HHS secretary calls on drug companies to ‘ stop the price hikes ’

After President Donald Trump’s drug pricing speech last week was deemed a “non-event” by analysts, all eyes turned to the secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Alex Azar, to see what the former pharma executive viewed as the administration’s top concerns. Azar called on the industry to “stop the price hikes” and cautioned that Trump would not hold back from calling out drug manufacturers by name – an effort echoed by FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb who toldĀ STATĀ that the agency would publish the names of companies that are hindering generic drugs from reaching the market. Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News. The post HHS secretary calls on drug companies to ‘stop the price hikes’ appeared first on MassDevice.
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