The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company partners with EmsanaRx, a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) focused on employer plans, to make lower-cost prescription drugs more accessible to patients through their employers. The program, EmsanaRx Plus, is described as “a stand-alone pipeline” allowing employers to provide drugs to employees through Cost Plus Drugs, an online pharmacy …
Kennewick, WA Hospitals in the Tri-Cities are full and wait times for emergency care are long as the region is hit by a tripledemic of influenza, RSV and COVID-19. In addition, drugs that help treat these respiratory diseases are rare. “We are concerned about the activity we are seeing,” said Dr. Larry Jecha, acting health …
“Respiratory Virus Crisis.” The Tri-Cities hospitals are full, the drugs are short Read More »
An in-house oncologist provides insight into how older, affordable drugs can open the door to other options for managing these conditions Treating our canine patients has become more expensive over the years, especially with newer drugs. Researchers evaluated older drugs and found that losartan and propranolol may have other uses. Losartan is traditionally a drug …
Some doctors are warning against using a type 2 diabetes drug for weight loss after some patients said it helped them lose a few pounds. Approved by the FDA in 2017, the diabetes treatment sold as Ozempic helps lower blood sugar, but many patients prescribed the drug have reported weight loss as a positive side …
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Researchers from the Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California have developed a “heart attack on a chip,” a device that could one day serve as a test bed for developing new heart drugs and even personalized drugs. “Our device replicates some key features of a heart attack in …
DENVER — The state of Colorado has officially submitted its plan to the federal government to begin importing prescription drugs from Canada. The Section 804 Import Program (SIP) application has listed 112 drugs that the state hopes to start moving across the border to save people money. “The big picture is that we have Coloradans …
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Pricing and reimbursement Price regulation To what extent is the market price of a drug or medical device governed by law or regulation? Medicines reimbursed by the basic health insurance are subject to price control by the State. The prices of non-reimbursed products are free and are not controlled by the government. A ready-to-use medicine …
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Senescent cells are distinguished by the fact that they eventually stop multiplying but do not die as expected. Senescent cells help heal damaged tissue According to a recent study from the University of California, San Francisco, not all senescent cells are harmful “zombies” that must be eliminated to avoid age-related diseases. Instead, some of them …
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To prevent animal testing and create even more accurate ways to test therapeutics, the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly turning to human immune cells. However, the availability of cells like these has been limited to date. Now, Fraunhofer researchers have succeeded in taking the production of personalized immune cells from the laboratory to the industrial level. …
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Children and teens who survive a firearm injury have a high rate of developing new mental health diagnoses within a year, even compared to children who were injured in a car accident, according to a new study. A total of 35% of children injured by firearms received a new mental health diagnosis within a year …
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