Drugs – Page 28 – Healthy Skeptic

Jun 21 2010

Geographic Variation in Drug Expenses

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Medicare's Part D benefit covers most prescription drugs and has added significantly to the program's cost, although not as much as originally projected. Now that the program has been in…

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Jun 19 2010

2010 Potpourri XXII

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Another weekend bonanza of health care items, including health insurance premium increases, genetic testing, remote patient monitoring, eye drug coverage by Medicare, emergency room use under the reform law and…

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Jun 17 2010

Bloomberg

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The U.S. government’s decade-long fight to limit drugmakers’ ability to keep generic medicines off the market may reach “a turning point” soon

Jun 16 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it will propose stronger regulations for pharmaceutical companies that outsource manufacturing

Jun 15 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Some prominent doctors are pushing a heretical notion: Physicians have been prescribing statins to some of the wrong people.

Jun 14 2010

New York Times

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Now, a controversial, and seemingly counter-intuitive, effort to tackle the problem is gaining ground: paying people money to take medicine or to comply with prescribed treatment

Jun 14 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A plan by Navistar International Corp. to drop some retirees’ prescription benefits has run into union opposition, turning into a skirmish that is likely to be replayed at other U.S. companies

Jun 13 2010

New York Times

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Now, a controversial, and seemingly counterintuitive, effort to tackle the problem is gaining ground: paying people money to take medicine or to comply with prescribed treatment.

Jun 11 2010

Bllomberg

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Independent pharmacies say they are getting squeezed by a CVS Caremark Corp. drug refill program that restricts where participants can buy prescriptions.

Jun 10 2010

Wall Street Journal

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CVS Caremark Corp. said it will block as many as 53 million patients from filling prescriptions at Walgreen Co. drugstores by as early as next month, amid an escalating power struggle between the two companies.

Jun 10 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Researchers analyzed Medicare prescription-drug spending in 2007 -was higher spending on prescription drugs was associated with lower spending on doctor visits and hospital care that same year

Jun 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Walgreen Co., the nation’s largest drugstore chain, landed a punch on CVS Caremark Corp.

Jun 02 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Following the implementation of an organization-wide bar code scanning process, the medication error rate decreased to 0.3 errors per 1,000 patient days, a 75% reduction.

Jun 01 2010

The Hill

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Sen. Dorgan faces a powerful opponent if he brings up drug reimportation as an amendment to the food safety bill – Rep. Dingell is dead-set against the amendment

May 24 2010

Washington Post

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The rollout of the federal health-care overhaul continued Friday spelling out how small biotech companies can apply for grants and tax credits of up to $5 million each

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