As we see time and time again, health insurance providers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are beginning to shift a much greater portion of prescription drug costs to patients and consumers. In many cases, these requirements can cost thousands of dollars out of pocket and often result in limited access to essential medicines – a dangerous …
Read Article: Co-Pay Accumulator Programs Are a Bad Deal for Patients

Opioid abuse and addiction in America has reached epidemic heights. As a nation, we’re spending more than $500 billion annually in health and social costs to combat this growing problem. What’s more, the Department of Health and Human Services reports more than 40,000 lives lost in 2016 from overdosing on these pain management treatments. Long-term …
Read Article: House Passes SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to Combat America’s Opioid Crisis

This week, the Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance released a report entitled, “A Tangled Web: An Examination of the Drug Supply and Payment Chains.” The report is the latest to look at the nation’s complex drug cost ecosystem. More patients are finding that what they have to pay for prescription drugs …
Read Article: New Report Offers “Distorted View” of Biopharma Industry

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Biotech crops in the last 22 years have brought enormous benefits to the environment, health of humans and animals, and contributions to the improvement of socio economic conditions of farmers and the general public, according to a new report issued today by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA). The ISAAA report …
Read Article: As More Countries Adopt Crop Biotechnology, Farm Families and the Environment Benefit

There is no doubting that genetic engineering will be a major part of the future of food and agriculture. And even though 88 percent of scientists believe genetically engineered foods are safe, according to a Pew Center poll, and GMO farming can be more environmentally friendly, GMOs have always been met with a lot of …
Read Article: Former Anti-GMO Activist: To Accept GMOs Is To Accept Science

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News coverage about Unity Biotechnology (NASDAQ:UBX) has been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern. The research firm …

Each year at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, BIO recognizes innovators in the field of industrial biotechnology with the George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology and Agriculture and the Rosalind Franklin Award for Leadership in Industrial Biotechnology and Agriculture. This year BIO congratulates Dr. Sang Yup Lee, distinguished professor and …
Read Article: BIO Congratulates 2018 George Washington Carver and Rosalind Franklin Award Recipients