Tag: PRESCRIPTIONDRUGS

Drug maker Novartis recently found itself on the receiving end of a tongue lashing from the FDA for misusing the Facebook share widget on its website. The company used the widget to promote its leukemia drug Tasigna, but, unlike traditional advertising would, the Facebook promotion "fails to communicate any risk information associated with [its] use." All marketing materials for drugs are ...

According to CNET News, a study appearing today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal claims that computer reminders, which doctors use while electronically charting and writing prescriptions for patients, don't improve the quality of health care as much as they were once expected to do. In 2008, Medicare even offered incentives for doctors to adopt and use e-prescriptions, but according to ...

On April 30th, an unidentified individual, or group, hacked into the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program's Web site, WikiLeaks first reported Sunday. A full week after the hack occurred, the perpetrator is still holding hostage the private data of over 8 million Virginia patients. The party responsible for this security breach didn't hack into the prescription-drug-abuse-tracking site for ...

We have sad news to report for those of you getting your Levitra from shady Internet pharmacies -- your source might be out of business. Authorities in the U.S., England, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, and, of course, Canada raided the illegal online sellers of prescription meds. Directed by Interpol under the codename Pangea, the crackdown comes as criminals are ...

The Internet is a virtual cornucopia of cheaply-purchased controlled substances. Don't believe us? Just swing by your local college campus and start asking a few questions. According to a recent survey of 365 Internet pharmacies, 85 percent filled orders for prescription drugs (a majority of which were for controlled substances) without requiring a prescription. Many of the sites even flaunt ...