Topic: Prescription Drugs
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-04 04:04:22
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health spending will grow faster than the overall economy this decade and by 2019 nearly 20 cents of every dollar spent in the United States will go for healthcare, U.S. government analysts said on Thursday.</p><p>Economists at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-01 21:06:23
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Generic drugmakers would pay the U.S. government $38 million to help speed reviews of their medicines under President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget plan released on Monday.</p><p>The Obama administration will ask Congress to pass legislation allowing the Food and Drug Administration to collect the ...
isnare | 2010-01-29 13:18:44
Medicaid and Medicare are essential programs for practicing physicians, members of the American Medical Association, and the entire nation. The programs were developed in 1965 to assist certain categories of individuals with their medical costs. Today, Medicaid provides coverage to over 50 million Americans while Medicare aids over 45 million. These numbers make Medicaid and Medicare the largest source of ...
AP News | 2010-01-25 21:53:23
<div id="subtitle">NY governor wants state regulations for gifts from pharmaceutical representatives to doctors</div><div><p>New York Gov. David Paterson is proposing new, tougher prohibitions on pharmaceutical companies, restricting them from dispensing gifts and misleading production information to doctors while promoting the use of specific drugs.</p> ...
