David Wainer
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Columnist @WSJ Heard on the Street @WSJheard
New York, NY
Joined January 2014
🧵On March 29, 2023, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia for doing his job. He remains in a Russian prison. We’re offering resources for those who want to show their support for him. #IStandWithEvan 🧵 https://t.co/ll83UMXlp5
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It has been six months since Evan was wrongfully imprisoned. Enough is enough. Evan did nothing wrong. Let him go. #IStandWithEvan
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Tomorrow, September 29, will mark six months since Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained by Russia. Join @WSJ and the broader Dow Jones community for a social storm at 10:30 a.m. ET to help keep Evan’s story front and center #IStandWithEvan
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On Friday, September 29, we will mark six months since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained by Russia and falsely accused of espionage. Dow Jones, The Wall Street...
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“As the politicians are going after them, ironically, PBMs are having a great year.” https://t.co/98bCMx1K55
@david_wainer
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Managed-care organizations have outperformed the broad market, and could have room to run.
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The highest grossing drug of all time, AbbVie's Humira, is now facing 8 biosimilars. But so far it's lost almost no market share largely thanks to AbbVie's strategy of "burning down the house so nobody else can have it." https://t.co/PeraD3AJ7U
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Quarterly revenue for blockbuster arthritis drug declines, largely because of discounts for middlemen.
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Earlier this month, the FDA gave its full approval to Leqembi, the first Alzheimer's drug that can slow the progression of the disease. Today, GE HealthCare discussed the expected growth in demand for its imaging business as a result of the new drug
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Biogen, Eli Lilly drugs will expand the imaging market for companies in the diagnostics space.
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The #FDA decision will help expand access to contraception. Back in May, I argued that there is an opportunity here to increase usage among the uninsured, who also happen to have higher rates of unwanted pregnancies. https://t.co/9sVfCjoKrg
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The approval significantly expands access to contraception among women across the U.S. Â
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America Is Wrapped in Miles of Toxic Lead Cables
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Telecom companies laid them decades ago and thousands were left behind, posing a hidden health hazard today, a WSJ investigation found.
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If BioMarin's gene therapy for hemophilia A is approved by Friday, it would be the third treatment in this revolutionary space to get the FDA nod in recent weeks. But getting patients to take its treatment will be an uphill battle. My latest $bmrn https://t.co/FfaFypoLgv
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The FDA approval of BioMarin’s gene therapy for hemophilia is a major win, but patient uptake could be slow.
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Negligence and misconduct at a federal jail in New York gave financier Jeffrey Epstein a perfect chance to kill himself, a government watchdog said https://t.co/ILddVI1fVk via @WSJ
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A pattern of negligence and misconduct by staff at a federal jail in New York gave the disgraced financier a perfect opportunity to kill himself in his cell in August 2019, the Justice Department’s...
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Sorry. Here is the right link : https://t.co/P0lovxCtdL
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Obesity treatments are currently limited to injections, but pills could expand the market and lower costs.
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Drug companies have barely rolled out new injections for obesity but orals are already the new frontier. Novo could be first but Lilly $LLY might have a manufacturing edge. Pfizer , meantime, just announced a setback
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David Wainer is a Heard on the Street columnist in New York for The Wall Street Journal, writing on Wall Street’s intersection with healthcare, food, travel and consumer trends. His coverage spans...
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In new audio messages posted to Telegram (allegedly) from Prigozhin he says “This is not a military coup, but a march for justice. Our actions do not interfere with the troops in any way”. This is getting more and more bizarre.
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Can someone tell me what's going on here? https://t.co/t1BU7HXjvO via @WSJ
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Yevgeny Prigozhin said his forces will stop their march on Moscow and return to their camps to avoid bloodshed, as the Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko announced a deal.
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Young children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy can now get the first gene therapy promising to treat the crippling and fatal muscle condition. But it is expected to cost millions of dollars
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The drug, from Sarepta Therapeutics, promises to repair the defective gene at the root of the fatal disorder, but is expected to cost millions of dollars.
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The biotech industry claims the title for the shadiest when it comes to insider trading. Execs Make Millions via Timely Trades of Competitors’ Stock — ProPublica
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Never-before-seen IRS records show that CEOs are sometimes making multimillion-dollar bets on the stocks of direct competitors and partners — and doing so with exquisite timing.
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Employers pay consulting firms to make sure middlemen aren't ripping them off. But some of those consulting firms are actually getting paid by the middlemen too, which one might say creates a bit of a conflict of interest... Great reporting @bobjherman
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A largely hidden flow of money between major consulting conglomerates and PBMs compromises the firms’ ability to choose prescription drug benefits for employers.
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.@WSJ scoop: JPMorgan reviewed its ties to Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 and found that he had regularly given business advice to onetime JPMorgan exec Jes Staley and invited him to meetings with senior officials in foreign governments. https://t.co/nlyuCJJ0Qp w/ @DaveCBenoit
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The report concluded in 2019 that Epstein regularly gave personal and business advice to Jes Staley and set up meetings with foreign government officials.
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Developers of Alzheimer’s drugs have work cut out for them getting the treatments to patients
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Developers of Alzheimer’s drugs have work cut out for them getting the treatments to patients.
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Updated Covid shots this fall should protect against the latest Omicron offshoots circulating in the U.S., advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said
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Updated Covid shots this fall should protect against the latest Omicron offshoots circulating in the U.S., advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said.
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