(Reuters) – Pharmaceutical companies selling drugs in parts of the San Francisco Bay area would be required to submit plans for incinerating or safely disposing of unused medication under a plan advanced by county officials this week.The measure, billed by supporters as the first of its kind in the

The Thai healthcare system faces pressure to fund high-cost new branded pharmaceuticals. Paying more may encourage innovation with positive implications for future population health, but it also means less money is available to fund other healthcare with negative implications for current population

WASHINGTON — One of the few bills moving through Congress with bipartisan support this spring would speed government approval of lower-cost generic copies of brand-name drugs. But one company, with help from an influential former congressman, is lobbying to protect its most lucrative brand-name prod

The company said the drug sovaprevir, when given along with the standard therapy of pegylated interferon and ribavirin, showed no detectable virus level in a majority of patients four weeks after the end of the treatment period.Of the 39 patients who received 12 weeks of additional standard therapy

New drugs for breast cancer and multiple myeloma won approval from the Food and Drug Administration on Friday, expanding options for patients in advanced stages of those diseases.The breast cancer drug, Afinitor from Novartis, seems to expand the time that endocrine therapy can keep the disease in c

(Reuters) – U.S. antitrust officials have approved Spectrum Pharmaceuticals’ purchase of cancer drugmaker Allos Therapeutics, a $206 million deal aimed at giving Spectrum access to the Allos anti-cancer drug Folotyn.The Federal Trade Commission posted letters on its web site sent to lawyers for Allo

ระบบการบริการด้านสุขภาพในประเทศไทยต้องเผชิญกับความกดดันในการใช้เงินจากภาครัฐเพื่อสนับสนุนยาใหม่ที่มีราคาสูง การจ่ายเงินเพิ่มเติมไม่เพียงแต่ส่งเสริมนวัตกรรมซึ่งมีผลต่อสุขภาพประชากรในอนาคต แต่ยังหมายความว่าภาครัฐจะมีเงินน้อยลงที่จะใช้สนับสนุนด้านการบริการสุขภาพอื่นๆ ซึ่งอาจส่งผลกระทบต่อสุขภาพของคนในปร

Balancing the right to know and the privacy of the patent system: a case study of oncology medicines in Thailand. Inthira Yamabhai; Richard D. Smith Abstract: This study aims to illustrate the processes to determine medicine patent status in developing countries by using oncology medicine in T

To learn how best to prescribe powerful drugs to children, Congress passed a law in the 1990s that rewarded drug makers for conducting clinical studies involving children. Among the incentives for cooperating companies was a possible six-month extension of protection from generic competition after a

(Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline is holding talks this weekend with Human Genome Sciences to agree a deal to acquire it for some $2.6 billion, after pursuing the U.S. biotech company for three months, sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday.The British pharmaceutical giant could sweeten its pr