Some States Are Reporting Incomplete COVID-19 Results, Blurring The Full Picture
Several states are reporting only positive COVID-19 test results from private labs, a practice that paints a misleading picture of how fast the disease is spreading.
Fred Schulte
New Federal Rules Will Let Patients Put Medical Records On Smartphones
Federal officials on Monday released groundbreaking rules that will let patients download their electronic health records and other health care data onto their smartphones.
Feds Want To Show Health Care Costs On Your Phone, But That Could Take Years
Federal officials are proposing new regulations that for the first time could allow patients to compare prices charged by various hospitals and other health care providers using data sent to their smartphones.
Rival Opioid Makers Sought To Cash In On Alarm Over OxyContin’s Dangers
When critics attacked Purdue Pharma for deaths linked to OxyContin, rivals stepped up their marketing of other potentially dangerous painkillers, such as fentanyl and morphine.
As Purdue Pharma faced mounting criticism over deaths linked to OxyContin, rival drugmakers saw a chance to boost sales by stepping up marketing of similarly dangerous painkillers, such as fentanyl, morphine and methadone, Purdue internal documents reveal.
How America Got Hooked On A Deadly Drug
Purdue Pharma left almost nothing to chance in its whirlwind marketing of its new painkiller OxyContin.
