Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Reducing Medications



The advice is; tell patients to discontinue all home medications when admitted except there are any compelling reasons why they should be continued while in the hospital. When they patients are discharged too, they should not continue any home medications unless there's an important reason to do so. Stats by the Institute of Medicine show that the rate of medication errors in hospitals is one error per patient each day. Another factor that makes hospital care dangerous is the complexity.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/maximmaider/reducing-medications-3be9o

Some cool cash can be saved by ordering for your medications online or by placing a mailing order. The question however is that, how authentic is the seller and how original are the drugs being sold?
Take a quick look at the steps below to identify a beneficial transaction:
1.      The organization should be licensed and must be a native of the United States: the product seller must be in the United States and must be a verified seller of the state it is located. The NABP website will readily outline this for you. Should the company site not be listed proceed with intense caution.
2.      Be sure that there is a pharmacist present in the online drug store: the online pharmacy should have an attendant that will readily answer your questions on a phone or by email. Always call or get in touch with the pharmacist when you have a question.
http://groupspaces.com/MailOrderMedicine/

To add to the danger that comes with shopping online for drugs there are laws that actually bind against shopping medications online outside the United States of America. It is against the law to:
·        Purchase controlled medications without a written prescription given by a medical doctor that knows your medical history and have previously have you assessed. Medications like sleeping pills, stimulants and narcotic painkillers are all illegal to purchase online from stores outside the U.S.
·        Purchase medications that do not have the approval of the Food and drug administration (FDA) while you are on the United States soil, no matter how legal it is in the purchasing country.
https://www.postpoems.org/authors/artic1904/prose/1064372

The senolytics particularly reference the process of aging, a process called cell senescence is an example. It is a normal process for a cell to completely die (Apoptosis). When a cell becomes living dead it is called senescence. When this process takes place it renders the cell un-useful because the cell can no longer divide or carry out a meaningful action however, this type of cell remains in the body and begin to cause damage to the nearby cells. The etiology of such occurrence in the body is largely unknown. Nonetheless there are believes that senescence is a form of defense mechanism that stops cells from becoming a tumor by restricting development and make sure a cell does not become cancerous.
http://www.medicalmingle.com/doctor1970/blog/2018/05/30/the_first_drugs_designed_to_fight_aging_are_ready_for_human_testing


What is PrEP?

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) is when people at very high risk for HIV take HIV medicines daily to lower their chances of getting infected. A combination of two HIV medicines (tenofovir and emtricitabine), sold under the name Truvada® (pronounced tru vĂ¡ duh), is approved for daily use as PrEP to help prevent an HIV-negative person from getting HIV from a sexual or injection-drug-using partner who’s positive. FDA has approved Truvada® for PrEP for HIV-negative adults and adolescents weighing at least 35 kg (approximately 77 lbs.) Studies have shown that PrEP is highly effective for preventing HIV if it is used as prescribed. PrEP is much less effective when it is not taken consistently.

https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/hiv-prevention/using-hiv-medication-to-reduce-risk/pre-exposure-prophylaxis


Tuesday, May 15, 2018

New Data Show That Cancer Drugs Cost Less to Make Than Big Pharma Has Claimed



As the data reported, the mean cost of production of a cancer medicine is around $720 million. The mean money generated from sales is around $2.7 billion. In a year the sum of generated money on the first five medications present on the list such as prostate, leukemia, lymphoma and colorectal cancers is enough to cater for the sum of money used on research and development.
The well-known fact that was believed beforehand was that $2.6 billion and another ten years added is what it takes to create and land a new product into the market. The above estimate was a released study from 2017 from Tufts center for study of drug and development with a great record of testing above 100 drugs that includes some cancer medicines. This report was able to aggregate time and money spent on animal trials and clinical trials. Although, the study was lacking in specifics of the drugs that was used to get their data and the distribution rate on all types of drugs used. A newly released research work was more concise and precise in that details of the ten drugs used was clearly emphasized.

https://www.bloglovin.com/@teddyredwings/new-data-show-that-cancer-drugs-cost-less

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Fee-for-value in the pharmaceutical industry: a policy framework applying data science to negotiate drug prices

In 2013, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company, received the intellectual property rights to a lead poisoning treatment known as Calcium EDTA as part of a $2.6 billion deal to acquire Medicis Pharmaceuticals. Prior to the acquisition, the price for Calcium EDTA was stable at $950. However, by the end of 2014, Valeant had increased the price of the drug in the USA to $26,927, a 2700 per cent increase in 1 year.1 Meanwhile, 500 miles away, over 8000 children in Flint, Michigan, were suffering from one of the worst lead poisoning crises in history, caused by the city's decision to opt out of receiving water from Detroit and instead draw it directly from the Flint River in April 2014 in an effort to save money.2 At the same time, Mylan, a global pharmaceutical company, increased the price of the EpiPen, an emergency epinephrine autoinjector to treat anaphylaxis, from $100 for a two-pack in 2007 to over $600, or six times the original price, by 2016.3 The EpiPen isn’t subject to price sensitivity; like insulin for patients with diabetes, it's a life or death drug. Patients simply don’t have the choice to go without it.
Pharmaceutical price gouging isn’t limited to a few drugs or corporations. From 2009 to 2015, 30 medicines with sales of $1 billion or more per year underwent price increases of over double the rate of inflation as measured by the consumer price index, even when estimated discounts negotiated by health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers were taken into account.4 The average annual increase in retail prices for prescription drugs was 9.4 per cent, six times the general inflation rate of 1.5 per cent. For brand name drugs, it was 12.9 per cent, over eight times the rate of inflation.5 The United States pays more for drugs than any other country, leaving economists and ethicists worried that 300 million Americans are subsidizing drugs for the rest of the world.6

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570706/

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