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Shop around for deals on prescription drugs
If your insurance has ever stopped covering a prescription drug or you don’t have coverage at all, you know how quickly costs can mount. Americans spent, on average, $758 out of pocket for medication in 2012, according to a recent Consumer Reports...Tags: Asthma, Pharmaceuticals, Diabetes, Consumers, Services and Shopping
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Drug spending falls for first time in 6 decades
An explosion of cheap generic substitutes for widely used prescription drugs last year helped drive the first decline in pharmaceutical spending in the U.S. in nearly six decades. Drug makers often lament what they call the patent cliff, which is when...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Health Insurance, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Consumers, Plavix (drug)
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Pfizer's new Viagra strategy
What makes Viagra so interesting? On Monday, my colleague Chad Terhune wrote about Pfizer’s plan to begin selling its little blue pills directly to patients on the company’s website. And within a couple of hours, the story was listed among ...
Tags: Viagra (drug), Pfizer Inc., Prescription Drugs, Drugs and Medicines
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Delray man accused of writing fake pain killer prescription
It started with a search over the Internet: "How to write a pain killer prescription." With information gained from the search and a page from his doctor's prescription pad, Boca Raton Police say Jason Ian Bayne, 44, of Delray Beach, walked into a Boca...
Tags: Pain, Delray Beach, Statins (drugs), Vicodin (drug)
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CONSUMER REPORTS: Big name drug savings
If you take Lipitor, Actos, or Lexapro, new generics of these and other big-name drugs could be a real money saver. But are you saving as much as you should? Consumer Reports has discovered just because you're buying a generic drug doesn't mean you're...
Tags: Asthma, Diabetes, Consumers, Plavix (drug), Prescription Drugs
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An insider's view of generic-drug pricing
Bob Toomajian worked for 16 years as Kaiser Permanente's drug purchasing manager for Southern California, giving him an insider's knowledge of how medications are priced before reaching consumers. When it comes to patented name-brand drugs, he told me,...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Federal Trade Commission, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, India, Insurance
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Researchers: Grapefruit doesn't mix well with some drugs
Los Angeles TimesIt’s been known for a long time that eating grapefruit and taking certain prescription oral medications — including the cholesterol drugs atorvastatin, lovastatin and simvastatin as well as some cancer and heart drugs — don’t mix. ...Tags: Lovastatin (drug), Pharmaceuticals, Simvastatin (drug), Chemical Industry, Prescription Drugs
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Generic Version of Lipitor Recalled Due to Glass Fragments
A manufacturer of a popular cholesterol-reducing medication has recalled more than 40 batches of the product after warning that they may contain small particles of glass. Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. says it is calling back bottles of its 10-, 20- and...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, India, U.S. Department of Justice, Drugs and Medicines, Statins (drugs)
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Generic for Lipitor Recalled Over Glass Bits
KTLA NewsNEW JERSEY (KTLA) -- A generic form of the cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor has been recalled after some batches were found to contain pieces of glass. Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy announced the voluntary recall on their website Friday,...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Drugs and Medicines, Statins (drugs)
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Indian drug maker recalls certain doses of generic Lipitor
Drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Inc. has recalled some of its generic version of Lipitor in the U.S. after finding small glass particles in some batches. The Indian company's recall of atorvastatin calcium, a generic form of Pfizer Inc.'s top-selling...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Pfizer Inc., Drugs and Medicines, Statins (drugs)
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After limos, jets and steak dinners, now they're talking ethics reform
If you've lived in Florida for any length of time — like prior to noon yesterday — you probably know that our state is an ethical cesspool. Special interests funnel money to legislators. Legislators write the laws the way the interests ask....Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Religion and Belief, Republican Party, Politics, Parties and Movements
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