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Comment · 10 years ago
"several thousand" is "list price" for single shots and no or fake health insurance.
In practice insurance companies negotiate the price down and average patient pays much less than that.
Major drug makers are ready to go the second the patents expire. Prices should drop dramatically for something like Humira (adalimumab) and biosimilars.
Comment · 10 years ago
Anti-TNF biologics are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNF_inhibitor
Comment · 10 years ago
PNAS journal link here : http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/06/30/1605635113.full... : "Vagus nerve stimulation inhibits cytokine production and attenuates disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis".
"In one circuit, termed “the inflammatory reflex,” action potentials transmitted in the vagus nerve inhibit the production of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), an inflammatory molecule that is a major therapeutic target in RA. Although studied in animal models of arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, whether electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve can inhibit TNF production in humans has remained unknown. The positive mechanistic results reported here extend the preclinical data to the clinic and reveal that vagus nerve stimulation inhibits TNF and attenuates disease severity in RA patients."
Comment · 10 years ago
Private, endowment and British funds can make up for the EU.
Getting out from under EU regulations and negotiating as a free agent is a better deal for most Brits.
[ edit: must have touched a nerve. +1 to -4 in an instant. ]
Comment · 10 years ago
The majority of the population has used drugs illegaly.
You're saying "we aren't in control of ourselves" ? Most folks can handle a joint or an oxy or an underage brewski.
Abuse should be treated as a medical problem, not a criminal problem. We need to take the cops and lawyers and the prison industry out of fixing it.
Implementing the drug laws in practice targets the poor and minorities.