Gizmodo reports that Amazon may be gearing up to sell prescription drugs online. The mega-retailer...
Drugs and technology
Higher drug prices for rural hospitals keep them from providing...
Sarah Tribble reports for Kaiser Health News that particularly high drug prices for rural...
Will more generic drugs mean lower prices?
To drive meaningful competition in the health care marketplace and bring down drug prices, the Food...
New California law forces Pharma to justify price hikes
Kaiser Health News reports that last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a major drug...
Gene therapy can offer a cure, but at what price?
Pharmaceutical companies are coming up with cures for a range of diseases and disabilities...
Smart tattoos with biosensitive ink
A story in the Harvard Gazette reports that researchers at Harvard and MIT have come up with a...
Reining in drug costs remains public’s top priority
A new Harvard-Politico poll shows that reining in drug costs remains the public’s top...
How effective are the drugs Pharma promotes most heavily?
A new study by Joel Lexchin in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds that the...
How Pharma keeps generics off the market
Brand-name drug manufacturers appreciate the value of their patents, which give them virtually...
R and D costs do not justify high drug prices
Prescription drugs are increasingly unaffordable largely because Congress has effectively granted...