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drug-pricing

2 stories tagged "drug-pricing"

Drugs & FDA

Medicare's Product-Hopping Loophole Is Back On The Chopping Block. The Bigger Pharma Giveaway Isn't.

The Trump administration on Thursday proposed closing the product-hopping loophole that lets drugmakers reset Medicare's negotiation clock by tweaking inactive ingredients. It is the same fix the same administration quietly tabled in October.

Cancer

Pancreatic cancer's undruggable wall just cracked. The follow-up is 8.5 months and the money was already placed.

Revolution Medicines' daraxonrasib nearly doubled median overall survival versus chemotherapy in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer at ASCO 2026, with 8.5 months of follow-up and a two-billion-dollar Royalty Pharma deal already riding on what comes next.