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A warning about the price of generic drugs
Mar 8, 2013
Drug manufacturers can charge very different prices for essentially the same generic medicine.
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FDA urges drug companies to make a safer pain killer
Jan 29, 2013
With addiction to pain pills at epidemic levels, the Food and Drug Adminstration is taking action
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What's so bad about off-label uses of medication?
Jul 3, 2012
GlaxoSmithKline, the huge British drug-maker, will pay $3 billion in fines and compensation to the U.S. government and the states. They are in trouble for marketing drugs for off-label uses of its drugs.
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Major pain-advocacy group dissolves
May 9, 2012
The American Pain Foundation abruptly closes its doors on the heels of a government investigation into the epidemic of painkiller abuse.
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Major pharmacy chains expected to merge this week
Apr 2, 2012
Express Scripts is looking to close a deal to takeover Medco Health Solutions this week. The combined companies will handle the prescription drugs of 135 million Americans. What effect will that have on pharmacy drug prices?
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Plan B could go O.T.C.
Dec 7, 2011
Today, the FDA decides whether to sell the morning after pill over-the-counter. Over-the-counter drugs can often make drug makers a lot more money than prescriptions.
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Lipitor or Zyrtec? How a doctor's bad handwriting can change your prescription
May 12, 2011
How does a prescription for Lipitor turn into one for Zyrtec? Or the diabetes drug Avandia get mistaken for the potentially deadly blood thin...
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