November 17, 2017
“I didn’t like feeling like a victim. I liked feeling like a warrior.” So explained Ally Hilfiger – artist, author and daughter of fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger – who told her story of overcoming Lyme disease at the annual National Summit on Balanced Pain Management. The summit featured U.S. Representative Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) as well as members of the regulatory community, nonprofits, industry, and patient groups to explore the value of a multi-prong approach to pain treatment.
November 17, 2017
On November 14, 2017, the Alliance for Balanced Pain Management convened its fourth annual Summit on Balanced Pain…
November 15, 2017
An estimated 210 million people worldwide suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, the third leading cause of death in the United States. This November 15, on World COPD Day, advocates and patients worldwide seek to raise awareness and to advocate for access to treatment.
November 8, 2017
More than half of states in the U.S. are failing Medicaid patients with hepatitis C. A new report from the Harvard Law School and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable assigned 52 percent of states and U.S. territories a “D” or “F” for the access their Medicaid system provides to curative treatment for the disease.
November 8, 2017
Over the last few decades, improved body armor has helped protect America’s men and women in uniform from fatal complications such as those from close-proximity blasts. They’re surviving. They’re returning home to their spouses, partners, parents and children.
But many still have wounds – some visible, some invisible.
November 2, 2017
What’s the value of being able to stop involuntary lip smacking, facial grimacing or torso twitching – and the public stigma they cause?
October 30, 2017
“Man up” isn’t the advice you’d expect to hear at a policy summit on health care access for mothers and infants. But it’s just what Adam Busby, star of TLC’s “OutDaughtered” and keynote speaker at the third annual Infant Health Summit, felt during his struggle with postpartum depression.
October 30, 2017
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review recently evaluated treatments for tardive dyskinesia, a movement disorder related to the long-term use of antipsychotic medications to treat serious mental illness. Men and women with TD experience uncontrollable movements of their face, limbs or torso – along with intense social stigma.
ICER’s report says the treatments are not cost effective. But it leaves several key questions unanswered.
October 30, 2017
IfPA is concerned that ICER’s draft evidence report, dated October 2, 2017, undervalues the benefits that tardive dyskinesia (TD) patients…
October 27, 2017
President Donald Trump declared America’s opioid crisis a public health emergency on Thursday, announcing, “We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic.” But how?
