Spending on Pharmaceuticals

• High Cost Patients Account For Most Drug Spending

• Curious Variations In Prescription Drug Use

• Soaring Drug Costs

• U.S. Spending On Prescription Drugs

• Drug Costs Up Because We're Medicating More

• Drug Utilization A Factor In Rising Health Care Costs

• Increased Utilization Is Driving Prescription Drug Costs

• Americans Want Their Prescriptions, But Hate The Cost

Drug Price Issues

• Most Drugs are Cheaper in the United States -- Not Canada

• Congress Watching Cancer Doctors Who Sell Drugs to Patients

• Big Jump In Prescription Drug Spending Last Year

• Uniform Global Prices Would Raise Drug Costs

• Quirky Law Has Some States Paying More For Generic Drugs

• Drug Companies Fight European Price Controls

• Research And Development Makes Medicines Expensive -- But It's Necessary

• Cost To Develop New Drugs Soar

• Direct-To-Consumer Drug Advertising

• Complexities Of Canadian And U.S. Drug Prices

• Doctors Can Lower Patients' Drug Costs

• Ten Myths about the Market for Prescription Drugs

• Consumer Information And Retail Prices For Prescription Drugs

• Why Prescription Drugs are Priced Differently in Different Markets

• Prescription Drug Prices Aren't Inflated

• Restraining Drug Prices: Controls vs. Competition

• Better Drugs for Dogs

• Do Drug Companies Favor Pets Over People?

• Consumer Information And Retail Prices For Prescription Drugs

• Prescription Medication Costs: A Study of Physician Familiarity

Drug Price Controls

• In Search Of Vaccines

• Cost Of Over-Riding Patent Drug Property Rights (CIPRO)

• Will Pharmaceuticals Come Under Price Controls?

• States Eyeing Price Controls On Drugs

• Drug Price Controls Lead To Rationing

• Price Controls Are a Prescription for Disaster

• Pharmaceutical Firms Alarmed At Drug Discount Bill

• New England States Attack Drug Prices

• Why Pharmaceutical Price Controls Are Bad for Patients

• Pharmaceutical Price Controls Are a Prescription for Disaster

• Effects Of Price Controls

• Fraser Study: Living Standards, Not Price Controls, Lead To Different Drug Prices

• Why Price Controls on Prescription Drugs Would Harm Seniors

Drug Reimportation

• Reimporting Prescription Drugs

• New Law Relaxes Drug Importation

• Reimporting Drugs Could Be Costly

• The Folly of "Reimporting" U.S. Drugs

• New England States Attack Drug Prices

Drug Industry Profits

• The "Pharmatech" Industry And Its Profits

• Are Drug Company Profits Excessive?

• Bargain Drug Stocks are Good Medicine

Cost/ Benefit Analysis of Pharmaceuticals

• Benefits Of Newer Drugs Exceed Costs

• Cost Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals

• Consider The Cost Of The Disease

• Potential Savings From Longer Shelf-Life Of Drugs

• Biopharmaceuticals Offset Their Expense By Reducing Health Care Costs

Drug Purchasing Pools

Patient Cost Sharing

• Insurance Coverage For Pharmaceuticals

• A Controversial Drug Payment Plan

• Using More Prescription Drugs

• Drug Cost-sharing Increases Adverse Events Among Poor and Elderly