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Rx & Insurance News Archive
9/17/13: Drug May Work For Resistant CMV Infections in Transplant Recipients (Renal & Urology News)
9/4/13: Old cancer drug prevents transplant rejection (Medical News Today)
8/30/13: No Widespread Increase in Cost of Individual Health Policies Seen Under ACA (HealthNewsDigest.com)
12/18/12
Grapefruit Is a Culprit In More Drug Reactions
12/8/12 Study of Steroid and CNI Immunosuppression Withdrawal Post-Transplant
12/1/12 Beating the Odds, and a Storm, to Get a Transplant
11/23/12 Federal government releases long-awaited health reform rules
11/20/12
Novartis' Certican succeeds in phase III liver
transplant trial
11/20/12 Why I Decided to Opt Out of Medicare As a Provider
11/11/12
A consumer's guide to health reform, post election
11/7/12
Living organ donors face insurance risks
11/3/12
Summary of Healthcare Reform Effects on Patient Coverage
10/24/12 New
Kidney Patient Data Shows Strong Need for
Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage Legislation
10/24/12
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish? Coverage Limits
Immunosuppression after Kidney Transplantation
9/4/12
An evidence based assessment of universal coverage
8/5/12 Ingestible
Sensor Approved by FDA (size of a gain of sand!)
7/9/12 Easy to
understand: Gout (history and treatment)
6/30/12 What
health ruling means next for patients
6/19/12
Medicare Made Clear (video training resource)
6/15/12The
Reward for Donating a Kidney: No Insurance
6/14/12
Blog: Our health problems will remain, despite
how the Supreme Court rules
5/21/12 Pulse
Pressure vs. Blood Pressure
4/26/12 3
in Five Americans Misuse Their Rx Drugs
3/21/12 Generic
Drugs Proving Resistant to Damage Suits
3/15/12 Engineering
Organs to Solve Donor Shortage
3/9/12 Transplant
without drugs (a study)
2/17/12 New
drug target found for lung cancer
1/28/12 Stopping
Prednisone Soon After Transplant Found to be Safe
1/26/12 Why
heart doctors are leaving practices and joining
hospitals
1/20/12 New
powerful painkiller has abuse experts worried
1/17/12
Daily Aspirin Is Not for Everyone, Study Suggests
Medicare
Report from the Public Policy committee (Fall 2011)
How
to know if your meds are counterfeit (11/10)
Why Anti-Rejection
Drugs for Organ Transplant Patients Cause
Hypertension (10/8/11)
New
Regimen Frees Kidney-Transplant Patients from
Dependency on Immuno Drugs (10/5/11)
Mistakes
in
Storage May Alter Medication (8/16/11)
Health
Care
Law Individual Mandate Ruled Unconstitutional by
Appeals Court (8/13/11)
Durbin,
Cocran
Introduce Legislation to Help Organ Transplant
Recipients (36 mos extension plan)
Web
resource for understanding lab tests
Medicare
limits
anti-rejection drugs that transplant
patients need (coverage only for 36
mos) Part 1 of 2 - Part
2 of 2
FDA
Approves
New Drug for Kidney Transplant
Immunosuppression (Belatacept)
Trial
for Use of Stem Cell Treatment for
Vision to Begin
More
Cost-Effective
Immune Suppressant for Transplants
Tackling
Care as Chronic Ailments Pile Up
Before
Trip,
Make Plans... Rx's
Medicaid
Beneficiary Tip Sheet (800kb
PDF download)
Medicaid
Part
B Premium Cost for 2011 (43kb PDF
download)
Medicaid
Part
D (Drugs) Premium Cost for 2011 (50kb
PDF download)
Washington
State
Medicare Cuts Affecting Transplant Patient Meds
- a call to action!
"Look
out, your medicine is watching you" - 11/11/10:
Reuters News reports on Novartis future plans for
transplant meds with embedded microchip to monitor
patient use
FDA Approves longer use of
Valcyte for adult kidney transplant patients at high
risk for CMV disease (<-- click for press release - a PDF
download) - CMV
disease is the most important serious infection
complicating solid organ transplantation and a major
cause of illness and disease during the first six
months following transplantation.
Pfizer
extends
free aid to unemployed using its drugs through
2010
In an article published online on October 23,
2009, in The Journal of Heart and Lung
Transplantation, physicians representing the
International Society for Heart & Lung
Transplantation (ISHLT) Infectious Disease Council
issued an advisory for all programs in cardiothoracic
transplantation. To download this 7 page (PDF
file) technical article
click here --> Advisory
LA Times 10/10/09: Opinion article: Healthcare
reform
without drug price controls? That's sick (<-- click to read article)
Post your comments on
the bulletin
board
9/2/09: OPTN/UNOS
releases guidance regarding H1N1 and Implications for
Transplantation
AP 8/13/09: Generic
form
of PROGRAF (i.e., tacrolimus) released.
8/13/09: Astellas
Prograf
Value Card Program offered to save patients
using Prograf up to $100/mo for each Rx for one year.
(Note: not available for all plans, especially for
government plans; call your Rx provider to ask about
using it with mail order, but reimbursement forms are
available from the program if your mail order company
doesn't accept it directly.)
Roche Offering $100 Coupon
Card for Cellcept users
5/9/09: Generic
form
of
Cellcept (i.e., Mycophenolate Mofetil)
released
"Donut
Hole"
Rx cost calculator available: Check out ways
to reduce your out of pocket Rx costs with this
powerful on-line tool