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On today’s episode of The Confluence: University of Pittsburgh law professor David Harris explains why the convening of a grand jury to investigate the death of Jim Rogers might uncover new information; a local pharmacy is cutting out the middleman to sell low-cost prescriptions to consumers without the use of health insurance; and we meet an Algerian human rights advocate and dissident who relocated to Pittsburgh last month after fleeing government persecution.
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The Pennsylvania House is advancing a bill to expand income eligibility limits for the state’s prescription drug subsidy program.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner says he'd sue the makers of prescription painkillers to recoup Pennsylvania's cost of dealing with…
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Prescriptions for opioids fell 29 percent nationwide from 2013 to 2017, according to Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.In Pennsylvania, which has one of…
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Governor Tom Wolf has vetoed a bill that would have created a drug formulary for the state workers’ compensation program.Basically, that’s a list of drugs…
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A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania says one of the big narratives explaining the onset of the opioid crisis is wrong. Peggy Compton, a…
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Hospital policies that restrict how pharmaceutical companies may market their drugs to doctors change physician prescribing behavior, according to a new…
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Pennsylvania has officially joined nearly every other state in the U.S. by setting up a program to track prescriptions of powerful drugs like oxycodone…
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Insurers have released the latest lists of prescription drugs they won't cover in 2017. Express Scripts is excluding 85 drugs and CVS Caremark, 131. Some drugs for diabetes and asthma are out.
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The rate of young, white females dying from drug overdoses in Pennsylvania is increasing faster than other demographics, according to a new report from…