November 29, 2018
Before Justin Minyard was keynote speaker at this week’s fifth annual National Summit on Balanced Pain Management in Washington, DC, he was a respondent at the Pentagon on September 11. A high-level interrogator serving the United States Army during tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. And a prime example of why comprehensive, integrative pain management is critical.
November 27, 2018
What’s the value of a trusting relationship with a good doctor? A life-altering medication? Choices among medical treatments?
November 21, 2018
The long wait is over for Illinois Medicaid patients with hepatitis C.
November 20, 2018
Devastating. Awful. Miserable. That’s how patients and advocates described step therapy during a recent Derma Care Access Network policy panel on Capitol Hill.
November 14, 2018
A new white paper from the Congressional Diabetes Caucus reinforces what patients and advocates know all too well — the insulin pricing system is too complicated, the negotiations are too secretive and the cost for patients is too high.
November 8, 2018
Making appointments and paying bills for a parent with Alzheimer’s. Managing medicines for a child with cystic fibrosis. Grocery shopping for a neighbor with Parkinson’s. All of these are forms of caregiving. And during National Family Caregivers Month this November, Caregiver Action Network is calling on caregivers to “supercharge” these functions through technology.
November 6, 2018
What’s the value of a trusting relationship with a good doctor? A life-altering medication? Choices among medical treatments? These and other thorny questions took center stage at the Alliance for Patient Access and Institute for Patient Access’ first-ever leadership retreat, held last week in San Diego.
November 1, 2018
An upcoming meeting will give people with movement disorders a chance to tell Food and Drug Administration regulators their story – the story of their physical symptoms as well as their emotional ones.
October 29, 2018
Advocates cannot reach every infant or every family, acknowledged National Coalition for Infant Health Medical Director Mitchell Goldstein, MD, as he welcomed attendees to the fourth annual infant health policy summit on Thursday.
October 26, 2018
Patient advocates across the country cheered this week as news spread about a decrease in the list price of evolocumab.
