Health Care

It May Sound Awful, but We Really Do Need to Pay for Human Organs

By Marc Joffe

With dialysis being so expensive, onerous and ultimately fatal, kidney patients and taxpayers would be better off with more donations.
Feds' Big Bust: $1.3 Billion Health Insurance Fraud Takedown

By Rob Garver

On the same day that Republican members of the Senate released a pair of bills aimed at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Justice highlighted a problem with the...
Where Do You Store Your Medical Info? Apple Wants It to Be Your iPhone

By Christina Farr, CNBC

Imagine turning to your iPhone for all your health and medical information — every doctor's visit, lab test result, prescription and other health information, all available in a snapshot on your...
How American Health Care Became a Big, Broken Business

By Yuval Rosenberg

Who’s to blame for the sad state of the American health care system in 2017? The short answer, as Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal details in her new book “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big...
Why You Should Think Twice Before Drinking That Can of Soda

By Barbara Moran

New research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain.

One Major Obamacare Insurance Company Is Close to Break Even This Year

By Eric Pianin

Despite high premiums and diminished consumer choices that might deter consumers from enrolling in Obamacare, a new financial analysis concludes that the individual health insurance market has shaken...
New Cancer Drugs Show Promise – and Sky-High Prices

By DEENA BEASLEY, Reuters

Newer cancer drugs that enlist the body's immune system are improving the odds of survival, but competition between them is not reining in prices that can now top $250,000 a year. The drugs' success...
The Billion Dollar Drug for Opioid Victims Has a Problem: It’s Addictive

By Andrew L Yarrow

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order earlier this month, declaring the state’s opioid addiction crisis a state of emergency, is yet another example of the state’s leadership in addressing a...
Pfizer Chief Says Government Efforts to Contain Drug Prices Will Backfire

By Eric Pianin

Ian C. Read, Pfizer’s hard-edged, Scottish-born CEO and chairman, has been unapologetic about his company’s dubious pricing practices. Last week, he gave no ground on the larger question about...
Trump’s Big Cuts to Medical Research May Not Get Past Congress

By Eric Pianin

NIH, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, cancer research, National Institutes of Health

Will Mylan’s $300 Generic EpiPen Packs Quell Pricing Firestorm?

By Eric Pianin

Drugmaker Mylan, the maker of the EpiPen auto-injection device vital in saving the lives of victims of extreme allergic reactions, caved under enormous political pressure on Monday and announced it...
Did Mylan Just Cut the Price of the EpiPen? Not Really

By Eric Pianin

Mylan pharmaceutical company is engaged in deep damage control in response to complaints by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, senior U.S. senators and tens of thousands of irate...
Two Big Reasons Prescription Drug Prices Are So Much Higher in the US

By Eric Pianin

It’s no secret that Americans have long spent far more on prescription drugs, on average, than consumers in most other industrialized countries. Per capita prescription drug spending in the United...
The Latest Sign That the Obamacare Exchanges Aren’t Working in Many Markets

By Eric Pianin

In the wake of Aetna’s recent announcement that it was pulling up stakes in 11 of 15 states where it had been selling insurance on Obamacare exchanges, there are more alarming signs that other major...
Epi-Pen Maker Enters the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Hall of Shame

By Eric Pianin

One of a parent’s worst nightmares is seeing a young child gasping for breath as a result of an allergic attack and being powerless to do anything about it. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) still recalls...

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