Some of the duties will be outsourced, but under the control of a local office, and portions of this provision will need an act of Congress, so I might guess now’s the time, or after the election maybe to tackle this issue. I would also like to see labels on every product stating the city, origin...
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on 10-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, drugs, FDA, China, Outsourcing, Food products, Congress Pharma
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...
Posted to
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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
One more survey, do we really need to spend this money, I think we have a pretty good idea here that it is not many. My personal opinion here would be to spend the money and enable and educate folks on how this can be done, rather than to see how many can’t, it’s an obvious. If the money...
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
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, drugs, Pharma, Prescriptions, HMO, Pay for Performance, Cash Patient
I spent a little time looking around today and there are many "red stars" on this page, which indicate a safety alert from the FDA. Safety alerts come in all shapes and sizes and a red start does not mean to stop taking medications by any means, just an awareness to help both the clinicians...
There seems to be a flurry of lawsuits of late, related to unknown or somewhat known psychological side effects from selected pharma products, and this is one more on the way. I am sure there’s much more research to go on, but how many of the products have these effects and what percentage of patients...