State audit criticizes prescription drug program
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State auditors said they found widespread mismanagement in a state program to pay for prescription drugs for low-income families that cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
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OTTAWA -- The federal government is wasting tens of millions on prescription drugs and its billion-dollar annual investment in native education is actually losing ground, Auditor-General Sheila Fraser said yesterday.
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Pushing more of the cost of prescription drugs onto consumers causes patients to cut back, sometimes with adverse health consequences, according to a review of two decades worth of studies published on Tuesday.
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Just as the Enron scandal triggered an overhaul of corporate accounting practices, the nation's prescription drug crisis may prompt a sweeping revamp of the way the Food and Drug Administration ensures drug safety, some say.
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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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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."
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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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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food  and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of a  Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic and some other prescription drugs on  Tuesday.
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Sexual performance drugs such as Viagra will be covered in Medicare's new prescription drug program, a lifestyle rather than lifesaving benefit that conservatives and watchdog groups say the government shouldn't provide.
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Low-income Americans who get a government subsidy are projected to have most of their spending on prescription medicines wiped away in the Medicare drug benefit that begins in 2006, according to an independent analysis released Monday. But several million people actually would spend more on drugs under the new program.
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry
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Critics say the F.D.A.'s efforts to monitor the ill effects of drugs that are on the market are a shadow of what they should be.
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AUSTIN -- Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn is investigating foster care and possible Medicaid prescription drug fraud. Strayhorn said Texas is spending about $4 million per year on mind-altering drugs for foster care children.
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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says the federal government has failed to help us with high prescription drug prices, so Illinois is stepping in.
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The U.S. Justice Department is  investigating the medical supply industry over concerns that  some health care providers bilked government programs including  Medicare, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Medicare beneficiaries will have to pay substantially more next year for coverage of brand-name prescription drugs that keeps them from falling into the "doughnut hole," according to a new report that government officials swiftly criticized as incomplete.
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In the face of growing public distrust, the US Food and Drug Administration remains unpersuasive in claiming that its review of prescription drugs is sufficient or places the consumer first.