How to Get Asthma RX Assistance and Pay for Your Doctor’s Visits
Asthma medication is expensive. This is a fact that sufferers of the condition will testify to. It’s also non-discriminatory, which means that a rich person or a child is as likely to get it, as a poor or elderly person. While securing asthma medicine is every easy for the rich and the insured, finding medication...Read More
Research that Antidepressants May Increase Depression
Antidepressants are drugs that are used to treat disorders like major depressive disorders, anxiety disorder, eating disorders, sleep disorder and many others. Mood disorders like bipolar disease are also treated by antidepressant. Bipolar disorder consists of episodes with mood swings that range from depressive lows to manic highs. According to Rif S. El-Mallakh, M.D., director...Read More
Disposing Dangerous Medications
Medication can be dangerous in the wrong hands. If you have this kind of medication it should be kept hidden or locked up if you live with other people for your safety and their’s. When the medication expires it should be disposed a certain way to be safe from others and the environment. Here are...Read More
How Does Prescription Drug Assistance Work?
There are new drugs being created and released every year and with those releases of drugs, the rises of prescription drugs are increasing. In the year of the baby boom the population greatly increased. Now that population is growing in age every year. “From 1994 to 2003, prescription drug spending rose at double-digit rates each...Read More
Martin Shkreli Raises Drug by 5,000%
The price of prescription drugs are rapidly increasing. Just in 2014, they have rose by 11% and doubled in the overall rise of medic cost. Just recently, a 62 year old drug called Daraprim tablet that is used to fight against a life threatening parasite, toxoplasmosis has raised in price by 5,000%. Over $60 million...Read More
The Cost of COPD and RX Financial Assistance Programs
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a condition that isn’t just physically draining, but financially as well. No one knows this bitter truth better but those who are suffering from it and know from firsthand experience how harrowing and stressful the entire ordeal can prove to be. Not only is help costly but often enough, sufferers...Read More
Rising Prices of Prescription Drugs
“A new Kaiser Health poll shows that most Americans think prescription drug costs in this country are unreasonable, and that drug companies put profits before people. Want to know something? They’re right.” With the rise of technology, the rise of prescription drug mediation also rising. Does it make sense that companies are finding more cost...Read More
Medicare Part D Updates
Congress created Medicare and put it into effect in 2006. It is a drug insurance program. Traditional Medicare does not cover prescription drugs. A new plan is chosen every year by Medicare beneficiaries and they vary by state with around 25 different options of plans. This makes choosing a plan that will fit a patient...Read More
How to Reduce Medication Costs
Medication can be costly. If you have more than one, the prices can add up even if you do have insurance. Paying out of pocket for prescriptions that help one life a better life is unfair. Most people are not able to get insurance because of their job or income. Whether you insurance, Medicare Part...Read More
Tips To Save On Your Prescriptions
If the recent statistics are to go by, over 46 million Americans do not have health insurance at all and millions of them are totally underinsured. This means that we are spending millions of dollars on our medications, yet most of us still aren’t able to fill our prescriptions. It wouldn’t be a surprise for...Read More
