MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'drug company'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:27:34 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2376277&cid=t_217111_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FIU3iPC7brEg%2F Have you ever taken a pill or other type of medication that just, for whatever reason, has not worked? Yeah, me too. Luckily, most of the time my doctor is able to give me a sample so we can see if it works or not. Sometimes, though, I’ve paid for a whole bottle of pills, taken one, and had it not work. Then I’ve ended up throwing the lot of them out and wasting a bunch of money besides. Now, it appears that some drug makers are trying to “adjust what they charge for their drugs, based on how well the medicines improve patients’ health.” Kind of like a “guaranteed or your money back” type of thing. The first of this type of program is expected to be with Merck. Merck will base the cost of Januvia and Janumet (both for diabetes) based on how well the p... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2376277 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:41:02 +0100 2376277 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2285063&cid=t_217111_97_f&fid=35606&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theangriestpharmacist.com%2F2009%2F03%2F20%2Fdrug-companies-corrupt-no%2F By NO, I mean yes… DRUG COMPANY CORRUPT We all know my thoughts on this, and recently Zyprexa paid out some BIG BUCKS because they pushed off label uses. It is now mega illegal for a drug rep to even utter the words off-label to a physician. Thanks to WILL for sending this to me… -=+=- BONUS: A lady bitch pissed me off today for standing at the register after I told her 15 minutes. After about 2 minutes of standing at the register I said, “Ma’am, it’s gonna be a while. If you wanna have a seat, I’ll hollar at you when we’re done.” Her response? “I don’t have time for that. If I walk away from this counter you all will just lolligag around, and it will never get done. I have to keep my eye on you.” In her honor, we now have t... The Angriest Pharmacist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2285063 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:03:35 +0100 2285063