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Price increases in brand name medications are largely driven by existing drugs, not new products. >> its not about innovation. its about inflation in existing product. >> reporter: analyzing wholesale prices for nearly 28,000 prescription drug, university of pittsburgh researchers found the cost of brand name oral medications rose more than 9% each year between 2008 and 2016. the average price of injestable drugs rose more than 15% each year. between 2015 and 2018, the cost of lyrica, a nerve pa...