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Health Drug and Device Makers Shelled Out $8 Billion to Doctors and Hospitals Last Year One of Obamacare’s biggest transparency provisions is the Sunshine Act, which requires medical device and drug makers to disclose how much money they pony up to doctors and teaching hospitals.

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Health Mylan Shareholders Are Being Advised to Vote Against Board Members and Executive Pay Packages Influential proxy firm ISS on Monday turned up the heat on Mylan myl , advising its institutional clients to voice their dissatisfaction with the generic drugmaker’s board of directors and

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Finance Scientific Instrument Giant Thermo Fisher to Buy Patheon for About $5.2 Billion Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world’s No. 1 maker of scientific instruments, said on Monday it would buy Dutch drug ingredients maker Patheon as it looks to become a one-stop shop for contract

Health These Two Drug Companies Want to Legally Block Executions in Arkansas Arkansas has plans to execute seven death row inmates in fewer than two weeks this month. But two drug makers are trying to make sure their products play no part in the process, which has been

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Finance Abbott Finally Agrees to Buy Alere After Cutting the Price to $4.5 Billion Diversified healthcare company Abbott Laboratories on Friday agreed to buy Alere for about $4.48 billion, ending a prolonged legal battle over its plan to buy the diagnostic-testing company.

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Health Trump Is Slashing FDA Rules. Why Isn’t Big Pharma Excited?President Donald Trump is planning to take the ax to Food and Drug Administration regulations. “[We’re] going to be streamlining the process so that, from your standpoint, when you have a drug, you

Health An FDA Program Incentivizing Rare Disease Drugs Will Be Investigated for Abuses In late 1982, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Orphan Drug Act, which was then signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on January 4, 1983 – a long overdue New Year’s present for the

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Health Pharma Executives Aren’t Excited About Trump’s Plans to Ease FDA Regulation U.S. President Donald Trump’s vow to roll back government regulations at least 75% is causing anxiety for some pharmaceutical executives that a less robust Food and Drug Administration would

Health These Were Big Pharma’s Biggest Winners and Losers in 2016 Biopharma stocks endured a precipitous decline over the course of 2016. But some giants drug making giants made out far better than others, according to a new report based on data from analytics firm

Health Johnson & Johnson Is Dialing Down Crazy Drug Price Hikes Is the pharmaceutical industry finally ditching its price gouging ways? Well, sort of, depending on who you ask. On Monday, drug giant Johnson & Johnson jnj pulled the curtain back on its own

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