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Pharmacies are increasingly facing stiff competition from the trans-border online prescription trade. Many of the drugs come from Canada, where health care is subsidized and drugs come at a fraction of the cost as their counterparts in the U.S. Now, Wal-Mart is making its foray into this market niche by offering $4 generic drugs.

Non-partisan group, Center for Responsive Politics just broke the recent news about the amount and origin of money passing hands in Washington politics for 2007. What did they discover? Health care and insurance dominated the Washington lobby.

An incredible design concept that publicizes autism awareness in Dubai (by way of Flickr). This is a great example of creative health marketing doing some good!

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An immense amount of pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, antidepressants, and hormones have been found in millions of Americans’ drinking water. The pharmaceutical industry says that the amount is so small that it is harmless to human beings; however, long term effects are unknown.

The Iraq war is estimated to cost each family in the U.S. over $25,000, but that doesn’t come close to how much we spend each year on prescription drugs. In the same five years it took the U.S. to spend $500 billion in Iraq, purchases of prescription drugs climbed a blistering 13% to a record 3.7 billion prescriptions annually¹.