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Here’s Why Pharmaceutical Companies Raise Their Prices So Much
A team out of the University of Pittsburgh tracked the costs of drugs between 2008 and 2016, and discovered some truly disturbing trends.
When An American Teenager Dies There’s a 1 in 5 Chance It Was From A Gunshot Wound
I just came across a terrifying statistic that will haunt me: a huge proportion of deaths among adolescents occur as a result of firearms.
Why Antibiotics May Do More Harm Than Good For People With Bacteriuria
It turns out, in many people with asymptomatic bacteriuria—people who have bacteria in their urine but no symptoms of a bladder or kidney infection—antibiotics can do more harm than good .
Why People With MS Need Permission from Insurers To Take Life-Saving Drugs. It’s Not The Reason You Think.
Insurance companies are increasingly requiring patients (or their physicians) to ask permission before the companies agree to pay for these critical medications.
Good News for Anyone Hoping to Avoid Dying of Cervical Cancer
More than 13,000 American women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2018. More than 4,000 died from the disease that year. Those are tragic facts for lots of reasons, chief among them being that cervical cancer is often preventable.
Why High Drug Prices Persist Despite The Fact Good Medicines Are Lowering Healthcare Spending
Healthcare spending is growing less than expected right now, largely because some excellent medicines are keeping people healthier than they otherwise would be (and thus reducing their need for more expensive medical care).
Buying Junk Food With Taxpayer Dollars: Whether Interventions to Encourage Healthy Purchasing Work
Currently, 1 in 7 Americans receive some kind of government assistance to pay for food. The largest program, SNAP – “supplemental nutrition assistance program” – subsidizes a wide range of food purchases. What would happen if people were only allowed t…
Buying Junk Food With Taxpayer Dollars: Whether Interventions to Encourage Healthy Purchasing Work
Currently, 1 in 7 Americans receive some kind of government assistance to pay for food. The largest program, SNAP – “supplemental nutrition assistance program” – subsidizes a wide range of food purchases. What would happen if people were only allowed t…
Buying Junk Food With Taxpayer Dollars: Whether Interventions to Encourage Healthy Purchasing Work
Currently, 1 in 7 Americans receive some kind of government assistance to pay for food. The largest program, SNAP – “supplemental nutrition assistance program” – subsidizes a wide range of food purchases. What would happen if people were only allowed t…
A Shameful American Fact: Enormous Racial Disparities In Death Rates From Lupus
That the chance of living a long life is often heavily influenced by socioeconomic disparities.
