An article by Isaiah J. Poole of the Campaign for America’s Future offers some striking statistics highlighting the current crisis in healthcare costs. Poole notes the particular strain on Medicare, which currently is prohibited from negotiating prices with drug companies (even though other government entities have long done so). Some of Poole’s stats:

Researchers [...]

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The Cymbalta Buzz Machine is at Full Throttle! (Pharma Marketing Blog)
Pharma’s Black Market Boom (Forbes)
New FDA Rules Say When Pharma Can Act Alone ( PharmaExec.com)
Ruling By Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Will Result In Transfer Of All NuvaRing Federal Court Cases (Drug Injury Watch)

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The first six words of Andy Greenberg’s Tuesday story in Forbes are about all I needed to read: “In the shady world of online pharmacies…”
Oh boy — here we go again.
Hey, I know there are a lot of rogue pharmacies out there. That’s why I started eDrugSearch.com — to help people avoid rogue [...]

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Health 2.0 Moving Forward, Going ROPE, Doing Good: Ted Eytan, Matthew Holt , Organized Wisdom Push the Envelope (Health Management Rx)
Health 2.0 (Patient Power)
Google’s Health – Is it going to be the leader in this sector? (Medical 2.0)
Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0: Tensions and Controversies in the Field (JMIR)

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Chris Rice at OpEdNews is boiling mad about corrupting lobbyists and duplicitous politicians who have made it difficult for U.S. residents to buy drugs from Canadian pharmacies. Here’s an excerpt from his column:
LIE: The Bush administration is fighting importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada by claiming they are unsafe and thereby protecting [...]

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Raising a Snorer (NYT Health Blog)
Reality of the ED (GruntDoc)
Clinical Case: Taste Disturbance, Otitis Externa and Other Symptoms (Part 1) (Musings of a Dinorsaur)
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A….(N) OPPORTUNITY! (M.D.O.D.)

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Thomson Reuters releases latest edition of Pharma Matters quarterly reports (Knowledge Speak)
A Pharma Sales Rep and a Used Car Salesman Walk into a Bar… (Pharma Marketing Blog)
Pharma to John McCain: Stop Being a Pill (Open Secrets)
Pharma growth outlook: Grim and grimmer (Health Business Blog)

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The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), last week issued a fascinating survey of teens. Two results stood out to me:
1. Teens (aged 12 to 17) indicated, for the first time, that it is easier to acquire “prescription drugs such as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin or Ritalin, without a prescription” [...]

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A new study examining the impact of fruit juice consumption on the efficacy of prescription drugs reveals that some drugs — including heart and cancer drugs, antibiotics and hayfever medications — can lose virtually all of their benefit if they are washed down by juice.
Reports the London Daily Mail: “Orange, apple and grapefruit juice can [...]

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Health 2.0 for cancer trials (The Health Care Blog)
5 New Additions to the Health 2.0 Squad (Science Roll)
“Health 2.0″ vs. Health Insurers: The Looming Clash (b Net)
Whither Health 2.0? Recent failures cast shadows… (Consumer-focused Health Care)

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