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U.S. cancer doctors drop pricey drugs with little or no effect

2015-10-08 09:35:52| Chemicals - Topix.net

U.S. oncologists, aware that patients are paying more of the costs of expensive cancer drugs, are increasingly declining to prescribe medicines that have scant or no effect, even as a last resort. At least half a dozen drugs, including colon cancer treatments Cyramza, from Eli Lilly & Co, and Stivarga, sold by Bayer AG, aren't worth prices that can exceed $100,000 a year, top cancer specialists said in interviews with Reuters.

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Express Scripts to cover pricey new cholesterol treatments Repatha, Praluent with conditions

2015-10-06 23:47:23| Biotech - Topix.net

The nation's biggest pharmacy benefits manager has decided to cover two new drugs that lower artery-clogging cholesterol but raise concern over prices that can top $14,000 a year. Express Scripts said Tuesday that it will pay for prescriptions of Amgen Inc.'s Repatha as well as Praluent from Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. under a few conditions designed to control costs.

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Sharp's Pricey 8K Display Coming Oct. 30

2015-09-17 18:02:07| PC Magazine HDTVs Product Guide

You could buy an 85-inch Sharp LV-85001 display on Oct. 30...or a 2015 Tesla Model S P85D.

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Pricey successor overtakes $1,000-per-pill hepatitis C drug

2015-07-13 10:00:43| Biotech - Topix.net

Harvoni, the newest pill from California-based Gilead Sciences, accounted for more than three-fourths of the prescriptions ... . This image provided by Gilead Sciences shows a bottle of the Hepititis drug Harvoni.

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