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Virginia’s Drug Pricing Plan
15+ hour, 4+ min ago (357+ words) Virginia lawmakers are considering a plan to take federally "negotiated" Medicare drug prices and apply them more broadly across the state's healthcare system. On the surface, it's pitched as a way to make medicines more affordable. But here's the reality:…...
Disease Unseen and Women Unheard…Until Now
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (322+ words) These "invisible illnesses" (difficult to diagnose by sight alone)afflict millions of Americans annually, with women accounting fornearly 80%ofautoimmunediagnoses. And for too many women, while their diseases went unseen by doctors and medical professionals, their cries for help went unheard,…...
Cheaper Medicines Exist
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (1642+ words) Many cutting-edge medicines come with sky-high price tags, leaving patients struggling to afford them. Biosimilars were introduced to help fix this problem. Think of them as the "generic" versions of complex biological medicines. They provide the same life-saving benefits at…...
GOP Can Deliver Affordable Healthcare Americans Demand
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (31+ words) GOP Can Deliver Affordable Healthcare Americans Demand'RealClearHealth GOP Can Deliver Affordable Healthcare Americans Demand Two-thirds of Americans worry about being able to afford healthcare, according to a recent KFF poll....
Healthcare Fraud Costing Hundreds of Billions
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (12+ words) Healthcare Fraud Costing Hundreds of Billions'RealClearHealth Healthcare Fraud Costing Hundreds of Billions...
Medical Schools Fill RFK Jr.’s Nutrition Prescription
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (16+ words) Medical Schools Fill RFK Jr.s Nutrition Prescription'RealClearHealth Medical Schools Fill RFK Jr.s Nutrition Prescription...
Runaway Healthcare Costs Are Stretching Families
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (12+ words) Runaway Healthcare Costs Are Stretching Families'RealClearHealth Runaway Healthcare Costs Are Stretching Families...
A Persistent Patient’s Story
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (367+ words) The news that the Galleri blood test " which can detect DNA of more than 50 different types of cancer in the blood stream before symptoms otherwise appear "failed to show a 20% reduction in stage 3 and 4 cancer diagnosesamong 140,000 Britons over 3 years, crushed…...
Fund The Patient’s New Health Care Survey
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (902+ words) Fund the Patient, Not the System If there is one lesson Washington should take from the latest national health care survey, it is this: Americans are tired of a system that spends trillions of dollars every year yet still leaves…...
Remodeling Grief: The Most Crucial Dimension
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (465+ words) My interactions with Pat Furlong, mother of two Duchenne boys and Founding President and CEO of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), are generally clinical. What are the newest trends in science? What are the promising pharmaceutical development programs? What's going…...