Keeping Prices Secret In Healthcare Is Apparently Good For Business

Those with a vested interest in the status quo, are resisting transparency regulations. After all, maintaining opaque pricing in healthcare has been profitable to them.

U.S. Courts Are Once Again Litigating Abortion Pill’s Distribution By Mail

Despite more than two decades of safe and effective use, the abortion pill is once more in the crosshairs of American politics and the judicial system.

Independent Evidence Reviews Overturn Insurer Denials Of Healthcare Coverage

Policy experts suggest reform of prior authorization that would require coverage decisions be supported solely by evidence being reviewed by independent clinicians.

Direct-To-Consumer Drug Portals Offer Lower Prices, But Preserve Inequities

DTC portals for drugs are a solution to a problem that wouldn’t exist if insurer coverage were better. The most acute issue for patients is lack of comprehensive coverage

For Patients, Transparent Healthcare Prices Won’t Lower Out-Of-Pocket Costs

If increased transparency isn’t the answer, what could meaningfully lower patients’ out-of-pocket costs? Reduced prices of care throughout all of healthcare would help.

RFK Jr.’s Messaging Could Be Impacting Food And Pharmaceutical Choices

Examples of behavioral changes suggest the power of messaging when disseminated from a bully pulpit. Kennedy’s conspicuous visibility reinforces his reach.

Trump’s Orders Elevate The Medical Status Of Psychedelics And Cannabis

Trump’s orders move the U.S. a few steps closer to more widespread research on and use of two sets of controversial yet promising drugs, psychedelic and cannabis products

New Antibody Drugs Target Disease From Within

AI‑designed intracellular antibody fragments can stay stable inside cells and bind misfolded proteins, opening new treatment routes for diseases.

Your Period, Your Proteins, Your Health

Nearly 200 blood proteins rise and fall across the menstrual cycle, enabling a test that pinpoints cycle day and links it to risks like fibroids and heavy bleeding.

Progress For Preeclampsia

An overactive immune switch in the placenta may drive preeclampsia; blocking it in models reverses key disease pathways, pointing toward targeted therapies.