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Pre-term births; toxic stress; a 6-year-old with PTSD — mental health experts say such woes are at epidemic levels. The Center for Health Reporting partnered with The Orange County Register on this deep dive on politics’ negative impacts on the Latinx community.

Sixteen percent of all U.S. healthcare expenditures can be attributed to patients failing to properly adhere to their prescriptions. Pharmacists can be an important, and valuable, part of a patient’s care team.

Private plans have the potential to lead the way toward innovative contracting approaches that emphasize value and, in doing so, deliver on the original vision for the Part D marketplace.

This public-private partnership is delivering high-quality health care at comparatively low cost.

A new study suggests benefits to patient health and society top billions of dollars, or more, if adherence to wet age-related macular degeneration treatments could be improved.

Dana Goldman and Darius Lakdawalla are evaluating affordable ways to address the rising number of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias patients, including developing novel reimbursement frameworks, to ensure these patients have access when an innovative treatment becomes available.

USC Schaeffer Center experts found significant racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes complications and examined the impact of the ACA on patients with diabetes in two separate studies.

In an op-ed for The Hill, Professor Neeraj Sood writes that until legislators and regulators understand where the profits are flowing in the prescription drug distribution system, bills to control prices risk being ineffective.

Summer’s story reveals the weaknesses in San Francisco’s mental illness and addiction treatment system, according to a Center for Health Reporting-sponsored story.

Since the 1990s, children, adolescents, and young adults have also experienced dramatic increases in exposure to and harms from prescription opioids.