{"id":674622,"date":"2026-01-05T03:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674622\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T03:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:42:17","slug":"prices-set-to-rise-on-350-medicines-this-year-with-inflation-as-major-cause-kiro-7-news-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674622\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices set to rise on 350 medicines this year, with inflation as major cause \u2013 KIRO 7 News Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Prices for at least 350 medicines are set to hike this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">That includes COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, cancer drug Ibrance, and migraine pill Nurtec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">CNN reports the increase is up from 250 last year, but the median is around 4% which is in line with 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Drugmakers point to inflation for the hike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">CNN also reports that drugmakers do plan to cut prices on around nine drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prices for at least 350 medicines are set to hike this year. That includes COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, cancer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,4326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-674622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115840427256347425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}