{"id":130,"date":"2018-02-25T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/?p=130"},"modified":"2018-09-21T22:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:14:39","slug":"healthcare-news-fda-approves-mercks-hepatitis-c-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/healthcare-news-fda-approves-mercks-hepatitis-c-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare News &#8211; FDA Approves Merck&#8217;s Hepatitis C Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/01\/29\/fda-approves-mercks-new-hepatitis-c-pill.html\">FOX News<\/a>, the FDA just approved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merck.com\/index.html\">Merck<\/a> &amp; Company&#8217;s\u00a0once-daily treatment for the liver destroying hepatitis C virus. The drug is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merck.com\/index.html\">Zepatier<\/a> and it comes two years after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilead.com\/\">Gilead Sciences<\/a>&#8216; ground breaking hep C drug\u00a0Sovaldi.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Columnist of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/13440730\/1\/merck-takes-on-gilead-with-sharply-lower-hepatitis-c-drug-price.html\">thestreet.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/author\/1352996\/AdamFeuerstein\/all.html\">Adam Feuerstein<\/a> speculates this introduction of Zepatier to the market could produce a price war since Merck&#8217;s drug is much lower than the ones offered by Gilead (Sovaldi and Harvoni) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbvie.com\/\">Abbvie<\/a>\u00a0 (Viekira Pak and Technivie) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bms.com\/pages\/default.aspx\">Bristol-Myers Squibb<\/a>\u00a0(Daklinza).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I can tell you is that while we believe our list price is in the range of current net pricing in this market, we plan to be competitive in all segments of the market,&#8221; said Merck spokesperson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercknewsroom.com\/media-contacts\">Pamela Eisele<\/a> in a quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/13440730\/1\/merck-takes-on-gilead-with-sharply-lower-hepatitis-c-drug-price.html\">Feuerstein<\/a>&#8216;s article.<\/p>\n<p>Competitive prices means lowered drug costs, which will sound good to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njprinting.com\">New Print Shop<\/a> customers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to FOX News, the FDA just approved Merck &amp; Company&#8217;s\u00a0once-daily treatment for the liver destroying hepatitis C virus. The drug is called Zepatier and it comes two years after Gilead Sciences&#8216; ground breaking hep C drug\u00a0Sovaldi. Senior Columnist of\u00a0thestreet.com, Adam Feuerstein speculates this introduction of Zepatier to the market could produce a price war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/njprinting.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}