The struggle to keep soaring medical costs in check is feeding an increase in state programs that collect unused prescription drugs to give away to the uninsured and poor.
Some states allow donations of sealed drugs from individuals, while others only accept pharmaceuticals from institutions, such as doctor’s offices or assisted-living homes. Drugs are typically vetted [...]
States ‘Recycle’ Meds to Battle Costs
Anti-HIV drug ‘heart attack risk’
A popular anti-HIV drug nearly doubles the risk of heart attack, a study says.
Abacavir works by reducing the amount of the virus in the body and is often used in combination with other drugs.
But Danish researchers said patients may wish to consider changing treatment programmes after studying over 33,000 people, the Lancet reported.
Experts said the [...]
Merck AIDS Vaccine Failure May Doom Promising Study
A once-promising study of an AIDS vaccine developed by the U.S. will be scaled back and may be scrubbed after the failure of a related Merck & Co. effort.
The vaccine, created by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, may be studied in about only 2,000 people in the U.S. [...]