Patients Care About Cost, Even When Not Paying

Patients Care About Cost, Even When Not Paying
Chicago—Two studies, although posing slightly different questions, indicate that a substantial proportion of patients with cancer want their physicians to include the costs of care in their discussion of treatment options. In one study, the figure was …
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San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Santarus, Cytori, IPOs, and More
—Salix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SLXP) of Raleigh, NC, said it's buying San Diego-based Santarus (NASDAQ: SNTS) in a deal valued at $ 2.6 billion. Santarus, founded in 1996, has built up a diverse portfolio of drugs for treating ulcerative colitis …
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Abiraterone acetate delays quality of life decline in men with metastatic …
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Abiraterone acetate, a recently FDA-approved drug used to treat men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, significantly delays progression of pain and quality of life deterioration when taken in conjunction with …
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Protecting Data Exclusivity, Protecting the Future of Medicine
Unlike conventional “small molecule” drugs for which a generic drug can be shown to be the same as an innovator drug, a biosimilar [follow-on biologic (FOB), subsequent entry biologic (SEB)] is a product that is similar but not identical to the pioneer …
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