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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Sometime back, Effect Measure posed a question many of us have pondered about direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical commercials: What’s with the side-by-side bath tubs in the Cialis ads?
Here are some of the answers given in comments –

“Cialis really gets your pipes flowing or plumbing flowing…”
“Bathtubs — because you can’t show naked, mutually aroused adults on the [...]

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Consumers search for antidepressants online more than any other class of drug, according to data from comScore. In a recent study of 500,000 search queries, five of the 15 most frequently searched prescription brands were for depression. This is in keeping with our own search results at eDrugSearch.com.
Here are those five medications, in [...]

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Lipitor was the most frequently prescribed brand-name drug in the United States last year, with 50 million prescriptions being filled. Vytorin was right up there, with 20 million. Add in all the other statins and you’re up to an amazing 150 million.
As you might expect, we’ve had a fair amount of discussion in [...]

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Yeah, I know; I’ve written about this topic before — more than a few times. But I feel compelled to do so again. Frankly, I’m mad as heck and I can’t take it any more.
Just as there have been past hysterias blaming the Internet for sexual predators, pornography, political polarization, celebrity obsession, obesity [...]

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Jo Hartley reports:
“Health insurance companies are currently revising their pricing systems for very expensive drugs and they are now requiring patients to pay hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for prescriptions for drugs that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases.
“With the new pricing system, insurers have now abandoned the traditional [...]

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It may be a mixed metaphor, but you get the point. This is how Georgia Congressman Jim Marshall describes the problem of high drug prices in this candid interview with Herbert Dennard.

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Oh, c’mon — of course you do. A blister pack, if you’re unaware, is drug packaging where the tablet or capsule is mounted on a card under a plastic dome. Here’s the video:

Yeah, I know … the narrator sounds like he’s on the same pharmaceutical regimen as Paula Abdul. But it’s still [...]

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We’ve gotten thousands of first-time visitors since we launched the eDrugSearch.com Community in late February. So I’ve decided, every once and a while, to post some basic information to help explain why we do what we do here, and why we’re so proud of our role in helping American consumers save money on [...]

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Here are the top 25 searches on eDrugSearch.com for the month of March, including searches for both medications and medical conditions, starting with the most popular search. eDrugSearch.com visitors have conducted more than five million searches since our launch in January 2007.
1. Viagra
2. Vytorin
3. Provigil
4. Cialis
5. Synvisc
6. Fosamax
7. Finasteride
8. Amoxicillin
9. Lotrel
10. Wellbutrin
11. Lipitor
12. Lyrica
13. Naproxen
14. [...]

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