How much is a life worth? It’s not an easy question, but that doesn’t stop the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review from trying to calculate an answer – even if it means using biased tools.
The incidence of Parkinson’s disease among older Americans has been underestimated for years – by a stunning 50%. That pushes the number of new Parkinson’s diagnoses up to 90,000 annually, according to a new study.
Health plans are quietly cutting more and more medications from their list of approved drugs, narrowing patients’ treatment options.
“I’ve been working with a patient, a male in his late 20s, for a few years now. He showed some early signs of schizophrenia in high school but worked through them and went to college across the country. It was there, away from everything familiar, that he had his first symptoms of psychosis. He left school and moved home.”
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