How Do Drug Formularies Work?
Your health insurance plan includes a list called a formulary — a directory of the drugs it covers. If you’ve ever been stunned at how much it cost you to fill a prescription, it’s possible that medication wasn’t on your formulary. The formulary is also called a preferred drug list (PDL). At first glance, you may think you need More...
How to Talk to Your Doctor About Drug Costs
Like many people, you may not know how much a prescription costs until you get to the pharmacy. When you pick it up, you might be shocked by the high price. Your doctor may prescribe a medication without knowing More...
A Carefully Considered Morning Ritual That Can Brighten Your Day
Raelle Brown is a powerful voice for many – for women of color, for women with eczema, and for anyone needing a role model with strength and self-assurance. A video producer More...
Weight Loss Drugs With Your Gym Membership? What to Know
April 24, 2024 – Weights, aerobics, and … Wegovy? Some in the fitness industry are moving to dispense the popular GLP-1 medications to club members, combining the new, easier method of losing weight with More...
Easing Tamoxifen, Aromatase Inhibitors’ Side Effects for Breast Cancer Treatment
Many people who’ve had breast cancer take medications – tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors – to help prevent the cancer from coming back. Doctors prescribe them for people with “hormone positive” tumors, More...
Have Male Urinary Tract Symptoms? An App May Offer Relief
April 24, 2024 – The urgent need to pee, a strangled flow, and the feeling that you didn’t get it all out. Those are symptoms of male lower urinary tract problems, and more than 72% of men experience at More...
What Is a Breast Cancer Pathology Report?
When you find out that you have breast cancer, your pathology report is a key document in your health records. A pathology report explains what a doctor called a pathologist found when examining a piece of More...
Breast Cancer Mammography vs. Thermography
Women should continue to get regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer and not turn to thermography, the FDA and other breast cancer experts say, because thermography hasn’t been shown to be effective More...
Are Transgender People at Risk of Breast Cancer?
People of all genders can get breast cancer, so it’s important for trans men and trans women to consider that as part of their health care. “Anyone who has breast tissue could potentially or theoretically More...
Common Chemicals: Breast Cancer Link?
Every day, we encounter hundreds of chemicals from a wide variety of sources — the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the personal products we use, and other items we touch and use at More...
