Novo Nordisk Partners with Glooko to Unveil Diabetes Monitoring App

Novo Nordisk and Glooko have unveiled their co-created diabetes monitoring app, Cornerstones4Care, of C4C. The app combines Novo Nordisk’s existing online content with Glooko’s technology to sync blood glucose and activity data from any exercise or activity monitoring...

PhRMA Launches National Drug Price Campaign

PhRMA introduced its latest drug-cost campaign, “Let’s Talk About Cost,” this week. The campaign will serve as a digital, print, and social effort to discuss the rising costs of care, and how to combat them. PhRMA members met with President Trump earlier this year to...

Gilead Releases Granted Approval for Second-Line Hepatitis C Drug

Gilead was granted FDA approval this week for this latest Hepatitis C medication, Vosevi. The three-part pharmaceutical combines sofsbuvir and velpatasvir in a multi-week regime. The drug has been approved as a second-line defense. Vosevi has already been approved in...

GOP Leaders Kill Healthcare Bill, Move Ahead with Obamacare Repeal

The GOP has unveiled plans to move forward without replacing the ACA, and instead repealing the act without an approved healthcare bill. After inter-party opposition to the latest GOP bill, The Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, senate leaders have decided to...

Senate GOP Releases Updated Healthcare Bill

The Senate GOP has unveiled a revised Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, formerly known as the American Health Care Act. Under the revised version released July 13, an additional $70 billion will be allotted to help reduce premiums and make health insurance more...

Insurers Move Back into Bare Obamacare Counties

Insurers have begun moving back into counties where insurance plans had previously been “bare.” Following the exit of many payers from the Affordable Care Act, some insurance companies are taking the non-existent market as their chance to offer comprehensive...