The Japan TimesSunday marked the 30th anniversary of the settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by hemophilia patients in Japan who contracted HIV through the administration of untreated blood products. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/29/japan/crime-legal/hiv-tainted-blood-scandal-30-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hemophilia #covid19 #drugmakers #pharmaceuticals #health #hiv
beSpacific#Drugmakers plan 2 raise #US #prices on at least 350 branded #medications including vaccines against #COVID, #RSV and #shingles & blockbuster #cancer treatment #Ibrance even as #Trump administration pressures them for cuts, according to data provided exclusively by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.. The number of price increases for 2026 is up from same point last year, when drugmakers unveiled plans for raises on more than 250 drugs. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-350-medicines-despite-pressure-trump-2025-12-31/ #healthcare #pharmaceuticals
NonilexExclusive: #Drugmakers raise #US #prices on 350 medicines despite pressure from #Trump
Drugmakers plan to raise US prices on at least 350 branded #medications including #vaccines against #COVID, #RSV & #shingles & blockbuster #cancer treatment Ibrance, even as the Trump admin pressures them for cuts, acc/to data provided exclusively by #healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.
#law #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #medicine #BigPharma
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-350-medicines-despite-pressure-trump-2025-12-31/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced deals with nine pharmaceutical companies, the latest in a series of pacts designed to lower drug prices for some in exchange for a three-year reprieve from threatened tariffs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/20/world/science-health/drugmakers-trump-price-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #us #drugmakers #health #medicine #donaldtrump #republicans #democrats #congress
Chinese vaccine makers are caught in a steep downturn as intensifying competition pushes prices lower and erodes their profits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/02/companies/china-flu-shots-vaccine-makers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #pharmaceuticals #china #drugmakers #covid19vaccines #vaccinations
How #PrivateEquity Oversees the #Ethics of #DrugResearch
Many #DrugTrials are vetted by companies with ties to the #drugmakers, raising concerns about #ConflictsOfInterest & #patient #safety.
#law #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/health/drug-trials-ethics-ozempic.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Texas lawmakers approved bill allowing nearly anyone to #sue providers, manufacturers and even delivery companies like #FedEx for #shipping #abortion pills into state. Gov. #GregAbbott will sign w backers calling it a #blueprint for other states to copy. This deputizes citizens as #bounty hunters, weaponizing lawsuits to intimidate #doctors,#drugmakers, couriers nationwide. It exports Texas’s #abortion ban across state lines. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/texas-senate-abortion-pills-bill.html #womenshealth #pubichealth #medicine
This would be a surprisingly good thing if it happened. Somehow I doubt #BigPharma & #Republicans will allow it.
#Drugmakers have been warned that the #Trump Administration is considering linking US #medicine #prices to lower amounts paid by other developed countries, acc/to 2 company sources who called the option the pharmaceutical industry's top concern.
LilMikeSF#BioTech industry responsible for more than 115,000 #Massachusetts jobs is struggling amidst a slump. The #Boston area is a bio research hub with 1,000 #drugmakers, but part of problem for the NE Democrat political and #science edu stronghold is higher costs of operations than elsewhere.
For example, In burgeoning #RaleighDurham NC Triangle drugmakers face far lower taxes and can pay lower wages.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/biotech-boston-area-slump/
Georgiann BaldinoReuters "#Drugmakers to raise US prices on over 250 medicines starting Jan. 1...A Reuters analysis of prices for new drugs found that pharmaceutical companies launched new U.S. drugs in 2023 at prices 35% higher than in 2022."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-over-120529214.html
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