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Medical devices pushing private health expenses
19 November 2019 - Reforms to the cost of medical devices have failed to deliver a promised $250m in savings ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Nov 2019
Private health premiums tipped to soar as more young people drop cover
19 November 2019 - Health Minister Greg Hunt's effort to slow the increase in the cost of health insurance has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Nov 2019
13% of Americans say they know someone who died after they couldn't afford health care, survey says
12 November 2019 - More than 13% of Americans -- about 34 million people -- say a friend or family ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Nov 2019
Paying £500 million more a week for drugs post-Brexit is based on a fairly extreme scenario
7 November 2019 - The UK could pay £500 million more per week for drugs following a post-Brexit trade deal with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Nov 2019
The U.S. insulin crisis — rationing a lifesaving medication discovered in the 1920s
7 November 2019 - The members of the team that discovered insulin sold the patent to the University of Toronto for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2019
Innovation and access at the mercy of payment policy: the future of chimeric antigen receptor therapies
1 November 2019 - In 2017, the US FDA approved the first chimeric antigen receptor therapies (CAR-Ts), tisagenlecleucel and axicabtagene ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2019
Corbyn accuses Tories of planning deal to hike drug prices with Trump as election looms
5 November 2019 - Drug prices have become an issue in the UK’s general election, after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2019
One shot drug to end Sicilian curse comes at $1.8 million cost
5 November 2019 - A new targeted gene therapy shows the promise and pitfalls of medical advances. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Nov 2019
Innovative drugs save lives only if people can afford them
2 November 2019 - Under a new bill, a handful of new drugs might never get produced. That would be worth ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Nov 2019
Tama is deteriorating fast. But the drug that can help him is too expensive.
31 October 2019 - Tama Hubbard has good days and bad days, just like any other 3-year-old child. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2019
Health insurance: how much will you pay to boost specialists' incomes?
30 October 2019 - I think I could probably get to the end of the year just writing once a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Oct 2019
Making life-saving medical treatments more affordable
25 October 2019 - Recent years have brought significant innovation in potentially curative therapies for several diseases. To expedite patient ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Oct 2019
The price of insulin has soared. These biohackers have a plan to fix it.
24 October 2019 - In a hip Oakland, Calif., neighbourhood, just blocks from cocktail bars and swanky Mexican restaurants, is an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2019
Private health insurers say cost of medical devices putting pressure on premiums
23 October 2019 - After the lowest annual increases in 18 years, relief appears to have been short-lived. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2019
Premiums for HealthCare.gov plans are down 4% but remain unaffordable to non-subsidised consumers
22 October 2019 - Administration’s actions bring increased issuer participation, competition and greater choice to the Federal Health Insurance Exchanges ...