Question-of-the-day: "Can I have my salad with Italian dressing if I am taking an antibiotic?" This stumped me so I asked why she was asking me that particular question. She said that her drug info said to "avoid grapefruit". I am still puzzled. :-/.

Rising Drug Costs

Link to an article snatched from the NYT about rising drug costs. My instinctive reaction is that Big Pharma wants to establish higher costs, so that when their payments are reduced by any newly changed healthcare policies, they will have the same revenues as before. Remember how some banks increased some credit card fees and rates before some new regulations took effect? Same thing. Brace yourself for higher drug costs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/16drugprices.html?partner=rss&emc=rss