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Category Archives: drug cost
A Secret Revealed: Why Drugs Cost What They Do
Category: drug cost
Tagged pharmaceutical market, pharmaceuticals, prescription drug prices
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Taking a Stab at Cost-Effectiveness
Category: cancer, Clinical Trials, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, drug cost
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On the Air With Skeptically Speaking
Category: drug cost, drug patents, Legislation
Tagged Bayh-Dole act, Botox, data exclusivity, FDA, Gleevec, healthcare reform, market exclusivity, Orphan Drug Act
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The Avastin Saga
Category: cancer, drug cost, ethics
Tagged Avastin, breast cancer, cost:benefit ratio, FDA, insurance, Medicaid, medicare, NCCN, overall survival, progression-free survival
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Can Data Exclusivity Lead to Immortality?
Category: drug cost, ethics, healthcare reform, Legislation
Tagged biologics, data exclusivity, generic drugs, legislation
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Welcome to a Work in Progress
Category: drug cost, ethics, Housekeeping
Tagged boceprevir, drug costs, hepatitis C, insurance, medicare, telaprevir
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Jessica Wapner is a freelance writer focused mainly on biomedical issues. Her work is published in Scientific American, The New York Times, Slate, Science, Nature Medicine, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Philadelphia Chromosome is forthcoming from The Experiment in May 2013.