August 8, 20170Comments

Florida Law Will Let Patients Get All Their Drug Renewals At The Same Time

By Michelle Andrews For People who take multiple medications to manage chronic conditions, traipsing back and forth from the pharmacy to pick up pills can make it harder to stick to

July 27, 20170Comments

IAS 2017:Antiretroviral Therapy – ART: Season Two

On Tuesday July 25th one of the oral poster presentations at IAS 2017 was Antiretroviral Therapy - ART: Season Two Five presentations were presented: 1. Darunavir/Cobicistat/Entricitabine/TAF The First Once Daily STR

July 15, 20170Comments

Senate Health Bill Still Short On ‘Yays’ But Leaders Vow Vote Next Week

By Julie Rovner July 13, 2017 Senate Republican leaders Thursday released their revised bill to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, but they acknowledged that furious days of negotiation have not

July 13, 20170Comments

Whichever Way ‘Repeal and Replace’ Blows, Pharma Is Due For Windfall

By Emily Kopp California Healthline The pharmaceutical industry could see windfall profits from a little-noticed tweak to the insurance market tucked into the Trump administration’s draft executive order on drug prices,

July 8, 20170Comments

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Built Name Fighting HIV And Opioids In Indiana

By Emily Forman, Side Effects Public Media July 7, 2017 Several weeks before President Donald Trump nominated Indiana’s state health commissioner Jerome Adams to be the next U.S. surgeon general, Adams toured

July 7, 20170Comments

New On The Streets: Drug For Nerve Pain Boosts High For Opioid Abusers

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez July 6, 2017 ATHENS, Ohio — On April 5, Ciera Smith sat in a car parked on the gravel driveway of the Rural Women’s Recovery Program here with

March 24, 20170Comments

First HIV Drug Approved By FDA Turns 30

This past week, March 19th to be exact was the 30th anniversary of the day when FDA approved AZT (Zidovudine) brand name Retrovir, the first drug to treat HIV/AIDS. This was

March 9, 20170Comments

To Save On Drug Costs, Insurer Wants To Steer You To ‘Preferred’ Pharmacies

By Pauline Bartolone March 9, 2017 One of California’s largest insurers has proposed a change in the benefits of commercial plans next year that would require consumers to pay more for drugs

March 9, 20170Comments

Trump, Dems Look For Common Ground On Drug Prices

By Sarah Jane Tribble For years, congressional Democrats have tried to pass legislation to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices for millions of beneficiaries. Now, they believe they have a not-so-secret

March 2, 20170Comments

State Fires Contractor After Problems Put California HIV Patients At Risk

By Anna Gorman March 2, 2017 California’s public health department Wednesday fired the contractor responsible for enrolling patients in a state-run AIDS program, saying its poor performance threatened enrollees’ access to

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