Your weekend reading
A list of interesting articles to checkout as you head to the weekend. How America Built the World’s Most Successful Market for Generic Drugs.Reference Pricing as a Deterrent to Entry.Will ...
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Top 5 Reads to End Your Week Smarter
FDA to use AI in drug evaluation (cderGPT?)Database of hospital mergers and acquisitions. Medicaid coverage generosity and crime.Limits placed on COVID-19 vaccine access.Where are we on using ...
Thoughts from around the web: using ‘Most Favored Nation’ for US Drug Pricing
Lakdawalla and Goldman.Tyler Cowen.AARP.National Pharmaceutical Council (from 2021)BIO.Adam FeinHere is a comparison of the CMS Final Rule (from 2021) vs. 2025 Trump Executive Order.
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I’ll be at ISPOR. Health Care Subscriptions: Who Benefits and Who Gets Left Behind?NIH bans new funding from US scientists to scientists abroadMost favored nation.CDC: RSV vaccine works.
Colt Funds Firearms Training Program in Georgia
Colt Firearms, maker of fine firearms for more than 170 years, has announced a partnership with the state of Georgia to promote safe, responsible firearms ownership in the Peach State. In a ...
ISPOR 2025 in Montréal – Healthcare Economist
Three panels. One great city. Can’t wait for the conversations at ISPOR 2024 in Montréal. GCEA: Where do we go from here? (14 May, 5-6pm)Should we finally ...
This June in Cleveland, Ohio!
GunCon 2025, hosted by The Gun Collective, will occur on June 28, 2025, at the Twist Drill Building in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. This event aims to unite the firearms industry professionals, ...
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Innovative Payment Models for Sickle-Cell Disease Gene Therapies.EHR records transfer: fax, CD, mail.‘Why public health must always be led by economists’Impact of federal cuts and inflation on ...
Are Trump/DOGE cuts to FDA staff impacting drug approval timelines? – Healthcare Economist
It seems like the answer is now ‘yes’. EndPoints reports: Stealth BioTherapeutics said the FDA would not meet its Tuesday deadline for approving or ...
Montana Governor to Colorado Gunmakers: Move Back to America
In response to the sweeping gun ban recently signed into law by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, the governor of a neighboring state has released a video inviting Colorado companies in the firearm and ...
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Only ⅔ of FDA-approved biosimilars have launched.Measles outbreak continues.UnitedHealth profits fall.Super-Earths.‘Bone Collector’ caterpillars.NFL Draft comes to Green Bay.
Florida Senate Kills Gun Rights Bill Again
We reported recently how Florida lawmakers were advancing a measure to lower the age for purchasing a long gun—which had been raised to 21 back in 2018 after the mass murder at a high school in ...
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