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Food or medications — which would you choose?
May 1, 2023
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It’s heartbreaking, but all too common…
A patient calls their doctor after repeated seizures.
He had missed his medication for about a week. He had recently been laid off and lost insurance coverage.
He couldn’t afford to refill his eslicarbazepine acetate (Aptiom) prescription.
BIG Pharma’s Outsized Profits
October 18, 2021
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Just how profitable is the pharmaceutical industry?
A study indicates that the profits gained by drug developers outpaced those of other publicly-traded companies by a wide margin over an 18-year period.
Merck & Co., long a standard bearer for the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, earned $10 billion in profits last year. Pfizer, its larger peer, booked even more: $16 billion.
Posted in Epilepsy, Medication Issues, News
Tags: BIG Pharma, money, new drugs, price gouging, price of prescription drugs, profitability, profits, unaffordable drugs
Tags: BIG Pharma, money, new drugs, price gouging, price of prescription drugs, profitability, profits, unaffordable drugs
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