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Court Rules On 'Pay To Delay' Drugs

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 06.17.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of ...

Zach Carter

U.S. Pushing To End Cheap Drugs For Poorest Nations

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is seeking to curb efforts to exempt the world's poorest countries from expansive trade rules that would substa...

Where You Live May Have A Huge Effect On Your Drug Costs

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON — Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama's health care law, industry analysts and advocat...

Medicine Spending Just Dropped For The First Time In At Least 55 Years

Reuters | Posted 05.10.2013 | Business

By Deena Beasley May 9 (Reuters) - Patent expirations on big-name drugs such as Lipitor and Plavix has resulted in modestly less spend...

Time to Stop Backroom Deals That Drive Up Drug Prices

Chris Meyer | Posted 06.09.2013 | Politics
Chris Meyer

One way you can try to save at the pharmacy is choosing a generic version of the drug, instead of the brand-name medication. But some consumers may not have that option, especially when it comes to higher-priced prescriptions.

Novartis Loses Cancer Drug Patent Battle

AP | By NIRMALA GEORGE | Posted 05.31.2013 | Business

NEW DELHI (AP) — India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent an updated version of a cancer drug in a landma...

How To Save Money On Prescription Drugs

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 08.15.2012 | Home

TRENTON, N.J. -- Struggling to pay for your prescription medication? You're far from alone: Studies show roughly a quarter of patients don't take med...

6 Tips for Managing the Cost of Your Prescription Medications

Women & Co | Posted 10.09.2012 | Home
Women & Co

Cutting back on pharmaceutical costs -- without cutting back on the medicine you need -- is easier than you think.

Generic Drugs Have Cut U.S. Health Care Costs By Over $1 Trillion

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 08.02.2012 | Home

TRENTON, N.J. -- Growing use of generic medicines has reduced U.S. health care spending by more than $1 trillion over the past decade, according to an...

How to Score a Raise Without Asking - Eight Ways to Fatten Your Wallet

Jeanette Pavini | Posted 08.27.2012 | Home
Jeanette Pavini

In this econony many people aren't getting raises, but if you could get one without asking -- would you? Follow these eight simple tips to feel as if your paychecks are getting bigger, without muttering a word.

Ann Brenoff

What Made This Guy So Angry About His Health Insurance?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ann Brenoff | Posted 02.27.2013 | Fifty

Morris Pineda of Alameda, Calif., says that learning it was cheaper for him to pay out-of-pocket for his prescription medications instead of putting i...

Zach Carter

Obama Administration Softens 'Shameful' Fight Against Cheap Drugs For Poor Countries

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.30.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A change of heart from the Obama administration may pave the way to a groundbreaking global deal to provide lifesaving medications to de...

Hot Sauce As Economic Driver

Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.24.2012 | Business

Don't look now, but we just might be in the midst of a hot sauce recovery. Hot sauce production is actually one of the ten fastest growing industr...

Jeffrey Young

Six Ways You're Overspending On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.02.2012 | Home

There's no way around it: Health care costs a fortune. Insurance premiums, drug prices, the cost of doctor visits and hospital bills are getting b...

What's Behind Our National Drug Shortages?

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 04.07.2012 | Los Angeles
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

It's easy to understand why millions of patients with cancer, infections, heart disease, central nervous system conditions and pain get riled up when they learn there are shortages of drugs for what ails them.

Patient Safety Paramount for Cutting Edge Medicines

Gary Puckrein | Posted 02.05.2012 | Black Voices
Gary Puckrein

It is crucial that the health care communities in both the public and private sector transform their data collection and testing approaches to account for the overall changing face of the American population.

Budget Now To Offset Holiday Spending

Jason Alderman | Posted 01.16.2012 | Business
Jason Alderman

If you sometimes fall prey to holiday overspending, you might want to look for ways to make small spending cuts in other areas of your life -- year round -- that, when added together, can result in big savings.

Hospital Drug Shortages Present Deadly, Costly Crisis

AP | By LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 11.24.2011 | Healthy Living

TRENTON, N.J. -- A drug for dangerously high blood pressure, normally priced at $25.90 per dose, offered to hospitals for $1,200. Fifteen deaths in 15...

Drug Prices To Plummet By Next Year

AP/Huffington Post | By LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 01.10.2012 | Healthy Living

(Associated Press) -- The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet. The next 14 months will bring ge...

Feeling The Pinch? Try These Expense-Trimming Tips

Jason Alderman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jason Alderman

Between holiday shopping bills now due, increased winter heating bills and the upcoming income tax season, many people are feeling the pinch right now. Your best bet for getting back on track is to trim expenses.

The Generic Problem with Health Care Reform

Edward F. Blizzard | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Edward F. Blizzard

While making prescription medications more affordable for every American is a laudable goal, increasing the availability of these drugs raises serious concerns.

Where to Get Cheap Rx Meds

Erin N. Marcus, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Erin N. Marcus, M.D.

I've learned to accommodate my patients' financial circumstances by using generic drugs when possible and letting patients know about pharmacies that sell these them at a relatively low cost.

Reglan Lawsuits Spark Debate Over Generic Preemption, Corporate Immunity

Edward F. Blizzard | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Edward F. Blizzard

The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Obama administration this week for its position on an appeal filed by generic drug manufacturers who argue that feder...

A Clinical Failure

Liane Kupferberg Carter | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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 ...

Drugstore Owners Look to Cash in on Health Care Reform

Hilary Kramer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Hilary Kramer

The American people need to realize that the price being paid for this health care reform is high.