access+affordability

A Review of the Trans-Atlantic Divide on Drug Prices Between the United States and the United Kingdom

Internal document seen by the Guardian shows low supplies for heart, cancer and anti-epilepsy drugs.

As part of the conversation on options for universal pharmacare in Canada, The Conference Board of Canada examined patients’ access to necessary diabetes medications.

A West Island woman living with cystic fibrosis says the prohibitive price of a drug is costing Canadian lives.

We should override patent protection on some medicines and change how R&D is funded.

“I’m working, I have benefits. I can get my teeth cleaned and my eyes checked, but I can’t get the medicine that keeps me and my sister alive,” said one patient with diabetes.

When Stephanie Wittels Wachs found out that health insurance in Texas didn’t cover hearing aids for kids, she lobbied to change Texas law. And she won.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the start of a pilot programme to prequalify human insulin to increase treatment for diabetes in low- and middle-income countries.

Obamacare sign-ups on the federal health insurance marketplace fell 20% in the first two weeks of the 2020 enrollment season compared with last year.

About 80 million people with diabetes around the world need the hormone, and half of them can’t afford it. Creating competition could help, the agency said.

You'd think that as a poor country grows wealthier, more of its children would get vaccinated for preventable diseases such as polio, measles and pneumonia.

Parents of a child who has to make 200-mile round trips for cancer treatment are calling for more help with the costs of travel.

Foreign direct investment in the pharmaceutical industry is set to increase the availability of drugs in the country’s hospitals.

Registered nurse Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) holds a town hall focused on health care and drug prices in Crystal Lake, IL.

Most Canadians say Canada's focus should be on its own supply of prescription drugs and not on worrying about helping Americans deal with high prices in the their country.