Drugs for inflammatory conditions drove nearly half of spending in commercial plans last year, a new report shows. Express Scripts released its annual Drug Trend Report, which analyzes costs and ...

The Biden administration has walked back a last-minute bid by its predecessor to give Part D plans the ability to restrict access to certain classes of drugs such as antidepressants. The Centers for ...

Scientists have identified two molecules that could help treat leukemia, in a way that’s far less damaging to healthy cells than existing chemotherapy. The compounds work using a different mechanism ...

The federal government has backed off a proposal that would have let Medicare Part D prescription drug plans deny coverage for therapies in six "protected" classes of drugs, including those for cancer ...

Researchers looked specifically at head-to-head randomized clinical trials of next-in-class cancer drugs against existing agents in the same class. Less than one-quarter of next-in-class cancer drugs ...

Individuals with HIV who were resistant to all four antiretroviral drug classes experienced higher mortality than those who were not resistant, a difference primarily due to lower CD4 cell counts.

Two new classes of HIV drugs are poised to hit the market in 2007, signalling what many say is a watershed in HIV treatment, second only to the introduction of cocktail therapy more than a decade ago.

Researchers studying new methods for improving blood sugar control in type 2 diabetes have discovered an old class of antipsychotic drugs may offer clues to a novel kind of treatment for hyperglycemia ...

An experimental Viking Therapeutics obesity drug that hits the same targets as a commercialized Eli Lilly medication has clinical data showing it led to an average 13.1% weight loss after 13 weeks of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A new law increasing penalties on public transit took effect on Jan. 1. Senate Bill 1553 classifies the use of illicit drugs onboard public transit vehicles as a Class A ...