May 13, 2019
People who enroll in a clinical trial might be drawn to unexplored treatment options.
May 9, 2019
If you turn on the nightly news or open a daily paper, you’re likely to hear about the nation’s ongoing opioid abuse crisis.
May 9, 2019
One key to tracing how innovative biological medicines impact patients hinges on a deceptively simple issue: how the drugs are named.
May 7, 2019
When it comes to curing hepatitis C, the United States is at the bottom of the barrel.
May 6, 2019
Patient advocates want the lip smacking, grimacing and uncontrollable twitching caused by the movement disorder tardive dyskinesia to do more than attract stares. They want it to elicit empathy and understanding.
April 30, 2019
If you live in Philadelphia, you may wait 78 days. In Cedar Rapids, 91 days.
April 25, 2019
Patients with an Affordable Care Act health plan will soon have one less hurdle between them and the medicine they need to manage chronic or rare diseases.
April 23, 2019
Heart attack and stroke don’t just affect patients across Europe, new research reveals.
April 18, 2019
Still more than a year ahead of 2020 presidential elections, the battle over how to “fix” health care in America is reaching fever pitch.
April 16, 2019
These days, I find myself using some of the same words to describe Parkinson’s as I do to describe the experience of physicians like me who treat patients with the disease. It’s a sad reflection on current health insurer practices.
