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Even folks with money and in high positions have problems getting access to cancer drugs, as you can read below, and this was not an issue of not being able to afford the medication. When you read items as such, it makes you stop and think how precious life and healthcare really is. BD ...
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The UK continues to say “no” to cancer drugs due to price. If you stop and look at the prices for cancer drugs, something along the line here is going to need to balance soon. It is great and wonderful to have the R and D and great breakthroughs that are occurring almost daily, but what good does...
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The costs of cancer treatment and associated drugs is rising as we all know. We are pouring money into R and D as fast as we can, and yes that does cost money, but insurers are making it hard to get insurance coverage and somewhere along the line you need to have a drug that is affordable as well...
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This is probably a good move to speed this process up since many pharmaceutical companies have and are looking at moving more trials to India. More information can be read here about the changing face of Pharma in reference to research and development. One more area to think about too is the use...
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Many of the generic manufacturers started years back with knock off drugs to sell locally in India, but now the game is changing to where US Pharma is using some of the talent, which costs less than R and D individuals here in the states, to further develop existing work, in other words somewhat continue...
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This article brings up a good point, when a patient has no other choices and the potential of a new drug could offer some relief, what is the verdict at this point? The FDA has turned it's way of thinking around now to being much more conservative on the drugs that are approved. Do the drug companies...
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The patent is stated not to expire until 2010 and this will put a 30 hold at the FDA to grant approval. This one should prove interesting to follow and see where the infringement occurs. BD LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Sanofi-Aventis SA (SNY) has launched a legal action against Canadian generic drugmaker...
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Money is the issue, so will the UK have the worst cancer survival figures in Europe? There still have to be some happy medium whereby drugs are affordable and researchers can still be rewarded. If the drugs never get to the the afflicted patients, what good is all the research and non availability...
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This is one tough subject by all means. Yes, consumers want early access, but on the other hand if there’s not enough information regarding issues such as side effects, a drug could in fact hasten the process with individuals dying sooner, again studies are what is needed to be safe. ...
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Good insight and commentary here from the "inside" track...are members of Congress helping or stalling the progression of the FDA... will the Biotechs be able to develop and withstand some of the stringencies and additional methodologies to bring new products to market to save lives? Nice to...