Consumer Driven Health Care

Direct primary care physicians are able to achieve better access to medical care, better quality of care, and lower overall health care costs because they can offer their patients both immediate access and more time.

Elizabeth Holmes claimed her now-infamous medical-testing startup Theranos Inc. would change medicine with a single drop of blood.

In particular, the U.S. spends more on prescription drugs and administration expenses than its peers around the globe.

A first-of-its-kind study found that customers overpaid an average $7.69 on nearly a quarter of prescriptions by using their insurance instead of cash.

The announcement "will set an important precedent in the ongoing drug pricing debate here in the U.S.," says one analyst.

After years of promoting OxyContin as a safe way to combat pain, Purdue Pharma recasting itself as a fundamental player in the response to the opioid crisis.