Background: Mounting evidence indicates that out-of-pocket costs for prescription
medications, particularly among low-and middle-income patients with chronic diseases, are …

Medications that provide quick relief of symptoms and that control airway inflammation are
the mainstays of asthma treatment. However, adherence to these medications is suboptimal …

Identifying affordable drug therapy options for individuals who lack prescription drug
insurance is a problem frequently encountered by prescribers. Medication samples and …

Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering,
and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed …

FIGURE 2—US veterans' life expectancy versus life expectancy at birth for all US men, 1991–
2002. since 1997 (the onset of the VA's national formulary initiatives), whereas those of all …

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This issue brief contrasts prescription drug access, affordability, and costs in the United
States with six other high-income countries, drawing from Commonwealth Fund survey data …

Patient access to a drug after US regulatory approval is controlled by complex interactions
between governmental and third-party payers, pharmacy benefit managers, distributers …

Aim: To explore whether, and how, prescription charges affect asthma patients' disease
management behaviour. Method: Thirty qualitative interviews. Results: Interviewees were …

The preponderance of published medical literature and clinical guidelines compels the
expansion of pharmaceutical use among Americans, at the same time that private and public …