SUMMARY: Happy new year! Here’s a 4-6% price increase on your prescription drug. Prescription drug prices are sure to be on the political talking points as drug makers indicate that…
Online health misinformation
SUMMARY: Health misinformation is so bad that lawmakers, doctors, and health advocates, social media platforms made sweeping policy changes to ban or limit the spread of false health information. There…
Unhealthy Habits Cost U.S. $50 Billion a Year
KEY DATA: While millennials continue to complain about the high cost of healthcare they don’t seem to do enough to lower their risk of poor health. Healthier eating could save…
2020 Higher healthcare costs and business as usual
SUMMARY: Relief, in lower healthcare costs, is not coming next year and in fact may be getting worse. While rising healthcare costs are sure to be included in any political…
What’s really wrong with pharma is free-market capitalism
SUMMARY: Free-market capitalism is in trouble. The focus on “profits now” is leading to a mentality of short-term business practices that are harming our health and well-being for the sake…
People in the U.S. rely on pharma to compensate for bad habits
SUMMARY: By 2030, 48.9% of adults in the United States will be obese and 24.2% will be severely obese. Obesity leads to serious health problems and extra healthcare costs including…
Pharma is just a business and that’s bad for patients
SUMMARY: Pharma is just a business and according to a report from Harvard Business Scool “business as a whole engages in politics in ways that are bad for public trust in…
Do pharma salespeople really help Oncologists?
SUMMARY: According to a report from Cardinal Health “although half of all participating oncologists said they place restrictions on the access sales representatives have to their practices, 71 percent agree…