Sentence examples for drug purchasing from inspiring English sources

The bill would have allowed the county's Office for the Aging to create pools of elderly citizens to obtain discounted coverage and let them piggyback on the drug purchasing plan available to county employees.

When Novartis told 30 patients in New Zealand a year ago that their free Glivec supplies were about to end, Wayne McNee, the head of Pharmac, the country's drug purchasing agency, issued a press release branding the move "a marketing exercise to increase pressure on getting Pharmac to fund the drug".

In August 1998, they revealed evidence of a nationwide drug purchasing scandal that resulted in the resignation of the health minister and one deputy health minister.

However, the partnership behind the child-friendly drug has pooled funding with Unitaid, an international drug purchasing facility overseen by the WHO, to get the product to market.

Those awarded contracts to advise doctors' groups will be involved in patient care reforms, drug purchasing, negotiating hospital contracts and, crucially, outsourcing services to the private sector.

As head of drug purchasing for the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in Oakland, Calif., one of the country's largest health maintenance organizations, Dale Kramer was counting on a Hytrin generic.

Brand name drugs purchased in Canada can, in fact, be cheaper than the same drug purchased in the U.S. (oddly, generic drugs are generally cheaper in the U.S. -- go figure).

They may use the money for any drugs purchased with their discount cards.

Most of the seizures were drugs purchased by Americans from Web sites operating in foreign countries.

The drugs purchased or "re-imported" would be those manufactured in the United States and sold in Canada.

AIDS drugs purchased by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief were among the medicines implicated, the Justice Department charged.