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Pharma Sells States On ‘Netflix Model’ To Wipe Out Hep C. But At What Price?

By JoNel Aleccia and Barbara Feder Ostrov and Donna Gordon Blankinship October 25, 2019

Manufacturers of lucrative drugs say they’re offering discounts off the high sticker prices ― but taxpayers footing the big bills might never know what the state is paying or if it’s getting a good deal.

A Million-Dollar Marketing Juggernaut Pushes 3D Mammograms

By Liz Szabo October 22, 2019

Companies are aggressively touting 3D mammograms, although there’s no evidence they save lives.

Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes August 23, 2019

Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.

FDA Keeps Brand-Name Drugs On A Fast Path To Market ― Despite Manufacturing Concerns

By Sydney Lupkin November 4, 2019

The agency approved Gilead’s “game changer” hepatitis C cure, bypassing concerns raised by its own federal inspectors. The problems they found at the company’s main U.S. drug-testing laboratory in Foster City, Calif., were so bad, they recommended withholding approval.

Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes July 19, 2019

Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.

Mysterious Vaping Lung Injuries May Have Flown Under Regulatory Radar

By Sydney Lupkin and Anna Maria Barry-Jester August 27, 2019

Doctors who saw patients with a mysterious lung illness in the past suspected vaping as the cause but didn’t know where to report such cases. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to report it, it’s that there’s no pathway,” said one California pulmonologist.

Analysis: A Health Care Overhaul Could Kill 2 Million Jobs, And That’s OK

By Elisabeth Rosenthal May 24, 2019

Reform has a cost. But the point of a health care system is to treat patients, not to buttress the economy.

Does It Make Sense To Delay Children’s Vaccines?

By Bernard J. Wolfson March 19, 2019

The renewed squabble over vaccinations obscures a large group of parents who aren’t anti-vaxxers but spread out their children’s vaccines at a more gradual pace than doctors recommend. Pediatricians warn that could leave small children vulnerable to disease.

A Transgender Woman’s Quest For Surgery Caught In Political Crosswinds

By Emmarie Huetteman July 26, 2018

Dramatic policy swings, from an unprecedented expansion of transgender rights under the Obama administration to the unpredictable reduction of trans rights under President Donald Trump, have left many trans Americans feeling the whiplash.

Is It A Feminist Right To Want More Sex? One Company Thinks A Pill Is The Answer

By Rachel Bluth May 10, 2019

The savvy “Right to Desire” campaign relies on feminist messages and social media to raise patient awareness about low libido. Addyi, the only drug currently approved to treat it, has shown limited effectiveness.

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