Unaffordable Drugs

Unaffordable Drugs
A just price for drugs would allow pharmaceutical companies reasonable profits while keeping treatments affordable to patients and to the health-care system. There is good evidence that the companies can afford to reduce prices. They spend only 1.3 …
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Doctors balk at 0K annual cost for a drug
It was a scientific victory, a triumph of a different model of funding drug development, and a boon to patients when Vertex Pharmaceuticals' cystic fibrosis drug, ivacaftor, was approved in early 2012. It was the first drug to treat one of the genetic …
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COPD treatments: an interview with Professor Price, University of Aberdeen
And then, there's drug treatment. We like to prevent infections, so we might use vaccinations. Then, there are drugs more specific to COPD. These fall into two categories: bronchodilator therapies, which open up the lungs, and anti-inflammatory …
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