When a pharmacy sells the heartburn drug Zantac, each pill costs about 35 cents. But doctors dispensing it to patients in their offices have charged nearly 10 times that price, or $3.25 a pill. The ...

A contingent of House and Senate Republicans united with Democrats to push through a bill that reins in the middlemen ...

Every day, roughly 130 people die in the United States from misuse of and addiction to opioids, including both prescription pain relievers, as well as drugs like heroin and fentanyl. Several studies ...

On 7th Street in northwest Washington, D.C., within sight of a children’s playground, stands a vending machine sponsored by a group called “HIPS” and the city’s health department. The vending machine ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is allowing certified pharmacies to dispense the abortion medication mifepristone to people who have a prescription. Mifepristone can be used along with another ...

This study introduces individualized dispensing for patients prescribed OACDs, tailoring the quantity of dispensed OACDs to individual patients. The central concept is optimization of OACD dispensings ...

Kansas lawmakers are debating prescription drug pricing reform, with one bill regulating PBMs passing and another facing dim ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The Alabama Legislature moved another step closer to approving a measure to pay pharmacists a $10 dispensing fee for each prescription handled. Supporters point to problems ...

Louisiana lawmakers this week renewed a battle over the cost of prescription drugs, advancing a bill that pits independent ...