High costs drive online prescribing push
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Motivated by mounting medical costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to embrace a seemingly simple way to save billions of dollars a year: prescribe medications online.
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Prices for about 200 prescription drugs in the United States commonly used by seniors rose nearly twice the rate of inflation, a seniors group said on Tuesday, making a case for letting the government negotiate drug prices.
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A report last week tying the Type 2 diabetes pill Avandia to increased risk for heart attack and heart-related deaths prompted a flood of calls to local doctors and Internet postings from patients seeking advice about whether to continue taking the commonly prescribed medication.
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People worried about sudden cardiac arrest no longer need a doctor's prescription to buy devices that jump-start the heart.     The Food and Drug Administration for the first time agreed Thursday to let consumers go online and purchase the $2,000 devices for home use...
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A Fort Lauderdale pharmaceutical wholesaler facing the nation&#39;s first price-gouging lawsuits related to the flu vaccine has a history of charging exorbitant prices for hard-to-find drugs, the
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Doctors and patients alike need to do more to clear the air regarding high prescription drug costs and their impact on medication use, according to new research.
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Jack Bond&#39;s hospital pharmacy needed 2,800 flu shots, but his supplier couldn&#39;t provide them. Plenty of other distributors were ready to meet his needs, though - for a price: as much as $600 for a vial of 10 flu shots that normally costs about $80.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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Importing cheaper drugs from up north isn't as simple as it seems
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the Mecca of Canada&#39;s $800-million-a-year online pharmacy industry - were pleading for their lives yesterday in the face of a government crackdown that
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One of the first researchers to link the popular prescription painkillers Vioxx and Celebrex to heart problems blamed aggressive advertising for escalating
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WINNIPEG (CP) - It will take more than tough talk from politicians or changes to federal law to catch Canadian doctors who co-sign Internet pharmacy prescriptions, say medical and pharmacy watchdogs.
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Although it has been a long time coming, physicians are beginning to consider the Internet an integral part of their practice. For example, instantaneous
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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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TORONTO (CP) - Canadians are paying hundreds of millions of dollars too much for generic prescription drugs because federal government policies are allowing manufacturers to shut out competitors, a study released Monday concludes.
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An OFT inquiry finds the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs, the BBC learns.
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VANCOUVER - Consumers are paying too much for many prescription drugs because of federal government policies, says a report released on Monday by the Fraser Institute.