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Medicare to revisit coverage of anemia drugs (Reuters)

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

MediNewsDigest:
Quoting Reuters:
“….Epogen and Aranesp made by Amgen Inc and Procit made by Johnson & Johnson, have come under increased scrutiny after data from trials showed they could raise the risk of heart problems…”
Isn’t this a strange way to handle the issue? Shouldn’t the FDA say yay or nay on specifics for the drugs? If it is still necessary for a smaller pool of medicare users, shouldn’t they be covered?

Tags: anemia, Aranesp, careresourceguide, Coverage, drugs, Epogen, healthcare, Medicare, MediNewsDigest, Reuters
Posted in Health Care reform, Medicare, Uncategorized, coverage | No Comments »

Generics and Epilepsy: When Is It Safe to Substitute a Generic Medication?(webMD)

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

SJCRG: CLICK HERE for a webMD discussion on the efficacy of generic medication for Epilepsy.
http://www.aan.com/globals/axon/assets/2323.pdf
SJCRG: CLICK HERE for position paper of the AAN
Quoting the AAN:
“…The AAN opposes generic substitution of anticonvulsant drugs for the treatment
of epilepsy without the attending physician’s approval….”
SJCRG: What about the generics at large for other diseases. Certainly most generics are effective, but all? Don’t we needs an efficacy study for each, beyond FDA assurances of similarity.
Or are we going to accept casualties as the normal way to do business in the great war against cost?

Tags: AAN, careresourceguide, Cost, Coverage, effecacy, epilepsy, Generics, healthcare, insurance, Medical drugs, medication, SJCRG, webMD
Posted in Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, coverage, insurance, medicaid | No Comments »

Health-care reform and abortion coverage: Questions and answers (washingtonpost)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

SJCRG: Following our post today on “Foetal Transplants” here is a link to a good summary of the positions. A little old (nov 2009)

Tags: abortion, answers, Coverage, healthcare, questions, reform, SJCRG, washingtonpost
Posted in Health Care reform, Medical Ethics, abortion, children, politics, prenatal, societal trends | No Comments »

Medicare Handbook 2010: Costs and Coverage

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

SJCRG: What will happen when/if the Health Care Reform bill passes is any body’s guess……But many/most changes would probably occur beyond 2010

Tags: 2010, Costs, Coverage, Handbook, Medicare, SJCRG
Posted in Health Care reform, Medicare, politics, seniors, societal trends | No Comments »

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