We reported previously on Meijer and Publix offering free antibiotics to their pharmacy customers.  Now Giant Food and its sister chain, Stop & Shop, are following suit.
This is a welcome development, but keep in mind that these businesses are not charities — they are offering the antibiotics as loss-leaders in the hope that their pharmacy [...]

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Consumer Reports says buying prescription drugs from Canada can be a smart strategy for cost-conscious consumers. Here’s the magazine’s advice:

You can often save 25 percent or more [using mail-order pharmacies]. Buying brand-name medications from Canada can boost your mail-order savings, sometimes up to 50 percent. Generics, however, are cheaper in the U.S. And drugs [...]

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From the Raleigh News & Observer via the Consumer World blog, here are nine tips for becoming a smarter consumer:
1. Haggle.
2. Check for discounts.
3. Complain more.
4. Read the fine print.
5. Do your homework and get second opinions.
6. Get help.
7. Save for a rainy day.
8. Plan for retirement.
9. Maintain your car.
Go here for the [...]

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Got this one in the inbox today. It just screams credibility, doesn’t it?
I’m sure we don’t need to remind our readers of this, but just in case a new visitor doesn’t already know this: NEVER RESPOND TO A SPAM SOLICATION OF ANY KIND OVER THE INTERNET — ESPECIALLY FROM AN ONLINE PHARMACY! [...]

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A newspaper in Cleburne, Texas, outside Dallas, has published an excellent illustration of a point we’ve been making since we launched eDrugSearch.com: it’s well worth the effort to comparison shop for prescription drugs. An excerpt from the article:

Seven local pharmacies were contacted in an effort to discover what an uninsured consumer would pay for [...]

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Even Santa has to fill in a clipboard (HEALTH’Sass)
A Cause Worth Latching Onto (Birth Activist)
Obama wants physics Nobel Laureate Steven Chu for top energy post (Flesh and Stone)
Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (Medical Pills)

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It’s no secret that Americans pay far more for prescription drugs than consumers in any other country in the developed world. Most European countries impose price controls on Big Pharma that keep their prescription drug prices to less than two-thirds of what Americans pay.
Obviously, Big Pharma doesn’t want that happening here — which may [...]

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Healthcare: What Version Are We On Now? Health 2.0, 3.0, 4.0? (Getting Better)
Health 2.0: Patients as Partners (Business Week)
Management guru Tom Peters likes Health 2.0, Wennberg, PLM, Millenson, but not the medical establishement (The Health Care Blog)
Top 50 Health 2.0 Blogs (ACUMEME)

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NICE’s Rawlins is a fan of GSK’s Witty (PharmaGossip)
Osteoporosis Drug Zometa Shrinks Breast Cancer Tumors (Straight From the Doc)
My comments on new HFCS research (A Life Less Sweet)
Systems and the risk of failure (Pioneering Ideas)

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Dr. Nancy Snyderman of the Today Show reported this morning on the growing number of Americans who use prescription drugs, and in many cases several prescription drugs, to treat chronic illnesses.

One of the issues the report raises is the importance of being aware of potential drug interactions; be sure to talk with your doctor and [...]

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