The rising cost and use of brand name prescription drugs has emerged over the past two years as the one of the newest consensus drivers of health care spending in Massachusetts, according to a new analysis that found price increases, rather than increased utilization of services, as a major contributor to spending growth.
Two years ago, Freedman HealthCare did an analysis for the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans reviewing 16 state reports on health care spending to identify trends within the findings.
(CNSNews.com) – An Iraqi woman in whose home Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi allegedly raped an American aid worker has been indicted in the U.S. for her role in the conspiracy that led to the death of the hostage.
Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, 25, is the widow of Abu Sayyaf, a senior ISIS leader killed during a U.S. Special Forces raid on their home in eastern Syria last May. Bahar, also known as Umm Sayyaf, was captured during the raid and a young Yazidi woman being held as a slave was rescued.
