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Hurricane Irma: Emergency Prescription Refills In Florida
As Hurricane Irma heads towards Florida, it’s important to know that Florida passed a state law in 2006 that allows for early prescription refills in any county that is under a hurricane warning. What does this law do? Most insurance policies will not pay for prescription fills until a few days before your prior prescription…
Cleaning Up After Harvey: GoodRx Helps Houston
Team GoodRx at NRG Stadium in Houston Nobody ever said doing good deeds would be easy. As we watched Hurricane Harvey bear down on Texas last week, we knew that GoodRx needed to do something to help. Houston is the fourth largest city in the USA and many people who live in the area struggle…
Popular Cholesterol Medication Recalled Due to Mislabeling
Believe it or not, medications are recalled on a daily basis for numerous reasons. Medication recalls can range from minor to life-threatening incidents if not immediately and appropriately taken care of. One of the most recent recalls, occurring on July 27th, involves pravastatin—some pravastatin bottles shipped containing bupropion XL instead. What are these drugs prescribed for? Pravastatin (generic Pravachol) is for…
Hurricane Harvey: How You Can Help
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Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Will Soon Be Unavailable
On July 26, 2017, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that they would be discontinuing the manufacturing and sales of Tanzeum, their once-weekly injection for type 2 diabetes. A pharmaceutical company can decide to discontinue a medication for many reason reasons. Just like any other business, if a product does not sell as expected, the company can decide to stop…
You Thought Epipen Was Going To Get Cheaper? Think Again
Remember way back in 2016 when we were outraged by the rising cost of EpiPen? How kids and schools couldn’t afford a simple, life-saving treatment? How the company’s CEO was grilled by the government and reporters and they pledged to do something about it? Well, so much for public outrage. The cost of EpiPen has…
Which Antibiotics Are Less Likely to Cause Diarrhea?
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea and colitis is affecting more of you, given the widespread use of antibiotics. Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is the organism that causes antibiotic-associated colitis; this happens because the bacteria is allowed to overgrow in the intestine when the normal intestinal flora is changed due to antibiotics. C. diff can release toxins that bind to receptors…
FDA Approves Mavyret for Hepatitis C
Since the FDA created the Priority Review Program, aimed at fast tracking the development of drugs used to treat serious conditions, new hepatitis C medications are being approved at a faster rate. Recently, the FDA approved Mavyret, a new combination medication for hepatitis C. What is Mavyret prescribed for? Mavyret is a combination medication indicated…
80+ Drugs to Be Dropped By Insurance in 2018
If you’ve got health insurance, now’s a good time to be paying attention. Each year, prescription coverage changes, and yours will likely be changing in 2018. Express Scripts and Caremark, companies that handle pharmacy benefits for more than 200 million Americans, are removing more than 80 prescription medications from their formularies at the end of…