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

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business
Read More: Drug Cost, Obamacare, Generic Drugs, Prescription Drugs, Affordable Care Act, Drug Cost by State, Drugs, Medications, Health Care, Healthcare, Prescriptions, Business News

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

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It's Time to End Trial and Error Prescriptions for Mental Illnesses

George Carpenter | Posted 02.18.2013 | Technology
Read More: Prescription Drugs, Antidepressants, Prescriptions, Technology News
George Carpenter

In recent years, U.S. physicians and entrepreneurs have seen some success with the development of a powerful set of personalized medicine tools to help give physicians some of the objective information they need.

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Practice Safe Rx

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 02.02.2013 | Los Angeles
Read More: New England Compounding Center, Rx, Fda, Compounding Pharmacies, Dr. Braunstein, Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, Medications, Pharmacies, Prescriptions, Prescription Drug Safety, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

While Americans never have enjoyed access to so many pharmaceutical products with such life-sustaining and lifesaving properties, these drugs also have proven to be expensive -- prohibitively so for many -- and subject to shortages.

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Sleep on Drugs

Paul Spector, M.D. | Posted 11.26.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Direct Marketing, Pharmaceutical Industry, Sleep Medication, Insomnia, Prescription Drugs, Sleep Deprivation, Amnesia, Sleep Disorders, Prescription Drug Advertising, Anxiety Insomnia, Prescriptions, Healthy Living News
Paul Spector, M.D.

Sleep experts believe that our 24/7 culture has created such pervasive sleep deprivation that abnormal sleepiness is the norm. Unfortunately, there is...

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Study Finds Many Older People Are Being Prescribed The Wrong Drugs

Posted 08.23.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Armon B. Neel Jr. PhD., Antidepressants, Bad Prescription, Prescription Drugs, Prescription, Health Post50, Wrong Medication, Medications, Medication, Wrong Meds, Wrong Prescription, Prescription Drug Abuse, Prescriptions, Fifty News

One in five medications used by people older than 65 are prescribed inappropriately in primary care settings, which can cause adverse reactions, acco...

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How To Save Money On Prescription Drugs

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 08.15.2012 | Home
Read More: How to Save Money on Prescription Drugs, Prescription Drug Costs, Health Care Costs, Drug Costs, Generic Drugs, Prescription Drugs, Cost-Cutting, How to Save on Prescriptions, Health Insurance, Generic Drug Costs, Prescriptions, Home News

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...

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6 Tips for Managing the Cost of Your Prescription Medications

Women & Co | Posted 10.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Money, Prescription Drug Costs, Budget, Generic Drugs, Prescription Drugs, Pharmacy, Saving Money, Personal Finance, Prescriptions, Home News
Women & Co

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

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Are Prescription Drugs Making Us Any Healthier?

Marcelle Pick, OB-GYN N.P. | Posted 10.07.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Prescription Drugs, Women, Holistic Medicine, Women's Health, Medicine, Health, Prescription Drugs Health, Prescriptions Health, Personal Health, Prescription Drugs Side Effects, Prescriptions, Healthy Living News
Marcelle Pick, OB-GYN N.P.

I know that prescription medications can help many people turn their health around, and I don't want to suggest that prescription drugs are all bad. But they are powerful enough to change our physiology and for this reason should not be taken lightly.

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Prescription Pickup

Ted McCagg | Posted 05.13.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Birth Control, Pharmacy, Rush Limbaugh Slut, Prescriptions, Political Humor, Political Cartoons, Comedy News
Ted McCagg

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As Smartphones Get Smarter, You May Get Healthier

www.fastcompany.com | Posted 01.11.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Iphone, Smartphones, Ramesh Raskar, Science, Smartphone Apps, Technology, iPhone Apps, Health Care, Prescriptions, Fifty News

The average auto refractor--that clunky-looking device eye doctors use to pinpoint your prescription--weighs about 40 pounds, costs $10,000, and is vi...

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Can We Just Call It Homesickness?

Judith Acosta | Posted 03.06.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Drugs, Pathology, Trauma, Pharmaceuticals, Home, Soldier's Heart, Ptsd, Prescriptions, Homesickness, Mental Health, Natural Health, Healthy Living News
Judith Acosta

Because of the authority with which words like "clinical depression" or "bipolar" are used in modern conversation, they are given the impression that those words have a permanence and solidity they do not actually have.

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What to Do If You Lose Your Health Insurance

Barbara Dehn | Posted 02.07.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Personal Health, Health Insurance and Prescriptions, Health Care, Health Care and Prescriptions, Prescriptions, Healthy Living News
Barbara Dehn

Here's a guy, who has been working hard his entire life, was laid off, lost his insurance and couldn't afford to go to see a doctor and didn't think he could afford his blood pressure medication.

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Generation Rx: Is Overmedication Endangering Our Kids' Health?

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 01.15.2012 | Parents
Read More: Generation RX, Antibiotics, Pediatrics, Prescriptions, Children Medication, Doctors Antibiotics, Antiobiotics, Overmedication, Over-Medicated Children, Over-Medication, Children Overmedication, Parents News
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

These new studies once again underscore the necessity for us as parents to communicate with our pediatricians and not be afraid to ask questions when a prescription is offered.

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Little Neck, NY: For Local Drug Store, The Prescription Is Personal

littleneck.patch.com | Posted 01.10.2012 | Home
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"We know our customers on a one-on-one basis, by their names. We try to help them on a personal level."...

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How Much Is Enough for Big Pharma?

Cliff Schecter | Posted 06.06.2011 | Business
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Cliff Schecter

Nowhere is this greed more pervasive than among those companies responsible for the health of roughly 300 million of Americans: Big Pharma.

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Why Don't Patients Take Their Meds?

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD

A good chunk of those beautifully printed, fully legible prescriptions never make it to the drug store to be converted into actual pills.

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New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...

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Harlem Memorializes Michael Jackson at Apollo Theater

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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Lauri Lyons

The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.

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Anna Nicole Smith: Pharmacists Warned Doctors That Prescriptions Were "Pharmaceutical Suicide"

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles pharmacist told Anna Nicole Smith's internist that the drugs the internist prescribed to the model after her son die...

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New York Times: Drug Prescription information A "Commodity Bought And Sold In A Murky Marketplace"

nytimes.com | MILT FREUDENHEIM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Health Care Reform Health Care Bill, Drug Prescriptions, Prescription Drugs, Doctors, Medicine, Health Care, Prescriptions, Business News

MORE than 10 years after she tried without success to have a baby, Marcy Campbell Krinsk is still receiving painful reminders in her mail. The ads and...

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The Real Faces of Reform: Ann's Story

Mike Nellis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Public Dole, Insurance Premiums, Kansas Democratic Party, Insurance, Catastrophic Coverage, Health Care Reform, Mammograms, Health Insurace, Prescriptions, Politics News
Mike Nellis

"I feel like I have paid my insurance company thousands of dollars for nothing," Anne said, "and now I am going to have to drop my coverage because I just can't afford it anymore."

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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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