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Insurer To Purdue Pharma: We Won’t Pay For OxyContin Anymore

(By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio in partnership that includes, NPR and Kaiser Health News) The largest insurer in Tennessee

(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News) Facing incurable breast cancer at age 55, MaryAnne DiCanto put her faith in

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Nostrum Laboratories, a Missouri-based drugmaker, raised the price of a generic antibiotic

(By Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia and Doug Pardue for Kaiser Health News) Perhaps no other population is as vulnerable

(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review ) The American Hospital Association and six other health organizations have sued HHS

(By Lev Facher for ST A T) WASHINGTON — The Senate will vote this week on a bill to prevent

(By Mara Gordon for NPR) Members of the generation that came of age in the era of marijuana are reaching

(By Megan Knowles for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Lumberton, N.C.-based Southeastern Regional Medical Center, a 452-bed hospital in a rural

(By Megan Knowles for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Forty-four million people, or 13 percent of Americans, live in a county

What role do doctors play in the opioid crisis? A new research finds nearly 30 percent of all opioids prescribed