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FDA Investigating Z-Pak Antibiotic Linked to Heart Risks
death and other cardiovascular causes. Last year, doctors wrote 55.3 million prescriptions for Z-Pak, according to IMS Health . Like the popular antibiotic amoxicillin, azithromycin is commonly prescribed to help fight off bacterial infections
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Antibiotic Linked With Rare but Deadly Heart Risk
cardiac death. Zithromax is among top-selling antibiotics. U.S. sales last year totaled $464 million, according to IMS Health , a health care information and services company. Pfizer issued a statement saying it would thoroughly review the study
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Antibiotic Linked With Rare but Deadly Heart Risk
cardiac death. Zithromax is among top-selling antibiotics. U.S. sales last year totaled $464 million, according to IMS Health , a health care information and services company. Pfizer issued a statement saying it would thoroughly review the study
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New Rx Sleep Drug: Promising, or Perilous?prescription drug in the country, with more than 38 million prescriptions dispensed, according to pharmaceutical data firm IMS Health . Will Intermezzo Mean More People on Sleep Drugs? Dr. Nanci Yuan, medical director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Sleep
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Heartburn Medication Raises Women's Hip Fracture Risk
inhibitors became the third-largest class of drugs in the country - with $13.6 billion in sales in 2009 - according to IMS Health , a health-care market research firm. In May 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about
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New Study Shows U.S. Government Fails to Oversee Treatment of Foster Children With Mind-Altering Drugsselling classes of medications in the United States, with 2010 prescription sales of $16.2 billion, according to IMS Health . Concerned about numerous reports of waste and the abuse of psychiatric medications in foster children, Republican
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Good Night of Sleep Becoming Unattainable Dream for Moms
stress and anxiety had made mothers dependent on sleep aids like Lunesta, melatonin, Ambien and even Xanax. According to IMS Health , a Connecticut health care consulting firm, more than 15 million U.S. women between the ages of 40 and 59 got a prescription
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Drug Prices to Plummet in Wave of Expiring Patents
with $24 for brand-name drugs given preferred status by an insurer and $35 for nonpreferred brands, according to IMS Health . Among the drugs that recently went off patent, Protonix, for severe heartburn, now costs just $16 a month for the
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Drug Prices to Plummet in Wave of Expiring Patents
with $24 for brand-name drugs given preferred status by an insurer and $35 for nonpreferred brands, according to IMS Health . Among the drugs that recently went off patent, Protonix, for severe heartburn, now costs just $16 a month for the
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Prescription Drug Data Mining Law Struck Down
patients. Three companies that sell the information they gather — IMS Health , SDI and Source Healthcare Analytics — challenged the Vermont law the court to strike down the Vermont law. The case is Sorrell v. IMS Health , 10-779.
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Court strikes law restricting sale of prescription info
prescribing patterns. Defending a law against a challenge by IMS Health and other data collectors, Vermont said drug company sales side of the debate." Kennedy was joined in Sorrell v. IMS Health by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia
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Supreme Court cases left to cram into term
business partner, or a person "substantially similar" to those specified is unconstitutionally vague. Sorrell v. IMS Health : Whether a Vermont law that prohibits pharmacies from selling prescription information to be used for drug marketing without
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Honeymoon With Viagra Could Be Over, Say Doctorscalled ED drugs declined by 5 percent after growing just 1 percent annually the previous four years, according to IMS Health , a heath-care data and consulting firm. Viagra prescriptions were off 7 percent; those for Levitra plummeted 18
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Viagra Sales Declinepopularity sales for Viagra are actually down. The little blue pill appears to be losing some steam according to the firm IMS health Viagra prescriptions were down by 7% last year. Overall erect tile dysfunction medications are down 5%. Experts say
blue pill appears to be losing some steam according to the firm IMS health Viagra prescriptions were down by 7% last year. Overall erect tile dysfunction medications are down 5%. Experts say this could be due
