Health Care

It May Sound Awful, but We Really Do Need to Pay for Human Organs

By Marc Joffe

With dialysis being so expensive, onerous and ultimately fatal, kidney patients and taxpayers would be better off with more donations.
Feds' Big Bust: $1.3 Billion Health Insurance Fraud Takedown

By Rob Garver

On the same day that Republican members of the Senate released a pair of bills aimed at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Justice highlighted a problem with the...
Where Do You Store Your Medical Info? Apple Wants It to Be Your iPhone

By Christina Farr, CNBC

Imagine turning to your iPhone for all your health and medical information — every doctor's visit, lab test result, prescription and other health information, all available in a snapshot on your...
How American Health Care Became a Big, Broken Business

By Yuval Rosenberg

Who’s to blame for the sad state of the American health care system in 2017? The short answer, as Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal details in her new book “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big...
Why You Should Think Twice Before Drinking That Can of Soda

By Barbara Moran

New research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain.

One Major Obamacare Insurance Company Is Close to Break Even This Year

By Eric Pianin

Despite high premiums and diminished consumer choices that might deter consumers from enrolling in Obamacare, a new financial analysis concludes that the individual health insurance market has shaken...
New Cancer Drugs Show Promise – and Sky-High Prices

By DEENA BEASLEY, Reuters

Newer cancer drugs that enlist the body's immune system are improving the odds of survival, but competition between them is not reining in prices that can now top $250,000 a year. The drugs' success...
The Billion Dollar Drug for Opioid Victims Has a Problem: It’s Addictive

By Andrew L Yarrow

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order earlier this month, declaring the state’s opioid addiction crisis a state of emergency, is yet another example of the state’s leadership in addressing a...
Pfizer Chief Says Government Efforts to Contain Drug Prices Will Backfire

By Eric Pianin

Ian C. Read, Pfizer’s hard-edged, Scottish-born CEO and chairman, has been unapologetic about his company’s dubious pricing practices. Last week, he gave no ground on the larger question about...
Trump’s Big Cuts to Medical Research May Not Get Past Congress

By Eric Pianin

NIH, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, cancer research, National Institutes of Health

Doubling the Price of a Suicide Drug Has Put Valeant on Life Support

By Eric Pianin

Just when it looked as if the pharmaceutical industry couldn’t stoop any lower, we now learn that Valeant Pharmaceuticals has doubled the price of a drug used by the terminally ill to take their own...
The Surprisingly High Cost of Beating Cancer

By Eric Pianin

Even as scientists have made great strides in the treatment of cancer, the soaring costs of treatments are decimating the savings of cancer survivors, sending many into a downward spiral of...
Obama Administration Will Press Medicare Doctors to Use Cheaper Drugs

By Eric Pianin

Amid surging prescription drug prices and a move towards the use of more expensive medications in treating cancer and other serious diseases, the Obama Administration this week unveiled a...
Why $3 Billion Worth of High-Tech Drugs Are Wasted Each Year

By Eric Pianin

The soaring costs of breakthrough biometric drugs -- especially for the treatment of the Hepatitis-C virus and cancer – have squeezed budgets across the board—on patients, hospitals, insurers and...
Obamacare Fraud Is Rampant and Unchecked, GAO Warns

By Eric Pianin

One of the most important features of Obamacare’s online operation is the “data services hub”— the $55 million worth of computer software that enables the government to verify applicants’ eligibility...

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