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Important health care innovations, such as medications and vaccines, may not be readily available to low-income people in developing countries.
SMDC Health System recently removed all promotional gifts from pharmaceutical companies.
Wedgewood Pharmacy has introduced Tiny Tabs, custom-compounded tablet dosage- form for pilling finicky pets who won't cooperate and take their medicine in a treat form.
Abbott received FDA approval to market HUMIRA as a treatment for adult patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis.
FDA issued a Public Health Advisory, recommending that over-the-counter cough and cold products should not be used to treat infants and children less than 2 years of age.
Legislation that would allow independent pharmacies to negotiate contracts directly with health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers in the Medicare prescription drug program would cost the government $681 million.
Massachusetts Prescription Reform Coalition announced an effort to curb pharmaceutical industry marketing in an attempt to bring down drug costs and health spending.
Patients have begun swamping physician offices to ask whether they should end treatment with the cholesterol medication Vytorin.
HIV-positive women living in rural areas of Zimbabwe are experiencing increasingly limited access to antiretroviral drugs.
FDA approved Nycomed's ALVESCO Inhalation Aerosol in US for the maintenance treatment of asthma and as prophylactic therapy in adult and adolescent patients aged 12 years and older.
UCB's NDA for the use of Keppra XR extended-release tablets in the adjunctive treatment of partial onset seizures in adults with epilepsy has been accepted by FDA.
Report details racial and ethnic health disparities and how the emergence of race-based medicine can be dangerous.
About 3.1 million people in US aged 12 to 25 have used over-the-counter cough and cold medicines to get high at least once in their lifetimes.
FDA has approved Tysabri for the treatment of moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease.
New Mexico Department of Health is now providing a needle-free form of Narcan, a prescription drug that reverses a heroin overdose. Narcan is available in a nasal spray to drug users and their friends and families.
Eliminating needles reduces the risk of disease transmission and may increase the likelihood that people will use the life-saving drug. Dominick V. Zurlo, harm reduction outreach coordinator for Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, said participants who have used the nasal Narcan have reported back very favorably as to its use.
Lowering drug co-pays for chronic disease patients increases use of important preventive medicines.
Although US residents have the highest out-of-pocket drug costs, even those who can afford their prescription drugs are far less likely to take them than patients in other countries.
Pharmacies can charge health insurers an 18% premium on the cost of medications and receive a dispensing fee of about $2.27 cents per prescription under the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Some doctors and dentists had advised patients who take oral osteoporosis medications such as Fosamax and Boniva to postpone dental work.
Most free drug samples go to wealthy and insured patients and are not used to ease the burden of the poorest nor the uninsured.
FDA in 2007 approved 19 new medications, a decrease from 22 in 2006 and the lowest number since 1983.
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Medicare's prescription drug benefit led to a 17% reduction in out-of-pocket costs, or $9 per month, for beneficiaries who enrolled in the program in 2006.
UK National Health Service is negotiating revisions to the national price list that could cut prescription drug prices by 10%.
Most free drug samples go to wealthy and insured patients and are not used to ease the burden of the poorest nor the uninsured.
Drugs that treat depression, schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions and that target a particular protein on brain cells might not be triggering the most appropriate response in those cells.
A device designed to eliminate mistakes made while mixing compounds at a hospital pharmacy was 100 percent accurate in identifying the proper formulations of seven intravenous drugs.
In an era of expanding competition from generics, expiring patent protection for many top-selling drugs, and a slowdown in new drug discoveries, there is very little margin for error in drug pricing decisions.
Health Canada is advising consumers not to use Zhong Ti Xiao Er Jian Pi San (batch number JPS0704) due to concerns about possible side-effects.
About 45% of physicians at three US medical schools in the Chicago area have prescribed placebos to patients, and 96% believe that patients can benefit from placebos.