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The United States imported more than $176 billion of pharmaceutical products from overseas in 2023, close to $6 billion of which came from China, according to U.S. trade data.
A 2020 study found that, from 1999 to 2018, the pharmaceutical industry and health product industry together spent $4.7 billion lobbying the United States federal government, an average of $233 million per year.
The battle brewing over the Texas abortion pill ruling was not something the drug industry originally expected to get traction. But when it did, Ovid Therapeutics CEO Jeremy Levin said, big pharma ...
Here is an example. Several days ago, my optometrist prescribed a generic eye drop for me. I filled the prescription at CVS Pharmacy. Using my Mutual of Omaha prescription drug plan, the five ...
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 ]
Lobbying depends on cultivating personal relationships over many years. Photo: Lobbyist Tony Podesta (left) with former Senator Kay Hagan (center) and her husband.. Generally, lobbyists focus on trying to persuade decision-makers: Congress, executive branch agencies such as the Treasury Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, [16] the Supreme Court, [17] and state governments ...
The collapse of the deal is the latest example of how the pharmaceutical industry is battling the US government on a number of fronts, including the White House's move to license drugs that were ...
In the 1990s, the US medical biological defense research effort (part of the U.S. Army's Biological Defense Research Program [BDRP]) was concentrated at USAMRIID at Fort Detrick. The army maintained state-of-the-art containment laboratory facilities there, with more than 10,000 ft2 of BSL-4 and 50,000 ft2 of BSL-3 laboratory space.