Niche Prescriptions Announces Grand Opening of New Program Offering Prescription Drug Discount Card
Providing a prescription discount card, Niche Prescriptions announces the grand opening of a new program. The program allows consumers to minimize the cost of obtaining prescription drugs. Niche Prescriptions offers one of the largest pharmacy networks in the United States and offers thousands of...New Walmart Program Broadens Access to Affordable Prescriptions in Michigan
Retailer to offer 90-day prescription supply for $10 via free mail delivery; Pilot program launches in Michigan today BENTONVILLE, Ark., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today in Michigan Walmart announced a pilot program which will offer a 90-day supply of 300 generic prescriptions, ...Innappropriate drug prescriptions wasting millions, raising health risks
CORVALLIS, Ore. A recent study in Oregon suggests that drugs designed for treating the most severe mental illnesses are often prescribed at inappropriately low doses and at considerable expense, for use in conditions where their benefit has not been established. In this case, prescription drug...Healthcare Costs Prevented Nearly 40 Million Americans From Filling Their Prescriptions in 2008
The Internet becomes an increasingly important health resource for consumers curbing their spending on doctor's visits and medications NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 40 million U.S. adults decided not to fill a prescription medication from a doctor in the past year because of th...VIDEO from Medialink and General Motors: Electronic Prescriptions Save Lives and Money
NEW YORK, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Four out of every five adults take at least one medication or dietary supplement every day, according to the Institute of Medicine. Every year, hundreds of thousands of prescription drug errors are made due to handwritten prescriptions. These errors often lead...Non-Medical Use of Prescriptions Linked to Drug Abuse Risk
Study of college students finds 20% took substances without approval MONDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- Among college students, non-medical use of frequently abused prescription drugs increases the risk of drug abuse, says a University of Michigan study. Researcher Sean Esteban M...Pharmacists Customize Prescriptions By Patient, Day and Dose with onePAC(TM) Packaging
DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- For the half of Americans who take more than one prescription daily, life is about to change for the better, thanks to new onePAC(TM) prescription packaging from Parata Systems. onePAC prepares a person's medications by day and dosing time in a sealed, c...Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals Launches Asacol(R) HD (mesalamine) Delayed-Release Tablets
...sacol(R) (mesalamine) 400 mg delayed-release tablets, the number one most-prescribed oral 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) therapy.* More than 20 million prescriptions have been written for Asacol since its FDA approval and U.S. launch in 1992.** Physicians have relied on Asacol as a trusted UC therapy for more than ...HCPC Calls for Greater Healthcare Savings Through Improved Adherence to Prescription Drug Regimens
...tracking both groups, OSU researchers found that the group who received their drugs in blister packs with compliance-prompting features refilled their prescriptions in a much for timely manner and also achieved markedly better reductions in their blood pressure readings. The OSU study is just one example o...Classwide Opioids REMS: A Good Idea, Implement Carefully
...e medication over a period of several hours and contain fentanyl, hydromorphone, methadone, morphine, oxycodone, or oxymorphone. More than 21 million prescriptions are written every year for these medications. Congress established REMS in the Food and Drug Administration Act of 2007 (FDAAA). Under FDAAA, fo...CVS Caremark Data Confirms Improved Outcomes for Women with Osteoporosis Who are Adherent to Therapy
...cture." About CVS Caremark CVS Caremark is the largest provider of prescriptions in the nation. The Company fills or manages more than 1 billion prescriptions annually. Through its unmatched breadth of service offerings, CVS Caremark ...MedicWare Mobile PDA Medical Software
Description:...s PDA medical software includes the complete prescribing software with drug database, interactions and warnings. Physicians can write and print or fax prescriptions directly to pharmacies....AirLife On-board Oxygen Concentrator
Description:...al to make it the first therapeutic oxygen device that would be permitted to be both carried on and used on US commercial airlines for passengers with prescriptions for oxygen. The feasibility of patients use of their own equipment on board is under debate currently in the Federal Registers Notice of Proposed Rule...QuietLife 5 Low Decibel Oxygen Concentrator
Description:... AirSep's new QuietLife 5 Oxygen Concentrator is a low decibel, low power consumption unit that delivers continuous flow oxygen for prescriptions up to 5 liters per minute. As the quietest running concentrator at <40 dBA, this unit is perfect for sound-sensitive patients or caregivers. C...NextGen Electronic Medical Records module
Description:...ow, controls utilization, and manages critical data related to patient care outcomes. NextGen EMR automatically creates documents and letters, manages prescriptions and clinical images, provides patient education, and exchanges data with other systems within, and external to, the enterprise....OrthoPad® Digital Patient Charts
Features:...ocuments with the option for physician review and approval Integrated fax server sends any document from the patient medical recordimages and even prescriptions to pharmacies Converts existing paper forms to digital templates customized for your practice Exports complete patient charts and images to a ...SOAPware The Electronic Health Record
Features:...asks within SOAPware Prescription writing - Reduce the time spent refilling prescriptions by using the list of prebuilt Rx codes or using previous prescriptions made. Patient summaries and H & P's - Track all of the pertinent historic...ChartLogic Neurology Electronic Medical Office
Features:... your note so you can speak freely in front of your patients Diagnosis Director - Associates diagnosis with CPT codes, macros, patient education and prescriptions allowing assessment and plan to be finalized in one step DataCatch - Extracts basic patient demographic information from your practice management sy...ChartLogic Urology Electronic Medical Office
