The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first generic competitor to the EpiPen and EpiPen Jr., the auto-injector for the emergency treatment of life-threatening allergies. Mylan, the original manufacturers of the device, had been sharply criticized for raising the cost more than 400 percent over a decade, according to CNBC. The Israeli… Continue reading FDA Approves Generic Epi Pen
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The Link Between Doctors and Drug Sales Representatives
Limiting how pharmaceutical sales representatives market their products to physicians changes the doctors’ drug prescribing behaviors, according to new research. A team, led by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Ian Larkin and Carnegie Mellon University’s George Loewenstein, examined restrictions 19 academic medical centers (AMCs) in five U.S. states placed on pharmaceutical representatives’ visits to… Continue reading The Link Between Doctors and Drug Sales Representatives
Managing Medication Expenses
Here, some tips from the experts at SeniorHealth, a division of the National Institutes of Health, on how to save some money on medication: Medicines can cost a lot. If you have a drug plan through your insurance, you can probably save money by ordering yours from them rather than at your neighborhood pharmacy. Medicare… Continue reading Managing Medication Expenses
5 Ways to Be Smart About Prescription Drugs
With 4 in 10 Americans regularly taking a prescription medication and nearly $260 billion spent by consumers on prescriptions in 2014, expert pharmacist Dr. Linda Bernstein, a spokesperson for FamilyWize, a price-comparison tool for prescription drugs, is offering the following tips to help consumers get healthier with their medications this year: Know what medicine you… Continue reading 5 Ways to Be Smart About Prescription Drugs
Drug Companies At Fault for Lack of Generic Insulin
Generic insulin, which could make the lifesaving treatment available to more diabietics, isn’t available because drug companies have acted to keep insulin under patent, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers said that insulin, which is used by 6 million people in the… Continue reading Drug Companies At Fault for Lack of Generic Insulin
What You Need to Know About Generic Drugs
Editor’s note: No matter what prescription drugs you’re taking, there are several issues you should be aware of: how effective the drugs are, whether they interact with any other medicines you might be taking, and whether a chaper generic is as good as a more expensive brand name. The generic-vs.-name brand issue can be especially… Continue reading What You Need to Know About Generic Drugs