April 15, 2024, Americans Are Paying Billions to Take Drugs That Don’t Work
April 15, 2024, Americans Are Paying Billions to Take Drugs That Don’t Work Companies are increasingly using fast-track approval processes to get unproven treatments to patients. One ALS drug made $400 million in sales for its maker. It doesn’t work. A cancer treatment brought in $500 million. That one turned out to have no effect […]
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Challenges Federal Government’s New Drug-Price Powers
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January 28, 2023, How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System
January 28, 2023, How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The key patent on the best-selling anti-inflammatory medication, used to treat conditions like arthritis, was expiring at the end of the year. […]
January 25, 2023, A Farmer Secretly Paid for His Neighbors’ Prescriptions for Years
January 25, 2023, A Farmer Secretly Paid for His Neighbors’ Prescriptions for Years Hody Childress brought cash every month to a pharmacist in Alabama, asking her to use it to help people buy medicine. The town learned of the arrangement only after his death. From the New York Times: A Farmer Secretly Paid for His […]