1.   The company negotiates lower drug costs with pharmacies for health maintenance organizations, whose stock were generally lower today.

2.   Also contributing to the wider ratio was the higher drug costs, the company said.

3.   As health insurers face soaring drug costs, many are scaling back drug benefits, leaving an increasing number of people to pay their own way.

4.   As prescription drug costs have soared in recent years, the scapegoat search has prominently featured pharmaceutical advertising as a primary culprit.

5.   Aside from higher drug costs, what is driving up prices?

6.   At the same time, health officials say, drug costs must somehow be contained.

7.   AUSTIN, Texas - National debate over rising prescription drugs costs has the potential to become a real dogfight.

8.   At the same time, governors and their Medicaid directors are scrambling to find ways to hold down drug costs in health programs for low-income and disabled people.

9.   Beneficiaries would have to incur several thousand dollars of drug costs before the government provided further protection.

10.   Both proposals reflected growing concern about drug costs.