HIV Drug Maker Gilead Sciences Scores Two Wins - Minyanville

The stock is up more than 6% since last Tuesday. In studies, Gilead showed that Quad worked at least as well as the company’s top-selling Atripla and was as safe as that drug. There are concerns about Quad’s effect on kidneys, which would ...

FDA Weighs In On Gilead's Crucial Pill - Forbes

The Quad is a once-a-day pill that aims to provide Gilead with a revenue stream that will last beyond the patent expiration of its key drug Viread and its current one-a-day, Atripla. The Quad also represents a real threat to Merck‘s Isentress.

Health groups react to Illinois Medicaid deal - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

One HIV drug, Atripla, is among the top 10 drug expenses in Medicaid, costing about $18 million last year. Advocates at Chicago's Howard Brown Health Center say they'll work closely with Illinois Medicaid officials so HIV patient care won't be interrupted.

Bernie Sanders Offers Plan To Cut Prescription Drug Prices - Huffington Post

During the hearing, Sanders discussed one such drug, Atripla, which he said costs roughly $25,000 a year for a single patient in the U.S., where it is marketed jointly by Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Myers Squibb. In countries that allow generic ...

Sen. Sanders' Common Sense on HIV Drugs Would Save Money and Lives - Huffington Post

He noted that one widely used HIV medication, Atripla, which combines three different drugs in one pill, costs $25,000 a year in the U.S. But an FDA-approved generic version of the same pill costs a mere $200 in the developing world. Sanders has offered a ...

FDA Panel Endorses 'Quad' Pill for HIV - MedPage Today

If the FDA follows the advice of the panel and approves the quad drug, it would be the third single-pill, once-daily complete regimen for HIV, along with Atripla (efavirenz, emtricitabine, and tenofovir) and Complera (rilpivirine, emtricitabine ...

Bill Seeks to Reduce Cost of AIDS Drugs by Awarding Prizes Instead of Patents (Washn) - nola.com

"It simply blew me away — and would blow anyone's mind away — that one drug, Atripla, costs $25,000 per year" in the United States, Sanders said at the hearing of the subcommittee on primary health and aging. Generic versions of the same drug cost $200 ...

Four Ways to Make Medicine More Like Facebook - Forbes

Among the drugs launched since Facebook sprang out of Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room: Atripla, the first once-a-day single-pill HIV drug cocktail; Merck’s vaccine against strains of human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer ...

Gilead Drug Up for European Review - Analyst Blog - NASDAQ

We remain optimistic on the growth prospects of Gilead's HIV drugs Truvada and Atripla. We are also encouraged by the approval of Complera/Eviplera, which together with Quad, once approved, will further fortify the HIV franchise and help mitigate the ...