The drugs are taken as an injection either once a month at higher dose or twice a month at lower dose. Cost could be an issue, with the drugs running "anywhere from $7,000 to $10,000 per patient ...
The drugs are taken as an injection either once a month at higher dose or twice a month at lower dose. Cost could be an issue, with the drugs running "anywhere from $7,000 to $10,000 per patient ...
Jan Crawford talks to women who have faced serious choices and sometimes tragic circumstances affecting careers and family; and with two lawmakers trying to change federal law to better protect ...
A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin - drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.
A new type of drug to lower LDL or "bad" cholesterol won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday. The drug, called Praluent, from Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc ...
The new drugs promised to reduce artery-clogging cholesterol by nearly twice as much as older ones. But they came at an eye-popping price: more than $14,000 per year, compared with roughly $150 ...
The approval for Spark Therapeutics offers a life-changing intervention for a small group of patients with a vision-destroying genetic mutation and hope for many more people with other inherited ...
If that all sounds a bit far-out, scans have shown psychedelics may increase connectivity among different regions of the brain -- areas that normally don't communicate with each other.
Yang, now 25 and an account executive at an advertising agency in Boston, told CBS News, “It was a shock for me. ... For example, no grapes (1 cup has about 15 grams of sugar), only higher fiber ...
Some are worried about supply problems and rising drug prices, and complain that high-salaried Internet jobs are depriving rural areas of pharmacists. Lothar Dueck, president of the Coalition for ...
Help With Prescription Drug Costs. ... The drug manufacturers' partnership is spending $10 million to promote the campaign. ... "The reason why PhRMA supports the free-market system is that it's ...
Tips On How To Cut Health Care Costs Without Compromising Your Health. ... Cutting Drug Costs: 11 Dos And Don'ts. ... MD, MPH, professor of family medicine at the University of North Carolina ...
States Consider Drug Tests For Needy March 26, 2009 / 10:49 AM / AP Lawmakers in at least eight U.S. states want recipients of food assistance, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random ...
Biogen’s new medication Spinraza, which treats a rare spinal disorder in children and adults called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), will carry a price tag of $750,000 for the first year of ...
CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews offers some tips on how to weed through the registration process for the Medicare prescription drug benefit. The enrollment deadline is May 15, 2006, after ...
But those costly TV spots -- for issues including irritable bowel syndrome and toenail fungus -- represented just a fraction of the $5.2 billion in annual advertising spending from the drug industry.
Cancer patients, brace yourselves. Many new drug treatments cost nearly $100,000 a year, sparking fresh debate about how much a few months more of life is worth.
Abbvie, based in North Chicago, Illinois, said Mavyret's list price without insurance will be $26,400 for eight weeks' treatment, $39,600 for 12 weeks' treatment and $52,800 for 16 weeks' treatment.
War on Drugs Unsuccessful, Drug Czar Says May 13, 2010 / 4:17 PM / AP Four decades after President Nixon declared war on drugs, more Americans use them and drug-related violence has gotten worse.
Tamiflu is the most effective drug in treating bird flu, a virus that has killed more than 60 people since late 2003, all of them in Asia. Most human cases have been linked to contact with sick birds.
ROB VAN DAM AND SABU ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES by Dave Scherer @ 1:12:00 PM on 7/3/2006. The Ironton Tribune is reporting today that Rob Van Dam and Sabu were arrested Sunday night as they were ...