PHM-Exch> Health Policy Watch - This Week's Top Stories - Friday, January 17, 2020

[Claudio Schuftan]

Health Policy Watch Weekly Summary
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Weekly Summary for Friday, January 17, 2020

*Low Antibiotic Prices Dampen Industry Investment In Vital New Tools To
Combat Superbugs – Says AMR Industry Alliance
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The low worldwide prices for antibiotics, combined with the need to
carefully ration sale of any powerful new drugs that come to market to
preserve their efficacy, continue to dampen industry investment in
desperately-needed treatments for new drug-resistant superbugs, according
to a sweeping new report by the AMR Industry Alliance, released today.
While civil society […]
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*Human Transmission Of New Coronavirus May Be Occuring; Ebola Outbreak
Stabilizes
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The mysterious new pneumonia coronavirus that has emerged in Wuhan, China
may also be transmitted between people, health experts in China and Geneva
now suspect. Officials are concerned that the outbreak may also spread
globally as a new exported cases of the novel virus were confirmed in
Thailand on Friday and Japan on Thursday, and […]
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*Transparency & Collaboration Key To Defining A “Fair” Price For Essential
Medicines
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More public disclosure and information-sharing about drug prices and their
R&D costs, is key to determining a fair price for essential medicines,
concludes a series of five articles on fair pricing published Monday in the
BMJ. The series, supported in part by the World Health Organization,
highlights the increased priority drug price transparency is receiving […]
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*Mystery Virus in Wuhan Identified As Novel Coronavirus; Researchers Still
Searching For Animal Host
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Chinese authorities have been commended for the speed at which they have
identified the genetic make up of a novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV as the
cause of a new pneumonia-like illness in Wuhan, China. The virus has
infected 42 people, and is likely transmitted primarily through animals to
humans, said a leading infectious disease specialist on […]
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