Kate Gibson reports for CBS Money Watch that Medicare is no longer covering a costly brain-cancer...
Drugs and technology
Retail prices for brand name drugs rise at more than twice rate...
Leigh Purvis and Dr. Stephen W. Schondelmeyer’s 2021 Rx Price Watch report finds that retail...
Will Congressional Democrats agree on a way to lower drug prices?
The Wall Street Journal reports that Congressional Democrats are trying to find a path to lowering...
New Alzheimer’s drug has questionable benefits and costs a...
In the “not so surprising” department, Axios reports that the FDA has just approved a...
Coronavirus: Pfizer puts profits ahead of public health
What would a corporate COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer do in the face of a pandemic? You guessed it:...
Biden administration aims to stop Pharma from preventing drug...
ABCNews.com reports on a Biden administration effort to ensure states can legally import drugs from...
Learning from Covid-19: Public Funding of Drug Development
This post was originally published on the newly launched Health Justice Monitor. The covid-19...
Coronavirus: Antibody test won’t always show whether the...
The COVID-19 vaccine is helping tens of millions of people, but it does not always offer protection...
AbbVie gets a scolding from Congress but can keep raising prices
Richard Gonzalez, AbbVie’s CEO, has been hard at work raising the price of its best-selling...
Warning: Some cell phones can cause implanted medical devices to...
If you are among the millions of Americans with a pacemaker or defibrillator, you’d best keep...