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CVS/Caremark join the Generic Discount Club – Connect information to Personal Health Record Accounts

$9.99 for 90 days with enrollment with the Health Savings Pass CVS becomes the latest retail drug chain to jump on the bandwagon, pretty close in comparison, except you need to join the Health Savings Plan. The plan is primarily created for cash...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 1:51 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, PHR, Google Health, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CVS, Discounts, Minute Clinic

Pfizer Joins the Generic Club

I wonder if all the name brand companies will one day have nothing but generics? (grin). There’s always this interesting topic too, biosimilars. “Because biosimilars aren't exact duplicates of the original drugs, they don't violate...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 5:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Pharma, Generic Drugs, Marketing, Pfizer, Biosimilars

FDA Bans Import of Meds From Ranbaxy

More can be read here as well. The issue goes back to a raid in 2006 of a US warehouse in New Jersey. If the pills were a problem, why were they allowed to continue to ship with allegations that factory test records were falsified. Well...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 8:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, FDA, Generic Drugs, Ranbaxy

Are Generic Drugs taking business away from big Pharma?

I was reading another blog, and realized Comedy Central now has their own site with videos and ran across this classic from the Today Show. With all the recent discussions on how big Pharma spends money and recent marketing techniques, here it is...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 10:45 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Need a Laugh, drugs, Pharma, Generic Drugs, Marketing, Comdey

The newest generation of drugs: Who can afford them?

This brings up an interesting question, what do you go for relief or bankruptcy? Although now it is not real wide spread, but as the Biomed business continues to grow with new break throughs, how will this process continue? Is this more justification...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 4:24 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, health insurance, Generic Drugs, Biomed, Biosimilars, 4 tier

Maker of Defective Digitek Recalls All Generic Drugs Made at New Jersey Factory

Digitek, as you may or may not remember was found to contain twice the amount of active ingredient in the tablets earlier this year. The list is below as published by the FDA. The recall is being conducted for retailers to return...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 12:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Prescriptions, FDA, Generic Drugs, Medications, Recalls

Generic Risperdal Hits the Market

No time wasted here, patent expired yesterday, orders shipping today. Also J and J will release their own generic as well, (can’t beat them – join them) so 2 generic versions ready to go. Teva has an exclusive for a few months before others...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 6:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Pharma, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs

$4.00 Generic Prescription Resources on the Site

I try to use the right hand column of this page to offer some quick links to readers. One item worth check out is the direct links to the PDF sheets from the retailers that offer the $4.00 prescriptions on generic drugs. Each retailer has 300-500 drugs...

Published Mon, May 05 2008 12:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Prescriptions, $4.00 Prescriptions, Drug Information, Generic Drugs

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