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Daily Mail |
It's unfair asthmatics pay for prescriptions: Good Health viewpoint by …
Daily Mail Feeling like an elephant is sitting on your chest, gasping for breath, struggling to talk – this is what a terrifying asthma attack is like. Most of the 5.4 million people with asthma in Britain can avoid this ordeal, reducing chances of … |
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Daily Mail |
It's unfair asthma patients must pay for prescriptions: Good Health viewpoint …
Daily Mail Feeling like an elephant is sitting on your chest, gasping for breath, struggling to talk – this is what a terrifying asthma attack is like. Most of the 5.4 million people with asthma in Britain can avoid this ordeal, reducing chances of … |
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 American Medical News |
FDA weighs prescriptions without medical visits
American Medical News The new model of drug distribution being considered by the FDA would allow some drugs for chronic conditions, such as asthma and allergies, to be sold under “conditions of safe use,” a proposed category that would describe prescription drugs sold over … FDA drug proposal risks patient health Expanding over-the-counter medications a bad idea Should Pharmacists Prescribe Prescription Medications? |
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Closer Look: Average adult on Medicaid fills 23 prescriptions a year; drugs …
Chicago Tribune Medicaid covers drugs for a wide variety of illnesses, from asthma to schizophrenia, for the poor and disabled.Legislators are looking at other states for ideas. Tennessee, for example, limits adults to five prescriptions each month. |
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 Fox News |
Study: Millions of Kids' Antibiotic Prescriptions Unneeded
Fox News Pediatricians write more than 10 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions—for conditions like the flu and asthma—every year, suggests a new study. Those ailments, and others not caused by bacteria, don't respond to the drugs. … Antibiotics overprescribed for children: study Antibiotics are overprescribed – study Kids Still Getting Too Many Antibiotics |
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 MD News (press release) |
Pediatric Asthma Drug Prescriptions on the Upswing
MD News (press release) Among children, the use of medications to control asthma nearly doubled in the last decade, while costs associated with all asthma medications more than quadrupled, according to a September statistical brief published by the Agency for Healthcare … |
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Officials Consider Prescriptions to Keep Meds Away From Meth Users
Patch.com Joy Krieger, executive director for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, St. Louis Chapter, told council members that ephedrine or pseudoephedrine is the preferred medication to treat sinus or colds for those who have asthma. … Prescriptions to be required in Franklin County for pseudoephedrine |
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Research: Written action plan with prescriptions can improve asthma control in …
News-Medical.net It sounds unbelievably simple but it's true – a written action plan for asthma treatment, attached to the drug prescription, improves asthma control in children. "Acute care visits for asthma often signal a management failure," said Dr. Francine … |
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 San Francisco Chronicle (blog) |
Prescriptions: Every Breath You Take
San Francisco Chronicle (blog) And as our health has improved in some ways, it's decreased in others – the prevalence of asthma increased approximately 4 percent a year between 1980 and … |
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Asthma Prescriptions May Increase the Chances of Prostate Cancer
Daily Freshies (blog) by Maria on August 5, 2010 According to latest results from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort research, men with a record of asthma who make use of asthma … |
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