| Surf The Web And Save On Prescriptions
(AP) KEY LARGO, Fla. It's not often you save several hundred dollars on medicine by surfing the Web, but David Melvin did, CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports. "Tremendous savings," he says. Melvin was on the Consumer Reports' Best Buy Drugs site and saw that his cholesterol medicine, Pravachol, was three times more expensive than a plain generic, Lovastatin, a drug the Web site was calling its "best buy." "When I saw the difference in pricing and what I could save, an "oh my God' is right," Melvin says. He also saw that Nexium, the hugely popular prescription drug he was taking for acid reflux, was not the best buy it was Prilosec OTC, sold over the counter. His doctor agreed to the changes, and when Melvin added his savings last year, it was more than $600 on two drugs. "I can have the same kind of effectiveness for a heck of a lot less money," Melvin says.
The ordeal of chemo
Megan Schanie curled in a fetal position on her hospital bed, feeling faint and queasy even as anti-nausea medication dripped into her body. Her husband, Cameron, who would sit beside her for six hours of chemotherapy for her breast cancer, switched off the light to help her sleep as the soft rhythm of an intravenous pump filled the room. He held a cup of Coke to her lips, letting her take sips. .
Can't sleep? Try some lifestyle changes, doctor says
BIRMINGHAM -- Pearson Sadler can pinpoint to the day the last time he got a good night's sleep: March 15, 1996. Insomnia has tortured Sadler for more than a decade and he has tried various remedies to put the problem to rest. He now manages his sleep through prescription sleep medications for chronic insomnia. Still, he has frequent trouble getting what he considers a restful sleep, he said. "I didn't have problems getting to sleep, but I would wake up 45 minutes to an hour later and think it was time for work," he said. "Then I'd look at the clock and realize it was the middle of the night and I couldn't get back to sleep." Nearly everyone has occasional sleepless nights, perhaps because of stress, heartburn or too much caffeine or alcohol.
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