Free StThere’s a new kind of health care facility popping up around the country. They’re called free-standing emergency rooms and are meant for people who need medical attention right away.
Driving near Monterey, Calif., recently, I stopped at a roadside stand to buy some freshly-picked strawberries. May is high season for California strawberries, and the fields were exploding with beautiful,
Medicare spends billions of dollars each year on prescription drugs. That’s not surprising. What might be surprising, though, is how much the federal healthcare program spends per patient on some
She drew the life-saving medication into the syringe, just 10cc of colorless fluid for the everyday low price of, gulp, several hundred dollars. Was that a new chemotherapy, specially designed
A full 89% of healthcare organizations and 60% of their business associates have experienced data breaches over the past two years. And 79% of healthcare organizations experienced multiple data breaches
New legislation increases the speed of the FDA approval process for generics by introducing fees for applying manufacturers. This is not a new approach manufacturers have been paying application
When you get sick, you shouldnt have to decide between medical care and rent. Medical costs are already unreasonable for 25 percent of Americans, and are getting worse every year.
The nation could have saved an estimated $73 billion from 2010 to 2012 if clinicians had more frequently prescribed alternatives to brand-name drugs, a JAMA Internal Medicine study finds. The
Why does a knee replacement cost $29,000 in Kansas but $40,000 in next-door Colorado? Health care prices are all over the map in the U.S., a new study finds. It
Many health-insurance premiums rose again this year, sometimes by double digits. A lot of the increases were accompanied by higher deductibles as well. Insurers say the increases are justified because
