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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Hims Super Bowl ad, USAID freeze hurting clinical trial patients, and more
07 Feb 2025 22:29 GMT
… industry runs afoul of pharmaceutical advertising rules, STAT reports … the compounded weight loss drugs that it promotes. And … discontinuing its widely used asthma medication Flovent and replacing it … 2023, and the Flovent diskus inhaler 100mcg cost $264.26, …
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Arizona AG sues inhaler medication maker over renaming
07 Feb 2025 21:18 GMT
… system by simply renaming an asthma drug to allow it to increase … as a prescription metered-dose inhaler. What that meant, she said … asthma attacks because they’re not taking their controller medication ... because either pharmacies …
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Now’s the time for the GOP to lead an overhaul of Big Pharma
07 Feb 2025 20:01 GMT
… life-saving medications. From everyday asthma inhalers to critical cancer drugs, pharmaceutical companies … could lower drug costs. The revolving door between pharmaceutical companies … when it comes to pharmaceutical drug prices. President Trump campaigned …
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Robert Vargas and Tony Christiano: What rolling back Medicaid expansion would do to Illinoisans
07 Feb 2025 11:47 GMT
… at the pharmacy counter, knowing you need an inhaler to breathe and … markets already exist for asthma inhalers, blood pressure medications and opioids — not for … close.
The expansion of illegal drug markets, the rise in survival …
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When the Cost of His Asthma Inhaler Went Up $500, His Parents Claim He Couldn't Pay. Two Weeks Later He Was Dead at 22
07 Feb 2025 10:38 GMT
… his medical insurance company and pharmacy after he died of an asthma … he stopped taking his maintenance inhaler — allegedly due to a … $5 copay. The same drug was previously filled in October … ’s access to key asthma medication options were handled consistent …
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Arizona AG sues drug company GlaxoSmithKline for endangering asthma patients, skirting Medicaid payments
07 Feb 2025 00:59 GMT
… accuses the pharmaceutical firm of discontinuing its widely
used asthma medication Flovent and … 2023, and the Flovent diskus inhaler 100mcg cost
$264.26, according … insurance coverage for the drug.
Hospitalizations from asthma reportedly increased without …
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes sues drug manufacturer
06 Feb 2025 19:50 GMT
… involving the inhaled corticosteroid Flovent that endangered asthma patients.
The lawsuit … from using other brands of inhalers, according to the lawsuit … from sales of the drug to Medicaid," the lawsuit … ’t obtain Flovent from pharmacies since they did not …
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Wisconsin asthma death lawsuit; family sues Walgreens, Optum Rx
06 Feb 2025 18:00 GMT
… s hand holding a powder asthma inhaler with mouthpiece visible (Photo by … health insurance companies, prescription drug companies and pharmacies. Optum Rx services … he visited the pharmacy, he did buy a different asthma medication, generic Albuterol …
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Wisconsin couple sues Walgreens, OptumRx over son's death linked to medication price hike
06 Feb 2025 17:01 GMT
… health insurance companies, prescription drug companies and pharmacies. Optum Rx services prescription … he visited the pharmacy, he did buy a different asthma medication, generic Albuterol … for his rescue inhaler, not the Advair Diskus inhaler that he took …
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Jabil Acquires CDMO Pharmaceutics International
06 Feb 2025 13:29 GMT
… healthcare innovation accelerates, pharmaceutical companies need partners who … company’s existing parenteral drug delivery offering, which … auto-injectors, pen injectors, inhalers, and on-body pumps. … the clinical and commercial drug manufacturing demands of …