Medications
To get around pharmacy gag rules, ask about drug costs
"Do you have prescription insurance?"
Jun 6, 2018
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Medications
Price competition for generic drugs linked to increase in manufacturing-related recalls
Researchers from three universities have found that extreme price competition in the generic pharmaceutical market—designed to make medications more affordable—may be putting more patients at serious health risk, as evidenced ...
May 30, 2018
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Medications
No, raising drug prices in Canada will not help the U.S.
Donald Trump's solution to soaring American drug prices is to have other countries, such as Canada, raise their prices. This is not a new position; American officials have been advocating this approach for at least the past ...
May 18, 2018
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Medications
Could nonprofit drug companies cut sky-high prices?
(HealthDay)—Generic prescription drugs should be cheap, but prices for some have soared in the United States in recent years. Now a group of U.S. hospitals thinks it has a solution: a nonprofit drug maker.
May 17, 2018
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Medications
Trump unveils plan to reduce US pharmaceutical prices
President Donald Trump outlined plans Friday to reduce soaring US prescription drug prices, among the highest in the world, but opposition Democrats accused him of falling short of his election campaign promises.
May 12, 2018
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Medications
Generic options provide limited savings for expensive drugs
Generic drug options did not reduce prices paid for the cancer therapy imatinib (Gleevec), according to a Health Affairs study released today in its May issue.
May 7, 2018
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Cardiology
Outcomes-based pricing doesn't cut costs of PCSK9 inhibitors
(HealthDay)—Outcomes-based pricing does not reduce the costs of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors, according to a research letter published online April 3 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Apr 3, 2018
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Medications
Drug makers engage in 'co-opetition' through drug middlemen
Prescription drug consumers confounded by the cost of their medications can get a peek behind the curtain thanks to new Washington University in St. Louis research into the complex "co-opetition"—cooperation and competition—among ...
Mar 30, 2018
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Medications
Hospitals hit back on drug pricing, but will they knock out the problem?
Drug manufacturing and pricing vaulted into the news several years ago when a privately held company raised the price of a drug used for infections from US$13.50 to $750 for one pill.
Mar 28, 2018
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Health
Spending more on health care? Here's why
(HealthDay)—Americans spent more on health care in 2016, even though their use of health care did not increase, and rising costs are the reason why, a new report shows.
Jan 23, 2018
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