Study faults prescriptions filled abroad
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Making imported drugs safe for Americans would cost the US government hundreds of millions of dollars a year and consumers would see a savings of only about 1 percent, a federal task force said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - New research from a survey  conducted in Israel suggests that doctors often give inactive  "placebo" pills to their patients and, in most cases, tell them  they're getting a real drug.
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There was a puzzling line in a report in which the Bush Administration asserted it could not vouch for the safety of foreign, lower-cost prescription drugs.
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A Bush administration task force recommended strongly Tuesday against letting US citizens import lower-cost prescription drugs from other countries, saying &quot;it
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NEW YORK  - New research from a survey conducted in Israel suggests that doctors often give inactive &quot;placebo&quot; pills to their patients and, in most cases, tell them they&#39;re getting a real drug.
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NEW YORK -- Only 4 percent of Americans have ever used the Internet to buy prescription drugs -- and even fewer do so through foreign pharmacies -- despite websites maintained by a handful of states to help citizens import medicines more cheaply from Canada, a new study finds.
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Americans, long considered one of the most medicated peoples in the world, are swallowing more pills than ever, according to a report released on Thursday by the US government.
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NEW YORK  - Roughly half of adults who use herbal supplements do not use them in accordance with "evidence-based" indications, U.S. researchers report.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- A new joint program in Illinois and Wisconsin to help residents buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and Europe is the latest challenge to the United States' ban on drug importation.
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While many foreign doctors are drawn to the United States to treat underserved poor and rural areas, some experts and health officials say the physicians are needed more at home.
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With an ever-larger percentage of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming to the U.S. market from developing nations such as China and India, Congress is voicing concern that the number of inspections of those plants by the Food and Drug Administration has grown far more slowly.
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Despite rising drug costs and increased pressure to import cheaper drugs from abroad, a Pew study finds that not many Americans buy prescription drugs through the internet. Most feel drugs purchased online are not as safe.
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Thereâs an inherent conflict of interest when the government conducts comparative-effectiveness studies and then uses those studies to determine which pills are worth buying.
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Five hundred and ninety-six patients, from seven countries (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom) were included in this retrospective analysis* of patients who originally ...
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Experts say that importing drugs from countries that control their prices would not make drugs cheaper in the U.S.
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New research from a survey conducted in Israel suggests that doctors often give inactive "placebo" pills to their patients and, in most cases, tell them they're getting a real drug.
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About two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists are less than fully confident in the agency&#39;s monitoring of the safety of prescription