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(By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review) The American Pharmacists Association “has mixed views” on the executive order President Joe

Why We May Never Know Whether the $56,000-a-Year Alzheimer’s Drug Actually Works

(By Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News) The Food and Drug Administration’s approval in June of a drug purporting to

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) As physicians and health policy experts debate the merits of Aduhelm, the first

(By Bernard J. Wolfson for Kaiser Health News) A federal price transparency rule that took effect this year was supposed

(By Michael McAuliff for Kaiser Health News) The largest drug companies are far more interested in enriching themselves and investors

If you have about to turn age 65, you are receiving confusing literature on your Medicare choices. One choice you

(By Nick Moran for Becker’s Hospital Review) A coalition of payers and healthcare providers publicly voiced their support for a

(By Theresa Gaffney for STAT) Death rates are declining for more than half of the most common forms of cancer

(Source – blogs.va/gov) In 2015, VA launched the Technology-based Eye Care Services (TECS) program to bring specialty eye care services

(By Jane Greenhalgh and Rob Stein for NPR) The highly contagious delta variant now accounts for more than 51% of