Mendez: Price caps on inhalers won’t do enough When PBMs refuse to cover the cheaper generic, patients are left on the hook for the full cost. Insurers and employers hire PBMs to manage prescription drug benefits. The PBMs are supposed to ... 05/3/2024 - 5:50 pm | View Link
Amgen soars 16% after it talks up a new weight loss drug that could be injected monthly instead of weekly Goldman Sachs said Amgen's experimental GLP-1 drug could have peak sales of $5 billion, or 5% of the estimated $100 billion weight loss drug market. 05/3/2024 - 5:46 am | View Link
Healthcare and drugmaker groups seek to revive challenge to US drug-pricing law Healthcare and drug industry groups on Wednesday urged a U.S. appeals court to revive their challenge to a law requiring manufacturers to negotiate the prices of some drugs with the U.S government's ... 05/1/2024 - 10:19 am | View Link
Cencora beats profit estimates on strong demand for costly specialty drugs Cencora beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit on Wednesday, driven by robust demand for costly specialty medicines that treat complex diseases such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. 04/30/2024 - 11:43 pm | View Link
What We’re Reading: Lab Tests Under Federal Oversight; TB Cases Rise; Drug Manufacturers Lose Price Negotiation Challenges Makers of medical tests will have about 4 years to show the FDA that their new offerings deliver accurate results; after previously decreasing for 27 years, US tuberculosis (TB) cases increased every ... 04/30/2024 - 3:38 am | View Link
“Fresh from his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump delivered a frustrated and often profane roughly 75-minute speech at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, attacking one of the prosecutors pursuing him and comparing President Biden’s administration to the Nazis,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “These people are running a Gestapo administration.”
“In his speech, he complained repeatedly about the criminal trial in Manhattan, to which he will return on Monday, insisted that Democrats use ‘welfare’ to cheat in elections and said he would need an attorney general with ‘courage’ as he mocked his former attorney general, William P.
Young America's Foundation, the American version of Hitler's Youth, and the college Republicans at the University of Wisconsin in Madison had collaborated to throw a wild shindig at the Library Mall in Madison. The invitation that they were sharing was something to behold:
They promised there would be American flags, free t-shirts, popsicles, Toby Keith and Freedom!
Well, isn't that interesting?
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune
April 29, 2024
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The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 5:25 p.m.: A proposed excise tax on guns and ammunition to pay for victim services cleared a key Senate committee Saturday afternoon after Democrats turned on their own over its movement through the chamber.
The measure would create a 6.5% tax on gun and ammo dealers and raise an expected $39 million a year, according to sponsor Sen.
Since Mark Hamill's White House visit tells us how woke Star Wars has gotten, and we all know about wokester Star Trek, Starship Troopers and Helldivers are better choices.