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A good portion of this blog takes on Big Pharma for their funding of misleading public information campaigns and... Read More

Yesterday, I was asked by Ed Silverman of STAT NEWS’ Pharmalot for my thoughts about a report by the Office of... Read More

PharmacyChecker has proudly announced a new online pharmacy verification tool to make it easier for consumers to... Read More

Original post found on PharmacyChecker.com. The Rand Corporation has released an impressive study showing that brand... Read More

Photo courtesy of WhiteHouse.gov I’m a Democrat and voting for Joe Biden. It’s good to be honest. Biden supporters... Read More

This post was originally published on Prescription Justice. The highest score in the Prescription Justice Congressional... Read More

For the benefit of consumers, I published a longish but straightforward explanation of the state wholesale drug... Read More

With lies and deception, Big Pharma has used the threat posed by rogue websites and counterfeit drugs to push back... Read More

This week, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing issued a request for proposals, called an... Read More

Generally, I strongly support the World Health Organization (WHO) and its unambiguously important work to save lives... Read More

In late March, drug giant Bayer Pharmaceuticals, out of the goodness of its heart, agreed to donate three million... Read More

When I read fancy-looking international reports that address the problem of counterfeit drugs, too seldom is our work... Read More

For someone who believes that Donald Trump’s actions, especially recent ones, have threatened the core of our... Read More

The company Blink Health is advertising Canadian drugs on Google, even though it does not sell medication from Canadian... Read More

I’m writing to you from Berlin, Germany on Thanksgiving and I’m missing my family. But it was important to be here.... Read More

A couple of weeks ago I attended the annual conference of the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), a business... Read More

PharmacyChecker.com is proud of the work we do to advocate for your access to affordable medication, and we welcome... Read More

There is profound frustration and anger reverberating throughout the diabetic community due to the skyrocketing prices... Read More

With nostalgia, I’m announcing that PharmacyCheckerBlog will no longer be updated with new posts effective today. If... Read More

Originally published on PharmacyChecker.com. In America, tens of millions of people are skipping necessary medications... Read More

Using very similar talking points to Big Pharma-funded experts, in its quest to “educate” the public about the... Read More

I’m pleading guilty to plagiarism here…well, kind of. I lifted this blog post’s title from the lead section in an... Read More

There has been a lot of news this week about the outrageously high cost of Xtandi, a drug for advanced prostate cancer.... Read More

An article in the Washington Post yesterday covered the steep rise in the cost of a cancer medication called Gleevec,... Read More

The Internet is the last place Americans look to when they want to get high on prescription narcotics, according to... Read More

Pharma-sponsored lackeys are using the hellish opioid crisis as an excuse to bash Senator Bernie Sanders’ drug... Read More

There’s a big lie peppered throughout news articles about buying medication online: 50% of medications ordered online... Read More

I have written extensively about how the pharmaceutical industry and its allies deceive the public by conflating the... Read More

Sad as it may be, it should not surprise anyone that hucksters are peddling coronavirus quackery on the Internet... Read More

In 2005, as reported here, an executive from the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA or Big... Read More

Americans who have been relying on trips to Canada for cheaper prescription drugs may not be able to do so for about a... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is just one agency out of the many that make up the United States Department of... Read More

November 20, 2017 — Kaiser Health News reported that the FDA Office of Criminal Investigations sent agents and search... Read More

Unbelievably, the FDA has increased seizures of international mail-order prescriptions over the past month.... Read More

Last week, in a warning letter and press release, the FDA went to great lengths to demonize what appears to be an... Read More

As announced on the Prescription Justice Blog, a person recently exercised their right to defend a prescription drug... Read More

When you lose count of how many folks have the same suspicion about a prescription medication, action is compulsory.... Read More

Last month, Roger Bate, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and head of the Safe Medicines Coalition,... Read More

Joe and Terry Graedon have been helping Americans make better health decisions for the last 40 years, including through... Read More

Click here to read the English version! This article was originally published in English under the title... Read More

LegitScript is again disseminating misinformation to discredit PharmacyChecker.com and its mission to help consumers... Read More

As we close out 2016, I’m not surprised to be reporting and commenting on new survey data by the Kaiser Family... Read More

Americans without health insurance are four times more likely to buy a prescription drug from another country due to... Read More

