The Indianapolis Star has a valuable article providing tips to parents who are worried about their teenage children abusing prescription drugs. The article’s four tips:
1. Monitor the prescriptions you have in your home.
2. Secure your medicines.
3. Dispose of old prescriptions.
4. Communicate and set a good example for your child.
It’s nice to see a reasonable [...]

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The Orange County Register is asking its readers what strategies they use to keep drug expenditures down:
“The soaring costs of prescription drugs have led some health plans to require mail-order prescriptions or limit what medications are covered. The Register wants to hear how readers have coped with changes to their prescription drug benefits and escalating [...]

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Praise for Lyrica Ad: Is This a Joke? (Pharma Marketing Blog)
Where To Find A Pharma-Free Expert (Pharmalot)
FDA Sends Letter to Baxter Over ‘Clinical Thank You Email’ (Drugs.com)
Contention over the “pharma free” expert list (TortDeform)

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We’ve started a Twitter account and would love for you to follow us. If you’re not familiar with Twitter, it’s a social network built around a kind of mini-blogging or group IM tool that allows you to leave messages of up to 140 characters.
Some of our favorite bloggers like John Mack, Jack [...]

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I wrote the other day about the hypocrisy –not to mention true gall — that pharma apologists like Peter Pitts have shown in their attacks on Canadian drug reimportation.
Essentially, Pitts argues that Americans should not be permitted to buy Canadian drugs because the FDA is incompetent to regulate these imports and keep the [...]

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From Description To Action: The Future of Health 2.0 Tools (The Health Care Blog)
HealthCamp – Get involved! (EKIVE)
Health 2.0 (Blog Blog Blog)
E-Anatomy Atlas (Medical 2.0)

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Jacob Goldstein at the Wall Street Journal Health Blog reported Friday:
It was dueling reports yesterday on Capitol Hill, as Democrats argued that Medicare is paying way too much for prescription drugs and Republicans countered that the spending is on target.
Henry Waxman, chairman of the House oversight committee and a longtime critic of the Medicare Part [...]

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We’ve gotten quite a bit of feedback from Healthcare 100 bloggers after adding some new metrics and features to our algorithm this month. Based on this feedback, we’ve now made adjustments to Technorati, Bloglines and Alexa in the algorithm, decreasing the influence of Technorati and Alexa and increasing Bloglines (although it is [...]

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Sanofi-Aventis Reps Quash Intimidating Subpoenas (Pharmalot)
Straining Credulity (Grunt Doc)
Price Gouging in Extremely Vulnerable and Captive Market (Brass and Ivory)
Dealing With Prediabetes (Parallel Universe)

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The Florida Times-Union, the newspaper of Jacksonville, FL, published an editorial today headlined, “Internet Pharmacies: A prescription for death.”
We’re not crazy about that headline, as you might imagine. We’ve worked very hard to get the news media to distinguish legitimate, licensed Internet pharmacies from dangerous, rogue pharmacies in their coverage. But you know [...]

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