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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

The company has hired former senior health regulators to help it navigate America’s healthcare bureaucracy. . Then there is the cost of generic drugs. bil­lion in 2020 if it had pur­chased 77 of 89 drugs from Cuban’s firm. Generic drugs versus branded is also a considerable expense.

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Cybersecurity in pharma: Securing the future

Pharmaceutical Technology

Earlier this year, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries , one of India’s largest generic drug producers, reported a major cybersecurity breach , impacting its business operations. Regulators need to work together with industry to certify hot patches to quickly fix vulnerabilities while maintaining pharmaceutical quality,” adds Fracchia.

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Our abysmal health care system

World of DTC Marketing

Once limited to a few new treatments, it’s now being applied widely, even to generic drugs and established regimens.?The 87% of doctors say patients’ conditions have worsened because of red-tape regulations, and 83% worry the patients will suffer prolonged pain. Prior authorization is out of control. The result:?

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Do generics producers have what it takes to tackle complex and specialty drugs?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The only way forward for generics producers. Margins in the generics market are overall being driven down, Harvard Medical School Health Economics professor Richard Frank, PhD, tells Pharmaceutical Technology. More specifically, Frank says drug-device combinations share some of these characteristics.

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CDER’s Office of Compliance Kicks Off Annual Report Season with Rundown of 2023’s Major Public Health Enforcement Initiatives

FDA Law Blog

Led by former federal prosecutor Jill Furman, OC is charged with shielding consumers “from poor quality, unsafe, and ineffective drugs through compliance strategies and risk-based enforcement actions.” Drug Supply Chain. This is another area in which FDA works with industry to try to ensure voluntary compliance from regulated entities.

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Quebec Prohibits Financial Assistance by Drug Manufacturer for Patients’ Drug Costs

Pharma in Brief

Therefore, the new prohibition provided a “humanitarian exception” which allowed financial support to continue in cases to be determined by regulation. Notably, the coming into force of the prohibition was suspended pending the adoption of such regulation. 2] Both the prohibition and the regulation came into force on April 15, 2021.

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Hitting Pause on Criticism of the FDA, Just for Today

Pharmacy Checkers

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is just one agency out of the many that make up the United States Department of Health and Human Services and, from PharmacyChecker’s relatively small (non-regulatory) role of helping verify online pharmacies to protect public health, I’ve learned just how insanely massive its mandate is.