Blog News

Below is a listing of post releases in chronological order from PharmacyCheckerBlog.com, with the most recent at the top.

• March 12, 2021 Goodbye PharmacyCheckerBlog: Hello PolicyPrescription.com
• March 5, 2021 State Drug Importation Program Relabeling Requirement Says It All
• February 25, 2021 Sen. Richard Burr’s Love Affair with Big Pharma: The Ghost of Billy Tauzin
• February 17, 2021 New Op-Ed in The Hill Advocates Drug Importation and Most Favored Nation Policies
• February 12, 2021 State Drug Importation Bills Just Got More Personal in California
• February 5, 2021 Top 60 U.S. Brand Name Drug Prices are 75% Lower Internationally, According to Rand Corporation Study
• January 27, 2021 Colorado RFP on Drug Importation Accounts for Canada’s Order Protecting Against Shortages
• January 21, 2021 Drug Importation Under Biden?
• January 14, 2021 Twitter’s Trump Ban and Big Pharma’s Online Censorship
• January 7, 2021 Drug Prices Are Up Again in 2021 and Canada’s PMPRB is On My Mind
• December 30, 2020 Good Judgement; Bad Judgment on Personal Drug Imports
• December 23, 2020 Wishing You More Affordable Medicine This Christmas
• December 18, 2020 PhRMA’s Lawsuit Against Section 804 Ignores Statute’s Permissive Position on Personal Importation
• December 10, 2020 Human Rights Day: Safe and Affordable Imported Medicine and the Internet
• December 2, 2020 Canada’s Order Against U.S. Drug Imports to Prevent Shortages Directed at Wholesale Not Patient Purchases
• November 25, 2020 Millions of Americans Who Struggle with Drug Costs Are Also Hungry: Help Them This Thanksgiving
• November 19, 2020 Amazon’s Pharmacy Doesn’t Break Big Pharma’s Hold of America’s Neck
• November 12, 2020 New Section 804 Drug Import Rule Does Not Allow Foreign Versions of FDA-Approved Drugs
• November 6, 2020 It Takes a (Global) Village to Manufacture Merck’s Proventil Inhaler
• October 29, 2020 My Quick and Dirty Take on Trump’s Drug Price Efforts
• October 21, 2020 Rep. Schakowsky (D-IL) Gets an A+ on Drug Prices in Congressional Report Card
• October 15, 2020 Trump administration surrogate says you can buy cheaper meds from Canada
• October 9, 2020 HHS Insulin Import RFP Misinterprets the Law: Reimportation vs Importation
• October 2, 2020 FDA opens door to expressly permit personal drug importation, and yet…
• September 25, 2020 Hoping Trump’s Florida Drug Importation Politics Helps Patients Under Biden
• September 18, 2020 Explaining Rep. Pelosi’s F Grade on Drug Prices
• September 10, 2020 Valisure Supports Drug Importation
• September 4, 2020 Prescription Drug Importation is ‘Most Favored Nation’…
• August 28, 2020 Fighting Big Pharma: Business Leaders, Social Justice Organizations, Public Health Experts & Internet Freedom Activists Have PharmacyChecker’s Back
• August 20, 2020 PharmacyChecker Helps Americans Save 99% on Medications… Domestically
• August 13, 2020 Americans Should Get Waivers to Import Medication From Canada
• August 7, 2020 Congress, Not Pharma Execs, Are Accountable to Voters on Drug Prices
• July 28, 2020 How Trump’s Canadian Drug Importation Executive Order Changes Things
• July 25, 2020 Understand Executive Authority on Allowing Safe Personal Drug Importation
• July 23, 2020 NH Hops on the Wholesale Drug Importation Bandwagon. The Wait Continues.
• July 17, 2020 Hispanics Are More Likely to Use Importation to Find Affordable Prescription Drugs
• July 10, 2020 A Step-by-Step Look at Fake Counterfeit Drug Stats
• July 2, 2020 How JAMA & Kaiser Family Foundation Studies Have Concluded Millions of U.S. Adults Import Medications
• June 26, 2020 Transatlantic Drug Regulatory Cooperation: Moving Beyond Canada
• June 19, 2020 WHO’s public health efforts go beyond pandemics
• June 12, 2020 WHO Needs to Study Online Pharmacy Drug Safety
• June 4, 2020 NABP and Opioid Death in the U.S.
• May 29, 2020 Potential Importance of Personal Importation Will Rise as Tens of Millions Lose Health Insurance
• May 22, 2020 Even Drugs Manufactured in America are not “Made in the USA”
• May 13, 2020 Ending Big Pharma’s Co-pay Cards as Deductibles Hurts Consumers
• May 8, 2020 Gilead says remdesivir is not sold online and they are correct
• May 1, 2020 Trump’s Pakistani Imported Chloroquine Phosphate: FDA Inspections vs. EU Testing to Ensure Drug Safety
• April 23, 2020 Counterfeit Chloroquine Doesn’t Treat Covid-19; Does Genuine Chloroquine?
• April 17, 2020 FDA Seizures of Mail-order Prescriptions Increase in the Time of Coronavirus
• April 8, 2020 Canada’s Message to the U.S. on Drug Importation: We care more about our citizens than you.
• April 3, 2020 PharmacyChecker Online Pharmacy Authentication Role Recognized in OECD/EU Report on Counterfeit Drugs
• March 27, 2020 EpiPen Malfunctions and High Prices are an American-made Problem
• March 20, 2020 Former FDA Commissioner Gottlieb says ‘Canadians have safe drugs’
• March 11, 2020 Comments on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking titled “Importation of Prescription Drugs, FDA-2019-N-5711, 84 Fed. Reg. 70796”
• March 6, 2020 Politifact Says Drug Prices are Four Times Higher in the U.S. Than Other Countries: Mostly True.
• February 28, 2020 What is a “legitimate” drug or online pharmacy?
• February 21, 2020 The Drug Reimportation Law Curtails Wholesale Not Personal Importation: Who Knew?
• February 14, 2020 When FDA-Approved Generics Fail: Brand Wellbutrin XL Antidepressant is Cheaper from Canada
• February 7, 2020 U.S. Pharmacy Chains Harm Patients With Medication Errors; NABP Appears Silent
• January 30, 2020 Shkreli is sued for monopolizing Daraprim. But what ever happened to Azar’s single source drug import plan?