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...SHOP AROUND. Like everything else on the Internet, Rx prices vary wildly. A recent study in the Annals of Internal Medicine warns of the dangers of getting fleeced; Viagra and Propecia prices, it found, are around 10% higher online than in a brick-and-mortar pharmacy. Note too that the average online "consultation" is $70, and the average shipping cost $18. Is it really worth the convenience...
...long before illegible scrawls on prescription pads go the way of leeches. Enter the latest boon of the information age: e-prescribing. A company called Allscripts, with help from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, has developed a hand-held wireless device that allows doctors to deliver your Rx straight to the pharmacist's computer. Given the rapid increase in drugs with similar names, it's a technology that could save medical careers, not to mention lives. Last week in West Texas, a court ordered cardiologist RAMACHANDRA KOLLURU to pay $225,000 to the family of a heart patient who died after...
REVVED UP Rx's Wouldn't it be great if drugs had no side effects? That's not about to happen. But a new report suggests that recommended dosages for many commonly prescribed medicines--among them Prozac and the cholesterol drug Lipitor--may be too high for lots of folks. Cutting down the dose, sometimes by half or more, may reduce adverse reactions without sacrificing a drug's ability to work. Don't go tinkering on your own, though. Check with your doctor...
...long before illegible scrawls on prescription pads go the way of leeches. Enter the latest boon of the information age: e-prescribing. A company called Allscripts, with help from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, has developed a hand-held wireless device that allows doctors to deliver your Rx straight to the pharmacist's computer. Given the rapid increase in drugs with similar names, it's a technology that could save medical careers, not to mention lives. Last week in West Texas, a court ordered cardiologist Ramachandra Kolluru to pay $225,000 to the family of a heart patient who died after...
Agassi's resurrection provided a nick-of-time Rx for men's tennis too. NBC's French Open finals ratings were up 43% from 1998, and when Sampras and Agassi reached the finals at Wimbledon, interest in a men's match was at its highest since, well, since these two met in Queens four years earlier...