Author: Peter

Patients want drugmakers to stop viewing them as sales targets and profit drivers. Some want to see the end of direct-to-consumer advertising, while others wish pharmaceutical companies would use real patients and tell real stories in ads and education materials.

Phony applicants that investigators signed up last year under President Barack Obama’s health care law got automatically re-enrolled for 2015 and some were rewarded with even bigger taxpayer subsidies for their insurance premiums, ..The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says 11 counterfeit characters that its investigators created last year were automatically re-enrolled for this year by HealthCare.gov.

as specialty pharmacies proliferate, questions are emerging about their role and business practices

• onerous refill policies that require hours on the phone
• shipments that are delayed or error-ridden
• difficulty reaching a pharmacist or other representatives
• patients are limited to one specialty pharmacy..often one owned by their insurer or pharmacy benefit manager
• conflicts of interest,.many of the bigger specialty pharmacies are owned by insurers or pharmacy benefit managers

Find Nursing Home Problems in Your State...Use this (interactive) tool to compare nursing homes in a state based on the deficiencies cited by regulators and the penalties imposed in the past three years. You can also search over 60,000 nursing home inspection reports to look for trends or patterns…

Department of Health and Human Services today launched the first online collection of the federal resources and capabilities available to mitigate the health impacts of emergencies....to aid state, tribal, territorial, local officials in health and emergency management as they guide communities in responding to and recovering from disasters.

Pharmacy majors receive the second-highest median earnings among bachelor’s degree holders. Petroleum engineering was named the highest-earning major, with an average annual wage of $135,754. Pharmacy majors notched the next slot, at $113,000.

Pharmacists in hospitals across the U.S. are performing more medication-related patient transition of care interventions, medication order review, and patient medication counseling,...Pharmacists’ movement into more direct patient care roles combined with the widespread use of medication-use technology are improving efficiency, safety, and clinical outcomes,..

Greek debt crisis this past few weeks has understandably been about what this will mean for the financial system,.. another storyline that is starting to emerge as it becomes more apparent that there is no good way out of the crisis for the Greeks...could be entering a health crisis, too.

Your.MD aims to change the way we self-diagnosis online…By using artificial intelligence to eliminate unlikely causes of a disease, the company claims to do away with many of the flaws common to the old method of googling ones symptoms..

Some facilities fail to properly oversee Coumadin. Too much can cause bleeding; too little, clots. Nursing homes are “a perfect setup for bad things happening,” one expert says. .. Given Coumadin’s challenges — and the coordination required among doctors, nurses, pharmacists and laboratories – nursing homes are the “perfect setup for bad things happening,”...