Anyone who watches television or reads popular magazines knows the amount of money spent on advertising for prescription drugs has increased dramatically in the past few years. We are practically ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to ensure controlled substances, like narcotic painkillers, aren't diverted to the illegal drug market. It has recommended that long-term pharmacies collect ...

Lecanemab's weight-based dosing and single-use vials result in significant drug wastage, impacting Medicare spending. An analysis estimated $133 million to $336 million in wasted spending due to ...

As payers tally up the potential costs of anti-amyloid antibodies for Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests that the vial design for Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi could result in hundreds of millions ...

Medicare could waste up to $605 million per year on the controversial Alzheimer's drug aducanumab if it is eventually approved for widespread use because it is supplied in vials containing fixed doses ...

Implementing a strategy that focuses on dose rounding for chemotherapies can have a 3-fold impact of decreasing drug costs, minimizing drug waste, and improving treatment efficiency. This strategy and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Multiuse eye drop bottles are often discarded at medical centers long before the FDA-regulated expiration date, ...

Getting patients to return unused oral anticancer drugs to the pharmacy and then having the pharmacy redispense those medications that meet quality standards is a promising strategy to save money and ...

Three billion dollars: It's enough to finance the annual out-of-pocket costs for 1 in 7 patients with cancer. It would cover almost half of the National Cancer Institute's annual budget. And it could ...