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Pharmaceuticals in the environment and public water supplies are believed to have serious impacts on human and … human health effects. Other studies more conclusively show that even minute concentrations of pharmaceuticals in the … awareness about the lack of governmental attention to the growing problem pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical residues pose to …
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for almost all of the 570,000 new cases of cervical cancer and approximately 311,000 deaths per year. HPV vaccination is an integral component of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy to fight the disease. However, high vaccine prices...
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West Virginia aims to reduce spending on pharmaceuticals by importing them from Canada. To examine the cost effectiveness …
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Drug prices are in the news. “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli increased the price of Daraprim, a treatment for fatal parasitic infections, by 5000%. Mylan found itself on the hot seat for raising the price of the anaphylaxis-treating EpiPen 15 times in 7 years, resulting in a 400% increase to...
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A lot changed between 2008 and 2015. Lindsay McSweeney's stewardship cemented the importance of CPI Antitrust Chronicle. Standard-essential patents, the smartphone patent wars, and patent trolls thrust themselves onto the IP/antitrust scene. But perhaps the most significant change is the...
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This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a theory model where the producer price is subject to bargaining between the brand-name producer and a distributor, we show that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially...
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In this paper we study the impact of reference pricing (RP) on entry of generic firms in the pharmaceutical market. For given prices, RP increases generic firms' expected profit, but since RP also stimulates price competition, the impact on generic entry is theoretically ambiguous. In order to...
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In 2004 an Institute of Medicine report warned of vaccine shortages, raising concerns about disease outbreaks. More than a decade later, we looked for progress in reducing vaccine shortages. We analyzed data on vaccine sales and shortages reported by practitioners and patients to the Food and...
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