October 7, 2020— October is American Pharmacists Month, and this year we have even more reasons to celebrate their contributions to the health care system. Pharmacists are as essential to the health care system’s mobilization in the face of the current public health crisis as the emergency room physicians, the epidemiologists, the intensive care unit nursing staff, and others … [Read more...]
Senate Hearing Next Week on Outrageous Prescription Drug Prices
December 5, 2017—The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee is holding a Dec. 12 hearing on new National Academies of Sciences (NAS) findings on why medicines cost so much and recommendations on how to fix the problem. The NAS’s Nov. 30 report is drawing attention for calling on the federal government to negotiate drugs prices with manufacturers, deny … [Read more...]