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Entries Tagged as 'Prescription drugs'

Take a look at the pharmacy that fed Michael Jackson’s $48K per month drug habit

July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

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. [...]

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Tags: Drug interactions · Online pharmacies · Prescription drug abuse · Prescription drugs

Q&A: Why we need a public option for health insurance

July 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, has written an excellent piece for Truthout that explains why a public option for health insurance is so vital to true healthcare reform.
Here are some choice excerpts from Dean’s article, which I’ve organized in a Q&A format:
Why is healthcare so expensive in the United [...]

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Politico bashes AARP for fighting to keep prescription drug costs low

June 30th, 2009 · No Comments

If you follow political coverage, you’ve no doubt heard about the AARP lobby. The AARP’s opponents like to paint the organization’s lobby as one of the most powerful back-room forces in Washington. While this charge is open to question, it’s a narrative that many reporters have bought into — lock, stock and barrel.
The [...]

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Michael Jackson to join tragic list of accidental prescription drug deaths?

June 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Michael Jackson could be the latest star to have died from an accidental overdose of prescription medications. According to Life & Style, Jackson was “taking a cocktail of up to seven prescription drugs in the months before his death,” including the anti-anxiety drugs Xanax and Zoloft and the painkiller Demerol. The Jackson family attorney [...]

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It’s not a “free market” — Big Pharma has bought and paid for it

June 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Can I make a suggestion to you? When some political blowhard on TV or the radio tells you something, don’t automatically believe it. Do your research to learn the facts for yourself, OK?
You see, pundits and politicians lie. And they hope you’ll be so accepting of their carefully crafted talking points that [...]

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Tags: Drug costs · Pharmaceutical companies · 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!

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Tags: Drug costs · Drug discount cards · Low-cost drugs · Online pharmacies · Prescription drugs · Wal-Mart drug plan

Understanding the Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2009

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

As readers of this blog know, we have been following the proposed Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act carefully as it wends its way through Congress. So far, neither the House nor Senate versions of the bill have gotten very far since their introduction in early March, although there has been some talk [...]

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Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation · Healthcare solutions · Prescription drugs

Prescription for pharma: More research, less promotion

June 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Anne Dunev at The Huffington Post recently called attention to a thought-provoking article published at the peer-reviewed journal of the Public Library of Science. Titled “The Cost of Pushing Pills: A New Estimate of Pharmaceutical Promotion Expenditures in the United States,” the 2008 article by Canadian academics Marc-AndrĂ© Gagnon and Joel Lexchin concludes:
From [...]

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Want your share of the billions Big Pharma has stolen from you? GLWT

June 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments

You probably didn’t see it in the news — since it got about 1/1000th of the coverage received by Sarah Palin spatting with David Letterman and Spencer and Heidi quitting “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here” — but a noteworthy legal settlement occurred last week.
A major drug wholesaler, McKesson Corp., and two [...]

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Tags: Drug costs · Pharmaceutical companies · Prescription drugs

Looking for unbiased prescription drug information? Try these four sources

June 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Too many Americans today are basing their opinions on prescription drugs solely on advertising by drugmakers. You should never get all your information from pharmaceutical commercials, Web sites, or drug labels.
Why, you might ask? Aren’t drugmakers required by the FDA to tell the truth about their medications?
The answer is, yes and no. Drugmakers [...]

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