Haven’t Seen Your Doctor in a Few Years? You May Need to Find a New One
When Claudia Siegel got a stomach bug earlier this year, she reached out to her primary care doctor to prescribe ...
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Inside the Tactical Tug of War Over the Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug
The drug industry, patient advocates, and congressional Republicans have all attacked the FDA's decision to decline routine Medicare coverage for ...
Alzheimer’s Drug Targets People With Mild Cognitive Impairment. What Does That Mean?
The approval of a controversial new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, Aduhelm, is shining a spotlight on mild cognitive impairment — ...
Apple, Bose and Others Pump Up the Volume on Hearing Aid Options, Filling Void Left by FDA
Spurred by decades of complaints about the high cost of hearing aids, Congress passed a law in 2017 to allow ...
Why We May Never Know Whether the $56,000-a-Year Alzheimer’s Drug Actually Works
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval in June of a drug purporting to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was ...