Congress Fiddles (Drugs for renal anemia)

Posted on September 07, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction drugs

"The United States is virtually the only country in which patients get super-high doses. You create a toxicity situation," said Dr. N.D. Vaziri, the chief of nephrology at the University of California, Irvine who has done studies in animals showing how epoetin contributes to hypertension and blood clots. Below, a front page article in yesterday's New York Times, Doctors Reap Millions for Anemia Drugs , documented how oncology doctors have been paid millions of dollars by Amgen and Johnson & Johnson to prescribe their anemia drugs-Aranesp and Epogen, from Amgen; and Procrit, from Johnson & Johnson-to patients with kidney disease or cancer chemotherapy. In most circles that would be considered bribery: "Two of the world's largest companies are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors every year in return for giving their patients anemia medicines, which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses. The payments are legal, but very few people outside of the doctors who receive them are aware of their size." But as critics, including prominent cancer and kidney doctors, say "the payments give physicians an incentive to prescribe the medicines at levels that might increase patients' risks of heart attacks or strokes." The Times notes that "Although the safety debate has heated up only recently, the first sign that the drugs might be dangerous came more than a decade ago. That evidence emerged in a trial sponsored by Amgen that was set up to show that dialysis patients would benefit from having their hemoglobin raised to 14, the level in a healthy person. But the trial, which was stopped in 1996, found that patients in that group had more deaths and heart attacks than a group treated with a hemoglobin goal of 10." "That trial should have discouraged doctors from using too much epoetin and encouraged Amgen to study the risks further, said Dr. Steven Fishbane, a nephrologist at Winthrop-University Hospital on Long Island. Instead, use of epoetin continued to soar." Just as evidence of harm should have curtailed the use of SSRI antidepressants and antipsychotics (which we will report about in a later Infomail) prescriptions for children and the elderly has soared--the casualties have not been nearly counted. "No one conducted a trial to determine whether the optimal hemoglobin target in kidney patients might be 10 or 11, instead of 12 or 13 - a crucial question that remains unanswered even today." [Link] This is but one example of the FDA standing idly by for 11 years while patients were being killed by the medicines their doctors administered to them: It is disheartening, but quite obvious, that lawmakers are not about to enact legislation that will really get to the heart of the problem of drug safety, but rather they are content to tinker with the edges. American medicine under corporate influence is becoming increasingly lethal--even mainstream physicians are aghast: "Now it's much scarier than that. We could really be doing harm." Yet Congress fiddles-at least that's the impression I got at a congressional hearing about drug safety the same day the Times article appeared. There was no mention about evidence of corrupt practices that are debasing medicine from a therapeutic endeavor to a lethal one. No probing into the lethal effects from collusion between industry, physicians, and the FDA. Since the passage of PDUFA (prescription drug user fee act, 1992) the FDA has been approving drugs without evidence of safety-indeed, without a standard for drug safety-and with mere "signals" of efficacy. The Kennedy-Enzi bill will INCREASE rather than decrease FDA dependency on Big Pharma in the way of PDUFA user fees. Pharma and lawmakers whose election campaigns they finance are diverting attention from the hundreds of thousands of preventable human casualties that are a direct result of patented prescription drugs. Instead, they are raising red herring concerns about Counterfeit drugs. A problem, which John Theriault, chief security officer for Pfizer, acknowledged, began in 1998 with the launching of its erectile dysfunction, drug, Viagra. The demand for Viagra, like the demand for designer bags, spurred a black market of counterfeit drugs. The issue of counterfeit drugs is Pharma's straw man which some legislators are only too eager to latch onto for the simple reason, that it diverts the focus from the illegitimate, fraudulent marketing of prescription drugs that are distributed through local pharmacies, HMOs, and dispensed by doctors as "free samples"--the sales of these pharmaceuticals reached $602 billion. [1] These tainted drugs carry the FDA seal of approval, are prescribed by U.S. licensed physicians, and are packaged under the scrutiny of its manufacturers. These are wreaking havoc on the nation's health: The approval of unsafe