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FDA Tells Congress What It Wants, What it Really Really Wants (it really really really wants a zigazig-ah)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the extraordinary focus on drug pricing in the last decade, generic competition—FDA’s only real way to have an effect on drug pricing—tops this year’s list. FDA believes this change would effectuate timelier and more cost-efficient generic drug development.”

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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment. Biopharmaceutical Research & Development: The Process Behind New Medicines. CN202010111235.3A.

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2022 spells change for EU pharmaceutical legislation

European Pharmaceutical Review

The review was impacted by Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic, which compounded existing issues surrounding high drug pricing and patient access that had been brewing since 2016 and highlighted several shortcomings in the EU’s pharmaceutical system. pocket expenses account for only seven percent of the overall cost of developing drugs.

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Sandoz spin-off continues Novartis’ focus on innovation; $22bn purchase rumoured

Pharmaceutical Technology

These highlight the parent company’s focus on innovative and high-value drug development. Novartis said in August that it intended to shut down its Sandoz oral solid dosage plant in Wilson, North Carolina, which provides tablets to Canada and the US, next year.