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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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-André Gagnon and Joel Lexchin concludes:
From [...]

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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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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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