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Pelosi, Dems Unveil Price Plan: Are 25 Drugs Enough for Negotiation?

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With the 2020 election just over a year away, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has unveiled the Democratic Party’s answer to public discontent over high prescription drug prices. In a press conference Thursday, Pelosi (pictured. A preview of the plan was leaked last week. Today’s announcement doesn’t stray far.

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Notes from the JPM19 Vortex: Price Apocalypse, Celgene Fallout & More

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Morgan Healthcare Conference and everything that mushrooms around it seem just as long as the holiday break—a distant memory!—that In 2020 (yes, that’s really a year), San Francisco might have a new mayor. It is here, and then it is gone. —that came just before.

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Bio Roundup: Alzheimer’s Puzzle, ESMO Assessed, Drug Prices & More

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Munich, Germany, hosted the annual conference of the European Society for Medical Oncology, where cancer drug developers unveiled the latest clinical data for experimental immunotherapies and drugs that treat the disease based on a tumor’s genetic signature.

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Notes From The JPM ’17 Vortex: Trump, Rainstorms & The Price You Pay

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Morgan Healthcare Conference—and the events that have mushroomed around it—took a punch to the gut just as most attendees were wrapping up and checking their outbound flight status. [ Editor’s note: Ben Fidler contributed to this report ] The week of frenetic data sharing, deal talking, and party hopping of the J.P.

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At Allergan And Other Pharmas, Price Transparency Has Limits

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The firm acknowledged price hikes on several drugs that stayed—sometimes barely—under the 10 percent limit that CEO Brent Saunders pledged last September, in what he called a “ social contract with patients.” The first test of pharmaceutical giant Allergan’s promise to behave responsibly came last week.

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Novartis Wins Historic FDA Nod, Prices CAR-T For Leukemia at $475,000

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Officials on a conference call Wednesday also said they were open. The CAR-T therapy tisagenlecleucel, now branded Kymriah, will cost $475,000. It is a one-time treatment. Novartis (NYSE: NVS ) said it would not charge patients who fail to respond to the treatment within one month.

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Bio Roundup: Jazz Drug OK’d, Gilead’s Bet, Moderna Patent Decision & More

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EQRx launched in January during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference with an audacious pledge to create 10 new drugs in as many years and then sell them at “dramatically” lower prices than existing medicines. But it offered few specifics about how it would achieve those goals.

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