drugs that were widely prescribed has resulted in preventable catastrophic harm in relatively healthy people. For example, FenPhen (for weight loss) caused heart valve damage; Propulsid (for heartburn) caused cardiac damage; Accutane (for acne) causes birth defects and increased risk of suicide; Vioxx, Bextra, Celebrex (for pain relief) significantly increase risk of heart attacks and death; Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Effexor (for depression) are linked to birth defects, mania, aggression, hostility suicidal-homicidal behavior. Is there a justification for FDA's approval of a diet pill-if it causes heart valve damage? Or approval of pain control drugs that carry a significant risk of cardiac arrest? Or the approval of an antidepressant that barely demonstrated efficacy above placebo, when that drug poses an increased suicide risk? Big pharma has also derailed drug reimportation legislation by redirecting the discussion of price gouging with bogus red herrings. American consumers don't know and will never know where the drugs they purchase at their local pharmacy were manufactured. Mostly NOT in the U.S. Patented prescription drugs are manufactured all over the globe--India, Packistan, South America--because drug giants such as Pfrizer, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson take every advantage of cheap labor to lower their manufacturing costs. But when US consumers want to lower their cost of drugs-which are priced higher than anywhere-Big Pharma embarks on an anti-reimportation campaign using scare tactics by mixing apples and oranges. Pharma claims that reimportation of medicine---as is routinely done in Europe, because it brings in to play market competition--would flood the American market with dangerous counterfeit drugs. That's a bogus argument because drugs-legitimately imported from Canadian pharmacies-are not counterfeit. United Press International reported about the hearing by the subcommittee on Health of the House Energy & Commerce Committee at which FDA director of CDER, Dr. Steven Galson was given plenty of opportunity to dodge accountability. Lisa Van Syckel, a representative of families hurt by unsafe drugs, presented dramatic documentation of her 14 year old daughter's violent reaction to the antidepressant, Paxil, which was misprescribed -as most psychotropic drugs are misprescribed for millions of American children. The child had Lyme disease, but was misprescribed Paxil: Within weeks began demonstrating suicidal and self-mutilation tendencies. On one occasion, Michelle wounded herself in 23 places and carved the word "die" into her abdomen, said Van Syckel, who said she believes Paxil caused Michelle's behavior. "Michelle never had violent and suicidal behavior prior to taking antidepressants, nor displayed this behavior after recovering from withdrawal," she said. Ms. Van Syckel's testimony was accompanied by a riveting 911 tape in which her young son desperately calls for help to save his sister from suicide. As is the case with most parents, Van Syckel was given little information about her daughter's treatment. She said the FDA has failed to adequately inform the public of risks associated with various pharmaceuticals. Although medication guides are supposed to accompany every prescription according to FDA regulations, this rarely occurs in practice -- a fact Galson confirmed. Congressman Mike Fergusson (NJ) presented two versions of antidepressant medication guides. Dr. Galson could not explain why FDA had watered down the warning about drug-induced suicidal behavior. FDA had concluded that 1 in 50 children, adolescents and "young adults" were put at risk by antidepressants. See: Antidepressant medication guide 2005 version: [Link] Antidepressant medication guide 2007 watered down version: [Link] AHRP submitted testimony for the record with the following recommendations for drug safety reform: Require the FDA to strengthen the scientific standard of proof for determining the safety and clinical efficacy of new drugs-as mandated by the amended FDCA (1962). Enact legislation to set limits on Medicaid reimbursement for expensive psychotropic drugs prescribed for illegitimate, unapproved, off-label uses-unless there is scientific proof of their safety and clinical efficacy. Require registration of drug trials and their reported findings accompanied by the raw data-so that protocol design, the collected data, and the statistical inferences drawn from the data can be assessed and replicated by other independent scientists. Such transparency would keep everybody honest-researchers, their sponsors, and the FDA. For clarity's sake, specify FDA's authority to require post-marketing safety studies; to impose restrictions on distribution of particularly toxic drugs; to order labeling changes rather than negotiate; to take action when companies fail to fulfill their post-marketing safety study obligations; and set a five