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$55 billion in health and social costs related to prescription opioid abuse each year $20 billion in emergency department and inpatient care for opioid poisonings On an average day in the U.S. [...]

Opioid medications are prescribed to alleviate pain and suffering, but their abuse and misuse is killing more than 33,000 Americans every year. Prescription painkiller abuse is a problem of [...]

Here are the five most expensive prescription drugs in 2016 as compiled by prescription drug comparison website GoodRx — and which companies are profiting from them. Sovaldi The price tag [...]

A mysterious virus called Zika began to spread rapidly around the globe a few years ago, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to issue a global emergency. The latest outbreak began in [...]

Lack of medication adherence has a significant cost associated with it, as well as causing adverse healthcare outcomes. In the US, at least 50% of the population (over 133 million people) lives [...]

Medication adherence is a crucial component in the treatment of chronic diseases. In the elderly, clinicians are faced with a unique set of problems associated with adherence for which they may [...]

Electronic-prescribing (e-prescribing) is one part of the larger move to increased utilization of health information technologies (HITs). Along with other HITs such as electronic health records, [...]

E-prescribing is moving to the forefront of healthcare IT thanks to the benefits it brings to patients, physician workflow efficiency, and pharmacies. In fact, 90 percent of pharmacies in the [...]