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How Your Phone's SIM Card Could Make Medicines Cheaper |  Digital trends

How Your Phone’s SIM Card Could Make Medicines Cheaper | Digital trends

Electronic gadgets are a potpourri of expensive and rare items, but the majority of them end up accumulating in an electronic waste landfill instead of being recycled. It’s not because we don’t have the technology to recycle it, but because of factors like cost management and process efficiency. SIM cards are among the parts of …

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Cigna's PBM Express scripts latest to put Abbvie's cheaper Humira biosimilars on preferred drug list

Cigna’s PBM Express scripts latest to put Abbvie’s cheaper Humira biosimilars on preferred drug list

Cigna’s pharmacy benefits manager, Express Scripts, will offer “multiple” biosimilar versions of Abbvie … [+] the expensive rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira in the “same position as the brand” on PBMs as a formulary in 2023. AbbVie’s signature drug, Humira, is shown in this illustration Friday, July 18, 2014, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Copyright …

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FDA change ushers in cheaper, easier-to-get hearing aids

FDA change ushers in cheaper, easier-to-get hearing aids

It’s now much easier — and cheaper — for many hearing-impaired Americans to get help. Hearing aids can now be sold without a prescription from a specialist. Over-the-counter, or OTC, hearing aids began hitting the market in October at prices that can be thousands of dollars lower than prescription hearing aids. About 30 million people …

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Twenty years later, HIV activist still fights for access to cheaper drugs - Health Policy Watch

Twenty years later, HIV activist still fights for access to cheaper drugs – Health Policy Watch

fatima hassan “The reason we brought the case is because we saw the ‘Lazarus’ drugs. We’ve seen them work for people in the United States. We saw them working for people in Europe,” Hassan said. “We have seen what Brazilian and Thai activists are doing to try to put in place mandatory measures for their …

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'Family problem' fix makes thousands qualify for cheaper insurance

‘Family problem’ fix makes thousands qualify for cheaper insurance

The “open enrollment” window to purchase federally subsidized healthcare opened Nov. 1 and will run through Jan. 15. cheaper insurance — but I don’t know. “We’re concerned that if people had checked out this program in the past years, they (might not have qualified) and now they won’t be coming back to check again,” said …

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