A Gallup survey funded by West Health finds that Americans borrowed $88 billion to pay for health care last year
Author: Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY
Challenge to Obamacare could leave 20 million people without health insurance
If GOP states’ court challenge to eliminate the Affordable Care Act succeeds, nearly 20 million Americans could lost health insurance.
Struggling to stay alive: Rising insulin prices cause diabetics to go to extremes
The escalating cost of insulin has desperate diabetics rationing medication, acquiring the drug from friends or getting it from Canada or Mexico.
Marijuana as a cure for opioid use? Nation’s top drug scientist says she’s skeptical
Her biggest concern about using marijuana for opioid-use disorder? “Ifyou don’t treat it properly, your risk of dying is quite high.”
FDA approves new valsartan generic to counter shortages of the blood pressure drug
The FDA approved a new generic version of valsartan to address the drug’s shortage.
Was Luke Perry too young to have a fatal stroke? Not really
The risk of stroke increases with age.But it can be particularly dangerous for adults in middle age (like actor Luke Perry, who was 52) and younger.
FDA: Blood pressure drug losartan recalled over small amounts of carcinogen
A drug company recalled the blood pressure medication losartan after discovering trace amounts of a carcinogen.
Measles spreads as vaccination rates dip: ‘People don’t realize how sick it can make you’
Measles outbreaks in Washington state and New York raise concerns about clusters of unvaccinated children
FDA: Another blood pressure drug, irbesartan, recalled over cancer-causing impurity
Eight lots of the blood pressure-lowering drugs irbesartan and irbesartan HCTZ are recalled after testing reveals a carcinogen
Do you have high blood pressure? It depends on which doctor you ask
Specialists and primary-care doctors disagree on how much blood pressure is too high. Different standards could be confusing patients.