Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. The staggering costs of hepatitis C pills are the subject of two new medical journal reports pointing out that employers, insurers and the ...

Found a stray pill in your medicine cabinet? Have a loved one who mixed up a couple of their meds by mistake? There are plenty of reasons you might wonder, “What pill is this?” WebMD’s Pill ...

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NICE has recommended Merck, Sharp and Dohme's Zepatier (elbasvir+grazoprevir) hepatitis C drug in first draft guidance for regular National Health Service funding in England. Zepatier's list price ...

"It escalated to eighty pills a day. It took more and more to get ... "My mother had started by taking opioids for pain after her C-section, and then she progressed to taking them to sleep ...

An 18-month-old Indiana toddler tragically died days after ingesting a pill used to treat opioid addiction that she found in a thrift store backpack, according to family and officials. Azana ...

Prior to the introduction of the Pill, however, choices were limited and ... recorded in the Bible's book of Genesis. Around 1850 B.C. Egyptian women mixed acacia leaves with honey or used animal ...

Feminists and social conservatives quickly clashed over morality of the "sexual revolution," and the Pill was drawn into the debate. The Pill as Scapegoat As female sexuality and premarital sex ...

AbbVie's acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics strengthens its neuroscience pipeline with promising candidates, making ABBV a ...

The savings in the Democratic-passed drug pricing law will be much smaller than expected because of higher insurance costs, ...

The use of this drug is limited by the development ... Reference: Plewnia C, Masini D, Fisone G. Rewarding properties of L-Dopa in experimental parkinsonism are mediated by sensitized dopamine D1 ...

Last week, AbbVie ABBV announced that a pivotal phase III study evaluating pipeline candidate tavapadon for treating early ...