WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress are seeking government investigations into recent price increases of brand-name prescription drugs, as lawmakers finalize ...
Advocacy groups investing heavily to influence Nevada voters, lawmakers Nevadans may have thought the big campaign ended last November, but their TVs are ...
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday threw out jury decisions awarding the state more than $274 million from three pharmaceutical companies, ruling they did not defraud the state in pricing Medicaid prescription drugs. The court overturned jury verdicts against the drug companies ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday warned consumers to avoid buying medicines online to treat swine flu, saying one such product contained nothing more than talc and over-the-counter fever-reducer. The FDA raised the warning after some of its investigators ...
Graphic shows pharmaceutical industry sales growth by region Copyright 2009 AP News
Senate health care bill could lead to higher Medicare prescription drug costs for seniors Medicare recipients could see higher premiums for prescription drug coverage as a result of changes to complex provisions in a Senate health care bill, a senior Republican said ...
Allergan Inc., the maker of the Botox wrinkle treatment, challenged the government's ban on off-label drug marketing to doctors, saying it violates the company's right to freedom of speech. The company contends in a lawsuit filed Thursday that it should be able ...
It would be nice if every medicine we took immediately cleared up the disease or infection. Instead, sometimes the medications backfire-to be more precise, sometimes your immune system decides to fight the cure instead of the cause. When this happen, it sets ...
Bill would allow seniors, government to save money under prescription drug program Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, is the latest in a long line of congressmen from his party to make bogus arguments ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The Medicare drug benefit may have caused confusion when it was launched in 2006, but the program has since "exceeded expectations" in getting seniors coverage and trimming their medication costs, according to a new report. A study ...
CBO: Some seniors could see drug costs rise under House bill but on average would spend less Some seniors could end up paying 20 percent more for their Medicare prescription drug plans under health care legislation in the House. But overall prescription ...
Some seniors could end up paying 20 percent more for their Medicare prescription drug plans under health care legislation in the House. But overall prescription drug spending would decrease for seniors on average under the bill, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday ...
