News tagged with generic medications
Innappropriate drug prescriptions wasting millions, raising health risks
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 04, 2009 |
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A recent study in Oregon suggests that drugs designed for treating the most severe mental illnesses are often prescribed at inappropriately low doses and at considerable expense, for use in conditions where their benefit ...
Myth busted: Some drugs do cost more in Canada
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Sep 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Canada may be recognized as a bargain hunters' paradise for prescription drugs, but a new U of T study suggests that many generic medications may be more expensive in Canada than in the U.S. The uninsured ...
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More stringent evaluation on the use of generic medications in thoracic transplantation
Jun 02, 2009 |
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A closer look at regulatory and clinical concerns with generic immunosuppression medications in thoracic transplantation is required, according to an educational advisory by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation ...
News media often do not report potential sources of bias in medical research
Sep 30, 2008 |
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An analysis of news media coverage of medical studies indicates that news articles often fail to report pharmaceutical company funding and frequently refer to medications by their brand names, both potential sources of bias, ...
FDA OKs first generic version of Trileptal
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Oct 10, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval of the first generic versions of the anti-convulsion drug Trileptal (oxcarbazepine).
Free drug samples may end up costing uninsured more
Sep 05, 2008 |
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Free drug samples provided to physicians by pharmaceutical companies could actually be costing uninsured patients more in the long run, according to a study done by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ...
Electronic prescribing system may encourage physicians to choose lower-cost drugs
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Clinicians using an electronic prescribing system appear more likely to prescribe lower-cost medications, reducing drug spending, according to a report in the December 8/22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the ...
The Medical Minute: Talk about prescriptions
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Look in your wallet, purse, personal digital assistant or smart phone and you probably have a list of names, phone numbers and addresses. You might even have a file for your passwords or important account numbers, birthdays ...
Generic versions of biologic medications are coming
Sep 08, 2009 |
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The days of market exclusivity could soon come to an end for the biotech industry if Congress moves forward with plans to allow generic biologics on the U.S. market.
Researcher finds symbolic overtones in the names of cancer medicines
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Linguistics expert Lewis Glinert, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures at Dartmouth, has found that the names of cancer medicines (common, trade, and generic names), often contain sounds associated ...
Costly cancer drugs are worth it, study finds
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The cost for chemotherapy medications to treat colorectal cancer for six months has jumped 2,600 percent from 1993 to 2005. But such rising costs are worth the price, asserts a new report from Cornell, when ...
Older adults at high risk for drug interactions
Dec 23, 2008 |
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At least one in 25 older adults, about 2.2 million people in the United States, take multiple drugs in combinations that can produce a harmful drug-drug interaction, and half of these interactions involve a non-prescription ...
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