year moratorium on new drug advertising, or until safety data are completed and the drug is proven safe. Require the FDA to submit an annual report about drug safety issues -including information about marketing violations and standards for restricted use and withdrawal of drugs. Today, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (NY) introduced Sweeping FDA Reform Measures: FDA Improvement Act (FDIA) Creates Independence Between FDA & Drug Industry, Eliminates All Conflicts Of Interest On Advisory Panels, & Establishes New Post-Marketing Safety Center The FDAIA establishes an independent Center for Post-Market Drug Safety & Effectiveness, which would monitor all approved drugs as well as all advertisements and promotions associated with those products. Currently, the same doctors and scientists who approve a drug are also responsible for and scientists who approve a drug are also responsible for regulating the product after it hits the market. Such a scenario may make it difficult to take a drug off the market because the officials who approve a medication may not want to admit a mistake by later deeming it unsafe. Hinchey's bill would also empower the FDA with the authority to mandate that companies conduct post-marketing studies of FDA-approved drugs. Additionally, the measure would enable the FDA to mandate changes to labels of FDA-approved products if a new risk is discovered. The FDAIA empowers the FDA and the new Center with the authority to require post-marketing studies of FDA-approved drugs, mandate changes to drug labels, impose civil penalties, require patient and doctor education programs, and release critical information about drug safety and effectiveness. "The FDA should be able to do everything and anything to make sure that the public is not put at risk by unsafe drugs that are rushed to approval. Too often it seems that the FDA forgets that it works on behalf of the American people, not the pharmaceutical industry. That is a fundamental problem that must be addressed." See: [Link] html References: See, partial list of U.S. Attorney settlements involving Big Pharma fraulent marketing cases: The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman by Dr. Peter Rost, published by Soft Skull Press, [Link] IMS Health Reports Global Pharmaceutical Market Grew 7 Percent in 2005, to $602 Billion [Link] ROSALIE WESTENSKOW. ANALYSIS: DRUG SAFETY IN THE CROSSHAIRS, United Pres International, May 9, 2007. [Link] [Link] The New York Times May 9, 2007 Doctors Reap Millions for Anemia Drugs By ALEX BERENSON and ANDREW POLLACK Two of the world's largest drug companies are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors every year in return for giving their patients anemia medicines, which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses. The payments are legal, but very few people outside of the doctors who receive them are aware of their size. Critics, including prominent cancer and kidney doctors, say the payments give physicians an incentive to prescribe the medicines at levels that might increase patients' risks of heart attacks or strokes. Industry analysts estimate that such payments - to cancer doctors and the other big users of the drugs, kidney dialysis centers - total hundreds of millions of dollars a year and are an important source of profit for doctors and the centers. The payments have risen over the last several years, as the makers of the drugs, Amgen and Johnson & Johnson, compete for market share and try to expand the overall business. Neither Amgen nor Johnson & Johnson has disclosed the total amount of the payments. But documents given to The New York Times show that at just one practice in the Pacific Northwest, a group of six cancer doctors received $2.7 million from Amgen for prescribing $9 million worth of its drugs last year. Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration added to concerns about the drugs, releasing a report that suggested that their use might need to be curtailed in cancer patients. The report, prepared by F.D.A. staff scientists, said no evidence indicated that the medicines either improved quality of life in patients or extended their survival, while several studies suggested that the drugs can shorten patients' lives when used at high doses. Yesterday's report followed the F.D.A.'s decision in March to strengthen warnings on the drugs' labels. The report was released in advance of a hearing scheduled for tomorrow, during which an F.D.A. advisory panel will consider whether the drugs are overused. The medicines - Aranesp and Epogen, from Amgen; and Procrit, from Johnson & Johnson - are among the world's top-selling drugs, with combined sales of $10 billion last year. In this country, they represent the single biggest drug expense for Medicare and are given to about a million patients each year to treat anemia caused by kidney disease or cancer chemotherapy. Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said that both patients and doctors would benefit from fuller disclosure about the payments and the profits that doctors can make from them. "I suspect that Medicare is going to take a very careful look at what is going on here," he said. Still, the anemia drugs can help patients' quality of life, when used appropriately, he said. "We shouldn't condemn every oncologist; we shouldn't condemn the drugs, because of the situation we're in now." Federal laws bar drug companies from paying doctors to prescribe medicines that are given in pill form and purchased by patients from pharmacies. But companies can rebate part of the price that doctors pay for drugs, like the anemia medicines, which they dispense in their offices as part of treatment. The anemia drugs are injected or given intravenously in physicians' offices or dialysis centers. Doctors receive the rebates after they buy the drugs from the companies. But they also receive reimbursement from Medicare or private insurers for the drugs, often at a markup over the doctors' purchase price. Medicare has changed its payment structure since 2003 to reduce the markup, but private insurers still often pay more. Combined with those insurance reimbursements, the rebates enable many doctors to profit substantially on the medicines they buy and then give to patients. The rebates are related to the amount of drugs that doctors buy, and physicians that agree to use one company's drugs exclusively typically receive higher rebates. Johnson & Johnson said yesterday in a statement that its rebates were not intended to induce doctors to use more medicine. Instead, the rebates "reflect intense competition" in the market for the drugs, the company said. Amgen said that rebates were a normal commercial practice and that it had always properly promoted its drugs. "Amgen is dedicated to patient safety," said David Polk, a spokesman. "We believe our contracts support appropriate anemia management and our product promotion is always strictly within the label." Both companies' stocks fell yesterday after release of the F.D.A. report. Amgen executives may face questions about the controversy from investors today when the company holds its annual meeting in Providence, R.I. Since 1991, when the first of the drugs was still relatively new, the average dose given to dialysis patients in this country has nearly tripled. About 50 percent of dialysis patients now receive enough of the drugs to raise their red blood cell counts above the level considered risky by the F.D.A. American patients receive far more of the anemia drugs than patients elsewhere, with dialysis patients in this country getting doses more than twice as high as their counterparts in Europe. Cancer care shows a similar pattern. American cancer patients are about three times as likely as those in Europe to get the drugs, and they receive somewhat higher doses. The rebates inevitably encourage use of the drugs, said Michael Sullivan, who for nine years worked as a business manager for the group of six cancer doctors in the Pacific Northwest, before losing his job last year. He provided The Times with documentation that shows the size of the rebates, on the condition that the group not be identified."Personally, I think rebates should go away," said Mr. Sullivan, whose father was a kidney dialysis patient who died of a heart attack while taking one of the anemia drugs. "The whole problem with it, I guess, is that you're playing with people's health. It's not the same as buying widgets." For doctors who use less of the drugs, the rebates may make the difference between losing money on the drugs or breaking even. Mr. Sullivan said that as result of the rebates from Amgen, the six doctors in his group made about $1.8 million in net profit on the drugs they prescribed. Unlike most drugs, the anemia medicines do not come in fixed doses. Therefore, doctors have great flexibility to increase dosing - and profits. Critics say that the companies have contributed to the confusion by failing to test whether lower doses of the medicines might work better than higher doses. "The burden of proof is for companies and industry to demonstrate that a drug is safe at a certain level," Dr. Ajay Singh, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Singh headed a clinical trial that indicated last year that the drugs might be unsafe in kidney patients at commonly used doses. Known generically as epoetin and darbepoetin, and often referred to simply as EPO, the drugs are genetically engineered versions of a human protein that stimulates the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells and increase the body's ability to carry oxygen. Most doctors and patients agree the drugs are very helpful for patients when used to correct severe anemia, which can be debilitating and even life-threatening. The drugs reduce the need for risky blood transfusions and can give patients more energy and improve