Pharma stocks fell yesterday after an early draft of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to reduce drug prices was made public, which could curb prices on the 250 most expensive drugs.
Amgen, Merck & Co and Eli Lilly have launched a legal challenge to a new rule that will require them to disclose medicine list prices in direct-to-consumer (DTC) television ads.
Pharma bosses faced a grilling from the US Senate’s Finance Committee over the high price of branded prescription drugs in the US compared with other developed countries.
Drug companies could come under increased pressure to lower prices in the US, after the opposition Democrat party won control over the lower house in midterm elections.
The cost: benefit ratio of the rising prices of new oncology treatments and how the pharmaceutical industry and regulators can adequately address them.
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