There’s a go-between: a pharmacy benefit manager, or PBM, which negotiates prices with wholesalers, sets reimbursement rates on drugs and compiles the lists of which medicines an insurer will cover ...

Policymakers at the federal and state level have considered a number of reforms, many of which have bipartisan support, to ...

Consumers who use telehealth or medical spas to get less expensive, compounded weight loss drugs will need to get their medications elsewhere.

If left unchecked, the power of PBMs and their complex relationships within the American healthcare system could lead to higher drug costs and diminished returns.

Burke, who made a grim discovery while examining the leading causes of death in America. They plotted drug-overdose deaths from 1979 to 2016, and what they found was utterly baffling: deaths ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have created a computational tool to accelerate the development of new ...

But if we can’t ban pharmaceutical ads, we can at least rein them in. Policymakers can play an integral role in addressing the manipulative advertising practices rampant in the industry, while still ...

But losing weight can be hard to do. If diet and exercise haven't helped you reach a healthy weight and stay there, prescription weight loss drugs might help. The FDA has already approved a ...

Ozempic (semaglutide) and Trulicity (dulaglutide) are prescription drugs used for people with type 2 diabetes and certain other conditions. Both drugs are injected under the skin. Ozempic and ...