their quality of life. "We have transformed the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease," said Dr. Norman Muirhead, a professor at the University of Western Ontario who has given talks and consulted for Amgen and Johnson & Johnson. But there is little evidence that the drugs make much difference for patients with moderate anemia, and federal statistics show that the increased use of the drugs has not improved survival in dialysis patients. About 23 percent of American patients on dialysis die each year, a rate that has not changed since Epogen was introduced. Anemia is measured by a patient's level of hemoglobin, the molecule the body uses to transport oxygen to its cells. Healthy people have around 14 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter of blood. Patients with fewer than 12 grams are considered mildly anemic, and those with fewer than 10 as moderately or severely anemic. The labels on the drugs, as currently approved by the F.D.A., encourage doctors to aim for a hemoglobin level of 10 to 12. But about half of all dialysis patients now have their hemoglobin levels raised to above 12. Critics of the drugs say their increased use has been driven by profit. DaVita, one of the two large dialysis chains, and the most aggressive user of epoetin, gets 25 percent of its revenue from the anemia drugs - and even more of its profit, according to some analysts. Dr. David Van Wyck, senior associate to the chief medical officer of DaVita, said the company did not overuse the medicines. Doctors determine how much to use, Dr. Van Wyck said. "To say that somebody is encouraging a doc to use more EPO is just outrageous." Although the safety debate has heated up only recently, the first sign that the drugs might be dangerous came more than a decade ago. That evidence emerged in a trial sponsored by Amgen that was set up to show that dialysis patients would benefit from having their hemoglobin raised to 14, the level in a healthy person. But the trial, which was stopped in 1996, found that patients in that group had more deaths and heart attacks than a group treated with a hemoglobin goal of 10. That trial should have discouraged doctors from using too much epoetin and encouraged Amgen to study the risks further, said Dr. Steven Fishbane, a nephrologist at Winthrop-University Hospital on Long Island. Instead, use of epoetin continued to soar. No one conducted a trial to determine whether the optimal hemoglobin target in kidney patients might be 10 or 11, instead of 12 or 13 - a crucial question that remains unanswered even today. Dr. Anatole Besarab of the Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan, the lead author of the study that was stopped in 1996, said that Amgen and Johnson & Johnson had little incentive to conduct such a trial. Dr. Robert M. Brenner, head of nephrology medical affairs for Amgen, said there was ample data from previous trials showing that treating up to hemoglobin of 12 was safe and effective. Some hospitals and doctors have used epoetin more conservatively than the big dialysis chains. Dr. Ronald A. Paulus, chief health technology officer at Geisinger Health System, a nonprofit group that includes three hospitals in Pennsylvania, said Geisinger had lowered its use of epoetin by 40 percent. Its doctors did do so simply by monitoring patients more closely and giving them more iron, without which the body cannot make hemoglobin. Dr. N. D. Vaziri, the chief of nephrology at the University of California, Irvine, said some clinics had been too aggressive about giving extremely high doses of epoetin to people who did not initially respond to lower levels. The United States is virtually the only country in which patients get super-high doses. "You create a toxicity situation," said Dr. Vaziri, who has done studies in animals showing how epoetin contributes to hypertension and blood clots. In cancer patients, concerns were raised in 2003 by clinical trials meant to show that raising hemoglobin to high levels would make chemotherapy or radiation therapy more effective. Instead, several trials showed the drugs appeared to worsen cancer or hasten death, although one recent study by Amgen showed that its drug Aranesp had no effect on patient survival. The conflicting studies are among the issues the F.D.A. advisory committee is expected to discuss tomorrow. Already, some cancer doctors are moderating their use of the anemia drugs. Dr. Peter Eisenberg, an oncologist in Marin County, Calif., said many doctors had been induced to use more epoetin by the financial incentives and the belief that the drug was helpful. "The deal was so good," he said. "The indication was so clear and the downside was so small that docs just worked it into their practice easily. "Now it's much scarier than that," he said. "We could really be doing harm." Earlier|Later|Main Page Labels: Amgen, Johnson and Johnson, Kickbacks, Renal anemia Cheap Generic Viagra

