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WASHINGTON, April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The discovery and introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s transformed modern medicine and enabled tremendous progress in health care and life expectancy. Today, this progress is being threatened by a health crisis on the rise: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR affects at least 3 million Americans and results in 48,000 U.S. deaths annually. The World Bank Group s 2017 report on drug-resistant infections estimates that unless action is taken, AMR globally could take 10 million lives annually by 2050, a higher toll than from cancer. If we fail to address the crisis, many modern medical advances that depend on antibiotics such as routine surgery, cancer therapy and treatment of chronic disease may be jeopardized.
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WASHINGTON, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/
On April 3, more than four million Americans received a COVID-19 vaccine the largest single-day vaccination event in human history. For innovators across the pharmaceutical industry, these moments make the years sometimes decades of painstaking trial and error worth it.
PhRMA s three-part approach to build a better health care system. Download the PDF here: https://phrma.org/Graphic/Building-a-Better-Health-Care-System-Print-Ad
I m incredibly proud of our industry s role in combating this pandemic. At the same time, our battle against COVID-19 has driven home an important reality: We need to build a better health care system that ensures scientific advances are accessible and affordable to everyone who needs them.
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
On 23 December 2020, Judge Catherine Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland granted the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) a 14-day nationwide temporary restraining order, preventing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from implementing and enforcing its Most Favored Nation (MFN) interim final rule (MFN Rule) scheduled to take effect on 1 January 2021.
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On 28 December 2020, in a parallel case and specifically adopting the reasoning in Judge Blake’s order, Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted California Life Sciences Association (CSLA) a preliminary injunction prohibiting CMS from implementing the MFN Rule based on a failure to follow notice and comment procedures under Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Most notably, Judge Chhabria’s order vacates the MFN Rule in its entirety pending completion of the notice and com