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Emergency Room Visits Seen Rising Among Sleeping Pill Usersconfusion and drowsiness - sent nearly 19,500 people to ERs in 2010, a 220 percent increase from 2005. According to IMS Health , combined prescriptions for zolpidem and Ambien increased from 39 million in 2008 to almost 44 million in 2012. Dr
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Doctors Buzzing About New Hormone Therapy Studysaid the study is reassuring to women already on hormone therapy. There were 38 million women in 2010, according to IMS Health . Most prescriptions, 26 million, were for estrogen-only products, but 5.2 million were for progestin-estrogen
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Provigil: The Secret to Success?increased by 73 percent in four years, from $832,687,000 in 2007 to $1,440,160,000 in 2011, according to IMS Health . Online there are hundreds of sites evangelizing for Provigil that explain how to get a doctor to write a prescription
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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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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 Drugstop-selling 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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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 Doctorsso-called 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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Osteoperosis Drug Alarm: Docs Tell Patients to Take a Break From Bisphosphonatesosteopenic -- at risk for the disease. In 2008, bisphosphonate sales exceeded $3.5 billion, according to data from IMS Health . More than 37 million prescriptions were written for Fosamax, the most popular of the drugs. "They have essentially
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Supreme Court hears prescription-drug data mining case
involving prescription records that data collectors such as IMS Health buy from pharmacists and then sell to drug manufacturers to ... the doctor's tax returns." Representing IMS Health , Thomas Goldstein said Vermont discriminated. "They're
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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
