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- TOKYO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A planned 6.7 percent cut in the price of prescription drugs in Japan will be a headache for the country's small drug makers, which depend on domestic sales, and could spur further consolidation in the industry, analysts say.
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- A Washington, DC, law that aims to regulate prescription drug costs by allowing residents to file lawsuits against drug companies over their pricing will take effect next week despite lawsuits challenging the regulation, the Washington Examiner reports.
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- VANCOUVER (CP) - Canada's $20-billion drug spending has been mapped in an atlas that shows which provinces pop lots of pills and which provinces buy the most expensive new drugs.
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- With the Medicare prescription drug benefit set to begin on the first of the year, Wyatt Andrews offers some tips on how to weed through the registration process.
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- Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Astellas Pharma Inc., Japan's second- largest drugmaker, may sell its over-the-counter drug unit Zepharma Inc. to focus on more profitable prescription medications, four people involved in the sale talks said.
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- Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Astellas Pharma Inc., Japan's second- largest drugmaker, may sell its over-the-counter drug unit Zepharma Inc. to focus on more profitable prescription medications, people involved in the sale talks said.
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- Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Tanabe Seiyaku Co. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., two Japanese drugmakers, are among stocks left behind as the market rallied this year. Their performances, though, aren't the same.
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- The Alabama Department of Senior Services is helping Alabamians eligible for the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan to understand the program and is assisting them with enrollment.
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- A new survey conducted by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists reveals that American families are coping with the rising price of medications by engaging in a number of potentially risky behaviors, including skipping medication doses, taking less than the prescribed dose of medication, or deciding to stop taking prescription medications altogether.
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- Researchers at the University of British Columbia Centre for Health Services and Policy Research have developed a comprehensive portrait of pharmaceutical spending in Canada -- more than $20 billion by the end of 2005 -- and assembled the results into a first-of-its-kind atlas.
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Price of prescription drugs may vary from pharmacy to pharmacy
Did you know that the price of prescription drugs may vary from pharmacy to pharmacy? The Attorney General created this website to help Marylanders comparison shop among pharmacies, since drug prices typically are not advertised or even displayed.
The usual and customary price should be comparable to what a cash-paying customer without insurance would pay. This price does not include discounts that a pharmacy may offer to seniors or for other reasons. Prescription drug prices may vary from day to day, so the price that you find at your pharmacy may not be the same price that appears in this survey.
Please be aware that it is generally a good practice for consumers to buy all of their medications from the same pharmacy so that a pharmacist can keep track of the medications they are taking in order to avoid potentially harmful interactions. If you do decide to shop at more than one pharmacy, make sure that you tell the pharmacists all of the drugs you are taking.
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