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Access the trusted Consumer Reports website for free, to see ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice.

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs provides consumers and doctors with information to help them make more cost-effective prescription drug choices. This website provides information that will help you open a conversation with your doctor about prescription medicines-and particularly about which medicines will best meet you medical needs and give you the most value for your health care dollar

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Use the Drug and Herb Finder to find information about a specific drug or herb

MEDLINEplus Drug Information
Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided

New Medicines in Development
Search for dozens of new medicines and therapies that added to the medical arsenal in the fight against disease. From the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)

PDRHealth - Drug Information
gives plain-English explanations for the safe and effective use of prescription and nonprescription drugs


Clinical Trials

CenterWatch
Clinical Trials Listing Service. CenterWatch is a 
company dedicated to providing patients and their advocates with a variety of information services about clinical research
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. A service of the National Institutes of Health
Clinical Trials
From MEDLINEplus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Understanding Clinical Trials
From ClinicalTrials.gov

Prescription Drug Assistance Programs

BenefitsCheckUp
BenefitsCheckUp helps thousands every day to find programs for people ages 55 and over that may pay for some of their costs of prescription drugs, health care, utilities, and other essential items or services

Florida Discount Drug Card Program
The Florida Discount Drug Card is designed to lower the cost of prescriptions for Florida residents who are:

  • Age 60 and older and without prescription drug coverage or who fall into the Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage gap; OR

  • Under age 60, without prescription drug coverage, and with an annual family income of less than 300% of the Federal Poverty Level.

Florida's Prescription Drug Prices
From Florida's Attorney General and the Agency for Health Care Administration to help consumers shop for the lowest price in their area for their prescription drugs.
The website provides pricing information for the 50 most commonly used prescription drugs in Florida. This is the price that an uninsured consumer, with no discount or supplemental plan, would normally pay. Prices at your local pharmacy may change daily, so this website is only meant to help you compare prices at different pharmacies and are not a guaranteed price

Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder
Learn about the new Medicare prescription drug coverage, find and compare prescription drug plans that meet your personal needs, enroll in the prescription drug plan that you select.

NeedyMeds.com
NeedyMeds is the place to learn about patient assistance programs and other programs designed to help those who can't afford their medicines

Palm Beach County Prescription Drug Cards
FREE to County Residents
With the Palm Beach County/National Association of Counties (NACo) Prescription Discount Card provided to you in a joint effort with Caremark, you can save money on many of your prescription purchases.
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Patient Advocate Foundation Co-Pay Relief
The Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) Co-Pay Relief Program (CPR) currently provides direct financial support to insured patients, including Medicare Part D beneficiaries, who must financially and medically qualify to access pharmaceutical co-payment assistance. The program offers personal service to all patients through the use of call counselors; personally guiding patients through the enrollment process.

Partnership for Prescription Assistance
Interactive Web site that provides a comprehensive one-stop link to thousands of medicines offered through hundreds of patient assistance programs sponsored by member companies, non-member companies and government and local organizations

RxAssist
RxAssist offers a comprehensive database of these patient assistance programs, as well as practical tools, news, and articles so that health care professionals and patients can find the information they need. All in one place.

RxHope
RxHope is exactly what its name implies...a helping hand to people in need in obtaining critical medications that they would normally have trouble affording. We act as your advocate in making the patient assistance program journey easier and faster by supplying vital information and help.


Using Medications Safely

What You Need to Know to Use Medicine Safely
From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

OTC Medicines and How They Work
From FamilyDoctor.org, the website sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians
Drug Interactions
When you open this link, click on "check interactions" at the top of the page. C
onsumer health and drug information site dedicated to empowering consumers to make informed choices about drugs and treatment options. From DrugDigest.
 

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