How pharmacy benefit managers morphed from processors to predators
Big Pharma
Posted inLaw and Justice
Big Pharma’s Private War on Drugs
Pharmacy robberies have spiked in large part thanks to illegal demand for OxyContin. A look inside the drugmaker’s efforts to protect its product and the pharmacists at the front lines.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Budget Prescription
A spoonful of medecine may make the deficit-reduction go down.
Posted inArticle
Pause for Concern
In July 2002, the Women’s Heath Initiative (WHI) of the National Institutes of Health announced an abrupt end to its study of so-called Hormone “Replacement Therapy” (used to treat symptoms associated with menopause) because the treatment posed risks of cancer and heart disease. Since this was previously considered the gold standard of menopause science, almost […]