Three costly rheumatoid arthritis drugs lead the pack in drug spending, the new analysis shows.
It's important to take prescription medication correctly, especially if you're on several drugs. Try these senior health tips to avoid medication side effects.
Insurers and employers are looking to stem the rising costs of expensive specialty drugs. One approach is to vary the copayment depending on the health value they calculate the drugs provide.
Drug companies do not want to pay for retrieving and disposing unused prescription medicines.
Competition and discounts are going a long way toward resolving the problem of expensive hepatitis C drugs.
CVS Health will exclude 31 more prescription medicines from insurance coverage next year, including Viagra and treatments for diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
It's been tough to identify the problems that only turn up after medicines are on the market. An experimental project is now combing through data to get earlier, more accurate warnings.
A new study shows even older drugs are seeing big hikes.
If ads for prescription drugs included their price, would consumers and doctors ignore important information about safety and effectiveness?
DMMDs represent a valuable novel treatment for migraine, which may potentially change the treatment paradigm for it.
Medicare has spent more on brand-name medications in recent years even as the program’s beneficiaries filled few
OTC drugs in China are becoming more and more popular. Read this article to understand how to sell them and which platform to use.
Pill bottle image via Shutterstock???, sometimes transliterated as "Rx," is an abbreviation of the Latin recipe, the command form of recipere, "to take.” Back in the days when most everyone in Europe used Latin, a doctor’s orders usually began with ? as an instruction to take specific ingredients and combine them to make a medicine for a patient. Pharmacists later put the symbol on medicine containers…
Prescription drug abuse may occur the moment a script is written. ProPublica analyzed Medicare Part D trends and created a database that reveals questionable prescribing patterns of some doctors.
Katherine Eban warns that not all generic drugs are made with the standards.
I filled a prescription recently, and the drugstore said they wanted more than 700 bucks… for an old-line generic drug. My insurance ended up knocking that down, but it was WEIRD. And it mea…
Medication waste may be more likely among patients who use mail-order pharmacies, rather than retail pharmacies.
The most common medicines tainting these products were usually ones that doctors prescribe for weight loss, for muscle building or to boost a man’s sex drive.