Updates
Life-saving rabies treatment can cost as much as $10,000 plus hospital fees
As if having a bat in your house isn’t bad enough, imagine the fright from a $6,017 emergency room bill for rabies…
Patients with mounting medical costs turn to crowd-funding
What do you think about this crowd-funding trend? Maybe you’ve seen the plea: A friend, neighbor or even a stranger…
Generic drugs approved in record numbers. Increased competition could drive down costs
Generic medications are often a great way to save money on prescriptions. And in 2017, the Food and Drug…
Pharma spends $50 billion tax windfall to lower costs? Not even close.
Pharmaceutical industry will dedicate windfall to boosting stock prices Turns out, they’re helping themselves. Nine…
Oregonians! Your Voice is needed now to rein in rising prescription drug prices
The Oregon Legislature is considering House Bill 4005, which would require pharmaceutical companies to justify to the…
People are talking: Pharmaceutical companies want you to think they’re holding the line on prices, but consumers aren’t buying it
It’s become a tradition. Many of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies celebrate the new year by raising…
Big Pharma launches secretive campaign to kill Oregon drug transparency bill
How far will the pharmaceutical industry go to protect its giant profits? An investigation by the Eugene (Oregon)…
Oregon coalition pushes for drug price transparency as Legislature convenes
As the skyrocketing prices of medication continues to be an ongoing source of outrage in the U.S.
Unused medical supplies tossed in the trash and the cost passed on to you
Picture this: A warehouse the size of a middle school gym, filled to the brim with unopened boxes of surgical sutures,…
Maryland fights Rx price gouging (again). Proposed new law tackles high costs of brand name, specialty medications
Thousands of Americans take specialty medications for conditions from multiple sclerosis to HIV/AIDS to hepatitis C…