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This wasn’t your typical discussion about social determinants of health. Here’s why.

Nearly 20% of prescription drugs are not only cost-effective, but they are cost-saving. That is, drug expenditures are offset by lower costs in other healthcare sectors, such as hospital and physician services.

Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Stefano Pessina said partnerships remain the most cost-effective way for the global drugstore chain to remain competitive and grow in the future.

UnitedHealth Group’s fast-growing Optum healthcare services unit is rolling out what it hopes will be a seamless “city-by-city” effort to make medical care more seamless to patients, Andrew Witty said at the 2019 Forbes Healthcare Summit.

Can new insights into the immune systems of the world’s oldest people open the door to better therapeutics to ward off cancer and deadly infections? Recent research suggests it’s possible, raising excitement and new questions .

With ear infections being the most common reason for a child to visit a doctor, ear tube surgery is the most common surgery performed in children.

At present, the average U.S. adult watches almost six hours of TV and video per day. That’s around 30% of the day. Despite decades of predictions that the Internet would usurp TV viewership, it’s actually continued to increase. And as we enter the holi…

Every year, our team of futurists, analysts, and consultants at Frost & Sullivan’s Transformational Healthcare Group comes together to brainstorm and predict the themes, technologies, and global forces that will define the next 12 to 18 months for the …

Brazilian pharmaceutical regulator Anvisa approved regulations yesterday for the roll-out of medicinal cannabis-based products.