Navigating Aging
Dodging Dementia: More Of Us Get At Least A Dozen Good, Happy Years After 65
With longer lives and lower rates of dementia, most seniors are enjoying more years of life with good cognition — a welcome trend.
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Pfizer Settles Kickback Case Related To Copay Assistance For $24M
The drugmaker agreed to a settlement with the Justice Department over allegations that it funneled copay assistance money through a foundation to Medicare patients.
Drugmakers Blamed For Blocking Generics Have Jacked Up Prices And Cost U.S. Billions
The Trump administration is shaming brand-name drugmakers who refuse to sell samples so generics can be made from their products.
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Campaign Promises Kept, Plus 'Nerd Reports'
In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Sarah Kliff of Vox and Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo discuss a proposed administration regulation that seeks to separate Planned Parenthood from federal family planning funds, the final congressional passage of legislation aimed at helping those with terminal illnesses obtain experimental medications, and new government reports on the uninsured and federal health spending. Also, Rovner interviews KHN’s Liz Szabo about the May “Bill of the Month.”
'Time's Up': Covered California Takes Aim At Hospital C-Section Rates
Starting in less than two years, if state hospitals haven't met targets for safety and quality, they'll risk being excluded from the "in-network" designation of health plans sold on the state's insurance exchange.
Watch: What’s In The White House Plan To Lower Drug Prices
Insurer Slashes Breast Pump Payments, Stoking Fears Fewer Moms Will Breastfeed
Are You And Your Primary Care Doc Ready To Talk About Your DNA?
Middlemen Who Save $$ On Medicines — But Maybe Not For You
When Is Insurance Not Really Insurance? When You Need Pricey Dental Care.
Everything You Need To Know About Trump's Proposal To Cut Planned Parenthood Funds
Choosing Between Death And Deportation
Vermont Legislators Pass A Drug Importation Law. So What?
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Pre$cription For Power: The Patient Advocacy Database
Patient advocacy groups campaign to raise awareness of diseases, to fund research and to promote policies favorable to their causes on Capitol Hill and at the Food and Drug Administration. But do they represent patients or Big Pharma? Kaiser Health News has compiled and analyzed disclosures to shed light on the flow of money between the pharmaceutical industry and patient advocacy groups.
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