Since we are headquartered in San Antonio, eDrugSearch.com is located relatively close to ground zero in the current swine flu outbreak. The first H1N1 death in the United States was here in Texas, and today, Dr. Marcus Gitterle, a New Braunfels emergency medicine physician, is attracting significant attention after sending out a frightening internal [...]

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I recently came across a remarkable blog rant by a man named Jim Thornton, a competitive swimmer at age 56. Under a list of his latest swimming times, he shared the story of some of the struggles he’d recently been having with healthcare and prescription drug costs.
An excerpt:

Our health insurance went up [...]

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We’ve heard endless whining by Big Pharma and its water carriers in Congress about how President Obama’s plans to reduce prescription drug costs will all but destroy the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.
An investment analyst who covers the industry thinks otherwise.
Jason Napodano, in a report for Zacks Investment Research published earlier this month, writes:
When President Obama’s administration [...]

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As readers of this blog know, we sometimes grow weary of defending legitimate online pharmacies against those uninformed (and/or Big Pharma-funded) voices who enjoying tarring all online pharmacies with the same broad brush.
Yes, we know there is a big problem with rogue online pharmacies. That’s why we created eDrugSearch.com — to create a [...]

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Here’s a well-produced report on the dangers of remote-consultation Internet pharmacies from the Pensacola, Fla., Fox affiliate. Since this piece originally aired last year, Hogan’s Pharmacy, one of the pharmacies exposed in the story, has been shut down and the pharmacist indicted.

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The AARP’s annual report on prescription drug prices, released last week, reveals that pharmaceutical manufacturers raised prices on the most popular brand-name drugs by 8.7 percent in 2008 — well over twice the rate of inflation.
According to the AP:
AARP’s report highlighted growing costs of what it said were the 219 most widely used brand-name drugs.
Among [...]

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With the proliferation of so-called authorities watching over health Web sites and online pharmacies today, I thought it might be helpful to write occasionally about some of the authorities that are actually worth relying upon as a consumer. These include Pharmacy Checker.com, CIPA, MIPA and IMPAC for online pharmacies, and the Health on the [...]

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With pink slips being handed out left and right these days, it’s time to get practical and think about how to manage your insurance and other medical costs in the event you are laid off. Here are six tips:
1. See if you can get on your spouse’s plan. If your spouse has health [...]

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When the topic of Americans buying drugs from Canadian pharmacies comes up, one company whose name is rarely mentioned is Google. That’s odd to me, since (1) Google is such a news magnet, and (2) without Google, far fewer Americans would be buying their prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies.
Big Pharma despises Google for [...]

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In researching Wal-Mart’s impending battle with PBMs like Express Scripts and Medco, which are aggressively pushing consumers to order drugs by mail rather than at retailers like Wal-Mart, I came across some interesting data on pharmacy costs at the blog of Dr. Adam J. Fein, an economist who studies the pharmacy supply chain.
Dr. Fein referenced [...]

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