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AMCP Endorses Bipartisan Follow-On Biologics Legislation
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) has endorsed bipartisan legislation that would create a regulatory pathway for the approval of follow-on biologics and allow competition on brand-name biologics after five years of marketing exclusivity instead of the pharmaceutical industry"s preferred 14-year window.
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Ad Wars Over Health Care Overhaul Heat Up
"The ad wars over the health care campaign are heating up once [again] this week," The New York Times reports. At a speech on Monday, Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, released a party television ad "which its spokeswoman says will first be broadcast in Arkansas, North Dakota and Nevada." The ad "opens with a tiny infant, and spools out with a narrator"s voice saying: "They"ve loaned Barack Obama their future, without even knowing it. Trillions for rushed government bailouts and takeovers, banks, the auto industry." And then it continues, as children appear on the screen: "The biggest spending spree in our nation"s in history. And they"ll have to pay. The next big ticket item? A risky experiment with our health care. Barack Obama"s massive spending experiment hasn"t healed our economy. His new experiment risks their future and our health.""
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Researchers To Inject People With Diabetes With Cells From Pigs

Researchers are hoping that cells from pigs from a remote group of islands 300 miles from New Zealand could lead to a new treatment for Type 1 diabetes. Some of the pigs have been moved from the islands to mainland New Zealand, where they are being kept in fully enclosed sterile housing. The scientists are trialling the cell transplantation technique on a small group of people with unstable Type 1 diabetes in the hope of stimulating insulin production in their pancreases. Professor Bob Elliott who is running the trial has undertaken two similar studies in the past, one in 1995 and one in 2007. He says one volunteer from the first study continued producing insulin 12 years after transplantation - "proof of principle that this can work," he claims. Dr Iain Frame, Research Director at Diabetes UK, said: "Research into pig cell transplantation has been going on for several years, and is an exciting area of investigation. "However, two previous trials in 1995 and 2007 used only 15 volunteers and this small study will be carried out in just eight people in the first instance. It really is far too early to assume that this research will produce a real and lasting benefit to people with Type 1 diabetes in the near future. We will, however, be watching the progress of this area of research with great interest." Diabetes UK


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