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- Petrobras: Brazil's Oil Giant
- This Brazilian state-owned giant is the fastest growing oil company in the world. By owning some shares of Petrobras PBR, you can hedge your bets against rising prices at the pump.
- Videos 2008-07-04
- Brain Steroids: Ban Or Boost?
- Drugs are bad for productivity, right? Well, maybe not. While you can probably correlate productivity increases with declines in per capita drinking, what about coffee or Diet Coke? These can act as mild stimulants. Then there's full-fledged brain steroids, say, a drug like Provigil, which...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Ads for "Sex Nasal Spray" Banned in the U.K.
- British authorities have ordered a company advertising a nasal spray that promises longer-lasting sex to take down 196 billboards. The ads break U.K. law, according to the Guardian, because a medical prescription is required to obtain the spray. Drugs are banned from being advertised in Britain. The...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- Health Care Still Hiring
- In spite of the massive ongoing economic crisis currently affecting the entire world, Priya David reports on a source of optimism in the economy, as health care-related employers are actively seeking workers.
- Videos 2009-05-09
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- Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics Poll
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics PollNot an either/orThe use of synthetic drugs to enhance performance is an issue to me, not so much because it helps an individual perform better, but because of the long-term effects on the brain and body. The extended use of steroids has been proven...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- NHS trusts slammed by DH over 'unacceptable' plans to export drugs
- NHS hospital trusts have been slammed by the Department of Health over "wholly unacceptable" plans to cash in on the weak pound by exporting medicines intended for NHS patients. The DH's chief pharmceutical officer Keith Ridge has written to all NHS trusts, castigating a "small number" that have been considering...
- News items 2009-08-28
- List of 56 Drugs That Should Not Be Mixed With Viagra Contains Some Surprises
- Public Citizen has published a list of 56 drugs that interact badly with erectile dysfunction pills such as Pfizer's Viagra. Public Citizen's WorstPills.com site reports: In combination with ED drugs, these 56 drugs can cause dangerous falls in blood pressure that could lead to a heart attack or stroke;...
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- Is There Really a "Market Price" for Drugs?
- Everyone seems to be ganging up on high drug prices these days. In two separate hearings last week, Congressional committees took after drugmakers for big markups on specialty treatments and a pharma "windfall" created by the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, while the WSJ took a hard look at the opacity of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-27
- Counterfeit Drugs: A Growing Public Health Risk in Need of a Multi-Factored Solution
- Counterfeit drugs are those drugs that have been tampered with such that they are not what they purport to be. These drugs can be sub-potent, super-potent, contain only inactive ingredients, contain no medication whatsoever, or have false labels. While counterfeit drugs are a huge problem particularly in developing countries, the...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics Poll
- Is the asterisk coming to the business world? The use of performance-enhancing drugs has clogged up the sports world for the last couple of years, but steroid and human growth hormone are not the only way to get a chemical advantage. What about the brain drugs, those...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Letters.(Generic drugs)(Brief Article)
- A prescription for generic drugs Editor: I read about the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan upcoming promotion of generic drugs in your Aug. 20 issue (``Blues pushing generic drugs: Insurer looks to use savings to keep premiums down''). Th...
- Research articles 2001-09-10
- Newer Antipsychotic Drugs Double Heart Risk, Just Like Older Meds
- The prevailing wisdom that the latest generation of antipsychotics is safer than older medicines takes a hit in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. A study comparing the drugs finds: Patients taking the newer group of drugs, called atypicals, are twice as likely to suffer sudden...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Medicare: Appropriate Dispensing Fee Needed for Suppliers of Inhalation Therapy Drugs
- The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 MMA revised the payment formula for most of the outpatient drugs, including inhalation therapy drugs, covered under Medicare part B. Medicare, also pays suppliers of inhalation therapy drugs a $5 per patient per month dispensing fee. The paper examines suppliers'...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Prescription Drugs: Trends in Usual and Customary Prices for Drugs Frequently Used by Medicare and Non-Medicare Enrollees
- This document contains a report that provides information on trends in prices for prescription drugs frequently used by Medicare beneficiaries and other individual with health insurance. It obtains data from two state pharmaceutical assistance programs for the elderly on the usual and customary prices reported by retail pharmacies for selected...
- White papers 2004-10-06
- Money-Saving Blood Pressure and Heart Drugs Identified in Latest, Free Best Buy Drugs Report
- WASHINGTON, April 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Five of the 10 drugs in a class called ACE Inhibitors -used to treat people with high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes - have been chosen as Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs, with potential annual savings oWASHINGTON, April 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Five...
- Research articles 2005-04-29
- New Lows in Health Insurance -- Pay More for Drugs, If You Can Afford Them
- The basic social bargain of health insurance -- that we all pay premiums while we're healthy so insurance will cover our costs when we're sick -- has been breaking down for close to two decades. To see how high drug prices are shredding it further, look no further than today's...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Dealing with students on drugs.(Brief Article)
- Dealing with Students on Drugs--A new report from the University of Texas, Austin, can help police officers better deal with students they encounter who may be on certain club drugs. The 15-page document looks at six drugs commonly used by partying youth: Ecstasy, Gamma hydroxybutyrate GHB,...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Thailand to break patents on AIDS, heart drugs
- BANGKOK AFP — Thailand has said it will break the patents on two AIDS and heart disease drugs, prompting a swift threat from pharmaceutical firms to review their investment plans in the kingdom. "The public health minister gave us the guidelines to overrule the patents in order to make...
- Research articles 2007-01-25
- Oligopoly. (gene drugs) (Science and Technology)
- Gene drugs Oligopoly ALL drugs--even the humblest and oldest ones--work by attacking proteins that have been linked to a disease or some other unpleasantness. The trouble with such protein-bashing drugs is that they are sledgehammers that tend to cause unwanted side-effects. A growing...
- Research articles 1989-06-17
- Rise in resale of drugs causes supply worries
- A sharp rise in the past year in the resale of drugs overseas has left pharmaceutical companies scrambling to avoid shortfalls in supply to British patients, according to a report by the industry's trade body. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry said on Tuesday that three drug companies alone...
- News items 2009-08-25
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