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January 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
More children and working-age Americans are going without prescription drugs because of cost concerns, according to a new national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).
December 9, 2005 | Program Result Report
Richard A. Rawson, Ph.D., evaluated the reasons why naltrexone (a medication-based treatment for alcohol abuse and dependence and opiate addiction) is not widely used by physicians and practitioners.
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Increases in the prevalence of drug-resistant pneumonia present a major infection control challenge for public health.
February 24, 2011 | Story
In 2003, he received an RWJF Investigator Award in Health Policy Research to probe more deeply into pharmaceutical policy at the FDA. The pursuit quickly broadened.
December 21, 2009 | Journal Article
Policy innovations to stimulate drug development succeed, but sometimes with unintended consequences.
March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Despite the introduction of a Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit in January 2006, roughly the same proportion of elderly Medicare beneficiaries in 2003 and 2007--about 8 percent--skipped filling at least one prescription drug because of cost concerns, according to a new national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
February 1, 2008 | Issue Brief
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April 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
The National Conference of State Legislatures tracked state-level legislative and ballot initiatives involving the medical use of marijuana as part of the organization's Health Policy Tracking Service.
June 3, 2006 | Program Result Report
Between July 2002 and June 2005, researchers at Roswell Park examined whether use of these nicotine replacement therapies (also called NRT) and smoking quit rates changed after reclassification.
January 1, 2005 | Commentary
Previous research has demonstrated that individuals who are severely addicted to cigarettes may have more difficulty quitting, higher rates of relapse and greater risk of smoking-related diseases than lighter smokers. The effectiveness of current to ...