STANFORD, Calif. - Squeezed by the rising cost of prescription drugs, health plans and other health-care organizations are pursuing cost-saving strategies such as encouraging the use of generics, ...

Which pill splitter is best? You probably needed to cut your pills into halves or quarters at some point in your life. And if you tried to cut the pills with traditional cutting tools like knives or ...

A Stanford University Medical Center researcher said pill-splitting saves money and is likely to be safe and effective with appropriate screening … even though he didn’t specifically study the safety ...

LOS ANGELES You can often save a bundle by buying the larger milligram dose and splitting the pills, but splitting some /*prescriptions*/ is just bad medicine. If you take medications on a regular ...

We spend more than $277 billion a year on prescription drugs. And prescription drugs often cost the same whether they're an 80-milligram dose, a 40-milligram dose, or even 20 milligrams. That's why ...