Prescription drug plan unaffordable: official
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A prescription drug benefit of the  U.S. Medicare program is a "financially irresponsible" addition  to a system that was already on course for possible bankruptcy,  the U.S. government's top accountant said in an interview on  Sunday.
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Canada&#39;s health minister says this country cannot &quot;be the drug store of the United States.&quot;. Ujjal Dosanjh&#39;s warning comes as several states are pushing to buy low-cost prescription drugs north of the border.
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Canada's top health official warned yesterday that his government may try to stop prescription drug shipments to US consumers if the trade keeps growing.
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Every year, doctors write approximately 65 million prescriptions for drugs not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the federal agency that regulates prescription drugs.
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The Food and Drug Administration recommended Thursday that doctors limit prescriptions for the popular pain pills Celebrex and Bextra because recent
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Many chronically ill patients never  tell their doctor or nurse they've had to cut back on  prescription drugs because they are too expensive, and many  physicians never ask if the drugs are unaffordable, a study  said on Monday.
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Drug safety measures pending in the House of Representatives may burden regulators without protecting patients from dangerous medicines, a senior Food and Drug Administration official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
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Canada may halt shipments of prescription drugs to the United States if sales grow so much that they cause drug shortages in Canada, Canadian Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh warned during a speech Wednesday at Harvard Medical School.
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SEATTLE -- Washington state&#39;s Medicaid system cannot account for 1.4 million pills, thousands of people who are dead or lack Social Security numbers are receiving benefits and abuse of mental patients may be unreported, auditors believe.
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When the federal government says it can&#39;t afford a national pharmacare program -- the one recently proposed by the provinces -- what it&#39;s really saying is that the provinces can&#39;t afford what they already have.
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Dr. Graham said, &quot;The FDA, as currently configured, is incapable of protecting America against another Vioxx. We are virtually defenseless.
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A nationally funded pharmacare plan proposed by the premiers will be too costly, the federal Finance Minister said Thursday, and acknowledged that this September&#39;s meeting with the first ministers may include some head-butting over ...
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The Bush administration says it is baffled over how few Medicare beneficiaries are signing up for a demonstration program that subsidizes expensive prescription drugs.
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WASHINGTON - Far from the expected deluge, relatively few patients with cancer and other serious illnesses have applied for generous early Medicare prescription drug coverage.    The Bush administration was planning a lottery to determine who would get the 50,000 slots included in last year's Medicare prescription drug law...
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Although the volume of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming into the country from foreign manufacturers in developing nations such as India and China has exploded in recent years, the Food and Drug Administration's budget for foreign inspections has not kept pace and will be lower in 20...
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Canada&#39;s top health official warned yesterday that his government may try to stop prescription drug shipments to US consumers if the trade keeps growing.
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The Bush administration defended the Medicare prescription drug benefit program on Monday as being cheaper than initially forecast, challenging the U.S. government's top accountant who called it "fiscally irresponsible."