Sam Jones, one of the stars of the TV show "Smallville", was arrested this morning in connection with a major drug distribution conspiracy involving over 10,000 pills of oxycodone. Sam Jones, who plays Clark Kent's best friend on "Smallville, was charged as a co-conspirator in a series of drug deals that purportedly took place in 2008.

Today there was a lawsuit settlement reached between Pfizer and the U.S. Department of Justice in regard to marketing practices that the company used in promoting Bextra. Phizer settlement also includes and agreement with attorneys general in 42 states and the District of Columbia to settle another lawsuit Geodon.

Flexcin International, Inc., a natural supplement company offering the only joint pain remedy products with CM8TM, announces a 32 percent increase in people seeking all-natural arthritis remedy products to avoid expensive prescriptions. Flexcin says 46 million Americans without health insurance are turning to Vitamin Supplements for joint pain treatment.

The manufacturers of generic drugs could be the big winners of the reform of health insurance that the government of the president Obama wants to implement in the coming months the United States.

Many drugs commonly prescribed to older adults for a variety of common medical conditions including allergies, hypertension, asthma, and cardiovascular disease appear to negatively affect the aging brain causing immediate but possibly reversible cognitive impairment, including delirium, in older adults according to a clinical review now available online in the Journal of Clinical Interventions in Aging, a peer reviewed, open access publication.

The vast majority of advanced colon cancer patients in a clinical trial were not concerned about the cost of prescription drugs for managing chemotherapy side effects, such as infection, pain and nausea and few adopted strategies to reduce drug cost burdens after joining the clinical trial, according to a study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

The Telegraph reports that researchers have reviewed studies and found that blood pressure drugs reduced the risk of a heart attack and stroke even in people whose blood pressure was not raised to start with.

It’s easy to find people who think that the cost of prescription drugs is too high. It’s a little harder to find people willing to admit they have trouble paying that cost.

If you want to save on the cost of prescription drugs, save safely.

U.S. joins suits against two companies marketing drug for unapproved use. Pharmaceutical companies allegedly marketed the drug Natrecor for a use not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Clinical pharmacy services can significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs and save money elsewhere in the health care system, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

A major reform of the way that NHS hospitals pay for legal liability insurance has led to improvements in patient safety, according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.