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STAT+: Hospital and pharmaceutical prices are smothering America’s businesses
Republicans and Democrats find a unifying target: Pharmacy benefit managers
STAT+: Vaxcyte claims success in bid to beat Pfizer and Merck in lucrative vaccine market
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Vaxcyte pneumococcal shot, increasing pharma M&A, and more
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WorldPingVaxcyte said its experimental pneumococcal vaccine hit the primary endpoints in a Phase 3 clinical trial, setting up the biotech to compete with Pfizer and Merck.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by STAT
WorldPingRepublicans and Democrats, both patients and politicians, seem united in their disdain for the healthcare companies known as pharmacy benefit managers. Tennessee and Arkansas are regulating them now.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by NPR Health
WorldPingWorkers and employers are drowning in their health insurance premiums. The reason for that deluge: the health care industry’s high and inscrutable prices.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by STAT
According to local media reports, as many as 189 people have also been placed under medical observation in Irkutsk in Eastern Russia.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by CNBC World
A worker at a plague research institute in Siberia has died, and nearly 200 of her contacts are under medical observation. Russian authorities deny a link to the bacterial infection. The US is monitoring the situation.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Deutsche Welle
Questions about the motive of the co-pilot who tried to crash a packed flight from Dubai to Israel continue to swirl.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by CBS News
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