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States struggle to help patients navigate insurance hurdle known as 'step therapy'
Medical Xpress· 7 hours agoCassidy Yermal, 32, began experiencing debilitating migraines when she was 17 years old. As a teenager growing up in northeastern Pennsylvania, she saw numerous neurologists and tried a variety ...
AMA takes aim at prior authorization, Medicare pay
Crain s Chicago Business· 6 days agoThe association says prior authorization requirements delay and deny necessary care for patients and add administrative burdens for physicians. “Waiting...
Behavioral health providers brace for funding cuts from Montgomery County ADAMHS
Dayton Daily News· 1 day agoA planned, but significant reduction in the services that Montgomery County Alcohol, Drug Addiction...
How Amazon Pharmacy is thinking about 'the messy state' of weight loss drugs
Becker’s Hospital Review· 3 days agoIn March, Eli Lilly tapped Amazon Pharmacy as a partner to deliver select medications, including weight loss drugs, directly to consumers' homes. Through the partnership, Amazon will handle ...
Judge sends California’s suit over insulin prices back for a rewrite
Courthouse News Service· 2 days agoA Superior Court Judge, on Tuesday, told lawyers for the state of California that they would have to...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 2 days agoPharmaceutical giant AbbVie was able to delay competition to its blockbuster arthritis drug, Humira, into the US market for many years. Although biosimilars will sell at a ...
Ex-US Customs officer convicted of letting drug-filled cars enter California from Mexico
San Jose Mercury News· 6 days agoA former U.S. Customs officer has been convicted of accepting bribes to let drug-filled vehicles...
New Guidance on CGRPs: How/Will it Shape Clinical Practice?
Medscape· 13 hours agoNew Guidance on CGRPs as First-Line Migraine Prevention: How/Will it Change Clinical Practice? A...
Healthy Returns: More U.S. employers are now covering GLP-1s for weight loss
NBC Dallas Fort Worth· 2 days agoMore U.S. employers are covering a buzzy class of medications called GLP-1s for weight loss, a...
Existing high blood pressure drugs may prevent epilepsy, study finds
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoThe study, published June 17 in JAMA Neurology, suggests that the drugs, called angiotensin receptor blockers, could prevent epilepsy in people at highest risk of the disease, including older ...