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The Trump campaign just announced a policy agenda for his second term. It is notable for its brevity. In 467 words, the agenda lists goals ranging from eradicating COVID-19 and restoring economic growth to health ....
When President Trump promoted the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for COVID-19 in the spring, demand for the product jumped. Most of the subsequent debate has been about the efficacy of the drug ....
In a recent poll, 66 percent of US adults reported that they felt that prices of medicines had increased, with 35 percent saying that they had increased a lot. Furthermore, 30 percent of those polled ....
A major research article about US patients buying medicines online was published last week. The authors analyzed 61,238 respondents’ data from a national database representing 152.2 million US adults taking prescription medications. Roughly 1.5 percent ....
As noted earlier this week in part I of the ongoing saga of efforts to improve the transparency and utility of hospital pricing practices, the Trump administration notched a relatively rare legal victory in federal ....
Last week, federal district court judge Carl Nichols handed the Trump administration a rare legal victory in its continuing efforts to change the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through newer rulemaking and regulatory revisions. The court ....
As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept across our country and claimed more than 100,000 lives in a few short months, the opioid epidemic, which dates back to at least the early 2000s, has received less ....