#prescription drugs

Anna Sutton had unwittingly become part of a strategy that employers are using to deal with the high cost of drugs.

Insurers should allow co-pay assistance to count as out-of-pocket spending, claims HHS lawsuit by HIV, hepatitis and diabetes advocates.

The federally required data release could affect future prices or even how employers contract for health care.

The court sided with the hospitals, which challenged a $1.6 billion Trump-era cut to 340B Medicare reimbursements.

Moms-to-be who stop arthritis treatment during and after pregnancy may experience premature births or low birth weight babies.

A letter from 124 patient groups urges the White House to make drugs more affordable—and spells out how it can do so.

Nearly a third of teens and young adults improperly use tranquilizers, stimulants and other psychoactive drugs.

Fact-checkers and HIV advocates break down the president’s State of the Union boasts.

The U.S. Health Department launched “Ready, Set, PrEP” to provide the HIV prevention med at no cost.

An analysis of newly diagnosed youths in California found they had limited access to opioid-related harm reduction services.

Off-label drug use for respiratory infections, asthma or mental health disorders in children is on the rise.

The danger of prescription painkillers might have been overestimated and too little was done to identify those most at risk for addiction.

A look at what the law says about buying prescription drugs from Canada.

Dentists in the West and urban areas write the highest number of scripts for unnecessary antibiotics.

Tips for storing medicines so they don’t lose potency.

In fact, we borrowed $88 billion last year. Yet a new survey finds “a great political divide” in our satisfaction with health care.