Auvelity (for depression): about $1400 a month.

#DrugCost

Breaking #FakeNews: President Trump asks the nation's drug dealers to stop nicely, with a cherry on top.

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Exploring the Cost and Accessibility of Trastuzumab: What Patients Should Know
A Comprehensive Guide for Breast Cancer Patients - Explore the factors influencing trastuzumab's cost, potential financial assistance programs, and strategies to manage expenses.
https://mrmedonlinepharmacy.mystrikingly.com/blog/exploring-the-cost-and-accessibility-of-trastuzumab-what-patients-should-know

#trastuzumab #breastcancer #drugcost #healthcare #financialassistance #treatment #cancerawareness

Exploring the Cost and Accessibility of Trastuzumab: What Patients Should Know

Trastuzumab, a vital medication for breast and gastric cancers. It explores the cost implications, accessibility options, and what patients should be aware of.

Exploring the Cost and Accessibility of Trastuzumab: What Patients Should Know

One viewpoint on why medications are so expensive:

The pharma industry from Paul Janssen to today: why drugs got harder to develop and what we can do about it

“The cost to discover and develop a drug today is orders of magnitude higher than in the 1950s. Despite this, the probability that a drug entering clinical trials will eventually reach the market has hardly improved in the intervening years. If Janssen were born today, there’s little chance he would be able to repeat his success. He would probably not even get the chance to start.”

#healthcare #pharma #drugs #drugcost #pharmaceuticals #prescription
https://atelfo.github.io/2023/12/23/biopharma-from-janssen-to-today.html

The pharma industry from Paul Janssen to today: why drugs got harder to develop and what we can do about it

Personal site for posts about my interests: the biotech industry, medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, biorisk, science, consciousness, AI, innovation, decision making, philosophy, games, sci-fi, probability, and forecasting (among other things). I write to learn, mostly about biotech.

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I’m just so tired of reading articles like this - our government just abdicating its responsibility to look out for the people because something something “freedom” something something “economy.” I don’t see this situation getting much better without a constitutional amendment ending corporate personhood. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/most-prescription-drugs-advertised-on-tv-are-of-low-benefit-study-finds/ #CompaniesArentPeople #DrugCost
70% of drugs advertised on TV are of “low therapeutic value,” study finds

Ads often tout new, pricey drugs that are not much better than old, cheaper ones.

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