For months now, pharmacy and health benefits companies have fretted that theyre the next targets of Jeff Bezoss disruption steamroller, but Amazon hasnt yet figured out how to shake up a notoriously complex business.
Doctors blame holdups in getting the treatment paid for by Medicare and Medicaid, the two giant U.S. government health programs, as well as some of the U.S.s largest insurers.
The state law attempts to dictate national health-care policy related to drug prices in violation of the United States Constitution, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America said in a statement Friday.
U.S. regulators approved the first medicine with an embedded sensor to help keep track of whether patients with mental illness are adhering to their prescriptions.
Proponents of virtual reality say that it can be an effective treatment for everything from intense pain to Alzheimers disease to arachnophobia to depression.