Canada Drugs Online Announces Free Coupons on Senior’s Prescriptions
Canada Drugs Online, a licensed Canadian online pharmacy, is helping support seniors this month by launching two new pharmacy coupons. According to a new survey, seniors often take 10-19 pills per day, or 5 or more different medications. Staying on top of these many drugs must be difficult, especially for someone who is already ill. Not only is medicinal management an organizational issue for people 50 and older, it is a financial one. Canada Drugs Online has responded to this need by partnering with a top online pharmacy coupon site, OnlinePharmacyCoupons.com. Together, they are proudly offering $5.00 off for orders over $50.00 and $10.00 off for orders over $100.00.

As many seniors are on a fixed income, cost of multiple medications is the number one concern for 40% of surveyed seniors. Medicare may cover some of the medications, but often not all of patients' multiple medications are covered. An AARP report issued in 2010 states that prices of popular brand name medications has risen 41.5% since 2005. Due to these factors, seniors are having to make more creative decisions in order to afford all of their important medications. Many are choosing to buy generic alternatives instead of brand name medications, or choosing to buy mail order from an online pharmacy. By choosing a generic alternative, seniors have reported saving up to $1000 or more in a year on their medications.

Some tips for saving on prescription medications include:

• Shop online. Canadian online pharmacies offer both brand name and generic medications for drastically lower prices than their American competitors. The Canadian government regulates prescription pricing, allowing American customers to benefit as well.
• Choose generic. Generic prescriptions are medically the same as more expensive brand name medications, but produced with lower overhead costs. Patients can buy Lipitor 20mg, or choose its generic, Atorvastatin 20mg, and save $40-90.
• Use coupons. Coupons are useful anywhere, but when buying prescription medications, they are a necessity. OnlinePharmacyCoupons.com is a useful site that offers prescription drugs coupons from multiple leading Canadian online pharmacies.

That's where Canada Drugs Online comes in. With their new coupons, CDO is encouraging seniors to buy all of their medications in one place. Seniors can buy Plavix or its generic alternative, or any of their other prescribed medications, all with a five or ten dollar off coupon from Canada Drugs Online. CDO also offers common prescription medications such as generic Nexium and Plavix.

CanadaDrugsOnline.com is a licensed Canadian pharmacy specializing in generic alternatives to pricey brand name medications. They opened their online division in 2004, and have since filled over 600,000 generic prescriptions. CanadaDrugsOnline.com allows patients freedom of choice with their prescriptions. CanadaDrugsOnline.com is proudly verified by PharmacyChecker.com and is a Certified Canadian International Pharmacy (CIPA).

Big Mountain Drugs Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness with Prescription Coupons
Big Mountain Drugs is excited to announce their partnership with a leading coupon site, OnlinePharmacyCoupons.com. Together, they are promoting breast cancer awareness by offering two new coupons, one to buy Arimidex and one to buy Femara, two of the online pharmacy's most popular hormone therapies. Online customers can save up to $20.00 on their purchase. The coupons, for a $10.00 discount on Arimidex and a $20.00 discount on Femara, can be found at OnlineOharmacyCoupons.com. Big Mountain Drugs customer service representatives are excited about the new promotion. "We love saving our customers money," says a call centre supervisor, "especially when they are already having to go through surgery and hormone therapy…let's make it just a little bit easier on them."

Big Mountain Drugs chose to offer both coupons in order to cater to their wide variety of customers. Every breast cancer survivor has different needs, and Big Mountain Drugs wanted to be sure that they were offering the discounted breast cancer treatments to everyone who needed hormone therapy. For more information on which type of hormone therapy for breast cancer may be right for you, visit breastcancercare.us, a site exclusively devoted to articles related to breast cancer therapies, treatments, and innovations.

Arimidex and Femara are two of Big Mountain Drugs' most popular hormone therapies. Arimidex is used in both adjuvant therapy (post-surgery) and for metastatic breast cancer. Arimidex, an aromatase inhibitor, works by lowering estrogen levels to help shrink tumors and slow their growth. Femara, like Arimidex, is designed to suppress estradiol production. However, it is the only hormone therapy that has been approved for three different uses- adjuvant therapy, extended adjuvant therapy and advanced breast cancer. Both Femara and Arimidex have been proven to significantly reduce the risk of cancer recurrence or spreading.

Big Mountain Drugs, an online pharmacy based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, offers certified Canadian pharmacy care at lowered prices. Their mission is to provide safe and reliable medications to their customers. Big Mountain Drugs offers well-known brand-name and generic medications such as generic Advair, domperidone, Lipitor and Viagra. Big Mountain Drugs specializes in speedy, secure prescription deliveries right to you. They accept prescription and over the counter orders through fax, online orders, and over the phone. The Canadian online pharmacy is proud to offer their telephone service in multiple languages. Big Mountain Drugs is certified by PharmacyChecker.com, and is a member of the Canadian International Pharmacy Association (CIPA).

Biochemical Approach to Treating Diabetes May Replace Diabetes Drugs

Biologists experimenting with mice have uncovered a possible new biological approach to treating obesity and type 2 diabetes. Their work also raises some interesting questions about the role disturbances in the human sleep cycle plays in the rise of diabetes in the US and other industrialized countries.

The biologists discovered that a protein called cryptochrome which regulates the biological clocks of both plants and mammals also regulates the liver's production of glucose. The researchers had been aware of the protein's role in regulating biological clocks, but its importance in regulating the hormone that regulates glucose production in the liver came as a shock to them. "What was incredibly surprising is that cryptochrome has a new function that nobody had predicted," said researcher Eric Zhang from the University of California, San Diego.

The surprise function that cryptochrome performs is regulating a process called gluconeogenesis which provides our brain and other organs with a steady supply of glucose while we're asleep or fasting. "We used to think that our metabolism was regulated primarily by hormones that are released from the pancreas during fasting or feeding. This work shows that the biological clock determines how well these hormones work to regulate metabolism," explains professor Marc Montminy from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, "The study may explain why shift workers, whose biological clocks are often out of kilter, also have a greater risk of developing obesity and insulin resistance."

Mice that don't have good biological clocks tend to develop diabetes and obesity. The researchers discovered that altering the level of the protein cryptochrome in diabetic mice improved their health. They are now wondering if some cases of diabetes could be the result of a faulty circadian clock (the body's 24-hour cycles), and if finding ways of fixing the faulty biological cycle could lead to a "whole new way of thinking" in treatments for diabetes.

Almost 24 million American adults and children (about eight percent of population) have diabetes. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the US, down from the fifth leading cause in 2007. Type 2 diabetes (also known as non-insulin dependent diabetes) is the most common form of the disease. Ninety to ninety-five percent of diabetics have type 2 diabetes. The other 5 to 10 percent have Type 1, or insulin-dependent, diabetes, and require daily insulin injections.

In type 2 diabetes either the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body's cells ignore the insulin that is produced. The result is high blood glucose levels, which increases the risk of heart disease, blindness, circulation problems and nerve and kidney damage. Type 2 diabetes is treated first with diet, exercise and, if necessary, weight loss. If these measures fail to control the blood sugar levels, oral diabetes medication is prescribed.