eDrugSearch.com will soon be releasing our first e-book, 99 Ways to Save Money on Prescription Drugs. To whet your appetite, here are 10 ways to save, courtesy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer (who interviewed Dr. Edward Jardini and Steven Findlay, managing editor of Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs, for their story):
1. Start with [...]

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The first six words of Andy Greenberg’s Tuesday story in Forbes are about all I needed to read: “In the shady world of online pharmacies…”
Oh boy — here we go again.
Hey, I know there are a lot of rogue pharmacies out there. That’s why I started eDrugSearch.com — to help people avoid rogue [...]

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Chris Rice at OpEdNews is boiling mad about corrupting lobbyists and duplicitous politicians who have made it difficult for U.S. residents to buy drugs from Canadian pharmacies. Here’s an excerpt from his column:
LIE: The Bush administration is fighting importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada by claiming they are unsafe and thereby protecting [...]

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I wrote the other day about the hypocrisy –not to mention true gall — that pharma apologists like Peter Pitts have shown in their attacks on Canadian drug reimportation.
Essentially, Pitts argues that Americans should not be permitted to buy Canadian drugs because the FDA is incompetent to regulate these imports and keep the [...]

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You might think Big Pharma would give up its longstanding fight against Canadian drug reimportation — now that both John McCain and Barack Obama vocally support it (not to mention 80 percent of the American public).
You’d be wrong.
As it turns out, Big Pharma believes it has a trump card in its bid to maintain its [...]

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Comedienne Tracey Ullman debuted a new series on Showtime this season, and one of her funniest bits was making fun of FDA policy that — officially, at least — forbids American consumers from purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies. Check it out:

It’s funny stuff. Of course, the reality, for those familiar with the law, [...]

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In an article today excoriating the FDA for its regulation of prescription drugs, the New York Times reports:

The Institute of Medicine, the Government Accountability Office and the F.D.A.’s own Science Board have all issued reports saying poor management and scientific inadequacies make the agency incapable of protecting the country against unsafe drugs, medical devices and [...]

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Sooooo… the FDA says it doesn’t inspect drugs imported from China and India (and sold through U.S. pharmacies) for safety. Did you know that almost 80 percent of the active ingredients in prescription drugs sold in the U.S. come from these countries?
And yet, the FDA still wastes its time with the “issue” of U.S. [...]

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Well, disgraced AstraZeneca sales exec Mike Zubillaga has finally removed his foot from his mouth and broken his silence. Via Pharmalot, here’s what Mike had to say:
It’s been an absolutely horrible week. I don’t wish this on anyone. But I have to move on. I have a family to take care of…I hold no [...]

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Next Tuesday, March 20, at noon Central, John Mack of the Pharma Marketing Blog and The Pharma Blogosphere will interview me on his Pharma Marketing Talk Internet radio show.
The topic of the show: “Can you find reputable Canadian drugs online?”
If you read the eDrugSearch blog, you know our answer — of course you [...]

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