Wednesday, July 02, 2025
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Researchers have found that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) -- organizations that negotiate access to medicines for most patients in the United States -- steer patients to use their own pharmacies. However, these pharmacies appear less used in Medicare than in other market segments. These PBMs are part of integrated health care conglomerates that own insurance companies and pharmacies, which may create conflicts of interest.
Read more …Medicare rules may reduce prescription steering

Many people use the new year to reflect on their relationship with alcohol. Just-released government guidelines are giving Americans another reason to consider a “dry January[1].”

Over the past few decades, mounting scientific evidence has shown that as little as 1-2 alcoholic drinks per day can lead to increases in the likelihood of several cancers[2]. This prompted the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, to release a...

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Three stems of cannabis leaves, a stethoscope, and a pack of white pills and tincture bottle lie on a green background.

In states where both medical and recreational marijuana are legal, fewer patients are filling prescriptions for medications used to treat anxiety. That is the key finding[1] of my recent study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open.

I am an applied policy researcher[2] who studies the economics of risky behaviors and substance use within the United States. My collaborators and I wanted to understand how medical and...

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