Among all developed nations, Americans pay the highest prices for prescription drugs. Here are the main reasons prescription drugs are so expensive in America. The cost of prescription medication in the U.S. has been on the rise for years. Between 2019 and 2020 , the price of most prescription...

Patients with anemia caused by chronic kidney disease, chemotherapy, or those with HIV who take Retrovir (zidovudine) will soon have a new medication option in the form of Retacrit (epoetin alfa-epbx). The drug is the first biosimilar for epoetin-alfa to gain US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

A new treatment option is available for patients with multi-drug resistant (MDR) HIV following the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of Trogarzo (ibalizumab-uiyk). The medication, developed by TaiMed Biologics USA Corp, is a new form of antiretroviral medication indicated for...

Patients with health plans with value-based contracts for diabetes, high cholesterol, and HIV medication benefited from significantly cheaper co-pays than patients on other plans, according to new data from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). On average, these...

Last year was a record-breaking year for generic drug approvals in the United States. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 1,027 generic drugs, 843 of which were full approvals, with tentative approvals making up the remainder. Tentative approvals are generic drugs considered ready...

Over the course of 2017, the number of approvals granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reached a 21-year high. More than 1,000 generic drugs were approved by the agency, according to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, while first-time generic drug approvals numbered 74. Novel drug...

Juluca (dolutegravir and rilpivirine), the first two-drug regimen for certain patients with HIV is now available in pharmacies across the United States. In November 2017, Viiv Healthcare, owned by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first once-daily, two-drug single pill treatment for certain patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Approval for Juluca (dolutegravir and rilpivirine) was granted to ViiV Healthcare, a global specialist in HIV owned by...

A combination therapy used to reduce the chances of HIV infection in adult patients is safe for adolescents, a new study by the National Institutes of Health network suggests. Truvada (tenofovir, emtricitabine) is a single pill combination drug currently approved as a pre-exposure prophylaxis...

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first generic version of Truvada (emitricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate), a medication used in the treatment and prevention of HIV infection. Gilead Science's branded drug Truvada is a combination of the antiretroviral drugs...