(Reuters Health) – Prescription drug shortages may drive up prices twice as much as they would rise with medicines in abundant supply, adding $230 million a year to U.S. drug costs, a new study estimates. Researchers examined data on 90 medications involved in shortages between December 2015 and December 2016. […]
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(Reuters Health) – Homeowners in North Carolina and South Carolina who lost electricity in the wake of Hurricane Florence need to realize that backup generators and other temporary power sources can cause carbon monoxide poisoning, scientists warn. People sit at a bar that has no power and drink during a […]
This story is from Kaiser Health News. As Hurricane Florence barreled toward her coastal community, Patty Younts grappled with a question: Where should a person with dementia go? Her husband, Howard, 66, suffers from a type of dementia called posterior cortical atrophy, which has robbed him of short-term memory and […]
Consumer and health care groups say they’re trying to block the pharmaceutical industry from commandeering opioid legislation and using it to roll back drugmaker discounts to Medicare beneficiaries with high prescription costs. Republican leaders are saying little about the behind-the-scenes discussions. But House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s office calls it […]
(Reuters) – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday filed a lawsuit accusing Walmart Inc of forcing pregnant workers at a Wisconsin warehouse to go on unpaid leave and denying their requests to take on easier duties. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Walmart is seen outside of a new […]
(Reuters) – More than 3 million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. More than three quarters of these deaths were among men, the U.N. health agency said. […]
Terminally ill people should have the right to a “dignified assisted death,” former South African archbishop Desmond Tutu said Friday, following a murder charge against a local campaigner for the legalization of euthanasia. Lawmakers “should engage, enable and appropriately regulate” the choice of how and when to die for people […]
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s Technogym is looking to offer fitness fanatics more content via exercise equipment screens or their personal devices, its founder and chief executive said on Thursday. Technogym President and founder Nerio Alessandri speaks during a media conference downtown Milan, Italy, April 21, 2016. REUTES/ Stefano Rellandini Nerio […]