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How to price drugs reasonably?
I read with great interest the article, “The rising cost of rhinologic medications,” by Vasudev et al.1 It once again brings to our attention the global issue of appropriate drug pricing. As we know, setting a fair price for high-priced medicines is an important issue for governments and medical and health institutions around the worl d. In some countries, such as Canada, France, and Germany, the common pricing method for branded drugs is often negotiated by the government on the basis of the Added Therapeutic Benefit (ATB) they provide to patients.
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - September 1, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Xiaojing Hu Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research
News at a glance: A win for obesity drugs, NIH unionization roadblocks, and Mexican fireflies under threat
CONSERVATION
Researchers raise alarm over threat to Mexican fireflies
Scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last week delivered a letter to the Mexican government requesting it regulate tourism centered on the threatened firefly species
Photinus palaciosi
. Endemic to Mexico’s Tlaxcala forests,
P. palaciosi
is one of the few species that glow in synchrony, offering an annual spectacle that attracts thousands of visitors during summer mating season. The letter describes how littering, artificial light, and noise interfere with the insects’ courtship and eg...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 10, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
News at a glance: A win for obesity drugs, a new infectious disease institute head, and Mexican fireflies under threat
CONSERVATION
Researchers raise alarm over threat to Mexican fireflies
Scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last week delivered a letter to the Mexican government requesting it regulate tourism centered on the threatened firefly species
Photinus palaciosi
. Endemic to Mexico’s Tlaxcala forests,
P. palaciosi
is one of the few species that glow in synchrony, offering an annual spectacle that attracts thousands of visitors during summer mating season. The letter describes how littering, artificial light, and noise interfere with the insects’ courtship and eg...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 10, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Senate panel approves 2% bump for NIH budget in 2024
To the relief of biomedical research advocates, a Senate spending panel has approved a modest budget increase of 2% for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The bump to $47.8 billion roughly matches President Joe Biden’s request for the 2024 fiscal year that begins this fall. Although below the rate of biomedical inflation, it is far more generous than a corresponding House of Representatives bill that would
slash NIH’s budget by 6%
.
Advocacy groups welcomed the measure
approved
on 27 July by the Senate appropriations committee. “The Committee laid down an important marker for the appropriations...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - July 28, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Explainer: Why the U.S. has banned funding for Chinese lab at center of pandemic origin dispute
In a move that has more symbolic than practical impact, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has imposed new sanctions on a Chinese lab at the center of the debate about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A nine-page
HHS memo
made public by a House subcommittee that
’s investigating the pandemic
’s origin suspends and proposes debarment of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)
“from participating in United States Federal Government procurement and nonprocurement programs.” In effect, this bars WIV from receiving U.S. government funding now and possibly ever. The ...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Conspirituality of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
This article has been adapted from Chapter 23 of Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker. Copyright © 2023. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Source: TIME: Health - July 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker Tags: Uncategorized freelance politics Source Type: news
Merck Sues US Government to Halt Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Merck Sues US Government to Halt Medicare Drug Price Negotiation
Merck sued the US government on Tuesday, seeking to halt the Medicare drug price negotiation program contained in the Inflation Reduction Act, which it argues violates the 5th and 1st Amendment of the Constitution.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - June 7, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news
Study provides deeper insight into long COVID
This study is an important step toward defining long COVID beyond any one individual symptom, " said study author Dr. Leora Horwitz, director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science and co-principal investigator for the RECOVER Clinical Science Core at NYU Langone Health. " This research definition — which may evolve over time — will serve as a foundation for scientific discovery and treatment design. "The researchers say studying the underlying biological mechanisms of long COVID is central to advancing informed interventions and identifying effective treatment strategies.
In addition to establish...
Source: The University of Arizona: Health - May 30, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: mittank Source Type: research
Companies won ’t share COVID-19 shots, stalling future vaccine research
The U.S. government has tens of millions of unused doses of messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines, regularly trashing shots as they pass their expiration dates. It’s a dismal reflection on recent vaccine uptake, but it’s also a serious roadblock for scientists testing and developing vaccines that could protect against future variants of SARS-CoV-2—and the next pandemic. Developers need existing vaccines as a benchmark to compare with new candidates. But government contracts with the vaccinemakers, and the companies’ own policies, prohibit the use of the vaccines for research purposes.
“At this stage of the ...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
The COVID-19 virus mutated to outsmart key antibody treatments. Better ones are coming
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged and other effective drugs were elusive, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) emerged as a lifesaving treatment. But now, 3 years later, all the approvals for COVID-19–fighting antibodies have been rescinded in the United States, as mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have left the drugs—which target parts of the original virus—ineffective.
Researchers around the globe are now trying to revive antibody treatments by redesigning them to take aim at targets that are less prone to mutation. “There are new approaches that present a much more challenging task for the virus to evade,” ...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 24, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Allergy deaths: London mothers renew plea for government tsar
Tanya Ednan-Laperouse and Emma Turay say more needs to be done as the deaths were "preventable".
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Trust and Virtual Communication During the COVID pandemic for adults with asthma from low income neighborhoods: What Have We Learned?
Low-income and marginalized adults disproportionately bear the burden of poor asthma outcomes. One consequence of the structural racism which preserves these inequities is decreased trust in government and healthcare institutions.
Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - May 11, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Andrea J. Apter, Tyra Bryant-Stephens, Hami Park, Heather Klusaritz, Xiaoyan Han, Knashawn H. Morales Source Type: research
Trust and virtual communication during the COVID-19 pandemic for adults with asthma from low-income neighborhoods: What have we learned?
Low-income and marginalized adults disproportionately bear the burden of poor asthma outcomes. One consequence of the structural racism that preserves these inequities is decreased trust in government and health care institutions.
Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - May 11, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Andrea J. Apter, Tyra Bryant-Stephens, Hami Park, Heather Klusaritz, Xiaoyan Han, Knashawn H. Morales Source Type: research
NIH restarts bat virus grant suspended 3 years ago by Trump
Three years after then-President Donald Trump pressured the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to suspend a research grant to a U.S. group studying bat coronaviruses with partners in China, the agency has restarted the award.
The new 4-year grant is a stripped-down version of the original grant to the EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit research organization in New York City, providing $576,000 per year. That 2014 award included funding for controversial experiments that mixed parts of different bat viruses related to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the coronavirus that sparked a global outbreak in 2002–04, a...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 8, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
AI Cough-Monitoring Can Change the Way We Diagnose Disease
How many times do you cough a day? Do you cough more when you’re indoors or outside? Or more often after you eat? Or at night?
Chances are, your cough memory might not be that accurate. But all of that information about your coughing patterns could be an untapped resource to better understand your health. Coughs may be benign ways to clear a little extra phlegm, or they could be early signs of more serious conditions such as asthma, GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), or even lung cancer.
“In the era of precision health, it’s ironic that such a problematic symptom is simply unmeasured,” says Pet...
Source: TIME: Health - April 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Technology Source Type: news
