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Lower-Cost Imported Drugs Can Save Lives

Pharmacy Checkers

Millions of people are dying because they are not getting the healthcare they need and that includes prescription drugs. We can’t allow drug companies to continue fooling the public about drug importation. That doesn’t mean prescription drug affordability specifically was the cause. in January to 22.9% It’s a fact.

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Getting an Rx does not address health problems

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Imagine a medicine that reduced the death rate of breast cancer and risk of recurrent breast cancer by 50% lowered the risks of colon cancer and type 2 diabetes by two-thirds, and those of heart disease, hypertension, and Alzheimer’s’ disease by 40%. Lack of exercise costs the world $67.5

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Hoping Trump’s Florida Drug Importation Politics Helps Patients Under Biden

Pharmacy Checkers

Well, as I was writing this post about the politics of importation, the FDA published its final rule on drug importation. Phillip Galewitz of Kaiser Health News asks if this is an “ election gift for Florida ” reporting that Florida will be the first state granted approval to import by the FDA. This is not surprising.

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SmithRx Takes on Diabetes, Partners with TheracosBio for Brenzavvy Distribution

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SmithRx, a pharmacy benefits management (PBM) company, joined forces with TheracosBio to facilitate patients’ access to the newly approved type 2 diabetes medication, Brenzavvy (bexagliflozin), through the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company platform. ” What is SmithRx? . ” What is SmithRx?

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Human Rights Day: Safe and Affordable Imported Medicine and the Internet

Pharmacy Checkers

These rights are applicable to Americans who can’t afford prescription drugs domestically because the prices are too high. Human rights include access to safe and affordable medicines, such as through importation of a more affordable drug ordered over the Internet. How can we tie this to the UDHR?

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Amazon’s Pharmacy Should Support Importation to Offer Lower Drug Prices

Pharmacy Checkers

With drug prices in the spotlight of our national healthcare debate, one could certainly view Amazon’s entry last year into the pharmacy space as a welcome development. For Americans, the tens of millions who don’t fill prescriptions each year because of cost, relief can’t come soon enough. prescription drugs. other countries.

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Amazon’s Pharmacy Doesn’t Break Big Pharma’s Hold of America’s Neck

Pharmacy Checkers

Prescription drugs are yet another thing you can get when you go to Amazon.com. But, unlike in many other industries where Amazon can crush the competition on prices, its online pharmacy launch does not accomplish that. How can they when the pharmaceutical industry has monopolistic pricing power over patented drugs?