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“Patient autonomy” is not a good way to think about childhood vaccination policy
The Trump administration has made sweeping changes to its vaccine policy over the past year, justified by invoking the “personal autonomy” of patients. In January, Department of Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump reduced the number of routinely recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11 after an HHS report highlighted “personal […]
The British patient advocates the antitrust regulator to probe drug manufacturers
The UK antitrust regulator was invited by patient defense groups to investigate several major drug manufacturers and their British lobbying organization for “suspects” and “coordinated” efforts to increase the prices of medicines. The backdrop of the complaint was an ongoing row between the pharmaceutical industry and the British government for the compulsory discounts that pharmaceutical […]
The second patient dies after obtaining Duchenne’s gene therapy in Sarepta
Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine and biopharmal industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on signal in Drewqjoseph.45. Sarepta Therapeutics said on Sunday that it interrupted the expeditions of its gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy for patients who can no longer walk, after the death of a second person who received the treatment. Sarepta […]