A nagging cough is one of the most common reasons why people schedule a doctor’s visit, especially during cold and flu season. It’s just a cough with no other symptoms — no runny nose, no headaches — but it won’t go away. Could it be lung cancer? Tuberculosis? Here’s what may be causing your cough…

Amid news of the White House’s new plan to curb high drug prices, a tragic story from 2009 has resurfaced of a woman who died after being denied coverage for her life-saving epilepsy medication. Even more upsetting is that this tragedy was due to a prior authorization, an insurance restriction that thousands of Americans deal…

We’re always amazed to hear from doctors and pharmacists who use GoodRx to help their patients save money — especially when it’s a matter of getting a medication or not at all. When we saw this tweet from Volunteers in Medicine (VIM), naturally, we reached out to learn more about their organization. We were able…

As if charging people over $15,000 per month for two specialty medications wasn’t already enough, manufacturer Bayer increased their prices by 8% in May to over $18,000 per month, according to a GoodRx analysis. The GoodRx Index also showed the following drug trends in May: Brand-name diabetes medications keep getting more expensive. Allergy season rages…

Prescriptions for depression and anxiety medications are on the rise among Americans – and parts of the country appear to be coping with higher rates than others, according to a GoodRx analysis of prescription data for anxiety and depression medicines. The data looks at the proportion of depression and anxiety medications among overall prescription volume…

With 2018 being an especially bad year for allergies, you may be reconsidering your current allergy medication. The sheer number of allergy relief commercials that crop up during these high-pollen months can make it pretty tempting. Among the brands frequently advertised are household names like Claritin (loratadine), Allegra (fexofenadine), and Zyrtec (cetirizine), but there’s a…

Medicare is spending more on brand-name drugs even as fewer of these drugs are being prescribed. Through Medicare Part D, the nation’s prescription drug benefit plan for Medicare beneficiaries, total brand-name medications cost 77% more in 2015 than they did just five years earlier, despite the number of these prescriptions actually dropping by almost 20%….

As part of the continued efforts to curb the opioid epidemic, naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, is now available without a prescription in some states. Naloxone, and the brand-name version, Narcan, are both used to rapidly reverse the symptoms of a deadly opioid overdose. Brand-name Narcan is dispensed…

Antidepressants, blood pressure drugs, and allergy medicines are some of the many popular medications that can affect your dreams, and not always in a good way. Medications that influence the neurotransmitters in our brain — those same chemicals that affect our mood and alertness — often come with the reported side effect of causing disturbing…

Prices for common estrogen medications, widely used to treat symptoms of menopause, have doubled since 2014 and have increased at an annual rate of 50% since that time. More than 55 million women in the US are over the age of 51, the average age of menopause, and over half experience symptoms for which vaginal…