Drugs – Medication « Health Care – General

CMS Publishes Proposed Guidance for Seasonal, H1N1 Flu Prevention (McKnights – 6/23/10)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued proposed guidance that would update and replace previous inflection control guidance for the seasonal and H1N1 flu.
Court Rejects the Right to Use Drugs Being Tested (New York Times – Aug. 2007)
Do desperate patients have the right to try unproven therapies?
Letting Go – What Should Medicine Do When it Can't Save Your Life? (New Yorker – 8/2/10)
Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left.

Free Medicine Foundation
Thanks to federal government incentives, pharmaceutical companies may provide free prescription medicines for those who qualify.
Needy Meds
Find help with the cost of medicine.
RX Assist.org
Provides a comprehensive directory of patient assistance programs that are run by pharmaceutical companies to provide free medications to people who cannot afford their prescriptions.