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Up This Week: High Drug Prices Lead To Drug Misuse | Brain Aneurysm Through The Eyes of A Survivor
Category: Health
Duration: 00:00:45
Publish Date: 2019-05-06 00:00:00
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A look at what is coming up on Radio Health Journal for the week of May 5, 2019 including: Millions of Americans cannot afford the medications they’ve been prescribed. Many skip doses, split pills or don’t fill prescriptions at all as a result, with sometimes even fatal consequences. But doctors are often unable to consider cost very well in prescribing, as the same drug often costs patients vastly different amounts due to insurance differences. Experts discuss the problem and what patients can do to save. Then, Brain aneurysms—bulging in a brain blood vessel, like an inflated balloon—affect 1 in 50 people and are generally without symptoms until they burst. This occurs in about 30,000 people per year in the US, accounting for 3-5 percent of all new strokes. Here is the story of one survivor in her own words.
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