tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51440929719481855882009-01-18T01:01:41.260-08:00This blog is filled with original and helpful articles that will help you understand how to save money by ordering medications online without getting ripped-off.Drug Watchernoreply@blogger.comBlogger290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144092971948185588.post-29867984086241661442008-04-23T19:46:00.001-07:002008-04-23T19:46:00.112-07:00

Former Bristol-Myers Exec Indicted, Accused of Lying to Feds A botched 2006 deal to keep generic Plavix off the market already led Bristol-Myers Squibb to oust its CEO, plead guilty to a federal charge and pay a $1 million fine. Today, in a distant aftershock, a former Bristol SVP was indicted for allegedly misleading the government about the deal. According to the indictment (which you [...

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Report confirms ozone pollution can kill WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even breathing in a little ozone at levels found in many areas is likely to kill some people prematurely, the National Research Council reported on Tuesday. Senior drug benefit gets mixed reviewThe U.S. program to help elderly people pay for medicines has made them less likely to trim spending on things like food and housing

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Medco Keeps UnitedHealth as Drug-Benefits Customer Medco is hanging on to its biggest fish. The pharmacy benefits manager said this morning that insurance giant UnitedHealth Group will stick with Medco in a contract that lasts through the end of 2012. The previous pact was set to expire at the end of 2009, the companies say. The news sent Medco�??s shares up 7% in [...] Medco is hanging on

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Mainstream docs join anti-aging bandwagonMainstream doctors who once wanted nothing to do with the "snake oil" of the anti-aging movement are buying in, signing up for �??certification�?? as anti-aging practitioners.Watchdog critical of FDA foreign drug oversight WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities increased inspections of foreign drug plants last year but still checked only a fraction of sites

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Michael Moore supports ObamaFDA Tobacco Bill Gains Momentum in Congress Tobacco products might soon face regulation by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).  A bill granting the FDA jurisdiction to regulate cigarettes and other forms of tobacco was approved by the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday, setting up its passage by the full House. Tobacco products are

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Trouble For Hire? CRO Oversight Is Lacking The huge cost and complexity of testing potential new medical products - a forbidding burden for fledgling Silicon Valley biotech firms - has given birth to an army of entrepreneurs offering to do the tests for others. Hundreds of contract research organizations have cropped up over the past two decades around the world, creating a [...] The huge

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Herbal Science Recalls Dietary Supplements Containing Ephedra, Human Placenta Herbal Science International, Inc.�??also known as Jen-On Herbal Science International, Inc.�??is recalling twelve dietary supplements containing ephedra, aristolochic acid, or human placenta because they may present a serious health hazard to consumers. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has long considered those

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Long Island Hospitals Don�??t Make the Grad with Consumers According to a recent federal consumer survey, Long Islanders are not satisfied with their hospitals and, on average, Long Island hospitals scored lower in patient satisfaction in eight out of 10 measures as compared with other hospitals statewide or even nationally.  �??I can�??t explain it, other than we have a more critical audience on

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Herbal Science Recalls Dietary Supplements Containing Ephedra, Human Placenta Herbal Science International, Inc.�??also known as Jen-On Herbal Science International, Inc.�??is recalling twelve dietary supplements containing ephedra, aristolochic acid, or human placenta because they may present a serious health hazard to consumers. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has long considered those

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Big Tobacco Handed Victory by Manhattan Appeals Court Tobacco giants Brown & Williamson Holdings and  Philip Morris USA won a huge victory last week when a Manhattan appeals court reversed a ruling in favor of a lung cancer victim who had argued that the cigarette makers were negligent by failing to market only �??light cigarettes�??.  In a 3-2 decision the appellate division ruled [...]

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Incontinence Drugs May Hurt Memory Lots of systems deteriorate in the aging body; sometimes in trying to fix one thing, you end up making another thing worse. For example, popular drugs for urinary incontinence may speed age-related memory loss, researchers said yesterday. iStockphoto Prompted by anecdotal reports of patients having memory problems after going on a class of drugs that

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Methadone deaths on the riseNationwide, methadone deaths are increasing at a faster rate than any other drug-related deaths, the National Center for Health Statistics reported in February.

