All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2006 // Health insurance plan: new option for low-income Kansas residentsLow-income Kansas residents, who have not had health insurance for more than a year, may qualify for a new program that promises half-price premiums, Blue...
Jan 16 2006 // Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty signed an emergency executive order this weekend authorizing the Minnesota Department of Human Services to help cover some costs for low-income residents struggling to get prescription drugs...
Jan 15 2006 // The National Conference of State Legislatures has accused the federal Food and Drug Administration of attempting to preempt state prescription drug product liability laws despite Congress and the courts’ refusal to...
Jan 13 2006 // Low-income Kansas residents, who have not had health insurance for more than a year, may qualify for a new program that promises half-price premiums, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas announced this week.Named...
Jan 9 2006 // A St. Paul, Minnesota Medicare official said today that a system glitch that has left hundreds of Minnesotans unable to get prescription drugs should be able to be identified and quickly fixed.Low-income people on both...
Dec 21 2005 // Drug manufacturers are a step closer to winning liability protections they say they need before they will invest in medicines to combat a bird flu epidemic.Opponents described the protections, approved Monday by the U.S....
Dec 19 2005 // People injured by a vaccine against bird flu or anthrax would have to prove willful misconduct to bring a claim for damages against drug manufacturers or distributors, according to legislation being drafted by...
Dec 19 2005 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta announced four individuals, including two Miami physicians, have been arrested for allegedly participating in an organization that illegally...
Dec 18 2005 // People injured by a vaccine against bird flu or anthrax would have to prove willful misconduct to bring a claim for damages against drug manufacturers or distributors, according to legislation being drafted by...
Dec 18 2005 // U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who is a medical doctor, has called for the U.S. to take aggressive measures to fend against the severe economic damage brought on by an avian flu pandemic.Citing a Congressional...
Dec 18 2005 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta announced four individuals, including two Miami physicians, have been arrested for allegedly participating in an organization that illegally...
Dec 16 2005 // The arrests of three South Floridians on charges they operated unlicensed Internet-based “pill mills” have been announced by Attorney General Charlie Crist and Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner...
Dec 14 2005 // If 39 counties in upstate New York were to increase their generic prescription drug fill rates to match the upstate counties with the best rates, the estimated annual health care savings would exceed $880 million,...
Dec 5 2005 // The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer wasn’t justified in searching the vehicle of a Winona woman because the passenger in her car was drunk.“To allow a vehicle search solely because an...
Dec 5 2005 // The owner of the Park City Pharmacy at The Clinic in Utah has been arrested on suspicion of fraudulently billing an insurance company for drugs that never were prescribed.Thomas Evan Strebel, 60, was arrested for...
Dec 4 2005 // A San Diego County Superior Court has sentenced Valley Center, Calif., businessman John Presley to three years formal probation and ordered him to pay $37,669 in restitution to California’s State Compensation...
Dec 1 2005 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta today announced the arrests of four individuals, including two Miami physicians, for their participation in an organization that illegally diverted...
Nov 21 2005 // California’s special election battle, the costliest campaign in the state’s history, roared to a close in November, much to the chagrin of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.Eight statewide measures that were on the...
Nov 20 2005 // CaliforniaGovernor’s Measures Defeated in Special Election California’s special election battle, the costliest campaign in the state’s history, roared to a close in November, much to the chagrin of Gov....
Nov 7 2005 // The North Dakota Insurance Department is assisting state Medicare recipients with counseling on choosing a prescription drug option, according to state officials.The sign-up starts this month for the prescription drug...