Who Are Headache Disorders & Migraine Hurting?
Who feels the impact of headache disorders and migraine? More people than you may think, according to a new video from The Headache & Migraine Policy Forum.
Visible Burden, Invisible Disease
What’s worse than battling a debilitating, painful and costly disease? Having to convince people that it’s real.
Summit on Balanced Pain Management Underscores Need for Access, Coverage
“I didn’t like feeling like a victim. I liked feeling like a warrior.” So explained Ally Hilfiger – artist, author and daughter of fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger – who told her story of overcoming Lyme disease at the annual National Summit on Balanced Pain Management. The summit featured U.S. Representative Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) as well as members of the regulatory community, nonprofits, industry, and patient groups to explore the value of a multi-prong approach to pain treatment.
World COPD Day Spotlights Treatment Access Challenge
An estimated 210 million people worldwide suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, the third leading cause of death in the United States. This November 15, on World COPD Day, advocates and patients worldwide seek to raise awareness and to advocate for access to treatment.
Medicaid Systems are (Still) Blocking Hepatitis C Patients from Treatment
More than half of states in the U.S. are failing Medicaid patients with hepatitis C. A new report from the Harvard Law School and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable assigned 52 percent of states and U.S. territories a “D” or “F” for the access their Medicaid system provides to curative treatment for the disease.
Headache: Veterans’ Battle after Service
Over the last few decades, improved body armor has helped protect America’s men and women in uniform from fatal complications such as those from close-proximity blasts. They’re surviving. They’re returning home to their spouses, partners, parents and children.
But many still have wounds – some visible, some invisible.
Advocates Push Back on ICER’s Tardive Dyskinesia Report
What’s the value of being able to stop involuntary lip smacking, facial grimacing or torso twitching – and the public stigma they cause?
Infant Health Summit Spotlights Diversity and Access Disparity
“Man up” isn’t the advice you’d expect to hear at a policy summit on health care access for mothers and infants. But it’s just what Adam Busby, star of TLC’s “OutDaughtered” and keynote speaker at the third annual Infant Health Summit, felt during his struggle with postpartum depression.
The Generation that Ends the Opioid Epidemic
President Donald Trump declared America’s opioid crisis a public health emergency on Thursday, announcing, “We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic.” But how?
Are Regulators Too Hasty in Approving Cancer Drugs?
The British Medical Journal ignited debate earlier this month when it announced that about half of cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency don’t improve survival or quality of life. The claim begs several complex question: How can regulators evaluate drugs both quickly and effectively?
