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You can’t afford to get cancer

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OPENING: American cancer patients spent more than $21 billion on their care in 2019. Monthly drugs costs may reach $100,000, causing many Americans to struggle with the physical and emotional effects of high out-of-pocket medical costs. Some cancer patients may face out-of-pocket costs of nearly $12,000 a year for one drug.

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BMS: Delayed new drug to avoid paying billions?

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billion on Thursday for allegedly delaying its Breyanzi cancer drug to avoid payments to shareholders of the former Celgene Corp, which the drugmaker bought in 2019. Food and Drug Administration approval for the non-Hodgkin lymphoma drug by a Dec. The post BMS: Delayed new drug to avoid paying billions?

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A perfect storm for biotech stocks

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That’s significantly down from 2019, with 70 deals worth $261 billion. The last time the SPDR ETF suffered a drop of 15% or more was in 2018, and the fund followed it up with a 33% increase in 2019. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration has delayed several drug approvals, and Sen.

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The current pricing of cancer treatments is unsustainable

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needs to take substantial steps to address the high costs of cancer drugs. From 2009 to 2019, the median monthly treatment costs for new drugs at launch reached $11,755 in the U.S… From 2009-10 to 2018-19, the lowest average monthly costs for new cancer drugs approved by the U.S. SUMMARY: The U.S.

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

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Between 2019 and 2021, Alphabet’s venture-capital arms, Google Ventures, and Gradient Ventures, and its private-equity unit, CapitalG, made about 100 deals, a quarter of Alphabet’s combined total, in life sciences and health care. Google launched itself into the wearables business in 2019 with a $2.1bn acquisition of Fitbit.

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NIH spending for drugs approved 2010-2019 lower than industry spending, study finds

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billion for phased clinical trials of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs between 2010-2019. million publications describing basic or applied research related to 386 of 387 drugs approved 2010-2019 with $8.1 million per approved drug. billion (3.3

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Biogen is in deep trouble and may not survive

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SUMMARY: The Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating the approval process for Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug. Janet Woodcock acknowledged on Wednesday her agency may have misstepped in the handling of its polarizing approval of a new Alzheimer’s drug.