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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

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Let’s now shift to the public health crisis in Americans’ mental health, which the pandemic certainly exacerbated. IQVIA’s national prescription data revealed that prescriptions for mental health drugs grew 8% since 2019 — with a 33% rise among girls under 19.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

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rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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Prescription Drug Costs In America Through the Patient Lens, via IQVIA, GoodRx and a New $2 Million Therapy

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prescriptions per person in 2018, two in three of which treated chronic conditions. In a call with analysts this week in which I participated, Murray Aitken discussed the report which looks back at 2018 and forward to 2023 with scenarios about what the U.S. Americans consumed 17.6 Welcome to Medicine Use and Spending in the U.S. ,

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