Topic: Prescription Drugs

Generic Drugs Keep Health Insurance Prices Low

BY Clelland Green
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For those wanting to keep their health insurance expenses down, generic drugs are the answer. READ MORE›

Reduced Prescription Costs for Seniors Soon a Reality

BY Richard Cantu
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The good news for seniors in America is that pharmaceutical companies have agreed to cut the prices of prescription drugs for seniors.READ MORE›

Health-Care Bill Will Cost AT&T $1 Billion, May Lead to Cut in Retiree Drug Coverage: Who's to Blame?

BY Dan Nosowitz
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This story may well get a lot of press from both sides of the health-care debate this week. It's a little complex, but it's worth understanding fully; retirees may lose benefits over this, and we need to know why.READ MORE›

Bad Medicine

BY Kevin Ohannessian
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Reading Mr. Lidsky's blog entry this morning, I was reminded of something I read last weekend. It was one of Stephen King's columns for Entertainment Weekly. And he wrote about something I always wondered about. Why are ...READ MORE›

Drug Companies Love Profits

BY Randy Gillespie
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It's not too surprising that drug companies love profit and focus on staying in business by creating and marketing new drugs. READ MORE›

Practical Solutions to Saving on Health Care

BY Clelland Green
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If reducing the cost of health care is the top priority on every American's shopping list, then buying generic drugs will make a difference.READ MORE›

Seniors Need to be Cautious About Medicare Ads

BY Richard Cantu
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Despite what you may get in the mail, read everything you get with a grain of salt and lots of caution.READ MORE›

Be Part Smart with The Medicare Drug Plan

BY Clelland Green
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Medicare has its good and bad points.READ MORE›

Health Reform What am I paying for?

BY Chad Levin
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2010 New Programs: * Temporary retiree reinsurance program is established * National risk pool is created, small business tax credit is established * $250 rebate for Medicare members who reach the ”doughnut hole”READ MORE›

It's the Prescription Drugs that Cause Truck Accidents

BY Jack Zinda
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The more big rigs there are on the highways, the greater the chances for a sharp rise in 18-wheeler accidents.READ MORE›

Tip to Save on Health Insurance

BY Clelland Green
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We all know health care is really expensive and are always looking for ways to cut back on how much we are paying for medical expenses.READ MORE›

Prescription Drug Stats a Bitter Pill to Swallow

BY Suzanne LaBarre
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Americans are loading up an anti-anxiety drugs -- and lining the pockets of Big Pharma.READ MORE›

The Myelin Repair Foundation Encourages Collaboration for a Cure

BY Elizabeth Svoboda
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Scientists in their labs. Big Pharma in pursuit of the next blockbuster. An innovative foundation brings them together to speed up the discovery of multiple-sclerosis drugs.READ MORE›

PhRMA Chokes International Trade

BY Rx Rights
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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the leading trade organization for U.S. drug companies, does not want U.S. consumers to have a choice of where they buy their drugs. To keep U.S. consumers from researching foreign markets to find safe drugs at prices as much as three or four times less than in the United States, PhRMA and its members started aggressively shutting down the drug supply to international pharmacies, disabling them from dispensing to U.S. citizens.READ MORE›

Vaccine Technology Conference

BY Fast Company Calendar
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The 1950s and 1960s were momentous for drug manufacturers, which introduced vaccines for polio, measles, mumps, and a host of other diseases. Over time, though, many pharmaceutical companies deemphasized vaccines in favor of ...READ MORE›

Side Effects with Side Effects

BY Daren Monroe
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Each day we open the paper or turn on the computer and there is another story about an FDA approved drug that causes serious injuries or death. READ MORE›

Medicare Facts and Eligibility

BY Mr Rickman
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Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30, 1965, Medicare began as a social insurance program for American citizens age 65 or older. Today, the expanded Medicare program also covers citizens who may not be 65 years old ...READ MORE›

Medicare Open Enrollment: What You Need to Know Before You Sign-up.

BY Bret Harding
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Medicare Open Enrollment: What You Need to Know Before You Sign-up. Visit: www.MedicareInsuranceReview.com READ MORE›

Always Low Prices -- Is There Always a Catch?

BY Fast Company Staff
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Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) announced this morning that it will begin to sell 291 types of generic prescription drugs -- charging only $4 for a month's worth of prescriptions that would otherwise cost as much as $30. The news leaves me ...READ MORE›

Health Insurance Quotes Reform Weeklys EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
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This week Senate lawmakers continued to debate numerous proposed amendments to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) health care reform bill.READ MORE›

How America ever is going to pay back the debt-.- Robin Trehan

BY Robin Trehan
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How America ever is going to pay back the debt-.- Robin TrehanREAD MORE›

How to Choose the Right Medicare Insurance

BY Bret Harding
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Even if you have both Medicare Part A and Part B, you will find that Medicare is not designed to pay all medical expenses. Medicare has deductibles and coinsurance requirements, and you have to purchase a separate policy to pay for prescription drugs. READ MORE›

Pennsylvania BlueCare Direct Health Insurance

BY Ed Harris
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BlueCare Direct is an affordable Pennsylvania health insurance plan available to the 13 county service area of Northeastern Pennsylvania Blue Cross. BlueCare Direct offers quality health care at an extremely affordable rate.READ MORE›

How America ever is going to pay back the debt-.- Robin Trehan

BY Robin Trehan
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Thomas Jefferson once said, “"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." ...READ MORE›

Drug Use & Abuse Increasing

BY Daniel Wannamaker
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"I'm not sure if making more issues that are drug-related into criminal acts is the best way to solve the drug problem.Addict's problems generally started before taking drugs, and then got worse after starting drugs," opined Daniel H. Wannamaker of Wannamaker and Associates, an Austin, Texas, law firm.READ MORE›