Generic Drug Shortages

Generic Drug Shortages

Health care group purchasing organizations, or G.P.O.’s, are taking a variety of innovative steps to mitigate the effect of generic drug shortages. All G.P.O. contracts are voluntary and the product

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Bali and Beyond Medical Tourism

The cooperation between BIMC, organizers of Sail Komodo 2013 and the regency government of Manggarai Barat will not only provide much-needed medical support to visiting yachtsmen but also achieve long-term

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Health and Wellness Travel Portal MyMEDHoliday.com Adds Philippines to Its popular medical tourism destinations

Lathrop, CA — (SBWIRE) — 09/09/2013 — International medical tourism has a new hotspot, according to health and wellness travel portal MyMEDHoliday.com, which has added the Philippines to its list

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Kickbacks, commissions and medical tourism facilitators

In the healthcare sector, critics are drawing attention to the financial relationships that exist between hospitals and doctors and referrers. In the medical tourism sector, is it time we took

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Romania to develop its medical tourism

Romania works on a new strategy to develop medical tourism that already brings hundreds of millions to the country, officials in Bucharest say…

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Will Your Employer Drop Coverage Under Obamacare?

President Obama speaks about Affordable Care Act in June. New analysis in the journal Health Affairs looks at the likelihood that companies will drop coverage after the full law takes

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10 Tips to Help the 50-Plus Crowd Manage Health Care Costs

In your 50s and beyond, health care costs loom more ominously than ever before — and with good reason: According to the folks at Fidelity, a 65-year-old couple…

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Cancer Survivor Shows Obamacare Unleashing Startups: Economy

Maksim Tsvetovat and Tatyana Kanzaveli say they doubt they could have started their data-collection company, Open Cancer Network, without Obamacare. Tsvetovat, 37 and the father of a four-year-old boy, said

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As costs climb, men delay health care

Here’s a situation that may sound familiar: A man visits his doctor’s office with his wife, who laments how stubborn he is about seeking medical care. Frank Wharam, a doctor

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Leveraging pharmacy networks to drive down health care costs

In the U.S. there are more drugstores than McDonald’s, Burger Kings, Pizza Huts, Wendy’s, Taco Bells, Kentucky Fried Chickens, Domino’s Pizzas, and Dunkin’ Donuts combined. By increasing drugstore competition, pharmacy

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