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Entries Tagged as 'Prescriptions'

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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FDA’s silly edicts prove that DTC advertising was a bad idea all along

June 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: FDA · Pharma marketing · Pharmaceutical marketing · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions

Antidepressants are the most searched-for prescription drug brands online

June 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: Cymbalta · Effexor · Paxil · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions · Xanax

Lipitor: 50 million prescriptions can’t be wrong, right?

May 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Crestor · Lipitor · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions · Vytorin · Zocor

Don’t blame the Internet for prescription drug abuse

May 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

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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Tags: Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety · Prescription drug abuse · Prescriptions · eDrugSearch.com

Just how insured ARE you? Prescription drug co-pays are on the rise

May 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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High prescription drug prices are “gorilla in the corner”

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Ever wonder how your meds end up in blister packs?

May 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Why are prescription drugs so expensive in the U.S.?

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Pharma marketing · Pharmaceutical companies · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions

Top 25 prescription drug searches for March 2008

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Cialis · Prescriptions · Provigil · Viagra · Vytorin · Yasmin