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Anchor lead: The American College of Physicians says generics should be used first, Elizabeth Tracey reports Prescription drug prices are a big factor in soaring health care costs, with many people unable to manage paying for the range of medicines …
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Anchor lead: Two federal agencies are poised to help ease some drug prices, Elizabeth Tracey reports Antibody-based therapies are increasingly used for the treatment of diseases ranging from cancer to autoimmune conditions, but they are also frequently breathtakingly expensive. Now …
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Anchor lead: The NIH has mandated that all research results, including negative ones, be made available on their website, Elizabeth Tracey reports As a taxpayer, you’re contributing quite a lot to advancing medical and scientific research, and now the National …
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Hormone deprivation therapy and dementia, happiness and health, a sickle cell drug, and too much HbA1c testing. Program notes: 0:38 Happiness and mortality 1:32 17% unhappy 2:35 Advocate for Eyore-like behavior? 3:01 Too much HbA1c measurement 4:02 Why is too …
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Anchor lead: The American Medical Association says drugs and devices should not be advertised to consumers, Elizabeth Tracey reports You can live better with the latest drugs and medical devices, advertisements for these products assert. And as consumers we must …
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Anchor lead: New treatments for HIV are on the horizon, Elizabeth Tracey reports World AIDS Day 2015 is kind of a good news/bad news picture, with medications that are effective in both containment and transmission, but many not receiving them. …
