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Qué hacer si pagas de más por los medicamentos con receta
Esto es lo que debes saber sobre tu gerente de beneficios farmacéuticos y cómo averiguar si te están cobrando de más por los medicamentos prescritos.
How PBMs Are Driving Up Prescription Drug Costs
Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government.
Our Reporter on How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Work
Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government. New York Times pharmaceutical reporter, Rebecca Robbins, explains how.
What to Do if You’re Overpaying for Prescriptions
Here’s what to know about your pharmacy benefit manager and how to find out if you are being overcharged for medications.
Can Women Benefit From Viagra?
Research on how the drug affects female arousal is sparse. But doctors have been prescribing creams and pills anyway.
¿Viagra para mujeres? No es para todas
Los efectos del sildenafil en la excitación femenina son ambiguos, de acuerdo a las investigaciones. Eso no impide que se siga recetando a algunas mujeres.
It’s Time to Ban Pharmaceutical Advertising
There are too many drug ads on social media to ever regulate them properly, and ads drive up prescription costs.
South Africa Runs Out of Insulin Pens as Global Supply Shifts to Weight-Loss Drugs
The shortage highlights a widening gulf in the standard of care for people with diabetes, most of whom live in low-income countries.
Doctors Test the Limits of What Obesity Drugs Can Fix
“Obesity first” doctors say they start with one pill, to treat obesity, and often find other chronic diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, simply vanish.
¿El estrés provoca úlceras?
Esto es lo que dicen los expertos sobre el estrés y otros factores de riesgo para las úlceras.
Hace casi un año se aprobó un fármaco para frenar el alzhéimer. ¿Ha funcionado?
Mientras la FDA estudia otro nuevo medicamento contra el alzhéimer, preguntamos a los expertos qué impacto ha tenido el uso del lecanemab en sus pacientes.
How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development
In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway.
Does Stress Cause Ulcers?
Here’s what the evidence suggests about this long-running claim.
Akira Endo, Scholar of Statins That Reduce Heart Disease, Dies at 90
The Japanese biochemist found in the 1970s that cholesterol-lowering drugs lowered the LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, level in the blood.
FDA Advisory Panel Endorses Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug Made by Eli Lilly
The modest benefits of the treatment, donanemab, made by Eli Lilly, outweigh the risks, the panel concluded unanimously.
Leqembi and Alzheimer’s: What to Know About the New Drug, Treatment and Benefits
As the F.D.A. considers a new Alzheimer’s medication, we asked experts how the rollout of a similar drug has gone.
New Covid Vaccine Endorsed for Fall
The panel endorsed targeting a variant of the coronavirus that is now receding, though some officials suggested aiming at newer versions of the virus that have emerged in recent weeks.
FDA Panel Rejects Use of MDMA for Treatment of PTSD
An independent group of experts expressed concerns that the data from clinical trials did not outweigh risks for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
What Are the MDMA Risks of Therapy for PTSD?
No new treatment for PTSD has been approved for more than 20 years, and this one, using an illegal drug known as Ecstasy, has been closely watched.
Why PTSD Is So Hard to Diagnose and Treat
Therapy and medication can help people recover from trauma, but many struggle to access the care they need.