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Comparative effectiveness bill hits Senate
How do different antidepressants stack up? Blood-pressure meds? Diabetes drugs? Do we know? Well, Sen. Max Baucus says he aims to find out: He's Read more...
Pharma aims to forestall DTC legislation
Pharma industry lawyers descended on the U.S. capital this week to meet with House Energy and Commerce Committee staffers, hoping to forestall legislation that could limit drugmakers' ability to Read more...
Doc disclosure gets boost from AZ, Merck
Drugmakers are climbing on the disclosure bandwagon. AstraZeneca and Merck have come out in favor of a bill requiring pharma and device-makers to report their payments to doctors, joining Eli
Read more...FDA backpedals on inspection funding
Now you see it, now you don't. Congress thought--or pretended to think, you never know on Capitol Hill--that the FDA had ball-parked the funding it needs to beef up foreign inspections. That would Read more...
Bill to propose federal drug comparisons
Should the feds fund studies to compare drugs' effectiveness? The idea appears to be gaining traction. Two congressmen are readying legislation that would create an institute to systematically Read more...
Could full data disclosure avert scandal?
New calls for old drug data in the U.K. have experts second-guessing big drug-safety scandals. If scientists and regulators had had access to every bit of data on Vioxx from the get-go, for instance, Read more...
Agencies take aim at patent settlements
Are quid pro quo deals between brand-name drug makers and generics firms in real danger? Euro watchdogs are scrutinizing them, the FTC is suing over them, and the U.S. Congress is considering an Read more...
Pharma faces payment disclosure law
Senator Charles Grassley said he would, and now he Read more...
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