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Mon 06 Jun 2009Prescription drugs a bitter pill
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AN ITEM we recently carried about prescription medications generated considerable feedback from readers, some of whom were pharmacists. A reader expressed dismay after discovering that drugs for osteoporosis which cost his mother-in-law €55.75 in Ireland could bought for a fraction of that price in Holland. The tablets were exactly the same except the Dutch ones were a generic equivalent to the branded product, Fosamax, he was familiar with in Ireland.
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