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Entries from January 2009

eDrugSearch.com attends Consumer Reports health summit

January 26th, 2009 · 7 Comments

We were fortunate to be invited to a health blogger summit coordinated last Thursday by Consumer Reports. The event — held at CR’s headquarters in Yonkers, New York — was an opportunity to meet with the publication’s editors as well as other health bloggers, and to discuss the future of social media and social networks [...]

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Tags: Healthcare blogs · Healthcare solutions

If drug benefits for seniors are this bad in Massachusetts…

January 21st, 2009 · 4 Comments

If the current economy weren’t bad enough for seniors on fixed incomes, now the state of Massachusetts (as a result of the recession) has slashed a state program that assisted seniors with drug costs. Boston.com reports:
Tens of thousands of Bay State seniors are facing steep increases in the cost of their prescription drug copayments, [...]

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Tags: Drug costs · Prescription drugs

Can chain drugstores help North Dakota’s soaring prescription drug prices? Don’t count on it

January 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments

A North Dakota news site reports that drug prices are under the microscope in the state as legislators consider repealing a law that prevents most chain pharmacies from competing there. The law requires pharmacies to be majority-owned by North Dakota licensed pharmacists.
Supporters of repeal argue that allowing the big retailers to offer prescription drugs [...]

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Tags: Drug costs · Prescription drugs

A pharmacist’s 10 tips for saving on your prescriptions

January 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments

[The following is a guest post by our friend Dr. Jacob Milbradt, a Kansas pharmacist. Jacob graduated with distinction from the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy and currently works as a pharmacist in an independently-owned pharmacy in south central Kansas. He is founder and president of MrMedSaver.com, an Internet-based consulting firm that specializes [...]

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Tags: Drug costs · Healthcare solutions · Prescription drug insurance · Prescription drugs

Healthcare 100 links for 01-16-09

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments

FDA Approves Savella for treatment of Fibromyalgia (Biotech Weblog)
What are they teaching interns these days? (The Angry Pharmacist)
Coping with my life (Soulful Sepulcher)
Loss (Neonatal Doc)

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Tags: Healthcare100

New report touts benefits of health social networks

January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Fard Johnmar of Envision Solutions has produced a new report designed to facilitate communication between health organizations and social networkers. We were fortunate to be among the Web sites profiled in the study and got a sneak peek at it last week. As always with Fard’s work, the report is thoughtful and well-documented.
In [...]

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Tags: Health 2.0 · Healthcare solutions · eDrugSearch.com Community

Healthcare 100 links for 01-09-09

January 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Pharmalot… Pharmanot… So Long, Folks (Pharmalot)
Resource: State Coverage Initiatives Website (Healthcare Economist)
First Day of School! (Scrubs & Spit Up)
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) Forestier Disease (My Medical Journal)

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Tags: Healthcare100

Seniors must be vigilant about drug interaction risk

January 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center report in the Dec. 24/31, 2008 issue of JAMA that more than half of older Americans take five or more prescription medications — and that an alarming number of these seniors risk harmful drug interactions.
We’ve warned of drug interactions here before — and have recommended sites like [...]

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Tags: Drug interactions · Drug safety · Prescription drugs

Healthcare 100 links for 12-02-08

January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Loss of function and prognosis in older patients (Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog)
Medicare Part D: Comparing Prescription Drug Use in Special Needs Plans and Other Medicare Advantage Plans (Piper Report)
Racial disparities in hospice use (Health Disparities Blog)
Southwest Recipe Nutrition Breakdown (The Family Fork)

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Tags: Healthcare blogs

Consumer Reports rings in 2009 by buying The Consumerist

January 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

As readers of this blog know, Consumer Reports is one of our favorite publications. We love the fact that they don’t accept advertising — and thus are not influenced by the threats of sponsors they might criticize. It’s one reason we trust Consumer Reports — on issues ranging from choosing a car to [...]

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Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug costs · Prescription drugs