We love when we come across information that validates our business model. In this case, it’s an article from eMarketer:
The Internet is fast becoming the digital equivalent of the Physician’s Desk Reference. An average of 55.3 million people per month, or 31% of US Internet users, visited a Web site in the health information [...]

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Nowadays, prescription drug commercials are at an all-time high — and Big Pharma’s reputation is at an all-time low.
Mark Dolliver wrote an article this week for AdWeek highlighting recent studies showing the American public’s mounting distrust of the pharmaceutical industry. According to Mark:
Polling conducted by Harris Interactive for the Pharmaceutical Safety Institute documents the [...]

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Watch out, world: I’m a TV star now.
KENS 5, the CBS affiliate in San Antonio, ran a report on eDrugSearch.com on its evening newcast Tuesday night. Here’s a text excerpt from Wendy Rigby’s story:
Millions of Americans who are uninsured or underinsured have trouble affording the prescription medications they need. Now, a [...]

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If you’ve ever considered abusing prescription drugs, you definitely won’t after watching this ’70s TV clip, featuring John Travolta.

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AMSA has created a scorecard ranking U.S. medical schools on the amount of influence Big Pharma has on each school’s program. The rankings take into account how much direct contact pharmaceutical companies have with the programs.
So who got an A? Five schools received the mark: Stanford, UC Davis, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Yale.
See full results [...]

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eDrugSearch.com is proud of the fact that, largely through this blog and the media attention our Web site has achieved, we’ve received a steadily increasing number of e-mails and phone calls from consumers seeking information about ordering drugs safely online.
Although the Internet can be a great tool for saving money on your prescription medications, it [...]

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Michael Moore discusses his new healthcare flick, Sicko, with Bill Maher in his first live TV interview in over two years. Check it out:

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The Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2007, a bill jointly introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), is currently being considered by Congress.
We strongly favor this proposed legislation and, though we are a bit cynical about its prospects, we thought we would detail its provisions and why the [...]

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Although we already know why Avandia is still on the market, the FDA released the preliminary results of its evaluation of the GlaxoSmithKline drug. Here are the results via the Washington Post:
The government’s own preliminary evaluation of the diabetes pill Avandia confirms the heart risks reported in a study earlier this week and suggests that [...]

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Marilynn Marchione from the Associated Press asked a good question in her article today:
How does a drug go from blockbuster to bust?
How can big safety issues go undetected in medicines taken by millions of people for many years, as happened this week with the diabetes pill Avandia and a few years ago with the [...]

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