Wal-mart expands low-price drug plan

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's largest retailer, announced Monday it would expand its discounted prescription drug program to offer 90-day supplies for $10 and add several women's medications at a discount.

[Pat]

Its about time U. S. citizens started paying the right price for medications.

[WaitingToDie]

Low price generics do not make sense ... look at Digitek recall. The digitek was made in china!!!!!! People have died from the double dose in the Digitek pills!

[tmptjohn88]

Its about time a company started thinking of the customers and offered medicine at price that a working class family can afford. from now on all of my medicine will have a wal-mart label on it

[Mrright]

Now if they would only do that for name brand drugs!

[Robert Thomas]

Why hasn't Walmart notified it's customers of the Digitek recall? I had this prescription filled once at CVS over a year ago, yet they sent me a notice. I've filled my Digitek many times at Walmart, most recently last month. Perhaps it's time to go to CVS permanetly.

[elphaba_]

Robert Thomas wrote:

Why hasn't Walmart notified it's customers of the Digitek recall? I had this prescription filled once at CVS over a year ago, yet they sent me a notice. I've filled my Digitek many times at Walmart, most recently last month. Perhaps it's time to go to CVS permanetly.

Perhaps Walmart is not getting that medication from the manufacturer that recalled it. Generally there are more than one generic manufacturer.

[J Burke Ohio]

I'm a 39year old male 195lbs.,5'11 and in pretty good shape who took the Drug Digitek, I was on the lowest dosage because I have SVT and A-Fib.While taking the generic form that I got at Wal-Mart which came in a new dosage pack I startded feeling fatigue,nausea,everything i ate I was throwing yup. I would sleep 16-18 hours a day,walking up stairs to my bedroom I had to sit on my bed because my heart was raising from 150-200 beats a minute, my chest was burning, my jaw was burning, and i could not catch my breathe.
I was looking very pale, dark rings around my eyes, then I started gaining weight, well I found that hard to believe since I wasn't able to eat ANYTHING without throwing up.I had my partner check me me who happens to be a Paramedic/RMA.He noiticed that I was retaining ALOT of water, my legs,feet arms and face were twice the size. So I made and aptionment with my family Docotor who con firmed that i had severe edima and I was going into CHF.
He put he on lasik, which gradually removed the water from my body and got my legs,arms,face,and heart to start feeling better. Im just now starting to feel better but I will have to take lasik for the rest of my life. The thing that bothers me the most is the Pharmacy at Wal-Mart
did not tell me of recall, until I took the bad batch for over two months, and it was only when I when i went to pick pick up my refill did they say it had been recalled and that I would have to wait for new shipment before they could fill it, but when i had asked about the side affects or why it had been recalled I was told that they didn't, they just new that dosages were wrong on the dosage packs.
I'm not sure now what the long term side effects from this bad medication will cause but I realy feel somebody dropped the ball on this one, i guess Im on of the lucky ones, I survived.
John Burke
Wickliffe, Ohio

[HumanSpirit]

The evil pharmaceutical industries should be banned in lobbying Codex Alimentarius. There is an attempt to remove and regulate herbal medicine at the cost of the publics right to select medical and health-care and replace it with pharmaceutical products that have a proven record of being dangerous to the public.

[dre]

I bet that 9 out of 10 on this board do not have a clue about
- right of property
- intelectual property rights
and how this relates to generics as well as nations create wealth through innovation.

I do not defend in general what corporate america is doing with its customers but it is not the price of goods/medications that stinks! Rather how patients got mislead by lousy marketing campaigns as well as the relation between so called independent researchers writing about the benefit of certain drugs etc while beeing paid by the drug industry. As an example given fosamax. This is one of the worst drugs on the market and still thousends of rx are written everyday. Luckily there is now the internet and consumers can make their own choices. So go and google the sideeffects ...