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Democratic candidates are promising big on lower drug prices. These advisers are helping formulate their plans

By Lev Facher

Oxycodone script
Politics

Trump administration to reduce length of opioid prescriptions for federal employees

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar — Associated Press

Marijuana plants drying
Politics

Déjà vu all over again: Another year passes without approval of new suppliers of marijuana for research

By Andrew Joseph

GOP_CRASH
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‘Don’t be a Bernie Bro’: Inside conservatives’ brazen campaign to sabotage Trump’s signature drug pricing plan

By Lev Facher

Grassley
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Grassley to pharma: Support my drug pricing bill, or get ready to roll the dice with Trump

By Nicholas Florko

Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Politics

Key Senate committee advances its sweeping drug pricing bill — and keeps caps on price hikes

By Lev Facher and Nicholas Florko

Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Pharmalot

Elizabeth Warren presses Pfizer to fork over information on Scott Gottlieb

By Ed Silverman

Patrick Toomey
Politics

With a flood of amendments, some senators seek to water down drug-pricing bill

By Nicholas Florko

Chuck Grassley, Ron Wyden
Politics

6 burning questions about the Senate Finance Committee’s ambitious new drug pricing plan

By Nicholas Florko

Elephant
Pharmalot

Pharma contributions to politicians who support restricting abortions could reverberate

By Ed Silverman

Charlie Baker
Pharmalot

Massachusetts lawmakers approve compromise bill to lower Medicaid drug spending

By Ed Silverman

Wyden Grassley
Politics

Senate committee unveils ambitious plan to cap drug price hikes, out-of-pocket expenses

By Lev Facher and Nicholas Florko

2018 Senate McCaskill
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Former pharma hawk McCaskill: Drug pricing system is a ‘stinking stew of a mess’

By Lev Facher

Capitol Hill
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PhRMA scrambles to fight potential drug pricing reforms in budget deal

By Nicholas Florko

Ubl
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Pharma deploys its top guns to Capitol Hill as senators mull drug pricing package

By Lev Facher, Nicholas Florko, and Andrew Joseph

Drug Pricing Policy Tracker
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Tracking Washington’s moves on drug pricing

By Nicholas Florko and Lev Facher

U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris
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Kamala Harris becomes the latest Democratic candidate to zero in on drug prices

By Lev Facher

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Special Report

How pharma, under attack from all sides, keeps winning in Washington

By Nicholas Florko and Lev Facher

Sen. Diane Feinstein
Politics

Following ‘CRISPR babies’ scandal, senators call for international gene editing guidelines

By Andrew Joseph

Joe Biden campaign stop
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Biden puts forth an elaborate — and aggressive — plan to lower drug prices 

By Lev Facher

Joe Biden
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Biden Cancer Initiative to suspend operations as 2020 campaign heats up

By Matthew Herper and Lev Facher

Marijuana Research Supply
Politics

U.S. growing largest crop of marijuana for research in five years

By Associated Press

President Trump Discussss Fentanyl
Politics

As Trump claims credit for decline in opioid deaths, others see signs of danger ahead

By Lev Facher

unplug
Politics

After Trump pulled the plug on rebates, his options to reduce drug prices narrow. And he may need Congress

By Andrew Joseph and Damian Garde

Biotech

Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker’s plan to curb drug prices strains his relationship with biotechs

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey — Boston Globe

Pharmalot

Pharmalittle: Trump abandons rebate rule; biotechs fume at Mass. governor’s plan to lower drug prices

By Ed Silverman

Politics

Trump abandons drug pricing proposal that would have ended certain drug rebates 

By Lev Facher

Organ transplant
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Trump directs government to revamp nation’s care for kidney disease

By Associated Press

Alex Azar smiles
Politics

Top Trump advisers hint at support for progressive proposal to cap drug price hikes

By Lev Facher and Nicholas Florko

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