{"id":391768,"date":"2026-01-04T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/391768\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:50:12","slug":"prices-set-to-rise-on-350-medicines-this-year-with-inflation-as-major-cause-wsoc-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/391768\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices set to rise on 350 medicines this year, with inflation as major cause \u2013 WSOC TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">Prices for at least 350 medicines are set to hike this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">That includes COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, cancer drug Ibrance, and migraine pill Nurtec. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV 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 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">Drugmakers point to inflation for the hike. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV 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 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">VIDEO: Warehouse clubs surge in popularity as grocery prices rise<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/d1hfln2sfez66z.cloudfront.net\/12-26-2025\/t_2ccafb3809514a3c8e0b968b573156fc_name_HD_3__CLARK.jpeg\"  width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">Warehouse clubs surge in popularity as grocery prices rise <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV 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":391769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[35486,64,63,209660,209658,209655,209654,7167,166277,23816,55214,209656,137,85592,209657,322,611,490,44,209653,48125,446,209659],"class_list":["post-391768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-americans","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-berkeley_jensen","tag-bjs","tag-bjs_wholesale","tag-bjs_wholesale_club","tag-clark","tag-clark_howard","tag-clubs","tag-costco","tag-costcos","tag-health","tag-howard","tag-kirkland_signature","tag-local","tag-mark","tag-medication","tag-news","tag-sams_club","tag-sams","tag-video","tag-wellesley_farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}