AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoDrug Pricing: India has capped trade margins on non-scheduled cancer medicines at 30% of retail price, a move expected to cut some prices by up to 70%. The Supreme Court also told the government to form a panel on pharmaceutical freebies to doctors and unethical marketing. Prescribing Practices: A Cochrane review of more than 93 studies found that industry payments, gifts and sales visits are linked to doctors prescribing promoted drugs more often, including potentially inappropriate treatments. New Treatments: The FDA granted fast track status to VIR-5500, an experimental therapy for advanced prostate cancer. A trial of a daily GLP-1 pill for type 2 diabetes reported HbA1c reductions of up to 1.6%. Care and Coverage: Doctors and radiologists are pushing back against a proposed change to the No Surprises Act, warning that replacing independent payment arbitration with median in-network rates could weaken safeguards against low insurer payments. Clinical Guidance: New UTI guidelines emphasize infection severity when choosing initial antibiotics, while noting that local resistance data may not reflect risk for every patient.
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