Tagged as: Big Pharma
Will Federal Regulators Take Action Against Pharmaceutical Price-Gouging?
Pharmaceutical companies have been notoriously price-gouging. The recent scandal centered around the ridiculously inflated cost of Daraprim showed how carelessly pricing is regulated.Many have been left wondering if federal lawmakers will take action a...
Big Pharma Angered Over The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, which deals with intellectual protection for certain drugs, is extremely controversial.
The agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries will soon be up for debate in Congress. However, the current plan doesn't ...
Pharmaceutical Companies Price Discriminate H.I.V. Drugs
Harvard researchers published a new study which found that many drugs used to treat H.I.V. are being set at unfairly high prices. The study examined health care plans in 12 states and found that the drugs were being priced using a system of “adverse tierin...
The Drug Patent System Is Killing Patients
The intricacies of patent law are hurting patients in need of ground-breaking pharmaceuticals.A patent must be filed once a new drug is discovered. That patent will protect against competition for 20 years. The problem is a new drug cannot go to market unt...
Who’s Responsbile For Prescription Drug Side Effects?
If you've been injured by a prescription drug, the pharmaceutical company holds no liability as long as they've adequately warned your prescribing doctor.That is the verdict of a recent case involving Roche, the manufacturer of Accutane. In 2011, a New Jer...
The Birth of a New Drug
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ave you seen the ad for the new drug that treats runny noses? Taking it will make your nose feel better than ever, BUT, there's a small chance that you could develop one of the drug's many side effects: compulsive gambling, blackened urine ...