Senator Dick Durbin continues to mince no words in his critiques of some in the pharmaceutical industry.
Durbin handed his “Pharma Fleece Awards” last week on the Senate Floor, as he slammed Takeda, Eisai, Merck, and Genentech, four pharmaceutical companies that sell cancer drugs in excessively large vials that contain dramatically more medicine than the average patient needs.....
Durbin says when it comes to doses of cancer medicine, size matters in a costly way....
Durbin says some big pharmaceutical companies offer smaller sizes in key markets like Europe.