Trump wants to slash prescription drug prices in US. What it means for your pharmacy billDonald Trump has signed a wide-reaching executive order on Monday directing drugmakers to lower the prices of their medicines to align with...
13 May, 2025, 03.43 PM IST
UnitedHealth, the company that employed slain CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly overcharged some cancer patients by more than 1,000% for their medicationsUnitedHealth, in which slain CEO Brian Thompson was employed, has been allegedly accused of overcharging patients suffering from dangerous ...
17 Jan, 2025, 02.28 AM IST
Insurer stocks fall after Trump says 'we're going to knock out the middleman'Trump targeted pharmacy benefit managers for increasing drug prices. He pledged to remove them from the system. This caused share drops for...
17 Dec, 2024, 07.26 AM IST
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump Presidential Debate: What you can expect?US Presidential Debate 2024: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are preparing for Tuesday's presidential debate with contrasting strategies. Ha...
10 Sep, 2024, 10.58 AM IST
Will Kamala Harris propose federal ban on food price hikes? Will it prove counter-productive with Donald Trump hitting hard?In an election rally on Friday in Raleigh, N.C., Democrat contender Kamala Harris is most likely to hold companies responsible for the high...
16 Aug, 2024, 12.05 AM IST
Epic saga of Cipla: How a swadeshi Robin Hood took on Big Pharma of the WestCipla has been closely associated with India's struggle for independence, with Khwaja Abdul Hamied forming the company in 1935. For the Big...
06 Aug, 2023, 12.48 PM IST
China cracks down on drug price gouging amid fears of COVID spikeChina announced 10 measures on Wednesday that loosened key parts of President Xi Jinping's signature zero-COVID policy, in a dramatic pivot...
10 Dec, 2022, 01.59 PM IST
Twitter prank spurs unexpected scrutiny of insulin pricesAmong the victims was drugmaker Eli Lilly, whose stock price nosedived -- erasing billions in market capitalization -- after a parody accou...
15 Nov, 2022, 07.40 AM IST
Most of House Republicans in US vote against capping price of insulinThe US House of Representatives has passed a bill popularly known as the Insulin Price Bill that limits insulin costs to $35 per month. The...
01 Apr, 2022, 08.28 PM IST
Prices of oxygen concentrators, oximeters, nebulisers jump by up to 100% despite capPrices of oxygen concentrators, oximeters and nebulisers have surged 50-100% over the past ten days, with a huge demand-supply mismatch ami...
28 Apr, 2021, 01.33 PM IST
Big pharma cos ran millions of dollars of negative ad against me during US-election campaign, says TrumpAmerican media has declared Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as the winner of the November 3 elections, which Trump has refused ...
21 Nov, 2020, 09.39 AM IST
World needs generic drugs but their quality must be guaranteed: Journalist Katherine EbanEban discusses her findings and how regulators and countries need to step up to protect patients.
08 Jun, 2019, 11.00 PM IST
View: When care for profit model overrides innovationThe ability to conduct clinical trials safely and transparently is crucial to developing new healthcare products.
27 Apr, 2019, 11.13 AM IST
The cuts that complicate efforts to cap stent priceSince hospitals implant the stent, they also become de facto retailers as the devices cannot be bought in the open market.
04 Jan, 2017, 11.36 AM IST
Abbott to set up innovation hub in IndiaAbbott has its existing innovation and development centres in Chile and Columbia for the regional needs in Latin America and one in Russia.
04 Nov, 2016, 06.20 PM IST
India to supply generic cancer drug to USIndia has agreed to supply to the United States generic cancer drugs at a time there is outrage in America about the predatory practices by...
24 Sep, 2015, 12.21 PM IST
- Natco Pharma bags licence to sell Bayer's cancer drug Nexavar
The government has allowed a local drugmaker Natco Pharma to make and sell a patented cancer drug at a fraction of the price charged by Ger...
13 Mar, 2012, 02.19 AM IST