Is Direct to Consumer (DTC) drug pricing an effective way to make drugs more affordable?

That is the topic of a recent BioSpace article titled “How Effective Will TrumpRx and Other Direct-to-Consumer Drug Pricing Initiatives Be?” A am quoted in the article as follows: While [direct-to-consumer] DTC has been a growing trend in biopharma for nearly two years now—Lilly launched LillyDirect in January 2024—the number of drugmakers looking to sell their…

Read More

Where Americans Saw Information About Tax and Budget Legislation on Social Media, and False Measles Narratives Target Immigrants — The Monitor

This volume shares findings from KFF’s latest poll on how the public encountered information about the recently passed tax and budget legislation; misleading narratives blaming undocumented immigrants for the current measles outbreak; misrepresentations of vaccine safety systems; claims that climate change isn’t real following deadly Texas flooding; and confusion around statins for preventing heart disease.

Read More

Why AI Still Isn’t Fixing Patient Referrals—And How It Could

By NAHEEM NOAH A Call from the Black Hole Three months into building Carenector’s facility-to-facility platform, I got a call that crystallized everything wrong with healthcare referrals. A hospital social worker, who was already using our individual patient platform to help families find care, had been trying to coordinate an institutional placement for an 82-year-old…

Read More