{"id":216748,"date":"2026-01-04T19:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216748\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:54:13","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\/nz\/216748\/","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\/nz\/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":216749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6336,130854,130852,130849,130848,18788,86768,46326,10678,130850,134,93793,130851,440,32573,524,111,43,139,69,130855,86771,416,130853],"class_list":["post-216748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-americans","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-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sams","tag-sams_club","tag-video","tag-wellesley_farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}