The Associated Press on Wednesday joined in on the recent flurry of media stories offering tips for saving on prescription drugs. The AP’s tips:
1. Use generic medications.
2. Find a lower-cost option, such as an over-the-counter alternative.
3. Shop around.
4. Order by mail.
5. Research state discount programs.
6. Beware of freebies and commercial discount programs.
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Associated Press offers six ways to save on prescription drugs
September 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Drug costs · Generic drugs · Prescription drugs
10 tips for saving money on prescription drugs
September 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Buy prescriptions online · Canadian drugs · Drug costs · Drug discount cards · Drug reimportation · Generic drugs · Health 2.0 · Healthcare solutions · Healthcare100 · Prescription drugs · Wal-Mart drug plan
What’s the difference between brand-name and generic drugs?
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
In the United States, we’re trained virtually from birth to value brand names — in fact, often to overvalue them.
Did you know, for example, that when large corporations buy one another, they often have to pay millions — or even billions — of dollars for something accountants call “intangible assets”? One of these assets [...]
Tags: Generic drugs · Pharmaceutical companies · Pharmaceutical marketing · Prescription drugs
In case of emergency, break patent
May 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment
From Reuters:
Brazil’s president is to decide whether his country will honor Merck & Co’s AIDS drug patent, after the health ministry rejected the company’s price-cut. “We consider the offer insufficient and we told the manufacturer,” Brazil’s health minister, Jose Temporao, told Reuters on Thursday. “The decision (on whether to break the patent) is now [...]
Tags: Efavirenz · Generic drugs · Merck
Big Pharma paying off generic drug manufacturers to avoid competition
January 18th, 2007 · No Comments
A report by the Federal Trade Commission has found that Big Pharma is paying off generic drug manufacturers in order to sell brand-name products for longer periods without competition.
Apparently, the generic drug manufacturers can make more money from witholding their drugs from the market than from selling them.
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Tags: Big Pharma · Generic drugs
More companies to produce generic Zocor
January 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Although the FDA approved the production of a generic version of Zocor in June 2006 by both Teva Pharmaceutical and Ranbaxy Laboratories, prices for the drug have dropped less than 10 percent since then. The recent approval of six more companies to sell generic Zocor should change that.
Analysts expect prices to drop as much [...]
Tags: Generic drugs · Merck · Zocor
If Big Pharma isn’t picking your pocket, the big drugstore chains are
December 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Rite Aid Corp. — the third-biggest drugstore chain, which recently agreed to buy the Eckerd and Brooks chains as well — has seen its profits rise of late after its introduction of generic versions of drugs such as Zoloft.
Why? Because generic medications carry a higher profit margin for the big chains than brand-name drugs.
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Tags: Generic drugs · Online pharmacies · Zoloft
Generics will soon be nipping at Lipitor’s heels
December 28th, 2006 · No Comments
From Reuters:
Pfizer Inc. is bracing for cheap competition to its biggest-selling product, the cholesterol drug Lipitor, a further worry for investors already reeling from the failure of its most important experimental medication. Last week, a raft of generic drugmakers announced that they had received U.S. approval to sell cheap versions of Merck & Co.’s rival [...]
Tags: Generic drugs · Lipitor · Pfizer
