Make pharma justify the price of drugs

Does the Service Argument Justify Resale Price Maintenance?

Proponents of RPM argue that RPM helps to sustain a high level of service at the point of sale and that such a high level is efficient. This paper provides a simple model which leads to the following conclusions: 1) RPM may increase or decrease the level of service. 2) Whether the service level is more efficient under RPM does not depend on the fact that service increases due to RPM. It may be ...

That's how you make drugs!

Although the science is able to proof that a drug works for the BRCA mutation in breast cancer, prostate cancer and pancreatic cancer (and maybe in other BRCA-mutated cancers) we stick to the registration path of doing phase 1, 2 and 3 trials based on organs. With the knowledge of today and the practice of personalized medicine we are able to give the drug olaparib much faster and save lives or...

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The high price of the new hepatitis C virus drugs.

Although the development of effective, oral medications for chronic hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) is a scientific triumph, the high price of the newest, directly acting antiviral agents, simeprevir and sofosbuvir, has sparked a muchneeded debate about the fair pricingofpharmaceuticals. In theUnitedStates, thecosts for 12 weeks of therapy, for the drugs alone, can range from$66 360 for simep...

Does tougher enforcement make drugs more expensive?

AIMS To review empirical research that seeks to relate marginal increases in enforcement against the supply of illicit drugs to changes in drug prices at the level of the drug supply system being targeted. METHOD Review of empirical studies. FINDINGS Although the fact of prohibition itself raises prices far above those likely to pertain in legal markets, there is little evidence that raisin...