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Affordable Generic Lipitor Coming to Your Bricks and Mortar U.S. Pharmacy Soon
As reported in the The Inquisitr, due to generic competition, Lipitor prices are going to plummet in the near future, a relief not only to American patients but to U.S. doctors who often find their...
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Pfizer Protects Profits Against Generic Lipitor Through Behind the Scene...
Our last post highlighted the end-of-the-month release of the long-awaited generic version of Lipitor, the most popular cholesterol-lowering drug in America. Brand-name Lipitor, manufactured by drug...
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Lipitor Generic in the U.S. More Expensive Than Pfizer’s Brand Lipitor Abroad
Generic Lipitor, called atorvastatin, is now available in U.S. pharmacies but PharmacyChecker.com price data shows that it’s actually far more expensive than brand name Lipitor sold abroad. The bottom...
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Plavix Choice Card Program Tries A Doctor’s Patience
Update: 7/17/2012 When we initially published this blog post, Dr. Stephen Barrett from pharmwatch.org had reported significant difficulties using the Plavix Choice Card program. Dr. Barrett...
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Skin Care Medication Prices Spike Domestically, but Not Abroad
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Getting Generically Price Gouged? – Try the Brand!
Americans are used to high drug prices — at least for brand-name medications, which are often five times more expensive in the U.S. than in other countries. Conversely, Americans are used to low-cost...
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Generic Drug Price Gouging Theory
It seems Americans are increasingly showing up at their neighborhood pharmacies to find out that their medications’ prices have increased exponentially, by as much as 100, 200, 300, 600%…2500%! Believe...
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Celebrating Generic Celebrex? Not so fast!
Americans who take Celebrex to fight arthritis may be pleased to know that a generic version has been approved by the FDA. The New York Times’ coverage reports, in a somewhat predictive fashion, that...
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Consumers Lose Due to Postponed Generics for Nexium, Diovan, and Valcyte
Americans are used to finding low-cost generic medications about six months to a year after they’re approved by the FDA. Think Lipitor, Plavix and Lexapro, which are all priced about 80% lower as...
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American Toprol XL…a Swedish Product of India?!
Toprol XL, a prescription drug that treats high blood pressure and is shown to lower the risk of heart attacks, is in the news due to recalls of some generic versions and because some doctors are...
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Are old drugs safer than new drugs? The answer might be “yes” and they are...
Most people think newer is better, but according to a study published in Health Affairs that might not be the case for prescription drugs. In short, the new study shows that drugs approved by the U.S....
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Specialty Drugs Are Not the Stuff of $4 Generic Drug Programs
Specialty drugs have been in the news for their exorbitant prices lately. Gilead Sciences’ Hepatitis C cure Sovaldi has received media exposure for costing $84,000 and in 2012, when Memorial...
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Sen. Sanders Hearing Shines Bright Light on Bizarre U.S. Generic Drug Price...
From Pembroke Consulting, published on DrugChannels.net Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a hearing in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary...
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Low Cost Counterfeit Drugs Save Lives in China…What?!
I wish I was joking about the racy headline above. The United States is not the only great power in which citizens go without medication because of cost. The cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib), made by...
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Good News for Medicare Part D Beneficiaries…in 2016
If you were to take a time machine and go back to 2006 and put a hundred bucks in a savings account with 5% annual interest, you’d have $147.50 in 2014. Not bad. But if your interest rate was tied to...
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No Prosecution for Prescription Access Hero Charged with Counterfeit Drug...
At the beginning of this year, we brought you the story of Lu Yong, a Chinese citizen with Leukemia who was facing severe financial hardship due to the $3,783 monthly cost of his cancer medication,...
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Higher Medication Costs Lead to Fastest Prescription Drug Spending Growth...
A new report by Express Scripts has found that medication spending by commercial health plans grew by 13.1% last year, primarily due to the release of high cost Hepatitis C meds. Spending also...
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Are All Generic Prescription Drugs Created Equal? PharmacyChecker President...
As we all know, an unaffordable drug is neither safe nor effective. No less true, an ineffective drug, whether dirt cheap or super expensive, can have hazardous health consequences, even death. That’s...
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Generic Drugs Prices, Diminishing Returns?
Yesterday, AARP published its latest Rx Price Watch report, which highlights generic prescription medication price changes from 2006-2013. Generic medication is considered the best avenue towards lower...
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Are Generic Drug Price Spikes and Specialty Med Costs Taking the Heat off of...
The media rage these days when it comes to prescription drug prices is three-fold: 1) generic drug price spikes of literally thousands of percent, 2) specialty medications that cost $1.000/pill, and 3)...
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Ann K. Writes about High Generic Celebrex Costs Citing “Price Control by Pfizer”
[This is an unedited message from a consumer. You’ll note that, unfortunately, international online pharmacies raise their prices, too! If you have a story you’d like to tell, email us at...
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Daraprim’s Cost is Bizarre: So Save 99.8% Buying from a UK Pharmacy
Martin Shkreli, founder and chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Not that cool. It’s no secret that Americans are unhappy with Big Pharma. Pharmaceutical companies regularly rank as one of the...
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On The Newly Formed Congressional Task Force on Prescription Drug Prices…
Americans should know about the heat coming down against the pharmaceutical industry from certain members of Congress in an effort to combat the public health crisis of high drug prices. This week,...
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Can You Find Free Prescription Medication in the U.S.? Going Publix…
I’m talking about super-sized supermarket Publix, which operates over 1000 stores throughout the Southeastern U.S. Sure, it’s not the only superstore to offer this but I happened to come across its...
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Buying Valium Online To Save Money? Try the Generic at Your Local U.S....
Image by Francisco Javier Argel I like showing Americans who are searching online for affordable medication, often from foreign pharmacies, that their mom and pop pharmacy on Main Street U.S.A. can...
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AARP Report Shows Dire Situation of Accelerating Drug Costs from 2006-2013....
According to a new AARP drug price report, in 2006 the average cost of prescription medication increased by 3.6%, just a little higher than the rate of inflation in the U.S. which was 3.2% that year....
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Generic Rosuvastatin or Brand Name Crestor? Which is cheaper online? Where is...
Brand Name Crestor: Made in Puerto Rico under FDA’s regulations. Rosuvastatin is now available in U.S. pharmacies as a generic but you can get Crestor 10mg, the brand version, 94% cheaper online. To...
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People’s Pharmacy Gives a Shout Out to PharmacyChecker.com; Right Back at ’Em!
I’ve been around the consumer health world for long enough to have a good idea of which groups and individuals really want to find and spread the truth to Americans. Joe and Terry Graedon of the...
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Colchicine prices are a rip off in America: Why? How?
To treat gouty arthritis, patients have been taking a drug called Colchicine for over 200 years. Apparently, it’s a very helpful drug, but it’s neither new or innovative, to say the least. It’s no...
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CEO of PharmacyChecker On People’s Pharmacy Radio Talking Safety and Savings...
Joe and Terry Graedon have been helping Americans make better health decisions for the last 40 years, including through their syndicated radio show on National Public Radio called The People’s...
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New Study Shows International Online Pharmacies Are Safe As U.S. Pharmacies...
Properly Verified International Online Pharmacies Sell Genuine and Safe Medication Last month, Roger Bate, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and head of the Safe Medicines Coalition,...
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When FDA-Approved Generics Fail: Brand Wellbutrin XL Antidepressant is...
When you lose count of how many folks have the same suspicion about a prescription medication, action is compulsory. Joe and Teresa Graedon, founders of The People’s Pharmacy, not only have an...
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