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Epilepsy Drugs

A Clinical Failure

Liane Kupferberg Carter | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Epilepsy Foundation, Seizures, Fda, Bioequivalence, Generic Drugs, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Antiepileptic Drugs, Health Insurance, Epilepsy Drugs, Clinical Failure, Healthy Living News
Liane Kupferberg Carter

The letter was terse. Our health insurance company would no longer cover our son's epilepsy medication unless we switched from the brand name drug ...

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Generic Swap Meet

Barbara Dehn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Epilepsy-Drugs, Health Insurance, Generic Drugs, Generic Medication, Prescription Drugs, Insurance Companies, Prescription Meds, Prescriptions, Meds, Generic Prescriptions, Health Care, Patient-Care, Health-Insurance, Healthcare, Politics News
Barbara Dehn

I understand the need to cut costs, but in my opinion, some insurance companies are practicing health care without a license. They have none of the liability and yet are part of the decision-making? What's up with that?

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Just How Corrupted Has American Medicine Become?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Corruption, Neurontin, Big Pharma, New England Journal of Medicine, Medicine, Health, Drug Companies, Cme, Drug Sales, David Franklin, Pfizer, Fda Approval, Drug Marketing, Fda, Epilepsy Drugs, Drug Company Executives, Parke-Davis, Warner-Lambert, Doctors and Drug Companies, Business News
Bruce E. Levine

Drug-company corruption of American medicine is of course not news. What is news is that such corruption has become so egregious, so transparent, and so embarrassing.

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