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  1. Starting This Week, It's Harder to Get an Abortion in 5 States

    Tue, 2 Jul 2013

    would have caused the mother to choose an abortion. Mississippi - SB 2795 : In another ban on telemedicine abortion-pill prescriptions , Mississippi now requires doctors prescribing medication abortions to first examine women seeking them and to schedule

  2. Miami Man Pleads Guilty to $90M Heist in Conn.

    Mon, 1 Jul 2013

    A Miami man accused in the theft of about $90 million in prescription drugs from a Connecticut warehouse has pleaded guilty. Prosecutors and an attorney for Amed Villa say he pleaded guilty Monday to federal

  3. Woman Disfigured by Generic Drug Loses $21 Million Award

    Fri, 28 Jun 2013

    Eight years after she was burned and blinded by a prescription drug , Karen Bartlett feels numb. This week the Supreme sympathy" for Bartlett. "Every one of us takes prescription drugs . We give them to our kids, and this can happen

  4. APNewsBreak: Librarians to Help With Health Law

    Fri, 28 Jun 2013

    will coordinate the new effort with CMS. The two federal agencies also worked together during the rollout of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, experience that should help with this effort, Bataille said. Libraries will be particularly important in conservative

  5. Aspirin Recalled Over Acetaminophen Mix-Up

    Fri, 28 Jun 2013

    In the United States, patients usually overdose on acetaminophen by accident because they don't realize one of their prescriptions - such as sleeping pills - already contains it. "It's not an uncommon overdose," said Dr. Corey Slovis, who heads

  6. Walgreen Fiscal 3Q Profit Jumps 16 Percent

    Tue, 25 Jun 2013

    legal costs. Analysts forecast earnings of 91 cents per share on $18.4 billion in revenue. Walgreen resumed filling prescriptions for pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts last September after a break of about nine months. Its acquisition of a stake

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  1. Massage Therapists, Chiropractors Wrote Drug Prescriptions They Shouldn't Have-and Medicare Paid

    Fri, 21 Jun 2013

    thousands of drug prescriptions without the which covers prescription drugs , paid for Medicare's prescription - drug benefit paid for prescriptions written by problem of prescription - drug abuse. Most of the prescriptions were for

  2. Out of Prison, Real-Life Thomas Crown Looks Back on Almost-Perfect Heist

    Thu, 20 Jun 2013

    insecurity] away from me." When his prescriptions ran out, Curcio, craving the waves of that the pills brought, began forging prescriptions or injuring himself to get prescriptions , stealing from friends' medicine cabinets

  3. Study: Wiser Medication Use Could Cut Health Costs

    Wed, 19 Jun 2013

    If doctors and patients used prescription drugs more wisely, they could save used its proprietary data on prescriptions written by doctors — many of more doctors using electronic prescriptions and other changes. — Not using

  4. Ark. AG Seeks to Uphold Verdict Against J&J

    Tue, 18 Jun 2013

    Jersey, to pay $5,000 for each of 240,000 Risperdal prescriptions the state Medicaid program paid for during a 3½-year with all laws and regulations regarding its antipsychotic prescription medication Risperdal," the company said in a statement. Groups

  5. The Note: Edward Snowden Debate: Traitor Or Hero?

    Tue, 11 Jun 2013

    girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions . But in doing so, at least one opponent of easy access without a prescription and without age or point-of-sale prescriptions .' The FDA said that once it receives the application

  6. Belviq Hits Market: Diet Pills Then and Now

    Mon, 10 Jun 2013

    acceptable prejudice? But even as doctors have begun scribbling prescriptions for these new weight loss medications, many dieters remember the FDA in 1996. Physicians were soon writing 85,000 prescriptions a week for Redux while consumers were gobbling up mail order

  7. Crane Operator Surrenders in Philadelphia Building Collapse

    Sat, 8 Jun 2013

    system after the collapse, according to police sources. The operator also admitted to taking codeine and other prescription drugs before the accident, and he was outfitted with a soft cast up to his elbow while working the heavy machinery

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  1. Catch Me If You Can: The Anthony Curcio Bank Heist

    Fri, 21 Jun 2013

    calm me down and me feel like. Campaign doesn't need to be. An athlete how far would you go to together and I started prescriptions going into pharmacies. Faking injuries. One dad B Jon with dental issues and in the next Pharmacia B. with her that was

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    athlete how far would you go to together and I started -- prescriptions going into pharmacies. Faking injuries. One dad B Jon with dental issues and in the next Pharmacia B. -- with her --
  2. 20/20 06/21: The (Almost) Perfect Crime

