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STAT+: Medicare expects to spend $3.5 billion on new Alzheimer’s drug in 2025

STAT

Medicare for the first time has estimated that a new Alzheimer’s treatment could cost the program billions of dollars by next year — well beyond what Wall Street or even the drug’s manufacturer have projected — according to a document obtained by STAT.

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STAT+: No, alcohol isn’t good for you. Will new dietary guidelines be shaped more by health or industry interests?

STAT

“Alcoholic beverages have been used to enhance the enjoyment of meals by many societies throughout human history,” read a part of the 1995 document (a note Nestle says was added last-minute by a federal official who believed in wine’s benefits).

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Big Data Steering Group to enhance data quality and discoverability under new workplan

European Pharmaceutical Review

The joint Big Data Steering Group of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) has published a third workplan, setting actions to be delivered by 2025. According to EMA, the new plan will further enhance the efficient integration of data analysis into the regulatory evaluation of medicinal products.

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DOP amends PTUAS, expands eligibility criteria to include MSMEs

Express Pharma

300 crore, over the next two fiscal years (150 units each in 2024-25 and 2025-26). We appeal to the Government to ensure NIPER imparts training for documentation because machines alone cannot cause compliance of Schedule M. Documentation is an altogether different skill without which compliance is not possible.

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Numbers on NHS waiting lists will rise, warns UK health secretary

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The main bullet points in the plan include an objective of eliminating any delays to procedures of 18 months or more by April 2023 and over 65 weeks by March 2024, and reducing all waits to less than a year by 2025 – a year after the next scheduled general election. end waits over a year for 99% of people by 2024, and everyone by 2025.

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EMA launches quality control group to aid medicine innovation

European Pharmaceutical Review

Prepare guidance documents related to innovative quality and manufacturing technologies . The QIG will work in line with the priorities emphasised in EMA’s Regulatory Science Strategy to 2025 , in which the regulatory body identified key goals and core recommendations for human medicines. The five key goals of this strategy are: .

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NHC’s comments in response to the 2025 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP)

Putting Patients First Blog

Need for New Shopping Tools on HealthCare.gov Many of the issues raised in the 2025 NBPP, such as nonstandard plans and auto re- enrollment, focus on the need to ensure people are in plans that best meet their needs. The following is an overview of the NHC’s comments on proposals in the 2025 NBPP.