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Kaiser report says America hitting the wall as new gene-therapies rise above $1 million; “personalized” medicine looks great, but we won’t all get access to it.

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The News: Posted by Kaiser Health News–on October 17, 2017 Out­rage over the high cost of can­cer care has fo­cused on sky­rock­et­ing drug prices, in­clud­ing the $475,000 price tag for the coun­try’s… Read more »

CBO clears GOP health bill for Senate; only 23 million to lose coverage this version

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The News: A bill to disassemble the Affordable Care Act that passed the House by a razor-thin margin earlier this month would leave 14 million more people uninsured next year than under… Read more »

Google Parent, Sanofi to Invest $500 Million in Diabetes Joint Venture

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French drugmaker Sanofi SA (Paris) and Verily, the life sciences unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc. (Mountain View CA) on Monday said they would invest about $500 million in a… Read more »

Cost of New Cholesterol Drugs Unsustainable Says JAMA Study; Ensuing Debate Rages

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A new study from the University of California, San Francisco, using computer models of cardiovascular disease in American adults concludes that the price of a promising new class of cholesterol-lowering… Read more »