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Collaboration and statewide support make North Carolina a thriving hub of urgently needed innovation in rare disease.
The rarest day on the calendar is the one that does not even occur in every year: February 29. In 2008, this was designated as Rare Disease Day and since then, the last day of February has been an opportunity to draw attention to, honor and support people living with these conditions.
Read MoreWhere things stand with the TRIPS waiver
The World Trade Organization is considering continuing to waive certain intellectual property rights on COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics, following a recent decision to do the same for vaccines.
Read MoreExpanding COVID IP waiver would harm small, medium enterprises, CSBA says
Every member of the Council of State Bioscience Associations signed a letter to President Joe Biden expressing serious concerns with the proposed expansion of IP protections for COVID technology.
Read MorePart D drug price “negotiation” comes at cost of jobs, investment, cures
Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act on Aug. 12. Included in the law is a provision that gives Medicare Part D the ability to “negotiate” the price of medicines for the first time. Negotiate is in quotation marks because lawmakers are being ironic; no one can legitimately call the new price-setting policy a negotiation.
Read MoreBIO: CMS decision enormous setback for Alzheimer’s patients, dangerous infringement on FDA autonomy
BIO: CMS decision enormous setback for Alzheimer’s patients, dangerous infringement on FDA autonomy On April 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services held to its original decision to limit coverage of the Biogen’s Alzheimer’s disease treatment Aduhelm — along with other drugs like it — to clinical trials. Michelle McMurry-Heath, M.D., Ph.D., president and…
Read MoreBiotech joins efforts to aid in humanitarian relief in Ukraine
Biotech joins efforts to aid in humanitarian relief in Ukraine The biotech and life sciences industry is coming together to donate a range of critical medical supplies, equipment, and medications to the people of Ukraine. “The conflict in Ukraine and violence from Russia defies international law, norms and modern sensibilities,” said BIO President and CEO…
Read MoreCMS decision not to cover Alzheimer’s treatment a bad one
CMS decision not to cover Alzheimer’s treatment a bad one NCBIO stands in solidarity with patient advocates and industry leaders in opposing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ draft proposal to restrict coverage for current and future Alzheimer’s drugs targeting beta amyloid, a known hallmark of the disease. Restricting coverage is a bad idea…
Read MoreWho pays to create new medicines?
Does government spending on drug development justify government price controls on medicines? Not when the private sector spends $102 billion on clinical R&D and the NIH spends less than $3 billion.
Read MoreLaura Gunter: Biotech policies should protect patients, innovation
Laura Gunter: Biotech policies should protect patients, innovation The ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role of the North Carolina life sciences industry in battling our most serious public health threats. When faced with the threat of COVID-19, biotechnology companies — many based right here in North Carolina — answered the…
Read MorePharmaceutical Prescribing Labels: An Enormous Opportunity to Eliminate Pointless Paper Waste in the United States
Pharmaceutical Prescribing Labels: An Enormous Opportunity to Eliminate Pointless Paper Waste in the United States This post originally appeared on the website of the Environmental Paper Network. A serious approach to addressing climate change must include the proactive elimination of unnecessary paper consumption. Paper is an important and useful material that should be produced and…
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