As the article states, you don’t need marketing for cancer drugs, as the need is unfortunately already there, thus marketing for cancer drugs does not necessarily carry the same sales expense as do other drugs. We have all seen the “tiered plans” on what level drugs are listed with insurance coverage...
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on 10-13-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, personalized medicine, Genomics, health insurance, Pharma, Prescriptions, Cancer, R and D, Science 2.0
This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher, you can check here relative to Wall Street out coding...
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on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Medicaid, Medications, Medicare contractor, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms
A nice word of thanks to Mary Pat Whaley for adding the information about the links to where the $4.00 generic drugs can be found easily at the Medical Quack. I put the resources on the site to make it simple so one does not have to navigate each site individually and save some clicks and time...
This is something in my conversations with physicians that keeps coming up, so I thought I would write up a post. On this blog I provide links to the $4.00 and other cost saving areas for anyone, insurance or no insurance to find the best cost on generic drugs and these are the heaviest hit links...
Posted to
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on 09-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, drugs, Pharma, Prescriptions, HMO, Pay for Performance, Cash Patient
Statin side effects, weakening and sore muscles, this topic has been commented on here as well. My question would be are they one in the same, weakening muscles or just muscular pain and are they the same? It looks now like there is some research in the personalized medicine area...
Posted to
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on 07-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Prescriptions, Statins, Medications
They now have 70 subscribers, one of the new subscribers was me this morning. At least they are getting there even though they have had an account since September 6th of last year. This is amazing that the the Channel exists out there, and yet very few are tuned in. I have done...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Medical Devices, Pharma, Prescriptions, FDA, YouTube
The merger of these 2 companies does make perfect sense. For those physicians who have already been using e-Prescribing, this has been an issue with some of the mail order companies in accepting prescriptions in this fashion as well. The retail locations seemed to be one up on their technology...