Pharmaceuticals Archives

10.06.2025 Medical drug bottles and medication pills spilling out onto a pastel blue background. Top view with copy space. Healthcare, pharmacy, medicine concept

Medical drug bottles and medication pills spilling out onto a pastel blue background. Top view with copy space. Healthcare, pharmacy, medicine concept

We Need Congress to Get Serious About Lowering Drug Costs

Drug middlemen hold power over the prescription drug industry and Americans’ health. Reform is necessary to ensure they put customers first.

Guest Author Katherine O'Malley

05.10.2023 Lisa Bero, chief scientist at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz, and professor of medicine and public health

Health Equity

Lisa Bero

Lisa Bero is chief scientist at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz, as well as a professor of medicine and public health. She is internationally recognized for studying commercial determinants of health, focusing on tobacco control, pharmaceutical policy, and public health.

Fellow Caroline Dignard

09.28.2022 medication at a pharmacy

Nevertheless, the Prescriptions Persisted

COVID-19 affected prescription medication use, offering lessons in how medication continuity could be managed during future crises.

Fellow Abby Outterson

07.27.2022 prescriptions

Health Equity

Prescription Subscription

Use of Hepatitis C virus medications increased dramatically under subscription-based payment model agreements.

Fellow Connor McCombs

02.24.2022 pills dropping

Disease

Killer Bugs

New drug development and reducing antibiotic overuse may help fight antimicrobial resistance.

Fellow Devin O'Donnell

12.02.2021 NYC LA

Health Equity

Pharmacy Deserts Hinder Medications Access in Segregated Black and Latino Neighborhoods

Lacking access to a local pharmacy can directly impact health equity.

Guest Authors Jenny S. Guadamuz, Dima M. Qato

10.05.2021 chart of branded meds

Health Equity

The Brand Name Game

A prescription medication study found that using only generic drugs would have saved Medicare $1.67 billion dollars and patients $270 million in 2017.

Fellow Rubina Veerakone

03.26.2021 a map of the los angeles county

Health Equity

Pharmacy Deserts

Twenty-four percent of all LA County census tracts are pharmacy deserts. But they are not created equal.

Fellow Edward Alexander

09.11.2020 a group of white pills on a blue surface

Health Equity

Side Effects, Sex Effects

Why are most drugs administered in one-size-fits-all doses when male and female bodies process many drugs differently?

Fellow Gray Babbs

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