W hen 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht went to Walgreens to refill his asthma inhaler in 2024, he was shocked to learn that the ...

Five days after a pharmacy visit, Cole Schmidtknect had a severe asthma attack, stopped breathing and collapsed, his family said.

They add or subtract medications through a process that emphasizes profits for the pharmacy benefit manager by way of “rebates” from drug makers, said Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy and ...

Five days before 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht suffered a fatal asthma attack, a pharmacist informed him that the price of his inhaler had unexpectedly increased by 700%, a shocking price hike that ...

When 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht tried to get a refill on the inhaler prescribed by his doctor to prevent asthma attacks, the medication that had formerly cost him less than $70 at his Appleton ...