Stepping into the furor over eye-popping price spikes for old generic medicines, a maker of compounded drugs will begin selling $1 US doses of Daraprim, whose price recently was jacked up to $750 US per pill by Turing Pharmaceuticals. San Diego-based Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Inc., which mixes approved drug ingredients to fill individual patient prescriptions, said Thursday […]
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Seniors in private nursing homes may die within 6 months
Seniors living in private nursing homes are more likely to die within six months of their stay than those living in non-profit facilities, a group of researchers has found. A recent study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) found that for-profit seniors’ homes have a 16 per cent higher death rate for […]
Payments To Doctors In Canada Hit $24B In 2014
Provincial and territorial governments paid out a total of $24.1 billion to physicians in 2013-2014, a nearly six-per-cent increase from the year before, according to the latest data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. While payments to physicians varied across the country, Canadian doctors’ average earnings before expenses were nearly $336,000 last year, […]
California drought drives cities to filter drinkable water from sewage
The liquid in the trough below looks remarkably like iced tea. But trust me, you don’t want to drink it. Not yet. “This is the first step of our treatment process,” says Denis Bilodeau, vice-president of the Orange County Water District, on a metal catwalk next to a canal of municipal sewage. California drought: ‘Water cops’ hope to curb […]
