Prescription Drugs

Prescription Drug Spending

American spending on prescription drugs to surpass $1 trillion this year

Pa. Attorney General Dave Sunday signs letter supporting federal PBM transparency rule

Dave Sunday PBMs

Abusing small amounts of Adderall causes adverse heart effects, study says

Adderall Abuse Effects

The obesity rate is falling as Americans increasingly turn to weight-loss drugs

Stimulant users are caught in fatal 'fourth wave' of opioid epidemic

Stimulants Cocaine Fentanyl

Trump's White House return poised to tangle health care safety net

Consumers who bought generic drugs from 2 pharma companies may be eligible for refunds

With TV drug ads, what you see is not necessarily what you get

TV Drug Ads

Health Insurance

For the first time, Medicare negotiates prices on 10 drugs that treat diabetes, heart failure and other conditions

Medicare Drug Costs

Why it's important to pay attention to expiration dates on medications

medication expiration dates

Prescription drug Take Back Day is Saturday. Find out where to dispose of unused medications in Philly and region

Why COVID-19 patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren't getting it

Insomnia drugs could lead to driving and cooking while sleeping, FDA warns

Walgreens stores in Pennsylvania to begin selling abortion pill mifepristone

A new test lets doctors screen patients for risk of opioid addiction, but some fear it will provide a false sense of security

Opioid Genetic Test

CRISPR and other new technologies open doors for drug development, but which diseases get prioritized?

Drug Development

The DEA, after relaxing rules on telehealth prescriptions, now wants to tighten them

Despite pharma claims, illicit drug shipments to U.S. aren't full of opioids. It's generic Viagra

CBP narcotics detection

Ketamine has become an at-home treatment for depression, but some scientists say that set-up is too risky

Ketamine treatment

Millions of Americans rely on sleeping pills to fall asleep, but doctors say they're a short-term solution

Sleeping pills

U.S. Justice Department sues Conshohocken-based pharmaceutical distributor for role in opioid crisis

Pennsylvania will receive more than $450 million in opioid settlement with CVS, Walgreens

cvs opioid settlement

Children's Health

Child poisoning cases caused by prescription cough medicine on the rise, FDA warns

Benzonatate child poisoning

$10 billion opioid settlement from CVS and Walgreen's could mean drug treatment money for Pennsylvania

Self-managed abortions gain attention, but helpers risk legal trouble

Teen overdose deaths are increasing but drug use is at an all-time low

Counterfeit prescription pills

Ivermectin is a Nobel Prize-winning wonder drug – but not for COVID-19

What the stalemate on Capitol Hill means for your drug prices

U.S. Capitol Drug Price Reform

Center City doctor agrees to pay $2 million for illegally prescribing opioids

Stephen Padnes opioids

Doctors weigh pros and cons of prescribing hot-button Alzheimer's drug

Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm

Philly's opioid crisis has been worse than ever amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Opioid deaths 2020

Barriers to specialty care may be causing disparities in use of diabetes drug, Penn study finds

Diabetes drugs

Safely storing medicine a critical way to prevent accidental child deaths

Safe Medicine Storage

Not pandemic-proof: Insulin copay caps fall short, fueling underground exchanges

Insulin Underground Exchanges

It's time to lower opioid prescription doses in heart surgery patients, Penn researchers say

Opioid use after heart surgery

Children's Health

FDA approves dispersible HIV drug for newborn infants, children

New HIV drug for children

Rare disease researcher offers unique perspective on search for COVID-19 treatment

COVID-19 drug inventory

Zantac, ranitidine generics removed from market due to cancer-causing impurity

FDA pulls Zantac ranitidine market

New Jersey doctor, the self-declared 'El Chapo of Opioids,' admits to writing illegal narcotics prescriptions

Pill Mill Doctor Delagente

Philly takes 'major step forward' in opioid crisis by expanding buprenorphine access

Philly Opioid Crisis Buprenorphine

To combat opioid crisis, Gov. Wolf expands college debt repayment program for addiction specialists

Addiction Specialist Pennsylvania College Loan Repayment program

Are generic drugs safe? Not necessarily

Generic Drug Safety

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