for President Trump's proposed border wall, reports CNBC.
A nationwide shortage of available warehouse space is gradually resolving, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Although Novartis earned approval from the Food and Drug Administration for its biosimilar drug Erelzi, the Swiss drugmaker said it will not hit the market before 2018 due to a patent dispute with Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Amgen, reports Reuters.
Biogen updated the label for its best-selling oral multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera to include a warning about risk of liver injury that can occur when taking the drug, reports Reuters.
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President Donald Trump and Rep. Elijah Cumming, D-Md., spoke on the phone Wednesday about prescription drug prices, according to the Washington Examiner.
While many Americans criticize high drug prices, few understand the complex system used to establish the cost of prescription medications, reports Dayton Daily News.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to freeze all federal hiring. The order could create a lag in the Food and Drug Administration's approval processes as the agency is short almost 1,000 employees, reports Regulatory Focus.
Lake Forest, Ill.-based pharmaceutical company Hospira issued a voluntary recall of its injectable vancomycin hydrochloride due to the detection of particulate matter in a single vial, according to a Tuesday announcement from the Food and Drug Administration.