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		<title>The Global Counterfeit Drug Problem and Safe International Online Pharmacies Are Not Related</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 14th, an article appeared in ForeignAffairs.com called “Dangerous Doses: Fighting Fraud In The Global Medicine Supply Chain.” Authors Tim Mackey, Bryan Liang, and Tom Cubic simultaneously report on the counterfeit drug threats and tragedies experienced globally while deceptively attempting to link safe international online pharmacies to this problem. Our vice president, Gabriel Levitt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Pharmacy Economics: Extortion at Home, Freedom Abroad?</title>
		<link>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/online-pharmacy-economics-extortion-at-home-freedom-abroad</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Levitt, Vice President, PharmacyChecker.com and Sam Werbalowsky, PharmacyChecker.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans need and deserve the freedom to buy medications that are safe and affordable. This is not only true as a matter of right and wrong; it’s a public health issue since about 48 million Americans don’t fill prescriptions due to cost. Online pharmacies offer an important outlet for affordable medication. That’s the good news. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RxrRights.org Applauds Drug Reimportation Amendment Sponsored by McCain and Franken</title>
		<link>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/rxrights-mccain-franken</link>
		<comments>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/rxrights-mccain-franken#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Levitt, Vice President, PharmacyChecker.com and Sam Werbalowsky, PharmacyChecker.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Importation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their blog yesterday, our friends at RxRights.org, an advocacy group dedicated to helping Americans afford needed prescription medication, applauded Senator McCain’s (R-AZ) amendment to the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act to greater facilitate safe and legal personal drug importation of prescription medications from verified Canadian pharmacies. Despite Senator McCain’s emphasis on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Op-Ed Calls For Legalization of Personal Drug Importation From Credentialed International Online Pharmacies</title>
		<link>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/new-york-times-op-ed-calls-for-legalization-of-personal-drug-importation-from-credentialed-international-online-pharmacies</link>
		<comments>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/new-york-times-op-ed-calls-for-legalization-of-personal-drug-importation-from-credentialed-international-online-pharmacies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tod Cooperman, MD, President, PharmacyChecker.com, and Gabriel Levitt, Vice President, PharmacyChecker.com</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drug Importation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Pharmacy Verification Services]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[affordable prescriptions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main Op-Ed article in today’s New York Times, “The Wrong Way to Stop Fake Drugs,” calls for the legalization of personal drug importation from credentialed international online pharmacies, such as those approved in the PharmacyChecker.com Verification Program. Authored by Roger Bate, a resident scholar at American Enterprise Institute, the central message of the piece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Online Pharmacies Can Help Americans Afford Prescribed Asthma Medications</title>
		<link>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/international-online-pharmacies-can-help-americans-afford-prescribed-asthma-medications</link>
		<comments>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/international-online-pharmacies-can-help-americans-afford-prescribed-asthma-medications#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PharmacyChecker.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we issued a press release showing that the most popular brand name asthma medications are on average 76% less when purchasing from the lowest-cost PharmacyChecker.com-verified online pharmacies than at U.S. bricks and mortar pharmacies. For example, a three month supply of Advair Diskus (250-50mcg/dose), a popular preventative medication, costs $947.97 at a bricks-and-mortar pharmacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Ron Paul’s Statement About Pharmaceutical Industry-FDA Collusion And What FDA Should Do About Online Pharmacies</title>
		<link>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/congressman-ron-pauls-statement-about-pharmaceutical-industry-fda-collusion-and-what-fda-should-do-about-online-pharmacies-2</link>
		<comments>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/congressman-ron-pauls-statement-about-pharmaceutical-industry-fda-collusion-and-what-fda-should-do-about-online-pharmacies-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Levitt, Vice President, PharmacyChecker.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Importation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Prices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in DigitalJournal this past Wednesday, at a press conference in Keene, NH, Congressman Ron Paul (TX-14), Republican candidate for president, accused the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA of being in “bed together.” He derided their arrangement, characterized by a revolving door of people repeatedly switching jobs back and forth between the FDA and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Part D Is Not Enough For Many Seniors Suggests IMS Study</title>
		<link>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/ims-report-2011-medicare-part-d</link>
		<comments>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/ims-report-2011-medicare-part-d#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Levitt, Vice President, PharmacyChecker.com and Sam Werbalowsky, PharmacyChecker.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saving Money on Prescription Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skipping medications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordable prescriptions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some pharmaceutical industry folks, and their political allies, like to make the point that our nation’s seniors no longer need access to lower cost foreign medication because they now have new and improved Medicare drug plans. But a new report by IMS indicates that drug costs are having a negative effect on public health, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Published by National Bureau of Economic Research Shows Online Pharmacies Approved by PharmacyChecker.com Offer Savings and Safety</title>
		<link>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/nber-study-shows-safety-and-savings</link>
		<comments>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/nber-study-shows-safety-and-savings#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PharmacyChecker.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Importation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that pharmacies approved in the PharmacyChecker.com Verification Program sell safe medication and can help Americans achieve substantial savings. By filling 370 prescriptions through 41 online pharmacies and testing the authenticity of the medications received, independent researchers from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Healthcare Law Is No Panacea For The Drug Affordability Crisis In America</title>
		<link>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/new-healthcare-law-and-drug-affordability</link>
		<comments>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/new-healthcare-law-and-drug-affordability#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Levitt, Vice President, PharmacyChecker.com and Sam Werbalowsky, PharmacyChecker.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a drug affordability crisis in America. As we’ve reported, in 2010 48 million adults did not fill a prescription due to high drug costs. Perhaps surprisingly, in addition to millions of uninsured Americans, many Americans with insurance forgo prescription medication due to cost. Such insured Americans, unable to cover necessary medical costs, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Americans Dying Because Drug Prices are Too High?</title>
		<link>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/are-americans-dying-because-drug-prices-are-too-high</link>
		<comments>http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/are-americans-dying-because-drug-prices-are-too-high#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Levitt, Vice President, PharmacyChecker.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Today, the AARP reported that brand name drug prices increased by 41% between 2006-2009, approximately three times the rate of inflation. In the New York Times article announcing the study, AARP refers to the price increases as “relentless”. The media often reports on studies about drug price increases because it’s an issue of great frustration [...]]]></description>
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