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Founded in 1958, PhRMA lobbies on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] PhRMA is headquartered in Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] The organization has lobbied fiercely against allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices for Medicare recipients, [ 4 ] and filed lawsuits against the drug price provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act . [ 5 ]
In September 2017, the American pharmaceutical company Allergan agreed to transfer six pharmaceutical patents for the ophthalmic form of the drug Restasis to the St. Regis tribe of the Mohawk people. [1] At the time, the St. Regis tribe viewed this blockbuster deal as a new, viable supply of income outside of their primary source, the gambling ...
U.S. District Judge David Ezra in Austin, Texas, sided with President Joe Biden's administration in dismissing a lawsuit by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and two ...
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), member company. PhRMA is a trade association that lobbies the U.S. federal government on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry. [190] [191] Research!America, member organization. Research!America is a medical research advocacy group. [192]
According to the non-partisan OpenSecrets, pharmaceutical companies spent $900 million on lobbying between 1998 and 2005, more than any other industry. During the same period, they donated $89.9 million to federal candidates and political parties, giving approximately three times as much to Republicans as to Democrats . [ 1 ]
IMS Health's products and services were used by companies to develop commercialization plans [10] and portfolio strategies, [11] to select patient and physician populations for specific therapies, and to measure the effectiveness of pharmaceutical marketing and sales resources. [12]
In 1990, an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a contractor of the vaccine manufacturers called the connection a "myth" and "nonsense". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] However, before that point, criticism of the studies showing no connection and a few well-publicized anecdotal reports of permanent disability that were blamed on the ...
American Institute of Pharmacy Building in Washington, D.C. American Pharmaceutical Association Historical Marker at N. 7th and Market Sts. in Philadelphia. The American Pharmacists Association (APhA, previously known as the American Pharmaceutical Association), founded in 1852, is the first-established professional society of pharmacists in the United States. [3]