Author: Peter

Aetna kicked off U.S. healthcare insurance M&A with a $37 bln deal to buy Humana. Breakingviews columnists discuss the merits of the transaction and its implications for the industry...

new study showing mammograms might not reduce breast cancer deaths doesn’t change the advice of Southern Nevada doctors who say women should screen themselves on a regular basis...“Mammograms remain our most important diagnostic tool to detect breast cancers at the earliest stage,...In Nevada, 1,700 women will be newly diagnosed each year, and 150 will die.

Food and Drug Administration’s failure to protect the 170 million Americans who take prescription drugs from adverse reactions that are killing more than 2,400 people every week…. recommendations that would reduce drug development costs and ensure that drugs are only approved if they are safe and significantly more effective…

Canadian Pharmacists Association urges the federal government to enhance its national immunization strategy to ensure that all Canadians have the opportunity to protect themselves against...human papillomavirus...vaccination programs for young men... is needlessly putting the health of Canadians at risk.

12 members and associates of the Bloods street gang located in Queens, New York, including Covel Duncan, a New York State Corrections Officer at Riker’s Island, were arrested on narcotics trafficking charges...

Hospitals say the Government Accountability Office used faulty methodology when it found that some providers abuse a federal drug discount by overprescribing medications. HHS raised similar concerns about the findings...

Free-standing emergency room operators are exploring how to win state regulatory approval to expand their facilities nationwide despite opposition from hospitals.

Amphastar is facing criticism over the pricing of its naxolone medication, which is an antidote used by police departments and other government agencies to treat life-threatening instances of heroin overdose...growing complaints over price increases for naloxone over the past two years from state agencies – and especially police departments...

Governor took…step forward in leveling the playing field for pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers,…reforms are intended to rein in dramatic underpayments to pharmacies by insurers and PBMs.

Delaware..to require health insurers to pay for telemedicine after ..governor approved an updated law regulating the virtual services… prohibiting insurers from engaging in discriminatory practices against providers who use telemedicine to deliver care.