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Medicine can be a very expensive part of your health care treatment. If your doctor has prescribed a medicine and you cannot afford to pay for it, you may be able to get the medicine for free or for a reduced cost, as there are several kinds of assistance programs that may be able to help.

LONDON (Reuters) - Shaping the future of personalized medicine is not all about developing expensive new drugs -- it will also mean revisiting older, cheaper medicines armed with new genetic knowledge.

Recent discoveries of genetic clues as to why medicines work better in some patients than others suggests combining new tests with old drugs will be a cost-effective approach -- attractive to governments and insurance companies, experts say.

A step toward letting medical devices communicate.


In a key practical step toward the long-sought goal of linking different hospital devices together to better manage patients and their care, a Boston research group has come up with a software platform for sharing information among gadgets ranging from blood-pressure cuffs to heart-lung machines.

Side effects are a common problem for people who take antidepressants. If you are bothered by side effects, reading this information can help you learn more about how to cope with them.