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STAT+: Colorado lawmakers revise effort to exempt rare disease drugs from state cost caps

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The original bill was introduced over concerns that patients may lose access to rare disease drugs if companies halt sales or decide not to invest in developing such medicines.

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STAT+: CMS will use outcomes-based agreements in bid to help Medicaid pay for sickle cell gene therapies

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In response to concerns over multimillion-dollar price tags for new gene therapies for sickle cell disease, the U.S. government on Tuesday announced a long-awaited “access model” designed to blunt the cost that state Medicaid programs would pay for these curative treatments. million and $3.1

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Novelist John Green launches attack on Cepheid over the price of its TB test

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Halve the $10 price tag, Green maintained, and the company can save lives by giving more people access to early detection of TB. But in a scathing YouTube video posted Tuesday, Green argued the price is prohibitive for patients in lower-income countries. Tuberculosis kills 1.5

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Smart pharmaceutical and healthcare labels: Lets trace medicines from its origin

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It is worth noting that smart labels contain a transponder code which can be read by sophisticated devices, including radio frequency identification device (RFID) tags and near-field communication (NFC) chips. While most smartphones can read NFC chips, RFID tags can only be read by specialized receivers.

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Free access to Zolgensma curbed, says Novartis

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Novartis’ programme providing free access to its spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) gene therapy Zolgensma is being scaled back to a dozen countries worldwide, according to the company. ” Zolgensma is one of the most expensive therapies available, with a price tag of around $2.1 Pause in UK access.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Wegovy supplies, Biogen ditching Aduhelm, and more

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In response to concerns over multi-million-dollar price tags for new gene therapies for sickle cell disease, the U.S. government announced a long-awaited “access model” designed to blunt the cost that state Medicaid programs would pay for these curative treatments , STAT says.

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Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies in Healthcare

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Examples of such technologies include DNA Taggants (a unique DNA tag used in the product / packaging that can be scanned using a designated instrument / equipment), invisible printing technologies, digital watermark technologies and hidden markers / print technologies.