Drugs that cost as much as a house are on the way to treat rare and devastating diseases. The US is scrambling to figure out how to pay for them.

Learn more about BI Prime View online           Science Select           Drugs that cost as much as a house are on the way to treat rare and devastating diseases. The US is scrambling to figure out how to pay for them.   The cost of gene therapies will put a huge financial strain on the US health system as new products become available to treat more common diseases.   READ MORE           NASA's newest planet-hunting telescope just discovered a 'super-Earth' and 2 'sub-Neptunes' less than 75 light-years away — among the closest exoplanets ever found   TESS, the space telescope searching for alien worlds, has discovered three nearby exoplanets that could offer clues about how planets form.   READ MORE           CVS wants to change where millions of Americans go when they get sick. Here's how it plans to get them in the door in the first place.   CVS's marketing chief is working to change why customers come into the pharmacy, balancing what customers want to buy with what's good for them.   READ MORE             A spectacular meteor shower is coming — here's what you're actually seeing   From the Perseids in August to the Leonids in November, meteor showers are light shows we can count on each year. Here's what you're actually seeing.   READ MORE           Aetna will now pay for more kids with a devastating rare disease to get a $2.1 million drug, reversing earlier denials   Business Insider's reporting highlighted families fighting for access to the treatment, Zolgensma, which is the most expensive drug in the world.   READ MORE           The Trump administration wants you to know how much your medical procedures will cost — and hospitals are up in arms   The Trump adminstration said it wants to make public information about the prices hospitals set and the prices they negotiate with health insurers.   READ MORE           The $1.2 trillion pharma industry has ambitions for AI technology, but 'people are ignoring' a lot of its uses   AI is being explored across the healthcare industry to drive faster drug discovery and more effective clinical trials.   READ MORE           Facebook says it's one step closer to its vision of letting people type with their brains   For the first time, researchers at UCSF were able to take the brain activity of participants and simultaneously decode what was being said.   READ MORE           $11 billion drugmaker Mylan and US drug giant Pfizer are teaming up to reshape Mylan's business. 3 tough questions from Wall Street analysts show the challenging road ahead.   Wall Street analysts asked big questions about the new company's future. Execs occasionally got testy.   READ MORE           The 'lungs of the planet' are in danger of reaching a tipping point that could turn the Amazon rainforest into a savannah   Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has broken records in July. Scientists warn that, after a point, the Amazon might not be able to recover.   READ MORE           Was this email forwarded to you? SUBSCRIBE NOW     Share this     You received this email because you signed up to this Business Insider newsletter using the email: nguyenvu1187.love5@blogger.com   Email preferences Unsubscribe TERMS OF SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY 1 Liberty Plaza, 8th Floor. New York, NY 10006