Medicare to Cover Viagra Under New Drug Benefit
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Viagra, the blockbuster impotence  drug, will be paid for under Medicare's new prescription drug  coverage, officials said on Tuesday.
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The new law has touched off a battle between insurance companies and drug companies that could determine how many medicines will be readily available to Medicare beneficiaries.
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WASHINGTON - Low-income seniors and those with extremely high prescription drug expenses will get the most from the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, according to a new study.
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(CBS) Food and Drug Administration advisers are scheduled on Thursday to review Procter and Gamble&#39;s Intrinsa, which could be the first prescription medication to win approval for female sexual dysfunction.
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The U.S. government on Tuesday proposed expanding Medicare coverage for costly, potentially life-saving implanted heart devices, a decision expected to benefit makers Guidant Corp., Medtronic Inc. and St. Jude Medical Inc.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has ordered Pfizer, Inc., to pull new advertisements for Viagra that depicted users of the anti-impotence pill as mischievous playboys.
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The Bush administration has devised a plan to make Medicare drug benefits available to the elderly in 2006 by dividing the nation into 34 regions, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
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Medicare is paying for new and expensive treatments and tests conditional on agreement by companies or other groups to pay for studies on whether they actually worked.
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A San Francisco public health official has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to reclassify Viagra as a controlled substance, which would place the popular impotence pill in a category reserved for prescribed steroids and other legal drugs
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Men who take multiple blood pressure medications can also take Viagra without risking additional problems, according to a new study.
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Television advertisements promoting  Pfizer Inc.'s impotence drug Viagra omit key information and  should be withdrawn, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said  in a letter to the company released on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Men who take multiple blood  pressure medications can also take Viagra without risking  additional problems, according to a new study.
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A US group advising Medicare on its new prescription drug benefit released a proposal on Thursday that could determine how likely the latest medicines are to be covered for the elderly.
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When people enroll in a Medicare drug plan later this year, the first option for paying their monthly premiums will no longer be through a deduction in their Social Security check. Instead, the government will encourage beneficiaries to pay insurers directly.
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Viagra, Pfizer Inc's famous impotence  treatment, demonstrated promise in a late-stage clinical trial  for use in treating the often-fatal disease pulmonary arterial  hypertension.
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Pfizer Inc. is launching a new program that offers its prescription drugs for free or at a reduced cost to uninsured Americans, the manufacturer said Wednesday.
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Viagra, which treats a common but decidedly nonfatal male malady, might soon have a new role treating a rare but life-threatening disease that strikes mainly women.