Could direct-to-consumer drug pricing compete with prescription insurance?
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Oct-2025 10:11 ET (29-Oct-2025 14:11 GMT/UTC)
A new study offers a glimpse at how direct-to-consumer pharmacy pricing could one day present stiff competition to the private prescription drug insurance model, researchers say.
The future of the electricity market may depend less on big power plants and more on everyday choices made at home. Nayeem Rahman’s dissertation at the University of Vaasa, Finland, shows how consumers are gaining influence through energy flexibility, with direct implications for sustainability and costs.
The U.S. has traditionally been an agricultural powerhouse with a healthy trade surplus. But global dynamics are changing due to a confluence of political and economic factors. U.S. agricultural imports now exceed exports, and the trade deficit is projected to worsen in the coming years. In a new study, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Texas Tech University discuss recent developments affecting the U.S. trade in row crops such as corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton.