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In an effort to help consumers get a better handle on drug prices, five U.S. senators — all Democrats —…
Health insurers are trying a wide variety of methods to link drug costs to the value medications deliver to patients.…
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[See update below.] What comes to mind when you think about a substance abuser? Is it this? Or this? What…
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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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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New research finds that changing retail prices for generic drugs could hit some consumers hard, while others may benefit from…
While working on a documentary about opioid addiction, Kristin Espeland Gourlay, the health care reporter for Rhode Island Public Radio, discovered…
This spring, Gilead Sciences Inc. introduced Solvaldi, a drug that could cure the liver virus that causes hepatitis C. The…
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When The Cincinnati Enquirer set out to look at the societal costs of the deadly opioid crisis, reporter Lisa Bernard-Kuhn…
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ProPublica’s Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Jennifer LaFleur, in an analysis of Medicare prescription records, found that “some doctors and…