Features:... your note so you can speak freely in front of your patients Diagnosis Director - Associates diagnosis with CPT codes, macros, patient education and prescriptions allowing assessment and plan to be finalized in one step DataCatch - Extracts basic patient demographic information from your practice management sy...ChartLogic Orthopaedic Surgery Electronic Medical Office
Features:... your note so you can speak freely in front of your patients Diagnosis Director - Associates diagnosis with CPT codes, macros, patient education and prescriptions allowing assessment and plan to be finalized in one step DataCatch - Extracts basic patient demographic information from your practice management sy...Psychotropic drug prescriptions for teens surge 250 percent over 7 year period
Psychotropic drug prescriptions for teenagers skyrocketed 250 percent between 1994 and 2001, rising particularly sharply after 1999, when the federal government allowed direct-to-consumer advertising and looser promotion of off-label use of prescription drugs, according to a new Brandeis University...Astronauts may need more intense workouts to maintain muscle fitness in space
...ddition to new equipment, the astronaut trainers have provided new exercise prescriptions customized for each crewmember during ARED use. Studies are underway at NASA to further develop and validate resistance exercise prescriptions designed to improve astronaut performance and health, as well as mitigate r...Long-term use of diabetes drugs by women significantly increases risk of fractures
...glitazone and pioglitazone. Latest figures show there are around 4 million users of these drugs in the US, while in the UK there were around 2 million prescriptions for rosiglitazone and pioglitazone last year. "Women with type 2 diabetes are already at an increased risk of fractures - with a near doubling in ...Advice to the new administration: UM foreign and domestic policy guide
... will not be a rapid round of travel but an enthusiastic embrace of treatiesKyoto and climate change are obvious priorities" Kelleher offers "basic prescriptions for action," to re-energize America's post-World War II tradition of international engagement, democratic norms and serious diplomacy, such as: M...Southern Sierra Science Symposium planned for Visalia
... 1994, Dr. van Wagtendonk has been employed as a research scientist with the U. S. Geological Survey at Yosemite. His areas of research have included prescriptions for burning in wildland ecosystems, recreational impacts in wilderness, and the application of geographic information systems to resources management....Mass. General study shows how exercise changes structure and function of heart
...ation it provides may someday benefit heart disease patients. The take-home message is that, just as not all heart disease is equal, not all exercise prescriptions are equal, Baggish explains. This should start us thinking about whether we should tailor the type of exercise patients should do to their specific t...Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine
...emedies against modern pharmaceutical protocols and standards, we found the prescriptions in the ancient documents not only compared with pharmaceutical preparations... resins and metals known to be antimicrobial. The team also discovered prescriptions for laxatives of castor oil and colocynth and bulk laxatives of figs and br...Long-term narcotics use for back pain may be ineffective and lead to abuse
... Medicine, Martell and co-authors conducted a systematic literature review and meta-analysis that addressed the prevalence and effectiveness of opioid prescriptions for patients with chronic back pain, and the incidence of substance abuse disorders among patients receiving opioid medications for chronic back pain....Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates
...ics use and CDI rates led to a significant drop in prescriptions of broad-spectrum agents, and an accompanying fall...ward rates of CD infection and MRSA. Doctors' prescriptions were compared before the policy change (September ...after the narrow-spectrum policy came into effect. prescriptions for antibiotics not specified by the policy did no...Hair-growth drug artificially lowers PSA levels in prostate cancer screening, study finds
... PSA levels is significant," said Dr. Roehrborn. "This needs to be realized by all internists, family-care doctors, dermatologists ?anybody who writes prescriptions for male-pattern hair loss." Researchers have known for years that the same testosterone metabolism responsible for prostate growth also causes ma...InterMune Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Business Highlights
...a decrease of approximately 2 percent, reflecting lower off-label physician prescriptions of Actimmune for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), whic...ts filed with the SEC, including the following: (i) the fact that physician prescriptions of Actimmune for the treatment of IPF, an indication for which Actimmune ha...Shire plc: Core Portfolio of Products Delivers 20% Sales Growth
...to June 30, 2009 were $54.0 million, an increase of 21% compared to the same period in 2008 (2008: $44.8 million). Sales grew despite a 2% decrease in prescriptions primarily due to the impact of price increases. FOSRENOL - Hyperphosphatemia Product sales of FOSRENOL(R) for the three months to June 3...Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Patent Pending Gliclazide-Controlled Release Tablets
...0 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LTUS) ("Lotus" or the "Company") a growing developer and producer of prescriptions drugs and licensed national seller of pharmaceutical products in the People's Republic of China, today reported it received notice of patent pending f...GPhA Calls Senate HELP Committee Action Disappointing for Countless Patients
...s of bulk active pharmaceutical chemicals, and suppliers of other goods and services to the generic drug industry. Generics represent 69% of the total prescriptions dispensed in the United States, but only 16% of all dollars spent on prescription drugs. For more information about the industry, visit www.gphaonli...REMERON(R) Now Approved in Japan for the Treatment of Depression in Adult Patients
...idality, and to report such symptoms immediately to healthcare providers. Such monitoring should include daily observation by families and caregivers. prescriptions for REMERONSolTab(R) should be written for the smallest quantity of tablets consistent with good patient management, in order to reduce the risk of ov...Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
...nti-depressants are vulnerable to similar allegations. Natural healing professionals often recommend 5-HTP supplements instead of standard SSRI/MAOI prescriptions as 5-HTP allegedly accomplishes the same goal without resorting to disturbing the brain's natural metabolic procedures. Instead of interrupting the re...