CancerSEEK is a noninvasive test that can detect cancers of the ovary, liver, stomach, pancreas, esophagus, colorectum, lung, or breast
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The stories of these three children share one similarity: The U.S. health-care system has failed them in spectacular fashion even as it has put their parents under severe emotional and financial strain. All for the lack of home-care nurses
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Spark Prices Its Gene Therapy As Most Expensive US MedicineJanuary 4, 2018 |
But with plans to ease cost concerns. The first gene therapy in the U.S., approved last month to treat a rare, inherited form of blindness, now has a price tag: $850,000
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The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half
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Arthritis Drugs Show How U.S. Drug Prices Defy EconomicsDecember 22, 2017 |
Renda Bower knows well the cost of drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis – her husband, son and daughter all have the painful, disabling autoimmune disease. And the family’s finances revolve around paying for them
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When the government says a new drug is approved for sale, the first thing many companies do is announce what it will cost. Not Spark Therapeutics, though
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Report: Half of US Medical Care Delivered at Emergency RoomsOctober 18, 2017 |
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine were shocked to find that nearly half of all medical care in the United States is delivered at hospital emergency departments
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We May Soon Have our First $1m DrugOctober 13, 2017 |
Who will pay for it? And how?
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