This May Be Democrats’ Best Chance to Lower Drug Prices
For patients with certain cancers, out-of-pocket spending can exceed $15,000 a year. Legislation could take aim at prices and the amounts Medicare patients are charged.
For patients with certain cancers, out-of-pocket spending can exceed $15,000 a year. Legislation could take aim at prices and the amounts Medicare patients are charged.
Once the experts weigh in, the Food and Drug Administration itself makes a decision and then a similar process happens at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Negotiators were closing in on a deal that could spend around $1.75 trillion, but lawmakers were still haggling over critical disagreements on the sprawling social policy bill.
The findings could add momentum for F.D.A. authorization of the pediatric dose, perhaps next week, a long-awaited development that would affect 28 million children.
Pfizer and Moderna are skeptical, but we found 10 companies in Africa, Asia and South America well-positioned to produce the gold-standard mRNA shots.
The company said that in a study, boosters cut down the number of breakthrough infections among fully vaccinated people by more than 95 percent.
The defense ministry said there was too little demand for its Fakhravac vaccine to justify producing it, and blamed the health ministry for reneging on promised orders.
A recent warning about the pain reliever acetaminophen is a reminder that health risks in pregnancy remain maddeningly, dangerously understudied.
Democrats have made giving government the power to negotiate drug prices a central campaign theme for decades. With the power to make it happen, they may fall short yet again.
La FDA podría autorizar dosis de refuerzo de vacunas diferentes de los que los estadounidenses recibieron en sus primeras dosis. Hay evidencia científica prometedora que respalda la medida.