Drug Company Under Fire For 5,000 Percent Drug Markup
The company that makes the life-saving drug Daraprim increased the price for one tablet by 5-thousand percent, from $13.50 to $750.00.
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The company that makes the life-saving drug Daraprim increased the price for one tablet by 5-thousand percent, from $13.50 to $750.00.
Alleging that they performed second-trimester abortions without proper licenses, Gov. Rick Scott's administration is moving to sanction two more Florida abortion providers --- in addition to Planned Parenthood clinics in Naples, St. Petersburg and Fort Myers already facing potential fines.
Chris Young is a lifelong gun enthusiast, but his wife Lesley got rid of his rifles not long after the couple moved back to Florida nearly two years ago.
Isabel Vinueza is young, healthy and gets plenty of exercise.That's why she couldn't fathom what was happening to her when she suffered a stroke at 26-years old.
Two South Florida lawmakers are renewing an effort to create a pilot needle-exchange program in Miami-Dade County in an effort to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
Three salmonella cases may be part of an outbreak that sickened hundreds and it may be linked to cucumbers distributed in various states including Florida.
A House Republican has proposed the creation of a program that would offer financial help to dentists who practice in underserved areas.
Taking up a health-care issue backed by House leaders, a Senate Republican on Thursday filed a bill that would allow patients to stay longer at ambulatory-surgical centers and allow the operation of "recovery care centers."
Thousands of children in the Florida Healthy Kids health-insurance program will see their rates jump as of October 1st and state officials are blaming the federal Affordable Care Act.
Scientists have finally figured out how the key gene tied to obesity makes people fat, a major discovery that could open the door to an entirely new approach to the problem beyond diet and exercise.
There's a new trend in fitness that has people bouncing into their exercise routines - literally.
The FDA has approved a drug to help women's libidos.
As more people want to find out what's going on inside their bodies, doctors are offering patients a way to personalize their skin care and it involves taking a look at an individual's DNA.
When we go to the store, we like to have plenty of choices and we like to know the cost of those choices. The healthcare marketplace is no different. In a growing demand for transparency, medical price websites are on the rise.
Insert a balloon into your stomach, start to lose weight. Those are the basics of a new procedure you can only get from a University of Miami doctor.
