HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- While a clot-busting medication can often help stop a stroke in its tracks if it's given promptly, a new study finds that a high number of stroke victims continue to fail to get to the emergency room quickly enough to get the drug.

Bill would create state database to track drugs; allow experts to track if ...
Nashua Telegraph
Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, introduced a bipartisan backed bill in Concord Thursday that looks to combat prescription drug abuse in the state by giving the power of knowledge back to health care professionals. Senate Bill 286 would allow the New ...

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New rules could save billions in prescription drug costs
Sacramento Bee
Called for in the 2010 federal health law, the new rules for prescription drug pricing are based in part on an innovation pioneered in Alabama. Instead of paying for drugs based on drug company price lists, which are often inflated, Alabama decided a ...

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There were no roll calls in the House last week. REDUCE DRUG ABUSE (S 2122) Senate 36-0, approved and sent to the House a bill aimed at cracking down on the abuse of prescription drugs in Massachusetts. The measure requires all doctors to register with the ...

WAMC
Senator Clark Takes Vote on Legislation to Combat Prescription Drug Abuse
Patch.com
The bill increases prescription drug security by making enrollment in the state's Prescription Monitoring Program mandatory. The following is a press release from the office of Sen. Katherine Clark BOSTON—With the abuse of prescription pain killers ...
Massachusetts Senate Unanimously Approves Prescription Drug BillWAMC
The painful realityBoston Herald

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New rules could save billions in prescription drug costs
PennLive.com
Called for in the 2010 federal health law, the new rules for prescription drug pricing are based in part on an innovation pioneered in Alabama. Instead of paying for drugs based on drug company price lists, which are often inflated, Alabama decided a ...

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WASHINGTON -- The federal government this week announced a rule change it says will save the federal-state Medicaid program $17.7 billion over the next five years. Called for in the 2010 federal health law, the new rules for prescription drug ...

During packaging and labeling, tablets from one product type may have carried over into packaging of another product.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- While a clot-busting medication can often help stop a stroke in its tracks if it's given promptly, a new study finds that a high number of stroke victims continue to fail to get to the emergency room quickly enough to get the drug.

In the U.S., Lipitor had sales of $8.2 billion for the year 2011. Lipitor lost U.S. patent protection late last year, which exposes the drug to cheaper generic competition. Generic drugs are chemically the same as the original brand name drug and ...

CBS Local
LI Man Accused Of Wrong-Way Driving While High On Prescription Drugs
CBS Local
BAY SHORE, NY (CBSNewYork/AP) — State police arrested a Long Island man Friday morning accused of driving the wrong way for several miles on the Southern State Parkway while high on prescription drugs. No injuries or accidents were reported in the 2 ...
Cops: Wrong-way Parkway Driver High on DrugsLong Island Press

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Lexington Herald Leader
Stumbo bill strengthens prescription drug laws
Bowling Green Daily News
"As I've traveled the state, I'm sick and tired of seeing people come up to me and say, 'Mr. Conway, we've lost an entire generation to prescription pills,' " Conway said Wednesday in Lexington during the first statewide prescription drug abuse summit.
Legislation filed to stop 'epidemic' of prescription drug abuse in KentuckyKyForward.com
Stumbo files bill to stop 'pill mills'Lexington Herald Leader

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As Dude aged and needed increasing vet medicines to stay healthy, Hoffman realized one big difference between veterinary pharmaceuticals and human: generic drugs were virtually nonexistent in the pet world. In fact, Hoffman said, 94 percent of ...

A day after Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway urged medical professionals to help support legislation policing their profession's habits in prescribing controlled substances, House Speaker Greg Stumbo, a former state attorney general ...

Prescription drugs, gun among items taken in burglary
Salina Journal
By the Salina Journal Two kinds of prescription pain killers, along with a .22 caliber revolver and a safe, were reported stolen from a west Salina home Thursday. According to Salina police Lt. Scott Siemsen, someone entered the home of Edgar Toothman, ...

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Health Aim
CT seniors saved over $5M on Rx drugs in '11
Hartford Business
Connecticut seniors in the eastern half of the state last year saved more than $5 million on prescription drugs aa result of the Affordable Care Act, authorities say. Under the act, Medicare and Medicaid recipients automatically receive a 50-percent ...
Health reform produces $2.1B in prescription savings for country's seniorsHealthcare Finance News
HHS Offers Progress Report On Shrinking Medicare's Doughnut HoleKaiser Health News
Reform Law Reduced Medicare Enrollees' Rx Costs by $2.1B in 2011California Healthline
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