The California Assembly Health Committee passed legislation to protect Californians with life-threatening diseases from escalating insurance costs for medication.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began charging a new application fee to all institutional providers.
The U.S.Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel type of cancer vaccine called Yervoy.
A report released by the KaiserFamily Foundation says that raising Medicare’s eligibility age by two years would save the federal government $7.6 billion, but those costs and more would shift to others.
As the struggle over the details of the Affordable Care Act persists, changes continue to be made.
A new law is being proposed that would allow Medicare patients who have a chronic condition to review all their medications in one-on-one sessions with pharmacists, helping them to stick to their drug regimen.