1.   A bus driver in Brooklyn, Edward Nay bought her medication when the government would not.

2.   Advocates for New York senior citizens plan to begin organizing trips to Canada to help Medicare patients buy cheaper medications.

3.   Bulger, who suffers a heart condition and takes Atenolol, has been suspected of slipping into Mexico to buy the medication without a prescription.

4.   But consumer advocates say higher co-pays can discourage patients from buying needed medications.

5.   But Jarvis said that consumers are better off buying over-the-counter medications because they have a proven track record.

6.   If possible, buy medication from the same pharmacy, preferably one where the pharmacist will speak with you and where computerized records are kept of your prescriptions.

7.   In terms of dollars, the deal is insignificant, but it may offer hints of how consumers will buy medication in the future.

8.   Joe Lieberman met today with senior citizens so strapped by the cost of prescription drugs that they boarded buses for Canada to buy their medication.

9.   More and more, elderly citizens living on modest fixed incomes face daily choices between buying prescribed medications or buying food.

10.   No longer does she have to decide whether to purchase expensive frozen dinners for those days she feels too sick to cook, or else buy her medication.