Effect of ‘gamechanger’ Alzheimer’s drugs ‘trivial’, review concludes

“The sad truth is that even the best-performing drugs don’t do anything that’s clinically meaningful.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/16/effect-gamechanger-alzheimers-drugs-trivial-review-concludes

 

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Trump’s Latest HEALTH SCAM is FINALLY EXPOSED

Dr. Haydée Brown and Dr. Sonya Sloan break down what TrumpRx does, who it helps, and why many health economists say it does not address the root causes of high drug costs. We examine the limited list of medications, comparisons to existing discount programs like GoodRx, the spotlight on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and fertility medications, and the larger structural questions about congressional authority, executive power, and real policy reform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilRP8NYnlGU

Congress is about to overhaul the drug market. Consumers may never feel it. - POLITICO

Since 2023, PCMA has spent $47 million lobbying against changes to its business practices, about twice its spending from the prior three-year period. The group has assembled an army of Republican lobbyists, hiring Trump-linked lobbying shop Continental Strategy, as well as former Rep. Ryan Costello (R-Penn.) and Noe Garcia, managing partner at Forward Global and a former senior policy adviser to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn)...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/prescription-drug-costs-pharmacy-benefit-managers-00761503 

 

Joe Rogan is good at sprinkling half truths with conspiracy theories.

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Trump slashed funding for universities that helped create these vital drugs - Washington Post

Medications that prevent HIV, shrink tumors and treat seizures were invented with government funding. At research universities, that money is now canceled or in jeopardy...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2025/trump-university-research-medicine/

White House releases ‘Make Our Children Healthy Again’ report. Here’s what’s in it - The Washington Post

But some of his allies have expressed frustration at the approach to pesticides.

"It was clearly a statement crafted by the chemical corporations who have deeply influenced this administration and, of course, many previous administrations," Zen Honeycutt, a longtime Kennedy supporter and the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Moms Across America, said of the leaked draft in an interview last week...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/09/maha-report-released-rfk-jr/

 

'So If You And President Trump Are Serious...': Bernie Sanders Makes Direct appeal to RFK Jr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOy0416ENU

 

Trump layoffs begin to erode FDA drug review system | Reuters

"These deep cuts and the loss of experienced leadership at virtually all the major centers that regulate the safety of food, drugs, devices is quite high risk," said Dr. Jesse Goodman, former chief scientist at the FDA and director of Georgetown University's Center on Medical Product Access, Safety and Stewardship...

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-layoffs-begin-erode-fda-drug-review-system-2025-04-04/ 

 

 

JUST IN: Rick Scott Blocks Bernie Sanders And Ron Wyden Health Care Bill, then Sanders responds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sKVpItosJI

 

Democrats want answers on prescription payment models abandoned by Donald Trump

"The American people deserve answers: Have these programs have been cancelled? And if so, what is Trump's plan to lower, not raise drug prices?"…

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5117971-democrats-want-answers-on-cost-cutting-prescription-payment-models-abandoned-by-trump/

RFK Jr. says he’s open to seizing drug patents - POLITICO

The approach — long supported by progressive Democrats and only tentatively by former President Joe Biden — would use executive authorities to take certain drug patents developed using taxpayer money and license them to other manufacturers that might make and sell them for less. Advocates for the policy say it would allow new levels of competition for some of the most expensive prescription drugs, which are now protected by patents...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/rfk-jr-health-drug-pricing-00200830

 

This Is Why You Can't Get ADHD Treatment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRPeU1DYOWA

Trump rescinds Biden-era order to lower drug costs

Trump rescinded former President Biden's Executive Order 14087, "Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans." He included this directive among those he deemed to be "unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices." 

Biden's executive order asked the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to look into "new health care payment and delivery models that would lower drug costs and promote access to innovative drug therapies for beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare and Medicaid programs."…

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5098715-trump-executive-order-biden-prescription-drug-costs/

Prices rise for hundreds of drugs this year : Shots - Health News : NPR

January is a big time for drugmakers to hike prices. This year saw higher prices for 575 medications so far, including Ozempic, drugs for HIV, cancer and many others...

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/14/nx-s1-5250174/drug-prices-rise-drugmakers

 

What’s going on in pharmacies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woACpI9C9XE

Kamala Harris unveils 2024 policy agenda, including $6,000 child tax credit - The Washington Post

The most striking proposals were for the elimination of medical debt for millions of Americans; the "first-ever" ban on price gouging for groceries and food; a cap on prescription drug costs; a $25,000 subsidy for first-time home buyers; and a child tax credit that would provide $6,000 per child to families for the first year of a baby's life...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/16/kamala-harris-2024-policy-child-tax-credit/

U.S. Unveils Price Limits for 10 Costly or Common Medications - The New York Times

The Biden administration said it would have saved $6 billion had the new prices been in effect last year...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/us/politics/us-to-announce-prices-for-first-drugs-picked-for-medicare-negotiations.html

Democrats increasingly take aim at patents in bid to lower drug prices - The Washington Post

The FTC and congressional Democrats' joint efforts were touted at the White House in April, when Khan and Sanders joined President Biden to blast drug companies for what they said were attempts to take advantage of the patent system, such as tweaking the cap of an inhaler. 

"They use the new patent on that cap to block generic drug companies from being able to enter the market," Biden said. "Playing these games with patients and pricing, Big Pharma is able to charge Americans significantly higher prices and pad their profits."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/07/drug-prices-patents-democrats-congress/

Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is challenging drug companies to be transparent about the cost of trials, which has always been shrouded in secrecy. Its own bill for landmark trials of a four-drug combination treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis came to €34m (£29m). 

Current estimates for research and development of new medicines range from €40m to €3.9bn. The extortionate cost of trials is used to justify high prices of new medicines, but companies do not publish either the topline or a breakdown of their spending…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/25/cost-of-developing-new-drugs-may-be-far-lower-than-industry-claims-trial-reveals