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drugs
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While heroin use grabs headlines, don’t forget coverage of prescription pain meds
Recent Associated Press coverage of opioid pain medications, combined with new government data, serve as a reminder that opioids continue…
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Tip sheet includes lessons about reporting on pregnancy exposures
In the past several decades, an explosion of research has looked more closely at how exposure to certain substances during…
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Senators push CMS on containing prescription drug costs
In an effort to help consumers get a better handle on drug prices, five U.S. senators — all Democrats —…
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ACA limits Medicare’s use of key value metric for drug prices
Health insurers are trying a wide variety of methods to link drug costs to the value medications deliver to patients.…
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Covering the growing, underreported problem of elder substance abuse [Updated Nov. 16]
[See update below.] What comes to mind when you think about a substance abuser? Is it this? Or this? What…
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ProPublica offers a state-by-state look at pregnancy and drug laws
There have been a lot of gripping tales of late highlighting the impact of the nation’s soaring heroin epidemic, especially…
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Reporting on hype, hope around treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
There seems to be no end of news reports about promising therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. With the…
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Report says generic drugs are a Wild West of pricing
New research finds that changing retail prices for generic drugs could hit some consumers hard, while others may benefit from…
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Eight-part series on hepatitis C finds unique moment in an epidemic
While working on a documentary about opioid addiction, Kristin Espeland Gourlay, the health care reporter for Rhode Island Public Radio, discovered…
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Here’s why specialty pharmaceuticals need value-based insurance design
This spring, Gilead Sciences Inc. introduced Solvaldi, a drug that could cure the liver virus that causes hepatitis C. The…