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Sally Nix was furious when her health insurance company refused to pay for the infusions she needs to ease her chronic pain and fatigue.This post was originally published on this site

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that the evidence is inadequate for assessing the balance of benefits and harms of primary care interventions for preventing child maltreatment. These findings form the basis of […]

The Biden administration on Tuesday named the first 10 medicines that will be subject to price negotiations between Medicare and participating drug companies.This post was originally published on this site

Annie Jackson can’t know whether her sister Grena Prude might have survived had an ambulance been more readily available when she went into cardiac arrest on May 10. But Jackson is convinced her sister would […]

California doctors and state lawmakers are squaring off once again over the future of the Medical Board of California, which is responsible for licensing and disciplining doctors and has been criticized by patient advocates for […]

The more people take up private health insurance, the less pressure on the public hospital system, including shorter waiting lists for surgery. That’s one of the key messages we’ve been hearing from government and the […]

Pharmacies have long been considered a cornerstone of community health care, but they’re closing in record numbers across the country. A new study led by researchers at the University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family […]

Christian Glass was a geology geek, a painter and a young man beset by a mental health crisis when he called 911 for help getting his car unstuck in a Colorado mountain town last year.This […]

A new fund to fast-track patient access to potentially valuable new medicines may incentivize the pharmaceutical industry to develop high priced drugs for rare diseases with weak evidence on clinical benefits.This post was originally published […]