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Young American Adults from the Ages of Nineteen and Twenty Five and Prescription Drugs

psychological incidents requiring prescription drugs, have a tendency to misuse the drugs to a greater degree than their male coun...

Prescription Drug Problems

plan, while several public and private sects continue to fight for prescription drugs coverage. Election 2002 revisited the issue...

Overview of a Hospital's Reduced Rate Prescription Drug Plan

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

Acme Hospital Project Plan Forecast

As scheduled, the project will begin on June 27, 2006 and end on August 10, 2006, for a duration of five weeks. No more than...

Senior Citizens and a Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract

by Pennsylvania State Representatives Dombrowski, Cappabianca, Bowser, Boyes, Merry and Rudy. It was first referred on January 24...

Drugs and the Risks They Represent

doctor can be more dangerous than people think. In fact, its drug abuse. And its just as illegal as taking street drugs. Whether ...

Prescription Drug Cost Controls

they are initially very expensive. Drug companies undertake lengthy and costly tests to create the drug. Once it is able to be pre...

Public Health Advertising v. Direct to Consumer Advertising

2004). As this indicates, disease education in the EU is allowed, but American-style DTC advertising is prohibited. Consequently...

Coumadin, Its Generic Equivalent, and Pricing Considerations

In five pages this paper discusses how prices vary in drug prices between the Coumadin prescription and its generic equivalent. F...

Minnesota's Upsher-Smith Laboratories

An overview of this company that develops and markets prescription pharmaceutical drugs and dietary supplements is presented in a ...

Prescription Drugs Copay

$10 for all others. That was not too long ago. I a writing because I believe that you should lower the co-payment on prescription ...

Human Body and the Impact of Drugs

been ingested (1997). While ecstasy can last in the body for many days, what are the long term effects of this dangerous substan...

Problem of Prescription Drugs in the U.S.

In eight pages this paper discusses the growing American problem of prescription drugs in a consideration of how they are used leg...

Australia and the Regulation of Prescription Drugs

In five pages this paper discusses how the government of Australia is involved with the pharmaceutical industry in terms of prescr...

Abuse of Prescription Drugs

the survey. The drugs reported as being used included opiods, tranquilizers, stimulants and sedatives (PG). There are certain tr...

Elasticity and the Price of Prescription Drugs

In six pages this paper discusses the need for elasticity regarding the cost of prescriptions drugs because of the significant imp...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Deborah Stone's Policy Paradox Analyzed

back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...

U.S. Government Involvement in Prescription Drugs

the "government should subsidize prescription drug spending for all 40 million Americans over the age of 65 - whether they need it...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

Generic Equivalents of Prescription Drugs

The writer examines the usage, origin and contraindications of the drug albuterol, which is branded under the name Proventil but i...

Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and Medicare Prospective Payment System

In a paper consisting of forty five pages this paper examines the implementation and beneficiary impact of Medicare's PPS as dicta...

1997's Balanced Budget Act and Medicare Prospective Payment System

a study can be conducted and makes conclusions based on the expected results. Logic suggests that if caps are placed on certain ki...

Regulatory Agencies and Medicare Prospective Payment System

that Park Medical had hired a contractor, Quorum, to conduct the program. Shortly after agreeing to pay the large settlement, Par...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

Reform of Medicare and Health Care Policy

resolve. Our nations seniors are responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased nee...

Health Care Costs and the Impact of Medicare

resolve. Our nations seniors are responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased nee...

Medicare + Program, Two Viewpoints

to the expected results of any options in regards to the future of the program. DeParle (2002) introduces the readers to the intr...

Lessons from the Past and Medicare

We must use a community approach to Medicares problem, a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates not only medical issues but ...

Establishing a Price for MRI Use

the area of the country. Medicare pays $650 toward the price of an MRI scan in Sans Roentgens area. The machine cost figure to b...