Sydney Lupkin

@slupkin

Correspondent at @NPRScience. Past: @KFFHealthNews, @VICENews, @MedPageToday, @ABC // DM for Signal

Washington, DC Joined February 2009

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Sydney Lupkin @slupkin Jul 25, 2022

Would you take a drug if it was still awaiting a confirmatory study to show it really worked?

What if I told you some #pharma companies take years to even START those studies? And make millions of dollars in the meantime.

My latest for @npr:
npr.org/sections/healt…

www.npr.org Drugmakers are slow to prove medicines that got a fast track to market really work Stalled confirmatory trials and lax enforcement plague the Food and Drug Administration's accelerated approval pathway for pharmaceuticals that target urgent medical needs.

Sydney Lupkin @slupkin Jul 24, 2024

@DCCirculator Any WP-AMs on the road at all? Been waiting for 30 mins and nothing has come.

Sydney Lupkin @slupkin Mar 26, 2024

Did you know the approval of mifepristone in 2000 was groundbreaking in the US but not a big deal for the rest of the world? They already had it.

Re-upping this abortion pill history piece with SCOTUS hearing oral arguments on mifepristone today. npr.org/sections/healt…

www.npr.org Here's what really happened during the abortion drug's approval 24 years ago Here's what really went down when the FDA originally approved mifepristone in 2000.

Sydney Lupkin @slupkin Mar 9, 2023

So that Walgreens contract @GavinNewsom is backing out of over the abortion pill? I found it.

Looks like it was worth $54 million OVER FIVE YEARS.

Seems more symbolic than punitive to a co with a $30 billion (with a b!) market cap. caleprocure.ca.gov/pages/LPASearc…

Sydney Lupkin @slupkin Mar 8, 2023

I wondered what they'd say after hearing @selenasd on @npratc last night!

I think this is the contract listing: caleprocure.ca.gov/PSRelay/ZZ_PO.…
Looks like it goes back to Dec. 2017. So $54 million OVER 5 YEARS? Not much to a company with a $30 billion (with a b) market cap.

Liz Kreutz @LizKreutzNews Mar 8, 2023

.@GavinNewsom’s office just released some details on what it means for California to break ties w Walgreens.

This says the state is not renewing a contract worth about $54m that allows CA to buy prescription drugs from Walgreens for use mostly by the department of corrections:

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