The $6 Million Drug ClaimAugust 26, 2019 |
New treatments for rare diseases are changing the lives of patients, but the price can reach millions of dollars for a single person
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A watchdog group sets aside emotions to assess drugs’ value. Patients say their lives are more than a number
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The Birth-Tissue ProfiteersMay 7, 2019 |
How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry
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The Latest Instagram Influencer Frontier? Medical PromotionsFebruary 15, 2019 |
Big pharma is partnering with influencers to sell new drugs and medical devices
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What Would Happen If Hospitals Openly Shared Their Prices?January 30, 2019 |
Imagine there was a store where there were no prices on items, and you never knew what you’d pay until you’d picked out your purchases and were leaving the shop. You might be skeptical that the store would have any incentive to offer reasonable prices
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Left untreated, this viral disease can cause serious and costly health problems. Once a difficult-to-treat infection, chronic hepatitis C can now be cured by taking a regimen of daily pills for eight to 12 weeks that act directly against the virus. But there’s a hitch: This cure costs $25,000 or more per person
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The Case for Expensive AntibioticsSeptember 20, 2018 |
A HANDFUL OF years ago, a small pharmaceutical company quietly acquired the rights to an old but commonly used antibiotic. Few noticed until last week, when the new owner did something that’s recently become common in the world of pharmaceuticals: It abruptly raised the price. A lot
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A 60-year-old antifungal drug called flucytosine that should cost a few dollars a day but is now vastly more expensive than that
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