Kimberly Melofchik
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A recent report on trends in retail prices, called usual and customary (U&C) prices, from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that prescription drug prices increased at a faster rate than costs for other medical goods and services.
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This week Hospira, Inc (Lake Forest, Ill) announced approval by the US Food and Drug Administration for docetaxel, a generic form of Sanofi Aventis’s drug Taxotere. The drug is already available in Europe and Australia and will be the first generic version available in the United States.
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Every physician has a preferred way of writing prescription instructions, and pharmacists differ in how they translate those instructions to the pill bottle. A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine by Wolf and associates found that the lack of a universal medication schedule (UMS) to standardize how prescriptions are written and filled contributes to poor patient adherence and increases safety concerns. Read More ›