Sep 25 Watch 6:41 Why the Trump administration isn’t making much headway in lowering drug prices President Trump made reducing drug prices a focus of his campaign, and his administration has taken some steps to do so. But a recent analysis of more than 26,000 U.S. brand name prescription drugs found 96 price hikes for every… Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch 25:05 August 11, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Aug. 11, how pharmaceutical middlemen could impact how much you pay for prescription medication, and a look at Charlottesville, Virginia, one year after violence erupted there during a white supremacist rally. Also, should controlled burns… Continue watching
Apr 06 Drug companies paid $116 million to patient advocacy groups in 2015 alone, new data suggests By Emily Kopp, Sydney Lupkin, Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News The database, called Pre$cription for Power shows that donations to patient advocacy groups tallied for 2015 — the most recent full year in which documents required by the Internal Revenue Service were available — dwarfed the total amount the companies… Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch 25:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode February 11, 2018 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Feb. 11, the White House prepares to release a budget that will reportedly increase spending by nearly $300 billion over the next two years. Also, how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are dealing… Continue watching
Sep 12 WATCH: McCaskill leads roundtable on role of drug manufacturers in the opioid crisis By Laura Santhanam Watch the discussion about what factors have fed the opioid crisis live starting at 11 a.m. Continue reading
Jun 09 Column: Why Amazon shouldn’t get into the prescription drug business By C. Michael White The biggest online retailer’s entry into this market may lead to efficiency gains, but the cost would be dear in terms of further severing the link between patients and actual pharmacists. Continue reading
May 08 Watch 8:37 To improve patient diets, the doctor is in…the kitchen By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 02 Watch 7:53 Legal pot, gun control and other big ballot initiatives to watch By PBS News Hour There are more than 150 ballot initiatives this year at the state level, capable of creating huge change for voters. Nine states are voting on the legalization of recreational or medical marijuana. Other measures concern gun control, the minimum wage… Continue watching
Oct 15 What side effects? Most consumers don’t read drug risk information By Ed Silverman, STAT A new study comes amid ongoing concern that consumers do not read or have difficulty reading prescription drug risk information. Continue reading
Aug 30 Has overmedicating seniors become ‘America’s other drug problem’? By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News An increasing number of elderly patients nationwide are on multiple medications to treat chronic diseases, raising their chances of dangerous drug interactions and serious side effects. Often the drugs are prescribed by different specialists who don’t communicate with each other. Continue reading