In recent years, it feels like we’ve been inundated by stories of greedy pharmaceutical companies jacking up the price of important generic…
Peter Ubel MD
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Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer don’t die of the disease. Between 2011 and 2015, 112.6 per 100,000 men per year were…
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Here’s what most medical experts agree on: People 50 and older should be screened for colon cancer. Here’s what is more controversial:…
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Chemotherapy drugs have become ridiculously expensive. Many new drugs come to market costing more than $100,000 per patient for a full course of…
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Sometimes it is hard for hospitals to provide expensive care to poor patients. When a low-income patient needs $20,000 of chemotherapy, a…
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Quick quiz question: two people are diagnosed with melanoma — Sarah Sunburn, an adamant sun-worshipper, and Paula Pale-All-The-Time, a fanatical sun-avoider. Who…
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The oncologist had prescribed Xgeva hoping it would strengthen her bones while also delaying the progression of Angela Kahn’s breast cancer. But…
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About one in fifty people reading this essay will be diagnosed with kidney cancer at some time in their life. In fact,…
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