Topic: Prescription Drugs
Brittany Murphy, the star of "Clueless" and "8 Mile," died from pneumonia, with prescription drugs and anemia also playing a role, a coroner's official said Thursday. The Dec. 20 death of the actress was accidental and likely could have been prevented if Murphy had seen a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health spending will grow faster than the overall economy this decade and by 2019 nearly 20 cents of every dollar spent in the United States will go for healthcare, U.S. government analysts said on Thursday. Economists at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, known as CMS, said in a new report that the national ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Generic drugmakers would pay the U.S. government $38 million to help speed reviews of their medicines under President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget plan released on Monday. The Obama administration will ask Congress to pass legislation allowing the Food and Drug Administration to collect the fees. The money would be used to "improve review times and reduce ...
Medicaid and Medicare are essential programs for practicing physicians, members of the American Medical Association, and the entire nation. The programs were developed in 1965 to assist certain categories of individuals with their medical costs. Today, Medicaid provides coverage to over 50 million Americans while Medicare aids over 45 million. These numbers make Medicaid and Medicare the largest source of ...
