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Some of the nationās most influential scientists recommend eight steps to lower drug prices. KHN takes the political temperature and tells you the chances of Congress acting on them.
Researchers estimate that 25 percent of people ages 65 to 69 take at least five prescription drugs to treat chronic conditions. But some doctors are trying to teach others about ādeprescribingā or systematically discontinuing medicines that are inappropriate, duplicative or unnecessary.
Baby boomers are deciding to return to the workplace because they miss the challenges, the accomplishments ā and, most important, the people.
Harvesting U.S. crops has been left to an aging population of farmworkers whose health has suffered from decades of hard labor. Older workers have a greater chance of getting injured and of developing chronic illnesses.
Video advance directives enable people to speak directly to their families and physicians about their wishes for end-of-life care.Ā
Medicare and insurers struggle to oversee a booming business in testing urine samples. In some cases, pain doctorsā lack of follow-through can turn fatal.
A vital tradition is gaining steam as more families use the holiday gathering to discuss and document advance-care plans.
What being old and sick in America can mean ā and ways to navigate the often treacherous journey through the system.
Far from a commune or coop, these planned villages are no less about cooperation and community.
Fewer than half of health care workers at a nonprofit Florida hospice had completed advance directives for end-of-life care.
With the nation's opioid crisis, urine testing has become a booming business and is especially lucrative for doctors who operate their own labs, a Kaiser Health News investigation finds. And dozens of practitioners have earned "the lionās share" of their Medicare income exclusively from urine drug screens.
Patients with Alzheimerās disease and other dementias can say in advance if and when they want caregivers to stop offering food and fluids by hand.
Stereotypes often undermine older adults, eroding their confidence, elevating their stress and harming their health.
A flurry of federal and state probes have targeted insulin manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers ā middlemen in the prescription drug-pricing pipeline. Here, we connect the legal dots.
Over the past two years, a powerful federal prosecutor and several state attorneys general have launched investigations related to diabetes drugs.
U.S. hospice agencies promise to be available around-the-clock to help patients dying in their homes. But a Kaiser Health News investigation shows that in an alarming number of cases, that promise is broken.
Overtreatment of breast cancer and other diseases is pervasive, burdening patients and the health care system with enormous costs and needless suffering.
Patients flocked to researcher who ignored usual patient protections, as university claimed ignorance.
Most beneficiaries have from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 to decide on drug coverage and whether to switch from traditional Medicare to a Medicare Advantage plan.
The costs of using a new class of cancer treatments include far more than the drugās sticker price.
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