Some Employers Are Offering Free Drugs
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To reduce costs, a number of employers are giving away drugs to help workers manage chronic conditions.
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The pharmaceutical files another marketing application.
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Patients in Wales are getting cheaper prescriptions -  the first step towards fulfilling a Labour promise to scrap them.
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AMERICANS have been pouring greater and greater portions of the their salaries into health care over the past few years. And what makes most employees sick is that they are getting less and less for their money.
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But more companies are letting their employees treat it like one.
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Hoping to send the message that pets are life-long partners not disposable accessories, a Japanese maker of medicines for animals has begun giving employees who own dogs or cats a monthly "family allowance" for their pets.
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The state today will kick off a new drug prescription program that could provide as many as 200,000 lower-income people an average cash savings of 20 percent on drug purchases.
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For the first time in many European countries, nonprescription drugs are being sold over the counter at outlets other than pharmacies.
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Pharmaceutical companies launched an effort yesterday to provide significant price discounts for 275 brand-name drugs to 36 million Americans who lack prescription drug coverage.
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The fall can be an anxious time for employees across the country, as companies hold their annual open enrollment periods and invite workers to choose benefits from a complex range of health insurance, disability coverage and retirement savings alternatives.
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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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The Food and Drug Administration is giving workers more than $8 million in bonuses to keep them from defecting to pharmaceutical and other regulated industries, at the same time the agency is being pressed to spend more on food and drug safety.
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One in 12 full-time workers in the United States acknowledges having used illegal drugs in the past month, the government reports.
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The F.D.A. has begun to crack down on the thousands of drugs, often made by small companies, that have never had to go through the agencyâs stringent approval process.
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It's the cost of competition. Large federal agencies are increasingly offering bonuses to recruit employees for hard-to-fill jobs and to keep them from leaving the government.
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Ten major drug manufacturers unveiled a new discount card Tuesday that could help millions of uninsured Americans save money on prescription drugs.
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Insured and wealthy Americans were more likely than the poor to get billions of dollars in free drug samples distributed by pharmaceutical companies to win patient and doctor loyalty, a study released on Wednesday showed.