The 10-year-old Prince George’s County boy who was stranded in a Children’s National Medical Center psychiatric ward for eight weeks has been moved to a long-term-care facility near Philadelphia. At a hearing Thursday before D.C. Superior Court Senior Judge Eugene N. Hamilton, an attorney for Children’s Hospital said the hospital paid for an ambulance to take the boy — along with his medication and paperwork — to the facility. His mother accompanied him, according to Rhea Yo, the boy’s court-appointed attorney. Read full article > >

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Boy stranded at Children’s Hospital is moved to Pa. facility

A pharmaceutical company that has come under intense criticism for charging $1,500 a dose for a drug that prevents women from giving birth too soon announced Friday that it was slashing the price of the medication.

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Pharmaceutical company slashes price of preterm baby drug Makena

The price of an FDA-approved drug to prevent premature births — $30,000 for an at-risk pregnancy — is drawing intense criticism from patients and doctors. A version of the medication has been available for years at a fraction of the cost.

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Critics slam cost of FDA-approved drug to prevent preterm births

Hayley Russell was 13 and worried about another acne flare-up when she brought an orange prescription bottle to Rachel Carson Middle School in Fairfax County. She placed the medication on the top shelf of her locker so she could retrieve an antibiotic pill to take at lunch.

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Teenager suspended from Fairfax County school over acne drug

Patients with high blood pressure, or hypertension, would benefit from advice sessions on their medication, say UK researchers.

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Tips on hypertension ‘are needed’

Patients who take their medication from tablets which are divided up could be at risk of taking incorrect doses a study suggests.

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Splitting tablets ‘may be risky’