medication

It is somewhat bewildering to watch the Republican Party morph into an economically left-wing party without anyone really caring. But that’s what is c...

YORK — To fight prescription drug misuse, National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day creates convenient ways to dispose of medication that could otherwi...

States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get out fro...

As the old saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” and in my decades of experience in healthcare that absolutely rings true. T...

LAPORTE — The facts and figures around rural healthcare in Pennsylvania are grave. That’s why it was unsurprising to hear Gov. Josh Shapiro say in a p...

DuBOIS — Leaders from Penn Highlands Healthcare joined members of the Greater DuBois Chamber of Commerce this week to cut the ribbon marking the offic...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — After adding more than $1 billion to its anticipated Medicaid costs this year specifically for Ozempic and similar weight-loss drug...

How many of us know what goes into the development of the medications we take? We take a medicine and hope that it will work, that we’ll feel better s...

Taxpayers spent $74.5 million to help develop the prostate cancer-fighting drug Xtandi, but its sky-high sticker price is limiting access to patients ...

DuBOIS — When you take more than one medication a day, it’s easy to sometimes forget to take a pill. In fact, practically everyone has missed taking a...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Penn Medicine is the first nonprofit health system to sign a contract to purchase generic drugs from Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Marke...

DuBOIS — Patients visit a pharmacy an average of 35 times a year, and you have a lot of choices when it comes to choosing a pharmacy. There are the bi...

Cancer patients can ward off waves of vomiting after treatment with a relatively cheap anti-nausea pill, but some are running into coverage limits. Do...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Independence Health System has introduced a new service that capitalizes on an overwhelming patient medical need and two new medici...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A bill placing regulations on pharmacy benefit managers is headed to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s desk. The bill, which began i...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A new drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, providing an optio...

(TNS) — As tensions with China continue to rise, especially over trade and sensitive technological theft, it is critical that one facet of our nationa...

LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. — On Saturday the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the US Drug Enforcement Agency, will be holding its sem...

According to new research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, nearly half of the motorists surveyed said they used one or more potentially impai...

RIDGWAY — Collection boxes for unused medications are located at all law enforcement stations in Elk County, including the Elk County Sheriff’s office...