by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu | Jul 27, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday his agency will start taking steps to create a more open market for prescription drugs. The United States lacks “a real market for prescription drugs, ” Azar said in a speech at the...
by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu | Jul 19, 2018 | Business & Tech, Health
WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Wednesday blamed pharmaceutical companies for manipulating rebates to stymie competition, which blocks patients’ access to affordable copycat drugs and costs them billions in higher-cost...
by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu | Jul 13, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — A federal program that requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell discounted drugs to certain health care providers was intended to expand services and lower costs for low-income consumers. But federal investigators found some hospitals are keeping the...
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by Shelby Fleig | Jun 15, 2018 | Health
WASHINGTON – One hundred years after the “Spanish flu” killed more than 50 million people worldwide, another influenza pandemic still is the biggest threat to global health, public health experts told lawmakers Friday. “Influenza, or something like influenza, is what...
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by Shelby Fleig | May 25, 2018 | Health, Politics
WASHINGTON — A financial crisis at rural hospitals driven by inadequate government funding is hurting millions of Americans’ access to quality healthcare, experts told the Senate Committee on Finance on Thursday. Because rural communities have more senior...
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by Em Steck | May 4, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday said doctors are prescribing too many opioids, the same day that Justice Department indicted five doctors working at Pennsylvania opioid addiction treatment centers for health care fraud. The doctors were...
