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Medicare Donut Hole, An Overview

This research paper offers an overview of the gap in prescription drug coverage that is a component of Medicare Part D. Ten pages ...

Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, Power Point presentation

This paper presents the speaker notes for a Power Point project, khspnmedD.ppt, that describes the gap in prescription drug covera...

Pharmaceutical Marketing

emotional appeal, where marketers have sought to appeal to either negative or positive emotions with attempts to find the right em...

Minnesota's Upsher-Smith Laboratories

An overview of this company that develops and markets prescription pharmaceutical drugs and dietary supplements is presented in a ...

Problem of Prescription Drugs in the U.S.

In eight pages this paper discusses the growing American problem of prescription drugs in a consideration of how they are used leg...

Australia and the Regulation of Prescription Drugs

In five pages this paper discusses how the government of Australia is involved with the pharmaceutical industry in terms of prescr...

Human Body and the Impact of Drugs

been ingested (1997). While ecstasy can last in the body for many days, what are the long term effects of this dangerous substan...

Abuse of Prescription Drugs

the survey. The drugs reported as being used included opiods, tranquilizers, stimulants and sedatives (PG). There are certain tr...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Coumadin, Its Generic Equivalent, and Pricing Considerations

In five pages this paper discusses how prices vary in drug prices between the Coumadin prescription and its generic equivalent. F...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

Public Health Advertising v. Direct to Consumer Advertising

2004). As this indicates, disease education in the EU is allowed, but American-style DTC advertising is prohibited. Consequently...

Pricing Controls and Price Equilibrium

is, it represents the price where both sellers and buyers are happy with both price and quantity (GCSE economics, 2004). For examp...

The Marketing Of Prescription Drugs

A five stage model looking at problem recognition, information search, evaluation of alternatives, purchase decision, and post- pu...

Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

Trends and Statistics on Drug Use

and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...

Prescription Drugs and Our Over Medicated Society

orchestrated our growing dependence on prescription drugs. Big Pharma now represents a practically inescapable component ...

Opportunity Costs of College

those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

High Textbook Costs Stifle Students' Learning Potential

apply. Basically meaning that minorities and white students with little or no visible means of support are directed, because of th...

Future Prescriptions Expenditures' Calculation Through Regression Analysis

consider why there is this cost increase, there are many factor we can look for to account for this increase. Costs for any good ...

Supply chain management improvement

Supply chain management, from the upstream supply to the downstream supply, has the potential to present organisations with unnece...

The Consequences of Alcoholism

that drink. The fact that alcoholism is an illness like cancer of diabetes should serve as a warning that something ought to be d...

Using Economic Order Quantity To Improve Efficiently

seen to actively add value to the product (Mintzberg et al, 2008). The reduction of cost should not be achieved at the cost of the...

Canada Drug Pricing and Cost Effectiveness

In four pages the increased costs of Canadian healthcare are examined in a discussion of drug prices and cost effectiveness measur...

The Use of Drugs in Society

For example, in Clermont, a 28-year-old man raped a twelve year old girl ; in the report, it notes that this suspect admitted to s...

Generic Equivalents of Prescription Drugs

The writer examines the usage, origin and contraindications of the drug albuterol, which is branded under the name Proventil but i...