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Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Analysis of JAMA and NEJM articles finds most authors failed to disclose conflicts

“I’m saddened and disappointed,” said Brian Piper, a co-author and a neuroscience professor at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Disease ‘reversal’ startup launches with $3 billion and biotech vets; network distributed fake Gilead HIV meds

Sen. Wyden

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Senate Finance chair investigates Bristol Myers over an allegedly abusive overseas tax shelter

Patent folder

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Patent thickets are thwarting U.S. availability of lower-cost biosimilar medicines, study finds

Pharma By Adam Feuerstein

Bristol CEO Giovanni Caforio on new drug launches and acquisitions in 2022

All Coverage

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Unilever will pursue Glaxo consumer unit despite rejection; Endo settles Florida opioid case for $65 million

Moderna syringes Texas

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

At Davos, a ‘good news, bad news’ message emerges about Covid-19

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Shkreli

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Martin Shkreli is ordered to pay $64 million and is banned from the pharma industry for life

Pharmalot Coming/Going STILL

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Senate committee advances Califf FDA nomination; bedraggled Biogen writes a shopping list

Eye

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

FDA warns Chinese manufacturer for lack of vision when making sterile eye drops

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Lilly and Roche are also losers in the Medicare Alzheimer’s decision; former CRO owner pleads guilty to falsifying data

Eli Lilly headquarters

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman, Rachel Cohrs and Nicholas Florko

The biggest losers from Medicare’s decision on Aduhelm may be Biogen’s competitors

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Medicare proposes to restrict coverage of Biogen Alzheimer’s drug; Pfizer to cut its U.S. sales staff

pill dollar sign list price

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

‘Skinny label’ for generic version of a pricey cancer drug cut costs for consumers

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Biogen CEO admits Alzheimer’s drug price was ‘wrong’; Becerra orders HHS to reconsider Medicare premium hike

telehealth clinical trial

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Trial by fire: More study protocols are experiencing substantial — and costly — changes

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Pfizer makes a major push into mRNA technology; Medicare decision on Alzheimer’s drug may hurt state budgets

Pfizer

Biotech By Matthew Herper and Megan Molteni

Pfizer to pay Beam $300 million in gene-editing deal, amping up its mRNA ambitions

Aduhelm Medicaid decision

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

A looming decision on Medicare coverage for Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug could shock state Medicaid programs

CRISPR Mammoth deal

Biotech By Matthew Herper and Megan Molteni

Bayer to pay CRISPR-focused Mammoth Biosciences $40 million for gene editing research

Pills and money illustration

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

What money? Pharma donations to patient groups in Canada are shrouded in mystery

Pharmalot Coming/Going STILL

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Investors want CEO pay tied to global vaccine equity; FDA ordered to release more documents on Pfizer Covid shot

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Chilean health ministry is urged to issue a compulsory license for the Pfizer Covid pill

3 syringes

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Institutional investors urge pharma boards to tie executive compensation to global Covid vaccine equity

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: More top hospitals aren’t offering Biogen Alzheimer’s drug; Pfizer may lower Covid pill price in poor countries until supplies rise

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: U.S. doubles order of Pfizer Covid-19 pill; court revives suit claiming drug makers funded terrorism in Iraq

money pile

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Some drug makers quietly resumed donations to lawmakers who denied Biden’s election victory