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Senate needs to focus on biosimilars

You can’t open a newspaper today without reading about the need for health care reform. Costs are skyrocketing, and people are demanding access to high quality care and new medicines. How can a system balance the need to reduce costs with the desire for new therapies? .
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Some of our local policymakers are looking to biologics as part of the answer. Biologics are medicines made from living cells that treat debilitating diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDs, Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Because the cutting-edge technology used to create biologics is far more complex than the process used to manufacture chemical-based drugs like aspirin, there is currently no regulatory pathway for approving “biosimilars,” or medicines that are similar to, but not the same as innovator biologics.Read Full Article

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