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In 2023, Sheldon Ekirch was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy, which makes her limbs and muscles feel as if they’re on fire. Specialists recommended a series of infusions to ease her pain, but her insurer refused to pay for the expensive treatment, which it says is “not considered medically necessary.”

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Pat Farrell PhD - April 4, 2025

Medications subject to tariff could mean a return to readily available cultural, homeopathic medications.

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Richard Hatzfeld - February 22, 2023

How America’s pharmaceutical industry can help prevent an erosion of the U.S. healthcare system.

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