    Fri, 21 Jun 2013

    it that for me to calm me down in feel like. Campaign doesn't to be. How far would you go to together and I started prescriptions going into pharmacies faking injuries. One dad B Jon with dental issues in the next Pharmacia B. with her that was where

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    -- How far would you go to together and I started -- prescriptions going into pharmacies faking injuries. One dad B Jon with dental issues in the next Pharmacia B. -- with her -- that
  3. Save Big on Prescriptions

    Thu, 27 May 2010

    to get them their prescriptions . For less. But is apt expert who prescriptions for the same medicine you ask for two prescriptions for any new medication okay. Wouldn't prescription medication is not return a secret you where prescription drugs that and in. ER

    Prescription Drugs found at 6:01

    only the short term -- to Begin west. That's right okay. Wouldn't prescription medication is not return a ball I just don't wanna end up -- the situation we've got a whole bottle of pills that she never and take. All right very very good advice now the next secret you -- -- where prescription drugs that and in. ER CD. And acts are what's up what's up with yeah this is an interesting little big secret that -- talk about in my book. ER stands for extended to release continuous delivery that's what this CD stands for and sometimes they write -- are for that extended release. And here's the trick. Medications. When their prescription medication the patent last for certain number of years and once that patent expires. Other generic drug makers are allowed to make that
  4. Testosterone Prescriptions on the Rise

    Mon, 3 Jun 2013

    say all those ads could be driving a potentially worrisome amount of over treatment. Between 2001 and 2011. testosterone prescriptions tripled among men over forty. But they say a full quarter of them were put on testosterone. Without even having their

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    worrisome amount of over treatment. Between 2001 and 2011. -- -- testosterone prescriptions tripled among men over forty. But they say a full quarter of them were put on testosterone. Without even having their levels
  5. Teens and Prescription Drug Abuse

    Mon, 7 Jun 2010

    powerful prescription drugs . The Centers is using a prescription medication without having That these prescription drugs or some house behavior from prescription drug abused alcohol you have prescription drugs . Of any Are having prescription medicine collection

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    that points to an alarming trend involving teens using and abusing powerful prescription drugs . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that one in five high school students. Have taken drugs such as OxyContin and
    I'm very concerned right is obviously if any one is using a prescription medication without having had a conversation and -- doctor. I don't know the side effects they don't know the indications and they don't know the proper dosage. My other concern is -- -- doing this to get high to get a buzz as they might -- the eighty. Or had -- wrong whether they're doing it's ten numb the pain of adolescents as they would with painkillers. Like OxyContin. Or if there intentionally. Trying to harm themselves do you believe that there is among teens perhaps a misconception. That these prescription drugs or some house for instance three well again as the parent of two team that -- the team to a lot of
    As always used about and a half -- so does that mean prescription drugs should not be -- and I finally if you have teenage it what's interesting as parents were always concerned about toddlers. Getting
  6. Right Under the Nose: Nasal Spray Key to Strong Marriage?

    Thu, 13 Jun 2013

    the nose, a straight path to the brain, may be the answer to living happily ever after. I wouldn't go out looking for prescriptions to oxytocin nasal spray if your marriage is in trouble but it's an area of ongoing research. Some studies found the levels

    Prescriptions found at 1:06

    answer to living happily ever after. I wouldn't go out looking for prescriptions to oxytocin nasal spray if your marriage is in trouble but it's an area of ongoing research. Some studies found the levels
  7. The Cost of Prescription Drug Clubs

    Fri, 10 Oct 2008

    high cost of prescription drugs . When this month in prescription drugs . Then matters get these prescriptions . That meant don't have prescription drug coverage need your prescriptions cheaper industry because prescription drugs are so expensive

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    won a single mother struggle with disease and the high cost of prescription drugs . When this woman went online and found a company offering to give her an inexpensive way to get the drug she needed
    myself. To control her condition Andrea needed 800 dollars a month in prescription drugs . Then matters got worse Andrea as husband left her taking his insurance with them. I can't hurt every time that I had to go to the pharmacy on some months. To trying get these prescriptions . That meant Andrea joined the over 45 million Americans who don't have prescription drug coverage. Looking for help Andrea went online and found a company called select care benefits network. She says they offer to get her all her drugs for just thirty dollars a month. As a perfect. It says out there that you need your prescriptions cheaper. Andrea paid the company a total of 365. Dollars. But over the next ten months she received only one voucher for -- two months' supply of one of her drugs. She says she was out of pocket 7200. Dollars still paying full price for the balance of her prescriptions . They kept telling me that everything was approved and it was coming and still home everyday nothing can hurt and hurt really
    is not the only company like this it's a burgeoning industry because prescription drugs are so expensive as millions of you know in the end Andrea got her drugs and our own steam. And nobody charger
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