While Covid-19 deaths have declined over time as population-wide immunity increased, all the same there continue to be sub-populations predisposed to severe disease.
As IRA drug pricing provisions take shape, market dynamics will change in ways that will likely yield downward pressure, at least on the prices of existing cancer drugs.
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, not only has there been an abundance of misinformation about vaccines, public health officials have committed missteps in messaging.
In what is Jimmy Carter’s final chapter in life, he’s leaving behind a lasting legacy of raising awareness for the importance and dignity of hospice care.
Perhaps accelerating the timeline for biosimilar (and generic) market entry is what the IRA had in mind when it chose several long monopoly products for price negotiation
The IRA’s drug pricing provisions are viewed favorably by voters. Accordingly, the industry’s legal challenge to block Medicare from price negotiations is unpopular.
Public health increasingly focuses on treatment as prevention. While condoms were once integral to campaigns aimed at preventing STIs this is much less the case today.