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Politics

Powerful Medicare advisory group criticizes Congress for ‘donut hole’ changes

By Nicholas Florko

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Politics

An ICU staple has exponentially spiked in price. Can compounding solve that problem? Now the courts will decide

By Nicholas Florko

Norman E. Sharpless
Politics

A believer in biotech and big data: How Ned Sharpless vaulted to the top of the FDA

By Lev Facher and Kate Sheridan

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In the Lab

Leading scientists, backed by NIH, call for a global moratorium on creating ‘CRISPR babies’

By Sharon Begley

Ron Wyden
Pharmalot

Wyden probes a patient advocacy group over its ties to opioid makers

By Ed Silverman

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Politics

Key senators call five pharmacy middlemen to testify about drug prices

By Nicholas Florko

Norman E. Sharpless
Politics

Ned Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, to be named acting FDA commissioner

By Lev Facher

Donald Trump speaks prior to signing bills intended to lower prescription drug prices
Politics

Trump budget pitches capping seniors’ out-of-pocket drug costs, cutting NIH funding

By Lev Facher

Fenway Park
Politics

How do you improve Medicare? Maybe you watch Major League Baseball

By Nicholas Florko

Vials
Pharmalot

What’s in a name? FDA changes course for biosimilar names and upsets generic makers

By Ed Silverman

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Politics

GOP lawmakers lambaste Democratic push to strip patents from drug companies

By Lev Facher

Earth's City Lights at Night
The Pharmalot View

Forget about an international pricing index for drugs. Cost-effectiveness is a better bargain

By Ed Silverman

Hugh Hewitt
Politics

The $100,000 dark-money mystery group behind a pharma-bashing Facebook campaign

By Ike Swetlitz

Scott Gottlieb
Politics

Gottlieb’s replacement? A roundup of likely, possible, and you-never-know contenders

By STAT staff

Scott Gottlieb
Politics

With Gottlieb’s resignation, the Trump administration loses its backroom whisperer on Capitol Hill

By Nicholas Florko and Lev Facher

Gottlieb vote
The Pharmalot View

Tweet this: Gottlieb’s leaving, and so is FDA’s highly effective communicator

By Ed Silverman

FDA room
Politics

On Twitter, praise for Scott Gottlieb is sprinkled with a few dissenting opinions

By Megan Thielking

Scott Gottlieb shoes and socks
Politics

Scott Gottlieb’s sudden resignation will give biotech a panic attack

By Matthew Herper and Adam Feuerstein

Gottlieb
Politics

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to resign

By Lev Facher, Nicholas Florko, and Ike Swetlitz

Will Guzzardi
Politics

States, eager to lower drug prices, regroup after courts strike down Maryland ‘price-gouging’ law

By Lev Facher

Dr. Francis Collins
Politics

NIH apologizes for its failure to address sexual harassment in science

By Lev Facher and Megan Thielking

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Politics

Webinar: Is the new Congress ready to lower drug costs?

By Lev Facher and Nicholas Florko

Michael Cohen
Politics

For Novartis, the Michael Cohen affair just won’t stay dead

By Matthew Herper

Pharma CEO photo illustration
Politics

A letter from Executive Editor Rick Berke: All eyes on today’s drug pricing hearing

By Rick Berke

Senate Drug Prices - Feb 26
Politics

In muted hearing, pharma execs dodge attempts to pin blame for high prices

By Lev Facher

Sen. Chuck Grassley
Politics

What questions will senators ask pharma executives? They gave us a preview

By Nicholas Florko

Primary care appointment
Politics

Medicare’s solution for saving primary care: blow up the office visit

By Casey Ross

1994 Tobacco Congress
Politics

‘A dark and elaborate art’: How pharma executives are training to avoid disaster at Tuesday’s congressional grilling

By Lev Facher and Nicholas Florko

Charles Grassley
Politics

Powerful Senate committee launches bipartisan probe into insulin pricing

By Nicholas Florko

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