Rising prescription drug costs are hitting many consumers hard – what are some potential solutions?
With helpful online resources and even a new mobile app, consumers can find ways to not let rising prescription drug costs take them down.
Number of FDA drug recalls shooting up; still ironing out exactly why
The number of FDA drug recalls is swelling year after year, but 2014 is on track to having the all-time record for medications removed from the market. The why’s of this are still conjecture – perhaps it’s linked to the fungal meningitis outbreak of 2012 – but the trend is pretty glaring… …Or so says Alexander Gaffney at the […]
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
This resourceful pharmacist built a software startup to help people shop for prescription meds
Pharmacist Michael Rea got his startup idea from one particular customer whose mother was paying so much for her prescriptions that she was considering selling her house or stopping some of her medications. Her fixed income just didn’t support paying for both. It was an aha moment for Rea – at the time a pharmacy […]
Medicare Part D research shows high prescription drug costs in Miami
Elderly Miami residents on Medicare filled more prescriptions for drugs in 2010 than seniors elsewhere in the country, and they were more than twice as likely as residents in Rochester, Minn., to fill at least one prescription for medications that have...