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Medicare drug plans are getting better next year. some will also cost more.

When Pam McClure learned she'd save nearly $4,000 on her prescription drugs next year, she said, "it sounded too good to be true." She and her husband are both retired and live on a "very strict" budget in central North Dakota.

21 Oct 2024

Patients are relying on Lyft, Uber to travel far distances to medical care

When Lyft driver Tramaine Carr transports seniors and sick patients to hospitals in Atlanta, she feels like both a friend and a social worker.

17 Oct 2024

Harris backs slashing medical debt. Trump’s ‘concepts’ worry advocates.

Patient and consumer advocates are looking to Kamala Harris to accelerate federal efforts to help people struggling with medical debt if she prevails in next month's presidential election.

16 Oct 2024

Smoking cessation programs could help combat opioid epidemic

Smoking is recognized as a leading cause of preventable disability and death. New research shows that as smokers increase their daily number of cigarettes, they report higher rates of chronic pain, more prescription opioid use, severe work limitations due to pain, and poor mental health.

9 Oct 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The health of the campaign

When it comes to health care, this year's presidential campaign is increasingly a matter of which candidate voters choose to believe.

4 Oct 2024

How Minnesota figures into the presidential politics of insulin prices

In June 2019, Lija Greenseid handed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz an empty vial of insulin that her 13-year-old daughter had painted gold.

1 Oct 2024

Internet searches predict ADHD medication prescriptions during COVID-19

In a groundbreaking study published in Brain Medicine (Genomic Press), UCI researchers have uncovered a striking correlation between internet searches for ADHD medications and actual prescription rates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

24 Sep 2024

Medicare coverage for obesity drug raises questions

Millions of older Americans with obesity could potentially get Medicare's help with the hefty price of a weight-loss medication in order to reduce their high risk of heart problems.

23 Sep 2024

Health Secretary Becerra touts extreme heat protections. Farmworkers want more.

On a sunny August morning in this agricultural town, before temperatures soared to 103 degrees, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra stood outside the small public library.

9 Sep 2024

New review highlights top strategies for smoking cessation

A major new scientific review of evidence published in the journal Addiction has identified three top strategies for quitting smoking.

5 Sep 2024

Harris did not vote to ‘cut Medicare,’ despite Trump’s claim

During a July 24 campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, former President Donald Trump claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris was responsible for passing legislation in the U.S. Senate to cut Medicare spending by nearly $300 billion.

20 Aug 2024

Study shows how segregated communities face challenges in filling OUD medications

Patients with a prescription for an opioid use disorder medication may have a tough time getting it filled if their pharmacy is in a community that's racially and economically segregated, according to a new study led by scientists at Oregon State University and Johns Hopkins University.

14 Aug 2024

Potential liver risks from popular herbal supplements revealed in new study

A study in JAMA Network Open reveals that 5% of U.S. adults consume six potentially hepatotoxic botanicals, highlighting a significant need for increased regulatory oversight.

6 Aug 2024

Older adults show interest in deprescribing, study reveals

More than 82% of Americans age 50 to 80 take one or more kinds of prescription medication, and 80% of them say they'd be open to stopping one or more of those drugs if their health care provider gave the green light, a new University of Michigan study shows.

24 Jul 2024

Louisiana reclassifies drugs used in abortions as controlled dangerous substances

Louisiana lawmakers have added two drugs commonly used in pregnancy and reproductive health care to the state's list of controlled dangerous substances, a move that has alarmed doctors in the state.

24 Jul 2024

At Trump’s GOP convention, there’s little to be heard on health care

No talk of Obamacare. Or abortion.

19 Jul 2024

Trump is wrong in claiming full credit for lowering insulin prices

"Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it."

18 Jul 2024

California health care pioneer goes national, girds for partisan skirmishes

When then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for nearly all Californians to buy health insurance or face a penalty, Anthony Wright slammed the 2007 proposal as "unwarranted, unworkable, and unwise" — one that would punish those who could least afford coverage.

15 Jul 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Live from Aspen: Health and the 2024 elections

The presidential election is less than five months away, and while abortion is the only health policy issue expected to play a leading role, others are likely to be raised in the presidential and down-ballot races.

21 Jun 2024

Closed Loop Medicine appoints Paul Johnson as Non-Executive Director

Closed Loop Medicine Ltd., a leading TechBio company developing combination prescription drug plus software therapy products that deliver personalized dose optimization, today announced the appointment of Paul Johnson as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

From Closed Loop Medicine 22 May 2024