Reports have surfaced that pop superstar Michael Jackson was spending as much as $48,000 per month on prescription drugs, including Demerol and Diprivan.
A sidelight of this story is the pharmacy that news reports say filled and delivered many of those orders: Mickey Fine Pharmacy & Grill in Beverly Hills.
Mickey Fine is a pretty snazzy-looking place. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Online pharmacies'
Take a look at the pharmacy that fed Michael Jackson’s $48K per month drug habit
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Drug interactions · Online pharmacies · Prescription drug abuse · Prescription drugs
“99 Ways to Save Money on Your Prescription Drugs” available on Scribd
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
The eDrugSearch.com e-book “99 Ways to Save Money on Your Prescription Drugs, 2009 Edition” is now available on Scribd, where you can see a preview of the book’s first 10 pages before purchasing.
Check it out and start saving on your prescription drugs now!
Tags: Drug costs · Drug discount cards · Low-cost drugs · Online pharmacies · Prescription drugs · Wal-Mart drug plan
Google News sources are struggling with online pharmacy spam
June 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
It’s not easy to be accepted as a Google News source — a Web site whose stories appear when you run a Google News search, as opposed to a general Web search or blog search. For the most part, only traditional media sources (newspapers, TV stations, wire services) and well-established, multi-author blogs and online [...]
Tags: Online pharmacies
Doctor busted for signing up to 100,000 illegal online prescriptions
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
A Richmond, Virginia, doctor named Torino Jennings is accused of signing up to 100,000 illegal prescriptions for the muscle relaxant Soma, as well as other drugs, over the past five years. The prescriptions are illegal because he issued them on behalf of an online pharmacy without first examining the patients in person.
Many rogue online [...]
Tags: Buy prescriptions online · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
VIDEO: Watch this 13-year-old buy Prozac online
April 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Drug safety · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
Explaining the HONcode
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
Who’s abusing Google ads? No, it’s not online pharmacies — it’s Big Pharma
April 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: FDA · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
Will Rite Aid go the way of the dinosaur?
March 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Rite Aid is a $24 billion company operating more than 5,000 drugstores in 31 states, making it the third-largest pharmacy chain in the United States. But unless this overpriced retailer receives some bailout money from heaven (’cause it’s sure not coming from Washington), the year 2009 may be its last.
Motley Fool has just put [...]
Tags: Low-cost drugs · Online pharmacies · Pharmacist · Wal-Mart drug plan
Which online pharmacy ads can you trust?
February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Computerworld posted an interesting story today on how fly-by-night advertising companies are working with spammers to place text-link ads (like the Google AdWords ads you see on the right-hand side of the page when you run a Google search) on the Web sites of bloggers.
One reason these companies are working to get their [...]
Tags: Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
Nine tips for becoming a smarter consumer
December 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Drug costs · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety · Prescription drugs


