How Alternative Funding Programs Harm Cancer Patients
Patients with cancer deserve swift care that fully meets their needs. But increasingly, alternative funding programs threaten access to cancer treatments. Read One-Pager >
The Right Care for Rare: A Policy Roadmap to Support Rare Disease Patients
Rare disease patients need a clearer path to diagnosis, more treatments and swifter access to timely care. Policies must acknowledge these needs and encourage innovative treatments for people living with rare diseases. Read Paper
Breath of Fresh Care: Improving Asthma Patients’ Access to Innovative Treatments
Asthma and inhalers are closely intertwined in the minds of most Americans, even those without any personal connection to the widespread respiratory condition. Far fewer are aware of powerful new options that can significantly improve a patient’s relationship with their asthma. Read Physician’s Perspective
Obesity & Mental Health
Charles Nguyen, MD, discusses the connection between mental health and obesity in this Q&A. Read Interview
Elevating the Experiences of Schizophrenia Patients & Providers
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that affects roughly 2 million Americans. Patients may experience and interpret reality in an abnormal manner, leading to hallucinations, delusions and disordered thinking. The disease burdens patients and those around them physically, mentally, emotionally, financially and socially. Read Paper
At What Price? Medication Value, Patient Care & the Inflation Reduction Act
What happens when government agencies and health care providers disagree on the value of medical treatments?
Pharmacy Benefit Managers’ Impact on Patient Access
With the cost of health care increasing in recent decades, pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, have become an increasingly prominent player in the lives of Americans and their clinicians.
Overburdened by Alzheimer’s: The Need for Care, Innovation and Access
Affecting 6 million Americans, Alzheimer’s disease permanently alters families and communities across the United States. For patients and their loved ones, the most frightening aspect of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis may not be the eventual fatal outcome. It’s the mental and physical deterioration that is, in many cases, prolonged over the course of years.
Left Out: How Health Plan Exclusion Lists Undermine Migraine Treatment
Headache and migraine patients’ choice of treatment options is narrowing as health plans exclude coverage for more medications and devices.
Treatment for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Daily life can be difficult for people with Parkinson’s, a relentlessly progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects both movement and cognition.