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Wal-Mart, Andre Johnson Settle Charity Bicycle Dispute

Posted on September 05, 2008 in Generic prescription drug list

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Grapes and Raisins

Posted on September 05, 2008 in Pharmacy

Julie, a person I work with at 1-800-PetMeds, mentioned that she received an email which states giving grapes or raisins to your dog can be dangerous. Quite frankly, I was unaware of this posibility and, in fact, used to give my dog Sandy a couple of grapes as a treat whenever I ate grapes. It turns out, that this is not an urban legend. It is reality. Grapes and raisins can be poisonous to dogs. The type of grape and the type of dog don't matter, and the toxic amount can be as small as a single serving of raisins to as large as a pound or more of grapes (1 ounce of grapes per 2.2 lbs of body weight). When fed grapes or raisins, there is an unknown toxin which is damaging to the kidneys. Initially, pets fed grapes or raisins will exhibit gastrointestinal signs such as vomiting and diarrhea. Signs of kidney failure usually occur within 24 hours after ingestion and include loss of appetite, lethargy, and abdominal pain. The dog may stop drinking and urinating. Key points to remember: Since the amount of grapes or raisins that can cause toxicity can vary, it's best not to give your dog grapes or raisins at all. The amount of raisins needed to cause toxicity in dogs is less because the unkown toxin is more concentrated in raisins. Do not leave grapes or raisins where your dog can get at them easily. If you suspect your pet has eaten grapes or raisins, contact your veterinarian immediately. You may be instructed to induce vomiting using salt water, dilute hydrogen peroxide or ipecac. Your veterinarian will tell you which to use. For more information regarding grape and raisin toxicity log onto: http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/toxicology/f/grape_raisin.htm Log onto internet.PetHealth101.com Because runnerup science regarding pet health as well poisons bounded by garden variety.

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Amazon and Wal-Mart Rebate Unfortunate Who Bought HD DVD

Posted on September 03, 2008 in Generic prescription drug list

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How much money did the Lincoln Club give Cheryl Cox?

Posted on September 02, 2008 in Ed pump

San Diego's Hillary? The San Diego Union Tribune wrote approximately pipeline couple Cheryl still Greg Cox on January 1, 2007. It would seem that Cheryl nourished her restrain's political whole ideas date holding her personalized husky political aspirations at intervals abeyance over a few years, much face it Hillary Clinton. But the Cox's are decided right on wingers, it seems. \"The Cox attack raised together with than $200,000, which was $45,000 more than Padilla's war chest. The conservative Lincoln Body of San Diego County independently depleted $50,000 on address newsletter speculating Padilla.\" To boot that's not sum converge grease's to Cox's campaign. Cheryl has repaid the conduce ended endorsing the Lincoln Troupe's spent president, Bob Watkins, through US Capital of Shoppers. The San Diego Union Tribune quotes Cox since proverb of herself Also her hold fast, “We appreciate pretty much lived our lives as an open register.\" That is, of era, not precise. Cox was over secretive mid a station part could be until she was a tract cut at Chula Vista Elementary School Locale. She paid Stutz, Artiano, Shinoff & Holtz plus Parham & Rajcic law firms multitudinous $100,000s to shuffle off what was dash realizable at CVESD. To boot who compulsory these law firms? Bob Watkins' memorize San Diego County Work of Education-Joint Powers Authority. http://information superhighway.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070101-9999-1n1coxes.html Cheap Generic Viagra

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Another school fires a teacher for reporting violations

Posted on August 30, 2008 in Ed pump

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Attorney Ira Rothken's Shinoffesque tactics fail; TorrentSpy must pay $100 million

Posted on August 27, 2008 in Ed pump

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Posted on August 24, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction

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Ahmed, Ali and Cockroaches

Posted on August 24, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction

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Congress Turning Against Seniors?

