Opioid Maker Funds Efforts To Fight Addiction: Is It ‘Blood Money’ Or Charity?
(By Jenny Gold for Kaiser Health News) A program to give naloxone overdose-antidote kits and training to front-line officers. Funding
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Part D/Prescription Drugs
Amid efforts to expand naloxone access, a controversial new study questions its value
(By Lev Facher for ST A T) WASHINGTON — Amid a worsening opioid epidemic, the overdose-reversal drug naloxone has taken
Read MoreFlu vaccine grown without eggs provided measurably better protection this season, FDA says
(By Helen Branswell for ST A T) The sole influenza vaccine made in cell culture in the United States may
Read MoreKentucky AG files fourth opioid crisis lawsuit
(By Brian Zimmerman for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Kentucky’s Attorney General on March 8 filed a lawsuit against AmerisourceBergen, alleging
Read MoreCigna to buy Express Scripts for $67B: 5 things to know
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Cigna signed a definitive agreement to acquire Express Scripts for $67 billion
Read MoreOf ‘Miracles’ And Money: Why Hemophilia Drugs Are So Expensive
(By Jenny Gold for Kaiser Health News) YUBA CITY, Calif. — When Landon Morris was diagnosed with hemophilia shortly after
Read MoreGottlieb condemns ‘rigged payment scheme’ for biosimilar drugs
(By Ike Swetlitz for ST A T) WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said that it’s not
Read MoreJury’s In: Opioids Are Not Better Than Other Medicines For Chronic Pain
(By Alex Smith, KCUR for Kaiser Health News) A few years ago, Renea Molden’s doctors told her they wanted to
Read MoreProposed federal limits to opioid prescriptions draw opposition from physicians and patients
(By Lev Facher for ST A T) WASHINGTON — In the final hours of public input on a controversial new
Read MoreStates Strive To Curb Costs For A Crucial — But Exorbitant — Hemophilia Treatment
(By Barbara Feder Ostrov for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News) The child is well-known in the halls where
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