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How one sentence helped set off the opioid crisis

by Caitlin Esch
Dec 13, 2017
Recently unsealed documents shed light on how the maker of OxyContin seems to have relied more on focus groups than on scientific studies to create an aggressive and misleading marketing campaign that helped fuel the national opioid epidemic.
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What will be Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico's drug industry?

by Aaron Schrank
Sep 25, 2017
The island territory manufactures a quarter of all US exported drugs.
San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 20, after Hurricane Maria slammed into the U.S. territory.
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"Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli is convicted at securities fraud trial

by Marketplace Contributor
Aug 4, 2017
“They blame me for capitalism,” said Martin Shkreli.
Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, exits federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. 
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Drug prices: how generics changed the game

by Dan Gorenstein
Jul 25, 2017
Generics used to be sold out of car trunks. Then Congress got involved.
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For many Haitians, street dispensaries are the only source of medicine

by Hayley Hershman and Paulina Velasco
Jun 16, 2017
What’s a street dispensary? It’s “a sort of chemical Babel Tower,” according to Arnaud Robert, who reported on these Haitian pharmacies for the June 2017 issue of National Geographic. But the street vendors are not pharmacists, and their wares are not regulated. This illegal, ubiquitous medical practice can have serious consequences for the health of many […]
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Is competition the solution to high drug prices?

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 14, 2017
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling supports a new class of generic drugs.
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U.S.-Cuba relations could be big for pharmaceuticals

by Andy Uhler
Jan 10, 2017
A "refreeze" could jeopardize cooperation on cancer drugs.
Cubans buy medicine in a drugstore in Havana.
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Silicon Valley's answer to brain fog

by Molly Wood
Oct 20, 2016
Why one startup thinks cognition enhancing pills are poised to take off.
   
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Let’s do the numbers: the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

by Marketplace Staff
Jul 27, 2016
The nonprofit marks its fundraising campaign’s 2-year anniversary with a research breakthrough.
Eric Singer, Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer of the band KISS participates in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Aug. 22, 2014 in Noblesville, Indiana.
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New class of generics could save consumers, insurers billions. FDA is moving carefully.

by Dan Gorenstein
Jul 13, 2016
The European Union has some 20 "biosimilar" generics on the market; the US has one.
Pre-filled syringes of the adalimumab biosimilar. The biosimilar is used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.
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