Imagine cracking open a vial of a $1,000 chemotherapy drug and injecting it into a cancer patient She only needs 1.3 milligrams but the vial contains double that amount. What happens to the rest?

Many medications are typically dosed according to a patient’s weight or other measure of body size. These medications frequently come in uniform, single-dose vials intended for one treatment, but ...

A simple tweak in available vial sizes of the breakthrough Alzheimer's drug Leqembi could save Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars each year, a new analysis claims. About 6% of Leqembi (lecanemab ...

Eli Lilly said it is lowering the cash prices of single-dose vials of its blockbuster weight loss drug Zepbound on its direct-to-consumer platform, LillyDirect. Starting Dec. 1, cash-paying patients ...

A new study suggests that Medicare could save up to $366 million annually by introducing a new vial size for Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, which is currently only available in single-use, 500- and ...

WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) --The vials containing an expensive, controversial drug for Alzheimer's disease are fixed in size, yet the amount required by patients varies widely, since it is administered ...