Average Medicare Drug Plan to Cost About $1 More in 2011, Says CMS
Aug. 19, 2010 The average monthly premium for a standard Medicare Part D drug plan in 2010 will be about one dollar more than this year, according the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The agency adds, however, that new discounts for brand-name drugs through the Affordable Care Act should make medications more affordable in the future.

New NMA President to Tackle Womens Health, Environmental Illnesses and Economic Relief for Black Physicians
WASHINGTON (NNPA) Leonard Weather Jr., M.D., R.Ph. has been named the 111th president of the D.C.-based National Medical Association, an organization representing more than 30,000 Black physicians around the nation and their patients.