Tag: pharmaceuticals

Right Result, Wrong Reason: VA Boots Avastin For Wet AMD

I’m a big fan of cost containment in health care. But I’m…

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Antibiotics’ Scary Future

“What people might not know about resistance,” says Eric Utt, a former…

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If Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme, What is the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit?

The wild attacks on Social Security by Republican presidential candidates including Rick…

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Drug Company to Congress: The ‘Dog Ate My Homework’

Just about anyone who has ever been a kid in school recalls…

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Overtreatment Alert! Antibiotics Fuel Medical Overutilization

A good friend of mine and Whistleblower reader contracted the sniffles and received…

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Florida Pill Mill Clinics

Florida has long been the nation’s center of the illegal sale of…

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A High Price for Rare Cancer Drugs

Pfizer last week won Food and Drug Administration “accelerated approval” for Xalkori…

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How We’re Rationing Life-Saving Drugs

Half of all hospitals are buying drugs on the gray market: Fifty-two…

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Doctors and Patients Have a Failure to Communicate

Half the U.S. population takes at least one prescription drug. Sixty percent…

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FDA Criticized for Lack of Controls over Increasing Prescription Narcotic Abuse

The rise in prescription drug abuse in this country has been muted…

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