Emerging Health Issues – Medicare Report

In oversight inquiry, key Democrat seeking 10 years’ worth of pricing, sales, research data from drug companies

(By Nicholas Florko for STAT) Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Maryland Democrat chairing the House Oversight Committee, put the pharmaceutical industry

According to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases

(By Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News) Last week, California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, promised to pursue a smörgåsbord of changes to

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) After three years of stability, the number of new drug shortages in the

(By Jonathan Lambert for NPR) Pain is a complicated experience. Our skin and muscles sense it, just like they sense

(By Rachel Bluth for Kaiser Health News) Scrolling through the GoFundMe website reveals seemingly an endless number of people who

(By Damian Garde for STAT) On paper, biotech had quite a year in 2018. Futuristic medicines demonstrated their worth in

(By Rob Stein for NPR) Three of the most influential scientific organizations in the world are calling for an urgent

(By Laurel Wamsley for NPR) Fentanyl is now the drug most frequently involved in overdose deaths in the U.S., according

The experts weigh in on what policies and possible trade-offs are there if we were to adopt certain policies to