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Source: Big Pharma ushers in new year with price hikes on hundreds of drugs
More than three dozen drug companies welcomed the new year with sweeping price hikes on hundreds of medicines, according to a new analysis from Rx Savings Solutions, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The drugs that saw list-price increases on January 1 ranged from generics and blood-pressure drugs to brand-name prescriptions such as the dry-eye treatment Restasis. The average price jump blew past inflation at 6.5 percent, with some medicines seeing double-digit increases—bucking many drug companies' vows to keep such periodic hikes under 10 percent.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 04 2019, @12:31PM
Well, drug companies themselves could benefit from these machines. While it's not clear that a chemputer would be more cost-efficient than more streamlined processes for specific high-volume drugs, it could help for turning out specialty orders or for testing purposes.
Another obvious application would be to produce drugs on a space station, lunar, or martian colony. You would still need various chemicals to get started, which might be obtainable from yeast or plants.
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