Finally, the day has come when you can buy hearing aids at the drugstore, as well as Walmart and...
Drugs and technology
New Alzheimer’s drug shows promise at slowing cognitive...
Damien Garde and Adam Feuerstein report for Stat News on likely FDA approval of a new drug to treat...
For people with heart disease, polypills save lives
Heart disease is the number one killer. But, people who take their heart medicines are likely to...
Will Rx provisions in the IRA disappoint?
Michael Hiltzik writes for the Los Angeles Times about the prescription drug provisions in the...
One in seven diabetics struggle to pay for insulin
About nine percent of Americans–30 million people in the US–have diabetes. A new Yale...
What’s wrong with market innovations in health care?
Our government counts on market innovations in health care. It also allows companies to abandon...
Drug provisions in the reconciliation bill should lower your...
Last week, I laid out the Medicare prescription drug provisions in the reconciliation bill. They...
Reconciliation bill would reduce Medicare drug costs
The Democrats in Congress appear to be on the cusp of passing a more robust reconciliation package...
Coronavirus: Booster shots and Paxlovid
As much as we might wish for an end to the coronavirus, it continues to rear its ugly head...
New York sues CVS for depriving safety net hospitals of millions...
If you think that corporate health care, be it administered by UnitedHealth, Amazon or CVS, is...