The Hill has an interesting blog post by National Community Pharmacists Association VP for Public Affairs Kevin Schweers that looks at problems with mail-order prescription services. Such problems include late and misdirected pharmacy shipments and exposure of sensitive pharmaceutical products to extreme heat…
No Missouri politician can afford to appear soft on drug use. But what if the drug use includes people seeking relief from colds and allergies?
Last week, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster vowed to support a misguided proposal that would make…
An implantable defibrillator.
Americans who are injured by prescription drugs won an important protection last week: the right to sue for damages in state courts.
By a 6-to-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld damages awarded to Diana Levine, a Vermont woman who…
The age of drug company trinkets officially ended this month. The age of drug company junkets still is going strong, though.
Voluntary marketing guidelines that went into effect with the new year ban drug companies from showering doctors with trinkets — note pads,…
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A new Congress convened in Washington this week with health reform among its top priorities. That means finding a way to cover the more than 46 million Americans who are uninsured — and helping millions of insured families…
Premiums for stand-alone Medicare prescription drug plans in Missouri and Illinois will jump by an average of 18 percent next year.
In Missouri, that means average monthly premiums will rise to a little more than $48 per month from the current…
Surely you’ve seen the television ads, the ones with attractive and carefree people gamboling through fields of flowers thanks to Miracle Drug X, or kayaking up a river thanks to Miracle Cure Y. Life would be better if only your…
A slowing economy and higher out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs mean growing numbers of even insured families are having difficulty paying for their medications.
We’ve written extensively about the problem in print. USA Today published a new report last week based on…
