Alan Goforth is a freelance writer in suburban Kansas City. In addition to freelancing for several publications, he has written a dozen books about sports and other topics.
The Labor Department proposed new rules on Tuesday that would ensure financial advisors make recommendations "in the saver's best interest" and not sell them lower-returning products in order to maximize their own fees.
Doctors, researchers and patient advocates are cautiously optimistic about the liquid biopsy test that screens for more than 50 types of cancers, however, 62% of people who got positive results in a Lancet study didn't have cancer.
Lawmakers took the first step last week to address longstanding issues with how much Medicare should pay doctors, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed a 3.3% cut to Medicare payments for 2024.
Even before Rite Aid filed bankruptcy a few weeks ago, CVS and Walgreens had already announced store closures over the past two years, all of which will leave millions of consumers without easy access to their medications.
For a monthly fee, GNC Health is offering members low-cost virtual health care for urgent conditions, primary care appointments, mental health, physical therapy, and $0 prescription medications.
Joining Walgreens, CVS Health and Walmart, Amazon is the latest retail pharmacy to experiment with drone delivery of prescriptions, promising dropoff in 60 minutes or less to "narrow the golden window from diagnosis to treatment."