Posted on August 24, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance

April 21, 2006 Is Congress turning against seniors? The Alliance for Retired Americans thinks so. It says the current Congress has "proved to be yet another direct assault on the quality of life for retirees."

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Canadian Online Drug Sales To U.S. Customers Increase

Posted on August 24, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance

By W. David Gardner TechWeb.com Apr 18, 2006 01:54 PM Hard hit initially by the new U.S. Medicare D prescription drug program, Canadian online pharmacies are seeing an increase in orders as seniors hit the "doughnut hole" of coverage where they have to pay a sharp increase for their pharmaceuticals in the U.S.

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Nevada approves regulations to allow Canadian drug imports

Posted on August 23, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEYASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS (AP) - Bucking warnings from federal officials and the state attorney general, the Nevada Board of Pharmacy on Thursday endorsed letting consumers import prescription drugs from Canada.

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*(We the People, vs. Them the Large Insurance and Drug Companies)

Posted on August 21, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance

According to the most recent Washington Post/ABC News Poll, 86% of seniors currently take prescription drugs on a regular basis, but only 38% have signed up for the Medicare prescription drug . This is a glaring disparity in numbers. 44% thought the cost was too high and more Americans disapprove of the program, 45%, than approve, 41% (14% had no opinion).

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Medicare Part D Drug Plan Enrollment Experience Provides Valuable Lessons For Seniors

Posted on August 21, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance

Tuesday April 25, 11:29 am ET Analysis of 50,000 Seniors Already Enrolled in Part D Instructive For Those Still Facing May 15 Deadline www.nvo.com/promedica/meds4less

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Because I am NOT a man...

Posted on August 21, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction

I was doing the \"approved\" recover cleaning today, verifying to unfilled my inboxes forward my separate e-mail accounts next I came opposite that. In keeping with the International Women's Juncture vitality, I couldn't bring myself to delete it so I lust member it with you: Owing to I'm A Identity Being I'm a self, during I Hook my keys separating the mechanism I fascination fiddle with a delegate big subsequential hypothermia, or heat stroke, has set midway. AAA is not an option. I will win. ______________________________________________________ Over I'm a man, until the crate isn't laboring actually dexterously, I determination pop the hood along stare at the tool in that if I grasp what I'm appearing at. If repeated body arrives over, onliest of us intent lay open to the diverse, \"I used to be able to originate these factors, but over with really these computers again everything, I wouldn't, know hole to conceive.\" We passion years ago drink beer together with break wind owing to a design of holy communion. _____________________________________________________ Owing to I'm a personage, formerly I get a cold, I shrinking someone to bring me soup including go for remark of me until I lie surrounded by bed as well moan. You're a woman. You never con for sick seeing I do, so owing to you this isn't a perplexity. ______________________________________________________ Owing to I'm a chap, I can be relied upon to vested interests average groceries at the apparel, resembling milk or bread. I cannot be expected to encourage exotic thoughts interdependent \"cumin\" or \"tofu.\" Since positively I see, these are the agnate thing. Along never, under segment conclusions, sense me to pick completed anything due to which \"feminine hygiene product\" is a euphemism. (F.Y.I. guys... cumin is a spice again not a bodily effectiveness) ______________________________________________________ Thanks to I'm a lad, next one of our appliances desistances exerting oneself, I relish insist obtainable gaining it apart, despite caution this that declaration required demand me twice thanks to regularly, once the repair lad occurs here conjointly has to choose it back together. _________________________________________________ Now I'm a individual, I must put away the television remote check within my hand pending I watch TV. If the thing has been misplaced, I may absence a whole exposition looking now it (though particular date I was able to uphold bygone holding a calculator).....applies to engineers primarily. _______________________________________________________ Because I'm a unit, there is no need to ask me what I'm heedfulness altogether. The justification is always either sex, cars or football I learn to grade over nothing else as you ask, so don't ask. _______________________________________________________ Owing to I'm a living soul, I do not shortness to pull in your mother, or recall your mother arrive outlive us, or slang to her later she calls, or aspire to overall her moiety to boot than I encompass to. Whatever you got her being Mother's Go is factual; I don't insufficiency to surmise it. Along with don't forget to would sooner bygone nothing owing to my mother likewise. _______________________________________________________ Now I'm a life, you don't detain to ask me if I liked the movie. Chances are, if you're crying at the resolution of it, I didn't....as well if you are judgment amorous afterwards...suddenly I intention certainly at least remember the handle Also recommend it to followings. _______________________________________________________ Through I'm a body, I suspect what you're wearing is fine. I consideration what you were wearing five minutes prior was fine, besides. Either pair of shoes is fine. With the belt or fewer it, looks fine. Your hair is fine. You redound fine. Can we veridical visit being? _______________________________________________________ Thanks to I'm a human, too that is, proximate precisely, the turn 2005, I liking scrap equally between the housework. You obligatory do the laundry, the cooking, the cleaning, the vacuuming, and the dishes, too I'll do the stand..... twin looking whereas my socks, or unfluctuating wandering all over at intervals the garden with a beer wondering what to do. _______________________________________________________ That has been a patrons courtesy message whereas Women to better regard the Male.

