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Rising drug prices drawing scrutiny.

Publication: Drug Store News
Publication Date: 19-JUL-04 		Format: Online - approximately 678 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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WASHINGTON -- A new report from AARP and growing public scrutiny over the high cost of new drugs is putting increased pressure on the pharmaceutical industry. The outcry over drug price inflation also is swelling the chorus of calls in Congress and from state lawmakers for some form of legalized drug importation.

In its most recent survey of prescription drug prices in the United States, AARP found that manufacturers wholesale prices for the 197 brand name prescription drugs most frequently used by older Americans continued a rapid upward climb in the first quarter of this year. Prices rose 3.4 percent...

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