Trump Administration’s attempt to eliminate rebates in the US Medicare outpatient drug benefit program is the easiest and most certain item among the 11th hour pricing policy changes for the incoming Biden Administration to undo. But it still had a major impact on the dynamics of the drug pricing debate.

The intensely negative advisory committee for Biogen’s proposed Alzheimer’s therapy was a shocker. Would it have happened if US FDA had been able to convene an in-person event instead of a ‘virtual’ one?

Multiple simultaneous sponsors, foreshortened regulatory reviews, and a packet of unanswered post-approval efficacy issues make for what should be very competitive – and inherently comparative – post-market assessment period for the upcoming SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.