Few Enroll in Low-Cost Drug Demonstration
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations.
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Relatively few people appear to be taking advantage of a new state law that allows them to purchase up to 20 hypodermic syringes without a prescription
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U.S. program allots $15 billion to buy low cost combination drugs made by foreign companies, opening the way to treat more patients in poor countries.
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India and China, countries where the Food and Drug Administration rarely conducts quality-control inspections, have become major suppliers of low-cost drugs and drug ingredients to American consumers. Analysts say their products are becoming pervasive in the generic and over-the-counter marketplace.
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Annual inflation in drug costs is at the lowest rate in three decades as generic versions of some of the most common drugs have recently come on the market.
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Medicare will be mailing out 1.8 million drug discount cards to low-income Americans who are eligible but have not yet applied. The cards will allow low-income earners to qualify for an additional $1,200 in
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Low-income seniors and working families without prescription drug coverage can begin applying for a state discount card. The card will cut the cost of their medication by an average 20 percent a month.
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Only about 10 percent of people who are suitable candidates for two drugs received one of them last year.
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A month after a new U.S. law  encouraging the development of medicines to counter  bioterrorism, some drugmakers are lobbying for more incentives  to make products that may never be used.
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ISLAMABAD: Raising public awareness about HIV/AIDS has been limited because the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) has been unable to run advertisements on the electronic and print media for the last seven months.
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MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Many Americans are not taking all their medicines because they can't afford them, and most aren't telling their doctors about it, new research shows.
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Many cannot easily shop around for the best bargains on their drugs, as other Medicare beneficiaries are supposed to do.
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Standard flu shots are scarce these days, but finding vaccines that don&#39;t contain a controversial mercury-based ingredient are also in short supply.
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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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Nearly two million poor people will soon receive Medicare drug discount cards in the mail, a new step by the Bush administration to boost enrollment in the program.
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CAN WE possibly gather together around the healthcare table and find a way to offer low-cost health insurance and reduce the ranks of the uninsured?
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Project BioShield, a $5.6 billion effort to expand the nationÂs medical stockpile, has largely failed to deliver, critics say.