Ritter signs first bill into law, Making Discounted Rx drugs available (KREX-TV Grand Junction)

After just a month in office, Governor Ritter has signed his First Law. Its designed to offer discounted prescriptions to some Colorado residents...

Ritter signs first bill into law, Making Discounted Rx drugs available (KREX-TV Grand Junction)

After just a month in office, Governor Ritter has signed his First Law. Its designed to offer discounted prescriptions to some Colorado residents... Mesa County Commissioner Janet Rowland is accused of plagiarism by the Grand Junction Free Press.

Ritter signs first bill into law, Making Discounted Rx drugs available (KREX-TV Grand Junction)

After just a month in office, Governor Ritter has signed his First Law. Its designed to offer discounted prescriptions to some Colorado residents... Heavy machinery going in and out of towns near oil and gas drilling sites are causing a lot of damage to roads and bridges.

Tennessee top state for prescription drug use (BizJournals)

A report by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee shows Tennesseeans use more prescriptions than any other state, but are among the worst in the country for health status.

Deadly Prescriptions (RedNova)

By Jonel Allecia, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Feb. 4--Deaths from prescription painkillers have soared in Spokane and across Washington during the past decade, according to new research that warns of danger as close as the bathroom medicine cabinet.

State among costliest for health insurance (BizJournals)

Tennesseans love their prescriptions, making the state among the highest in insurance costs.

Ritter signs first bill into law; discounted Rx drugs available (9 News Denver)

DENVER (AP) - A bill offering discounted prescriptions to some Colorado residents is now law after Governor Bill Ritter signed his first measure almost a month after taking office.

2 new studies back vitamin D for cancer prevention (EurekAlert!)

Two new vitamin D studies using a sophisticated form of analysis called meta-analysis, in which data from multiple reports is combined, have revealed new prescriptions for possibly preventing up to half of the cases of breast cancer and two-thirds of the cases of colorectal cancer in the United States.

Tennesseans lead nation in prescriptions (Fairview Observer)

It takes 15 prescriptions and an oxygen tank to get Amy Wilson through the week. There are pills for her diabetes, pills for her high blood pressure and pills to control the autoimmune disease, polymyositis, that is attacking and weakening her muscles and lungs.

Tennesseans lead nation in prescriptions (Tennessean)

It takes 15 prescriptions and an oxygen tank to get Amy Wilson through the week.