Drug restriction policies that discourage use of expensive, new medicines cut costs, but more study needs to be done to see how they affect patient health, researchers say.
How companies use FDA rules to force long-used, inexpensive drugs off the market.
And the discounts they offer may not be such a deal.
Coupons for brand-name drugs can cut your co-pay, but in the end could drive up health costs and premiums overall.
It used to work like this: Doctors decided what to prescribe. Drug companies…tried to influence doctors. Patients did what they were told.
More than half of drug-related deaths in King County last year involved the use of prescription opiate drugs that are most often prescribed for pain control, according to a new report.
Often the drugs are obtained without a prescription.
The annual report was put together by the Community Epidemiology Work Group. a collaboration of public health, drug [...]
How can you find out if a medication has been tested for safety in children?
What’s the right dose? Are over-the-counter medicines safe?
In this Q & A, Dr. Dianne Murphy, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, answers those and other questions you might have about giving a medication to a child.
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One out of every five prescriptions written today are to treat a condition for which the drug has not been approved.
Such “off-label” use of drugs is common because under the law doctors are given considerable freedom to use their clinical judgement when it comes to practicing medicine.
Still, taking a drug for a condition for which [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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