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Huntington Insurance adds HealthWarehouse.com to prescription drug benefit program

HealthWarehouse.com, Inc., a leading retail mail-order pharmacy, and Huntington Insurance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and leader in employee benefits products, announced today a partnership that will give customers across the Midwest access to low-cost generic prescription medication.

14 Feb 2011

FDA accepts King's ACUROX NDA for filing with Priority review classification

Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has been informed by King Pharmaceuticals Research and Development Inc. (King) that King's New Drug Application (NDA) for ACUROX® (oxycodone HCl) Tablets was accepted for filing by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with a Priority review classification and a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date of June 17, 2011.

14 Feb 2011

Study: Young survivors covered by Medicare Part D often can't afford stroke medications

Young, uninsured stroke survivors or those covered by the Medicare Part D drug benefit often can't afford medications - increasing the risk for future strokes or other cardiovascular disease-related events, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2011.

14 Feb 2011

Campaign to undermine e-prescribing's safety, savings benefits

Some drug manufacturers are aggressively pushing legislative proposals in states across the country that if enacted would undermine electronic prescribing's (e-prescribing) proven safety and savings benefits, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) said today.

14 Feb 2011

Optimer prices underwritten public offering of common stock

Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the pricing of a previously announced underwritten public offering of 6,000,000 shares of its common stock, offered at a price to the public of $11.25 per share. The gross proceeds to Optimer from this offering are expected to be $67.5 million, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses payable by Optimer.

11 Feb 2011

First Edition: February 11, 2011

Today's health policy headlines highlight various aspects of the policies and politics involved in the health law mix.

11 Feb 2011

State roundup: Arizona Medicaid waiver; Mass. BCBS plans charge more for high-cost hospitals; Texas Dems' abortion fight

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's proposal to cut 280,000 people from the state's Medicaid rolls is being reviewed by U.S. officials who don't know whether they have the power to approve the action, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.

10 Feb 2011

Gilead resubmits NDA for single-tablet regimen of Truvada/TMC278

Gilead Sciences, Inc. announced today that it has refiled a New Drug Application (NDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the single-tablet regimen of Truvada® (emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) and Tibotec Pharmaceuticals' investigational non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor TMC278 (rilpivirine hydrochloride) for HIV-1 infection in adults.

10 Feb 2011

Florida pain clinic society opposes Gov. Scott's proposal to repeal Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

The Florida Society of Pain Management Providers opposes Governor Scott's proposal to repeal the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). The PDMP system is the single most important weapon in the war on Rx drug abuse, not only in Florida but in the other 42 states where legislators have approved their operation.

10 Feb 2011

State and federal efforts to monitor drug prescriptions and payments face challenges

The Center For Public Integrity reports on the challenges Medicare faces in trying to ensure that prescription drugs paid for by its contracting health plans are actually prescribed by doctors. Meanwhile, The Miami Herald chronicles the latest chapter in the ongoing story about the state's pill mills.

10 Feb 2011

Health Foundation grants $50,000 to Good News to improve medical care

The Good News Care Center, located in Florida City, is pleased to announce a $50,000 grant received from Health Foundation of South Florida for the Coming Home: ER Diversion and Medical Homes Project, an initiative that increases the provision of primary care services, and integrates primary and tertiary medical care intervention with health education.

10 Feb 2011

Sugary snacks and lax dental hygiene put kids at risk for tooth decay

While the most prevalent focus of February is on Valentine's sweethearts, parents are well advised to also focus on the proverbial sweet tooth - particularly when it comes to their children. That's because February is National Children's Dental Health Month, an ideal time - according to Health Net, Inc. - for moms and dads to make sure that sugary snacks, as well as lax dental hygiene - aren't putting their kids at risk for tooth decay.

7 Feb 2011

Humana fourth quarter diluted EPS decreases to $0.63

Humana Inc. today reported diluted earnings per common share (EPS) for the quarter ended December 31, 2010 (4Q10) of $0.63, compared to $1.48 per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2009 (4Q09).

7 Feb 2011

The Lancet journal publishes BENLYSTA BLISS-52 study against SLE

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC today announced publication of the BLISS-52 study of BENLYSTA in autoantibody-positive patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus in The Lancet.

7 Feb 2011

Patient need to share medication side effects with health care team: Retired family doctor

"I had a wonderful gentleman patient who had resistant blood pressure," recalls Vicki Koenig, M.D., a retired family doctor in Exmore, VA. "When he came for a blood pressure check on the latest new med and it was great, I was ecstatic. Then he said, 'But I notice my urine's a little dark.' His was one of the first cases of fatal liver complications from this medication."

5 Feb 2011

Waismann Method examines link between chronic pain and Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia

Results from a recent study issued by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration revealed that treatment admissions for prescription painkiller abuse rose 345 percent over a 10 year period extending from 1998 to 2008.

5 Feb 2011

FDA sets new PDUFA date for AstraZeneca's ticagrelor

AstraZeneca announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged receipt of the company's reply to the Complete Response Letter (CRL) for the ticagrelor New Drug Application (NDA).

4 Feb 2011

Study finds increased prescription drug abuse among teens

Illicit drugs like marijuana, cocaine and heroin have always been a parent's nightmare. But perfectly legal and easily accessible prescription medications are now the recreational drugs of choice for many teenagers, prompting physicians at Johns Hopkins Children's Center to urge pediatricians to screen specifically for their abuse during routine visits.

4 Feb 2011

New England Journal publishes fidaxomicin Phase 3 trial results against CDI

Optimer Pharmaceuticals, announced The New England Journal of Medicine has published results from the North American Phase 3 trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of the Company's novel antibiotic fidaxomicin as a treatment for patients with Clostridium difficile infection.

3 Feb 2011

Survey finds 75% of workers use their employers for medical and health information

The number of U.S. employees who turn to their employer and health plan for medical and health information has increased sharply over the past few years, according to a nationwide survey of employees conducted by the National Business Group on Health, a non-profit association of more than 300 large employers.

2 Feb 2011

Prescription Drug News and Research

Huntington Insurance adds HealthWarehouse.com to prescription drug benefit program

FDA accepts King's ACUROX NDA for filing with Priority review classification

Study: Young survivors covered by Medicare Part D often can't afford stroke medications

Campaign to undermine e-prescribing's safety, savings benefits

Optimer prices underwritten public offering of common stock

First Edition: February 11, 2011

State roundup: Arizona Medicaid waiver; Mass. BCBS plans charge more for high-cost hospitals; Texas Dems' abortion fight

Gilead resubmits NDA for single-tablet regimen of Truvada/TMC278

Florida pain clinic society opposes Gov. Scott's proposal to repeal Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

State and federal efforts to monitor drug prescriptions and payments face challenges

Health Foundation grants $50,000 to Good News to improve medical care

Sugary snacks and lax dental hygiene put kids at risk for tooth decay

Humana fourth quarter diluted EPS decreases to $0.63

The Lancet journal publishes BENLYSTA BLISS-52 study against SLE

Patient need to share medication side effects with health care team: Retired family doctor

Waismann Method examines link between chronic pain and Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia

FDA sets new PDUFA date for AstraZeneca's ticagrelor

Study finds increased prescription drug abuse among teens

New England Journal publishes fidaxomicin Phase 3 trial results against CDI

Survey finds 75% of workers use their employers for medical and health information

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