Health Affairs

Diabetes Drugs: List Price Increases Were Not Always Reflected In Net Price; Impact Of Brand Competition Unclear

List prices for brand-name drugs have risen steeply, often despite the introduction of competition from other brand-name drugs in the same therapeutic class. List prices, however, do not reflect any ...
Health Affairs

Beyond The High Prices Of Prescription Drugs: A Framework To Assess Costs, Resource Allocation, And Public Funding

Jonathan J. Darrow ([email protected]) is an assistant professor in the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law at Harvard Medical School and an associate scientist at Brigham and Women’s ...
Time

2020 Saw a Scary Increase in U.S. Drug Overdoses. We Must Take National Action to Help Communities at Risk

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is a former co-chair of the caucus. The rate of drug overdoses ...
C&EN

FDA gives its nod to 53 new drugs in 2020

The US Food and Drug Administration kept up a blistering pace of new drug approvals last year, all while navigating the urgent evaluation of tests, drugs, and vaccines in development for COVID-19. The ...