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Patients see first savings from Biden’s drug price push, as Pharma lines up its lawyers – Uptrends

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Patients see first savings from Biden’s drug price push, as Pharma lines up its lawyers – Uptrends

  Last year alone, David Mitchell paid $16,525 for 12 little bottles of Pomalyst, one of the pricey medications that treat his multiple myeloma, a blood cancer he was diagnosed with in 2010. The drugs have kept his cancer at bay. But their rapidly increasing costs so infuriated Mitchell that he was inspired to create … Read more

Bernie Sanders, deodorant, sneakers and Coca-Cola: Big companies slash bloated product lines – Uptrends

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Bernie Sanders, deodorant, sneakers and Coca-Cola: Big companies slash bloated product lines – Uptrends

When Vermont senator Bernie Sanders was running for president the first time, the Democratic Socialist turned some heads when he lambasted the choice overload in—of all places—the deodorant aisle. “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country,” Sanders … Read more