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STATEMENT: AstraZeneca Files Notice To Appeal Judge’s Ruling, Doubling Down On Effort To Block Medicare Negotiation

Patients For Affordable Drugs Responds to AstraZeneca’s Plan to Challenge March 1, 2024 Decision on Its Lawsuit to Stop Medicare Negotiation Program WASHINGTON D.C. — The ongoing legal assault on Medicare negotiation continues as AstraZeneca has filed a notice to appeal a federal judge’s ruling against the company’s lawsuit to overturn the program. AstraZeneca’s blockbuster drug, […]

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STATEMENT: Patients Claim Victory As Fourth Judge Rejects Drug Companies’ Lawsuits To Block Medicare Negotiation

Federal Court Rejects Big Pharma’s “Strongest Arguments” Challenging Constitutionality of Medicare Negotiation Program, Marking Another Win For Patients WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dealing a major blow to Big Pharma’s efforts to block Medicare from negotiating drug prices, a federal district court in New Jersey has ruled against constitutional challenges brought by pharmaceutical giants Bristol Myers Squibb […]

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Patients For Affordable Drugs Launches New Website Aimed At Defending Medicare Negotiation

Patients For Affordable Drugs has launched our new campaign tool: FightPharma.org. This website will serve as a dedicated platform for our ongoing campaign US vs. Pharma; Fighting to Protect Medicare Negotiation, aimed at leveraging patient stories, including via Amicus Briefs, to counter Big Pharma’s legal efforts to stop the implementation of Medicare negotiation. By amplifying […]

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STATEMENT: Patients For Affordable Drugs’ Statement On Oral Arguments In Four Lawsuits Against Medicare Drug Price Negotiation

Patients For Affordable Drugs Continues to Fight Against Big Pharma’s Attempts to Undermine Medicare Drug Price Negotiation As Some Of The Largest Drug Companies Have Their Day In Court   WASHINGTON, D.C. —  Oral arguments were presented today in four cases brought by Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Novartis, and Novo Nordisk […]

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STATEMENT: Judge Rejects Another Drug Company Lawsuit Aimed At Blocking Medicare Negotiation

Patients For Affordable Drugs Responds to Judge’s Ruling Against AstraZeneca in The Pharmaceutical Corporation’s Lawsuit Against Medicare Drug Price Negotiation   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today marked a significant moment in the ongoing fight to lower prescription drug prices as a federal judge in Delaware issued a sweeping ruling against AstraZeneca in a case brought by […]

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Patients For Affordable Drugs Statement On Oral Arguments In AstraZeneca Lawsuit Against Medicare Drug Price Negotiation

Patients For Affordable Drugs Continues Fight Against Big Pharma’s Attempts To Undermine Medicare Drug Price Negotiation In Landmark Case: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP et al. v. Becerra et al.   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today marked an important moment in the battle for affordable prescription drugs as oral arguments were presented in the case of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP […]

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STATEMENT: P4AD Congratulates Karikó And Weissman For Nobel Prize And Salutes The NIH For Funding The Research That Made It Possible

Moderna, BioNTech And Pfizer Took Interest Only After The Key Discovery Funded By U.S. Taxpayers Through NIH Patients And All Americans Should Be Getting A Better Deal On Vaccines They Paid To Make Possible    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement was issued by David Mitchell, a cancer patient and founder of Patients For Affordable Drugs […]

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Report Update Reveals Drug Industry Funding And Control Of Groups Purporting To Represent Patients

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report update of P4AD’s research into drug industry influence – Hiding In Plain Sight – documents the structure and conduct of three organizations that have garnered increased attention recently purporting to represent the interests of patients, but which in reality serve the interests of those who profit from prescription drugs. […]