Do New Drugs Always Have to Cost So Much?
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Some economists say the government can reduce pharmaceutical prices by changing how the nation pays for innovation.
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Convenience comes at too big a price.
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The $500 billion drug industry is stumbling badly in its core business of finding new medicines, while aggressively marketing existing drugs.
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Use of drugs such as Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft has nearly tripled in the last decade amid questions about the costs and safety of many prescription drugs.
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The price of health is part of the calculus in determining whether a new medicine or treatment is worth the cost.
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Petri dishes, artificial spinal  discs and blood-testing strips may not seem particularly  exciting, but the makers of these medical products have been  fetching high prices this year.
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Charging workersâ out-of-pocket costs for medicines may be more than offset by reduced productivity, study finds.
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CHICAGO/NEW YORK  - When it comes to the price tag  for the newest biotechology drugs for cancer and other  hard-to-treat diseases, the sky is likely to remain the limit,  insurers, drugmakers and industry watchers say.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The national hand-wringing over rapidly rising health-care costs generally ignores one point that at least some people find hard to miss: Many patients are getting much better results for their money than they did in the past.
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VANCOUVER - Consumers are paying too much for many prescription drugs because of federal government policies, says a report released on Monday by the Fraser Institute.
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TORONTO (CP) - Canadians are paying hundreds of millions of dollars too much for generic prescription drugs because federal government policies are allowing manufacturers to shut out competitors, a study released Monday concludes.
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A major component in the skyrocketing cost of health care in America is prescription drug costs. Whatever final solution the country comes to about how to handle health care, one thing is clear, pharmaceutical
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A nationally funded pharmacare plan proposed by the premiers will be too costly, the federal Finance Minister said Thursday, and acknowledged that this September&#39;s meeting with the first ministers may include some head-butting over ...
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Legalizing prescription drug imports would cost $3 billion a year to regulate, would reduce new drug research by undermining industry profits, and would not save Americans as much money as advocates claim, the Bush administration said yesterday.
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The Office of Fair Trading says the NHS could face higher costs after changes to the way drugs are distributed.
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Millions regularly buy prescription drugs in spite of risk they could be sold fakes, research shows
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Experts say that importing drugs from countries that control their prices would not make drugs cheaper in the U.S.