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STAT+: A nonprofit does deals in Brazil and India to make low-cost CAR-T cell therapies widely available

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In the latest bid to widen access to medicines, a nonprofit is sending technology and materials for making expensive CAR-T cell therapies to the Brazilian government and an Indian manufacturer that will, in turn, look to provide the treatments available at a fraction of current prices in the U.S.

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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 million and $3.1

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STAT+: Lawmakers tell Pfizer CEO to ‘back off’ on planned price hike for Covid-19 vaccine

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argued the planned price tag is nearly four times the current $30 price paid by the U.S. government and also represents a 10,000% markup over what some researchers have calculated as the cost to produce the vaccine. A pair of U.S. ” In their letter, U.S. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Peter Welch (D-Vt.)

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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.  Two million and $3.1

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Senate probe into Novo pricing, a new UTI antibiotic, and more

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Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is investigating the prices Novo Nordisk charges for its blockbuster medications, Ozempic and Wegovy, which are highly effective at treating diabetes and obesity but carry steep price tags, The New York Times writes. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.),

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Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies in Healthcare

Roots Analysis

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.

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The “Graziella Molinari Women in Pharma Award” Announced for 2022 Edition at the ISPE Italy Affiliate

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In fact, the local government reported an increase of + 8% of production in the first 4 months of 2022 correlated to an increase of + 32% in exports. In my case, the use of smart tags was a good example of a technologically complex implementation and, at the same time, truly innovative as it had never been done before. Micaela Prati.

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