Drugs known as statins are the first-choice treatment for high cholesterol but millions of people who can’t or won’t take those pills because of side effects may have another option.
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Can’t Take Statins? New Pill Cuts Cholesterol, Heart Attacks
Posted on 08 March 2023.
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Mindfulness Worked As Well For Anxiety As Drug In Study
Posted on 11 November 2022.
Mindfulness meditation worked as well as a standard drug for treating anxiety in the first head-to-head comparison.
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Medicare Spent Billions On Drugs Without Confirmed Clinical Benefits
Posted on 26 June 2022.
The U.S. federal government spent an estimated $1.8 billion in Medicare funds in 2019 on drugs whose clinical benefits have yet to be confirmed by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Ad’s Charge That Price Haggling Would ‘Swipe $500 Billion From Medicare’ Is False
Posted on 29 September 2021.
The advertisement opens with a doctor sitting across from his patient and holding a prescription drug pill bottle. “You want to continue with this medication?” the doctor asks while an older patient nods.
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Coupons And Vouchers For Drugs Cover A Sliver of Prescriptions
Posted on 07 April 2021.
Use of vouchers and coupons offered by pharmaceutical companies to defray patients’ out-of-pocket drug costs is concentrated among a small number of drugs.
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Brain Sensor Offers Alzheimer’s Answers
Posted on 19 March 2021.
Through a brain sensor, Julius Zhu, PhD, and his collaborators have found an explanation for why Alzheimer’s drugs have limited effectiveness and why patients get much worse after going off of them.
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