Judith Garber writes for the Lown Institute about the overmedication of isolated older adults...
Drugs and technology
Senate Dems’ budget package would improve Medicare
The Senate Democrats have a $3.5 trillion budget package that would improve and expand Medicare. It...
Biden steps in on drug prices
David Dayen reports in the American Prospect on new developments at the White House regarding...
Pharma spends more on stock buybacks than research
A new House Oversight Committee report finds that the biggest pharmaceutical companies spend more...
Medicare to decide when new Alzheimer’s drug is covered
As a rule, Medicare covers all federally approved treatments and medicines. But, there are always...
Medical device company gouges hospitals that use its surgical...
Intuitive Surgical, a medical device company, has profited handsomely from the sale of its surgical...
Government drug price-setting could save millions of lives and...
In an opinion piece for Stat, James Glassman, a former undersecretary of state for public...
Senator Wyden sets forth principles for drug price reform
Jonathan Cohn reports for The Huffington Post that Senate Finance Committee Chair, Ron Wyden, just...
Drug ads drive up drug spending
A new Government Accountability Office analysis suggests that pharmaceutical companies benefit...
Medicare stops covering costly brain-cancer drug
Kate Gibson reports for CBS Money Watch that Medicare is no longer covering a costly brain-cancer...