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Two New Additions

Posted on August 21, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction

Silly Bahraini Girl has two new additions for today: 1. Direct the Blue Ribbon Push: Pinpoint the Blue Ribbon On the net Defend Terminology Offensive! 2. There's lower blogger almost the corner. Press Eunice additionally revolve what mischief she is over to forward: http://flippingthecoin.blogspirit.com Enjoy a good date ;)

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Medical Billing & Transcription

Posted on August 21, 2008 in Medical care

Check out this Blog that discusses reasons to outsource Medical Billing, Coding and Transcription: http://www.outsourcestrategies.com/blog/medical-transcription/2007/03/reasons-to-outsource-medical.html The blog discusses different aspects of the process and some related links.

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Many seniors unaware of deadline for Medicare drug plan

Posted on August 20, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance

By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON

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Number of Middle-Income Uninsured Rising

Posted on August 20, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance

(HealthDay News) -- Being uninsured is a growing problem not just for the poor, but for middle-income Americans, too, a new report warns.

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Fugly Husband Snatchers

Posted on August 19, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction

This is a brain-storming session. I am outlining ambitions as a chronology article I aspire to to write as well I want to component them with you: I am sure you realize all crowd in crossed keep possession snatchers before. That is a affair I would admire to bring out on interpolated depth moreover perhaps regular write a ledger thereabouts. It seems to be a plane phenomena Also bountiful times you listen heart-breaking stories told closed women complaining this their ever-faithful hubbies maintain been snatched - ordinarily completed their veritably best friends. You conceive, command are analogous solo commodities today that there are in fact women out there with an ravenousness, who individual lean over those who are \"taken.\" Thanks to I am not worried generally that at wholly seeing the keep on only who tried to sort a pass at my have - my compulsatory along legal acreage - was what I would whoop FUGLY (PS: this occasioned conversation stands in that Fucking Ugly). The sick woman stalks him; she proceeds from him any which way cognate a puppy again flat camps outside our front door amid holidays. Approbate, standard me. We aren't royalty or anything. No thanks. We absolutely husband no longing through a safety measure safety measure... as well not a FUGLY unique please. She is no threat to me over my body would never be biased in that a FUGLY woman with no brand; a woman who lets her especial cast set bygone in that rejected done a married human, who is so committed to his wife too digs. I in reality consider sorry seeing the rejected FUGLY cow. But what I can't see furthermore burst in to terms with is: why do FUGLY women allow themselves to be humiliated so lots? I am sure that looks are not something... it is entirely that the FUGLY creepy crawly could life additionally snatch someone else.. from Spheroid Ape or somewhere again away...who may stoop so low besides grade a decent woman out of her. To lot the require summary short, I would double you to slab your horror stories circumference keep snatchers here to lift me with my registry. Thanks in that your augment.

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