The number of prescriptions for the drug, used to lower cholesterol, have fallen 38% since 2006.
Indeed, almost every category of costly medical care went down: doctor visits, emergency-room and hospital visits, drug prescriptions.
By mapping out his drug prescriptions, Spriggs made three key observations, none of his doctors had made, or bothered to share.
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Merck marketers will immediately begin reaching out not only to diabetes specialists but also to family doctors, who write the largest share of diabetes drug prescriptions.
Vermont had enacted the law to protect the privacy of doctors, giving them the power to okay the sale of info about their drug prescriptions to patients only if they wanted.
Valium (still No. 13 among psychiatric drugs, with 14 million prescriptions) put drug maker Roche on the U.S. map and introduced the idea that a brain drug could be a bestseller.
The alleged culprits were the coach, Paul Westhead, the university, and 12 other university officials and doctors, who allegedly failed to take proper precautions, failed to change drug prescriptions and failed to use a defibrillator when he fell unconscious on the gymnasium floor he loved.
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But both doctors agreed that the ENHANCE study could change the way doctors think when they write prescriptions for a cholesterol drug, and such changes don't bode well for Vytorin.
Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie called for an independent review of the Scottish government's drug strategy as methadone prescriptions had soared in the last five years, saying people should not switch from an "illegal drug to a proscribed drug".
Research shows that in the Part D program, the proportion of prescriptions filled with a generic drug has increased each year, as plans strive to keep premiums low.
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He believes the system should rely on a range of official sources, such as hospital admissions, prescriptions for anti-viral drug Tamiflu and sales of over-the-counter medicines, rather than anecdotal evidence culled from social media.
Opponents of prescription requirements say prescriptions can delay access to the drug.
He expects the FDA will make an addition to the drug's label, but says he thinks that since doctors have written a million Byetta prescriptions, most of them are pretty comfortable with the drug.
Individuals who decide to dis enroll also might need a new Medicare prescription drug plan to maintain their prescriptions.
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Already, eight of ten prescriptions are for generics, and the drug industry is focusing on higher priced, specialty products for patients who are not helped by existing options.
Nature's drug users procured their stashes from prescriptions from doctors or over the internet.
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The company said the majority of sales of the drug are from out-patient prescriptions for hemophilia patients, not hospital use.
This business provides a full range of pharmacy benefit management services, such as mail-order prescriptions, Medicare Part D assistance, and discounted drug purchase agreements with various employers and corporations.
At the Rite-Aid pharmacy where I usually had my prescriptions filled, I picked up a refill of the statin drug that I had taken for many years.
The reason is that IMS Health, the market research firm that tracks prescriptions, has to restate mail-order activity for the drug for the last two weeks of September.
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Some drug abusers fill their needs by visiting several doctors to obtain many prescriptions to satisfy their addiction, a practice known as doctor shopping.
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Experience in the US of 69 deaths in 3.5 million Viagra prescriptions is not unexpected in the particular age group and the US Food and Drug Administration has not changed its view on the drug's safety.
Nevertheless, doctors wrote 21 million prescriptions for the anti-coagulant Coumadin (generically known as warfarin), a drug growing 5% a year.
Earlier this month, Lilly said the erosion of Prozac prescriptions from Barr's generic has been the most severe ever for a blockbuster drug.
Prescriptions will be sent out only after both physician and patient have been briefed on the drug's potential side effects.
They already account for over half of prescriptions, and their share will continue to grow as companies expose their employees to more drug costs through consumer directed plans and other high-deductible insurance.
This may be true for Actos, the most similar drug, too, because since the Avandia controversy started and patients are mostly repeat prescriptions, not new starts.
Meanwhile, in just a few months, Novartis' drug for Alzheimer's disease, Exelon, has captured 27% of the new prescriptions in a market dominated by Pfizer's Aricept.
But the results may help prescriptions for Vytorin, which have been dropping, stabilize, because doctors who want to use the drug may feel safer that they are at least getting as much benefit as Zocor, and that they are basically making a bet that Zetia is at least somewhat effective.
The new Medicare prescription drug plan may cut retail margins, but Walgreen offsets that by snagging the contract to sell Medicare prescriptions to managed-care giant UnitedHealth Group's plan.
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