Archive for 2005
You can take control of drug costs
In a recent study published in The Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers explored prescription drug costs. They sent surveys to physicians nationwide, focusing on heart specialists and general practitioners. Of the more than 500 physicians who completed the survey, 93% understood their patients were concerned about out-of-pocket drug costs. Nearly as many also felt they…
[...]Measure ties US negotiator’s hands on drug imports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Trade Representative could no longer craft trade deals making it harder to import American-made pharmaceuticals from nations such as Canada under a measure approved by congressional negotiators on Friday. By Reuters November 4, 2005 Read the full story at reuters.com.
[...]Alert warns of Tamiflu scams
SEMINOLE COUNTY — The Seminole County Health Department issued an alert Wednesday warning of e-mail scams offering the prescription drug Tamiflu, which is used in the treatment of influenza. November 3, 2005 Read the full story at orlandosentinel.com.
[...]Souder grills FDA over tracking system for prescriptions
Prescription for change
WASHINGTON – Kevin Fagan never intended to be an activist. But four years ago, his son Timothy endured two months of debilitating pain after unknowingly taking a counterfeit drug that was meant to help him recover from a liver transplant. By Daniel Wagner November 2, 2005 Read the full story at nynewsday.com.
[...]Branson snaps up 10,000 courses of Tamiflu
Drug warrior Dora Akunyili
Dr. Dora Akunyili and her family were driving down a rural road in Nigeria three years ago when snipers opened fire on her car. "The back windscreen was shattered," she says. "A bullet pierced through my head scarf and grazed my scalp." Akunyili had been targeted by a drug gang–but not the kind that sells…
[...]Statement of Randall W. Lutter, Ph.D., acting associate commissioner for policy and planning, food and drug administration
Arrests are not enough
In Europe, profiteers masquerading as pharmacists are selling unsafe, unregulated, mislabeled, repackaged, and commingled drugs to unsuspecting consumers, through a process known as parallel trade, or reimportation. By Peter Pitts November 1, 2005 Read the full story at heartland.org.
[...]Drug busters
Laid out on a conference room table at Novartis's headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, is a pile of pills. Pills to treat asthma, erectile dysfunction and diarrhea spill out of boxes labeled with well-known names of over-the-counter, prescription and generic drugs from around the world. The kinds of medicines people take every day to cure their…
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