How would you feel if the cost for your brand name drug went up from a copayment of $44 to a cash price of $614 for a... Read More

I don’t often side with global pharmaceutical companies but on the issue of their copay drug coupon handouts I... Read More

The hearings on Capitol Hill about drug prices were a big deal this week. To policy wonks. All the rage was the report... Read More

In her new book, American Sickness, Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, an award-winning journalist, currently chief editor of... Read More

This will not be major headline news anytime soon but it’s true. Last week our friends at RxRights blogged about new... Read More

OPEN enrollment for Medicare Part D drug plans ended this past Sunday, but my thoughts about them linger. Our website... Read More

In case you didn’t know, PharmacyChecker is based in New York. We are a proud American company, one that has helped... Read More

There is profound frustration and anger reverberating throughout the diabetic community due to the skyrocketing prices... Read More

The head of LegitScript.com, John Horton, likes to falsely claim that PharmacyChecker “pretends” that international... Read More

Click here to read the English version! This article was originally published in English under the title... Read More

Yesterday, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate called the Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act,... Read More

The head of LegitScript.com, John Horton, likes to falsely claim that PharmacyChecker “pretends” that international... Read More

As I wrote a few weeks back on these blog pages, President Trump’s nomination of Alex Azar to lead the Department of... Read More

This question was posed in the New York Times Ask Well blog this week. We were pleased that PharmacyChecker.com was... Read More

Rosuvastatin is now available in U.S. pharmacies as a generic but you can get Crestor 10mg, the brand version, 94%... Read More

The article “Taming Drug Prices by Pulling Back the Curtain Online” in the New York Times (February 10, 2016)... Read More

Seemingly holding more tricks than treats, the notion of enrolling or even changing your Medicare Part D plan for 2018... Read More

It’s time to shop Medicare Part D plans! Research shows that most of you are saying “why bother?” but you should... Read More

Part D open enrollment for 2018 has begun and will continue through December 7th. During this time, if you’re a... Read More

Last week, Bing announced a new effort to use its search engine to warn consumers about threats from “fake” online... Read More

If not treated properly, the breathing condition known as asthma is deadly. In fact, the U.S. Centers for Disease... Read More

This will not be major headline news anytime soon but it’s true. Last week our friends at RxRights blogged about new... Read More

Joe and Terry Graedon have been helping Americans make better health decisions for the last 40 years, including through... Read More

[Update June 2019: Some comments on this blog post may lead readers to believe the Canadian version of Synthroid... Read More

In the article “I.P.F., Not Aging, Could Be Causing Breathlessness” in the New York Times this week, columnist Jane... Read More

(Read Part 1 and Part 2) Last year we discussed the cost of hepatitis C (“Hep C”) wonder drug Sovaldi for Americans... Read More

Most people think newer is better, but according to a study published in Health Affairs that might not be the case for... Read More

Americans and consumers worldwide come to PharmacyChecker.com to find pharmacies that will sell them properly... Read More

Last month, Roger Bate, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and head of the Safe Medicines Coalition,... Read More

Question. Do online pharmacies in the PharmacyChecker Verification Program require a prescription? PharmacyChecker... Read More

People who are not new to this blog know that we are often critical of the pharmaceutical industry because of their... Read More

People who are not new to this blog know that we are often critical of the pharmaceutical industry because of their... Read More

Both opioid abuse and the high price of medication have wreaked hell on Americans and their families, and now two very... Read More

The economist and drug safety expert Roger Bate, PhD, affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, published a... Read More

In her new book, American Sickness, Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, an award-winning journalist, currently chief editor of... Read More

The executive director of Prescription Justice, Jodi Dart, published an op-ed in Morning Consult earlier this week... Read More

Since Americans started importing medications for personal use in larger numbers at the beginning of the last decade,... Read More

People who are not new to this blog know that we are often critical of the pharmaceutical industry because of their... Read More

Big Pharma is in the mood to share! A new report commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of... Read More

How would you feel if the cost for your brand name drug went up from a copayment of $44 to a cash price of $614 for a... Read More

Each week I try to come up with a new and compelling blog post to discuss issues involving drug prices and problems... Read More

PharmacyChecker.com is now touting two new features exclusively for curious consumers and their advocates visiting our... Read More

