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Health Policy - Prescription Drugs

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      new window Almanac of Policy Issues: Prescription Drugs Description: Links and background information about U.S. public policy affecting prescription drugs and prescription drug coverage. (policyalmanac.org)
new window American Taxpayers for Rx Sanity Description: Provides information to the public on the prescription drug reimportation war being fought between the pharmaceutical industry and America. (rxsanity.org)
new window Canada Drug Talk Description: Provides facts, tips and news about importing prescription drugs from Canada. (canadadrugtalk.com)
new window Canadian Prescription Drug Savings Calculator Description: Allows consumers to gauge savings on nearly 50 of the most popular prescription medications by picking multiple drugs, different dosage settings and time horizons ranging from one month to 20 years. (drugsavingscalculator.org)
new window Century Foundation: Prescription Drug Information Description: Sources for the debate over prescription drug coverage in Medicare. (medicarewatch.org)
new window Drugging Our Children The Legal Way Description: An article about a federal judge that struck down a Food and Drug Administration regulation that required drug makers to test medicines routinely given to children. Arianna Huffington, Alternet. (alternet.org)
new window DrugsNotDogFood.com Description: DrugsNotDogFood.com is a petition to President Bush to support coverage for prescription drugs for seniors. For each signature, we send a dog biscuit to the President to show the extreme plight of many seniors -- forced to choose between medicine and food. (drugsnotdogfood.com)
new window Health Action International Description: A non-profit organization that represents the interests of consumers in drug policy and believes that all drugs marketed should be acceptably safe, effective, affordable and meet real medical needs. (haiweb.org)
new window Moving Ideas - Prescription Drugs Description: The latest policy, politics, and ideas from leading progressive research organizations and advocacy groups. (movingideas.org)
new window No Free Lunch Description: Discusses pharmaceutical industry marketing, promotion, and sales practices and how they may adversely affect prescription drug prescribing practices, and increase prescription drug prices. (nofreelunch.org)
new window Poison For Profit Description: An article from Red Flags Weekly that suggests pharmaceutical and chemical companies profit from the sale of herbicides, pesticides, and household chemicals as well as the prescription drugs often needed to treat health problems caused by these household and industrial chemicals. (redflagsweekly.com)
new window The Cost of Protectionism in Pharmaceuticals Description: An article from Alternet that examines the effects of the patent system in the pharmaceutical industry and suggests that increased public funding of pharmaceutical research and development could dramatically lower costs for consumers. (alternet.org)
 




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