October 2, 2007 – 9:36 pm
The cost of healthcare goes up every year. Prescription drugs get more expensive too. But, even though they get more expensive, they’re different from the rest of healthcare. While the rest of healthcare was increasing in cost by 6-7%, prescription drugs were only increasing in cost at the rate of 1%!
What caused this remarkably slow [...]
October 1, 2007 – 9:36 am
This story (Ban Sought on Cold Medicine for Very Young - New York Times) made my pharmacist wife shake her head.
It seems more than a little overkill to ban an entire class of medicines just because a few doctors start jumping up and down and yelling “There’s no proof that it works! No proof!”
And look [...]