Question: I recently bought some Benicar pills from an international online pharmacy who sourced them from a place in... Read More

Jublia (efinaconazole topical solution 10%) was approved for use in treating toenail fungal infections in 2014. The... Read More

Americans and others living in America used to see advertisements on Google for low-cost and safe international online... Read More

Is it legal to order medications online? Yes. If you live in the U.S., you can legally order medications online for... Read More

25%, 20%, 10%, 5%, 2%, 1%? A few years back, the FDA published the results of a survey from 2012 that showed 23% of... Read More

PharmacyChecker.com is proud of the work we do to advocate for your access to affordable medication, and we welcome... Read More

Let’s get into semantics. The word “ensure” is defined as to secure or guarantee, to make sure or certain, or to... Read More

The economist and drug safety expert Roger Bate, PhD, affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, published a... Read More

Pharma-sponsored lackeys are using the hellish opioid crisis as an excuse to bash Senator Bernie Sanders’ drug... Read More

Yesterday, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate called the Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act,... Read More

In this blog post I’m going to get personal. Not about me but about importing medication from Canada and other... Read More

These are unique times we’re living in, so before I criticize this guy for his Big Pharma love, I feel compelled to... Read More

This week, I’m proud to announce that I teamed up with Stephen Salant, PhD, professor emeritus of economics at the... Read More

Drug importation, by which I mean the process of buying much less expensive and equally safe prescription drugs from... Read More

Appearing on Fox and Friends this past Saturday morning, Tod Cooperman, MD, founder of PharmacyChecker.com, discussed... Read More

More than six million Americans suffer from atrial fibulation (AFib), a heart condition that puts them at a much higher... Read More

For the past three months or so, we’ve published a section a week of our report called “Online Pharmacies, Personal... Read More

Symbicort is one of the most popular medications used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease... Read More

I just love this! A new post on the Ask PharmacyChecker resource section is called “How to Get a 99% Off Your... Read More

PharmacyChecker president and co-founder, Gabriel Levitt, spoke at the New York Retirees Association of District... Read More

If you have been watching the news, you’ve likely heard the current administration’s support for affordable... Read More

With some stops and starts, this blog has become far more focused on policy, regulatory matters, law and politics —... Read More

Today is Human Rights Day, a day commemorating the United Nations’ 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of... Read More

In Thanksgiving seasons past, I have written posts connecting the problems of high drug prices and hunger in America.... Read More

Americans sometimes want to know if rogue online pharmacies, especially foreign ones, REALLY sell bad medication or if... Read More

For the past three months or so, we’ve published a section a week of our report called “Online Pharmacies, Personal... Read More

There are potentially tens of thousands of dangerous pharmacy websites, sometimes referred to as “rogue online... Read More

We discovered today that someone has maliciously published a website at the web address pharmacychecker.co.uk that... Read More

When it comes to the topic of pain medication these days, we usually read about prescription opioid abuse, which... Read More

Last week, we issued our first PharmacyChecker.com quarterly International Drug Price Savings Report, which showed that... Read More

In her new book, American Sickness, Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, an award-winning journalist, currently chief editor of... Read More

According to a Zogby Poll (see graphic) conducted in February of this year, 31.6% of Americans who said they have never... Read More

According to a new AARP drug price report, in 2006 the average cost of prescription medication increased by 3.6%, just... Read More

As we move out of 2015 and into 2016 with a strong wave of hostility rising throughout the country about high drug... Read More

According to a new AARP drug price report, in 2006 the average cost of prescription medication increased by 3.6%, just... Read More

It’s no secret that Americans are unhappy with Big Pharma. Pharmaceutical companies regularly rank as one of the... Read More

A new report by Express Scripts has found that medication spending by commercial health plans grew by 13.1% last year,... Read More

Yes, but it depends where you live. For example, if you live in Florida, according to Kaiser Health News, apparently... Read More

In America, the richest country in the world, 33% of people can’t afford food, shelter, or medical care…and that... Read More

How would you feel if the cost for your brand name drug went up from a copayment of $44 to a cash price of $614 for a... Read More

PharmacyChecker.com is proud of the work we do to advocate for your access to affordable medication, and we welcome... Read More

[This is an unedited message from a consumer. You’ll note that, unfortunately, international online pharmacies raise... Read More