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Heparin Contamination Was Due To Economic Fraud That�??s what FDA commish Andy von Eschenbach said at Senate hearing, although he didn�??t specify who added the contaminant and Baxter International maintains the contamination occurred before the blood thinner reached its supplier, Bloomberg News reports. Some samples of Baxter�??s heparin, whose main ingredient was made from pig intestines and

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Who Am I? Growing Up On Antidepressants Amid the ongoing debate over antidepressants is a point that, sometimes, gets overlooked. And that is the extent to which these drugs may affect psychological development and even identity. That�??s the issue raised in a thoughtful essay by Richard Friedman, a psychiatry professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. �??Most of my patients, who are adults, [...]

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Master of Liposuction: Peter Fodor When it comes to liposuction, we figure there may be a few questions floating around that some of our readers haven�??t had the opportunity or the courage to ask. Thanks to the kind folks at The HealthCare Channel, we have a �??virtual office visit�?? with a real plastic surgeon to the stars: Peter Fodor, a Beverly [...] When it comes to liposuction, we

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Vytoringate: James Stein, �??Man in the Middle�?? As Congress investigates the delay in the release of data from Merck and Schering-Plough�??s now infamous Enhance trial of Vytorin, one of the key players is speaking up. James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin, had reservations about the way the companies were characterizing a meeting of experts on the trial, which failed to [..

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Nearly 50,000 Patient Records Breached at NY Hospital The banality of identity theft is that your records could fetch less than a dollar for the person who takes them. Dwight McPherson, courtesy of New York Post Dwight McPherson, a patient admissions rep on the night shift at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, allegedly sold information on about 2,000

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High Biotech Drug Prices = A Failed Industrial Policy Insurance companies are charging many patients thousands of dollars a month in co-pays for very expensive drugs, the New York Times reported this morning. A quick glance of the list of drugs that the insurance industry funneled onto this so-called... Physicians for 'National Insurance' -- Survey The most interesting aspect of the new physician

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Interested in Vytorin? Then this is a MUST READ blog.Joke of the WeekThe Magic FluteCabbages, Condoms and HIV in Thailand �??Sorry, we have no mints,�?? reads the sign at Cabbages & Condoms Restaurant in Bangkok. �??Please take a condom.�?? The restaurant is owned by Thailand�??s Population and Community Development Association, a nonprofit founded in the �??70s to promote family planning. But when

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Trans-fats linked to breast cancer risk in study WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trans-fats, which are being phased out of food because they clog arteries, may raise the risk of getting breast cancer, European researchers reported on Friday. Schering-Plough Exec To Merck Exec: �??F�?� Off�?? Here�??s another nugget from the leaked Vytorin documents released today by the House Energy and Commerce

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Drugmakers To Spend $1B On Direct Marketing What will that get them? With revenues forecast to hit $10.6 billion, the return on investment is forecast to reach $10.27 on each $1 spent, according to a new report by the Direct Marketing Association. And between 2007 and 2012, direct marketing-driven sales are projected to compound 9.4 percent annually. Here are some other interesting findings [..

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Lawmakers question makers on key Vytorin meeting WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. Democrats said on Friday their investigation had raised questions about how Merck & Co Inc and Schering-Plough Corp documented a key meeting about a controversial study of their Vytorin cholesterol drug. GoozNews Readers Survey Visiting GoozNews for the first time? A regular visitor? Got three minutes? You

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Pfizer�??s HQ Cafeteria Flunked Health Inspection Want to grab a quick bite with Jeff Kindler? You may not want to meet him at the drugmaker�??s 42nd Street cafeteria. During a recent series of surprise inspections at some of Manhattan�??s biggest corporate lunchrooms, New York City health inspectors found rats, mice and flying insects, which yielded a failing grade of 42, NewsMax [...] Want to

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If you have work to do....Bring back the withdrawn VW Polo ad!FDA Signals High Bar for Stem Cell Treatments Yes, human embryonic stem cells are full of scientific promise. But there�??s still a lot of mystery about how therapies derived from cells will actually work in the body, and the FDA may require unusually compelling evidence in evaluating the treatments. At a meeting yesterday, the

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