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Patient Upside Murky In Drug-Price Cases
"The prices of hundreds of brand-name drugs are about to be cut 4%, and millions of Americans may soon receive a check in the mail as compensation for having overpaid for their prescriptions," but "the extent to which the average consumer will benefit isn"t yet clear," the Wall Street Journal reports. "The price cuts and expected payments are the result of federal class-action settlements involving two drug-price publishers and a major drug wholesaler that were accused of inflating drug prices."

World Lung Foundation Marks World No Tobacco Day With New Counter-Marketing And Advertising Campaigns
On World No Tobacco Day, World Lung Foundation is partnering with government health ministries in China and India to launch new tobacco counter-marketing campaigns in those countries, where the largest populations of smokers in the world reside. WLF also completed an online video for the World Health Organization, which will be disseminated globally.
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Abbott And AstraZeneca Submit New Drug Application To The FDA For CERTRIAD™, An Investigational Treatment For Mixed Dyslipidemia
Abbott Park, Illinois (NYSE: ABT) and London, UK - Abbott and AstraZeneca announced that the companies have submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an investigational compound for the treatment of mixed dyslipidemia, a combination of two or more lipid abnormalities including high LDL- cholesterol (the "bad" cholesterol), high triglycerides and low HDL-cholesterol (the "good" cholesterol). The NDA submission for this investigational compound, containing the active ingredients of CRESTOR® (rosuvastatin calcium) and TRILIPIX® (fenofibric acid), is supported by data from multiple studies, including efficacy and safety studies with the 5mg, 10mg and 20mg doses of rosuvastatin combined with fenofibric acid. Pending approval of the NDA, the treatment will be marketed as CERTRIAD™.
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Officials Hope Health Reform Reaches Rural America

Rural Americans are hopeful that health reform includes funding for clinics and health care services in their communities, where the cost of care is often high, CNN reports. "What one senses is a conflict between idealism and rural reality; of course, [one rurual doctor] would like everyone covered, but there is a nagging sense that politicians who don"t understand places like [Clay, W.Va.,] will pass major legislation that changes the funding model for health care - and clinics like the one here - and yet somehow doesn"t work as advertised." For instance, a man who lived far from a hospital had to take an ambulance ride and an emergency helicopter ride to a hospital in an urban setting to receive care for a heart attack, the helicopter ride cost $11,000. For Carl Walls and his wife, Elizabeth, covering them - people who have paid taxes for their whole lives - ranks pretty high on what they think government should do with health reform. ""You know, we have worked all our lives and tried, and we can"t seem to get any program that works for us," Elizabeth Walls said. Their worries might not make sense to those promising universal, or near-universal, access in Washington. But that sentiment, maybe polite skepticism is a better way to put it, is commonplace in the tiny coal towns where many of the jobs have disappeared, and whatever is said now is judged alongside the many past promises that help was on the way" (King, 7/11). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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