May 24, 2016
Three months after President Barack Obama requested congressional funding to fight the Zika virus, the House of Representatives has authorized $622 million in aid. But will congressional funding be too little, too late for those fighting Zika?
May 19, 2016
Physicians on a congressional panel Tuesday called for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to withdraw their Part B demonstration proposal.
May 13, 2016
The Senate companion to last year’s 21st Century Cures Act could help biosimilars bypass a potential roadblock to patient access.
May 12, 2016
Just as new data shows hepatitis C deaths at an all-time high, New York state has taken a bold move to make curative treatments more available.
May 5, 2016
Sensationalized media accounts have misconstrued the facts on pregnancy and fish consumption, explains a new Fast Facts health bulletin from the National Coalition for Infant Health.
May 1, 2016
Treatments for cancer have improved dramatically in recent decades. The five-year survival rate – the percentage of people with cancer…
April 27, 2016
The Medicare Part B payment demonstration planned by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services lacks a vital component: a clear strategy for monitoring the experiment’s effect on patient care.
April 14, 2016
A new plan to address chronic pain has garnered overwhelming support from patient advocates.
April 13, 2016
The Food and Drug Administration’s role is to determine a follow-on drug’s biosimilarity to its biologic predecessor, explained FDA’s Steven Kozlowski, MD, at Tuesday’s National Policy & Advocacy Summit on Biologics and Biosimilars.
April 8, 2016
Patients with respiratory conditions are often not sick enough to be in critical care but not well enough to deal with their symptoms without consistent intervention. So explains a newly released white paper from the Institute for Patient Access and the Alliance for Patient Access’ Respiratory Therapy Access Working Group.
