#Medical Prescriptions

[amedcommunitypharmacy]

For many people, renewing prescriptions is more than simply a usual task—for those whose lives move quickly, having a trustworthy pharmacy is crucial. At our pharmacy in Westminster, Maryland, we understand the urgency and importance of timely prescription renewals.

[reasonsforhope]

"The Biden Administration last week [early December, 2023] announced it would be seizing patents for drugs and drug manufacturing procedures developed using government money.

A draft of the new law, seen by Reuters, said that the government will consider various factors including whether a medical situation is leading to increased prices of the drug at any given time, or whether only a small section of Americans can afford it.

The new executive order is the first exercise in what is called “march-in-rights” which allows relevant government agencies to redistribute patents if they were generated under government funding. The NIH has long maintained march-in-rights, but previous directors have been unwilling to use them, fearing consequences.

“We’ll make it clear that when drug companies won��t sell taxpayer funded drugs at reasonable prices, we will be prepared to allow other companies to provide those drugs for less,” White House adviser Lael Brainard said on a press call.

But just how much taxpayer money is going toward funding drugs? A research paper from the Insitute for New Economic Thought showed that “NIH funding contributed to research associated with every new drug approved from 2010-2019, totaling $230 billion.”

The authors of the paper continue, writing “NIH funding also produced 22 thousand patents, which provided marketing exclusivity for 27 (8.6%) of the drugs approved [between] 2010-2019.”

How we do drug discovery and production in America has a number of fundamental flaws that have created problems in the health service industry.

It costs billions of dollars and sometimes as many as 5 to 10 years to bring a drug to market in the US, which means that only companies with massive financial muscle can do so with any regularity, and that smaller, more innovative companies can’t compete with these pharma giants.

This also means that if a company can’t recoup that loss, a single failed drug can result in massive disruptions to business. To protect themselves, pharmaceutical companies establish piles of patents on drugs and drug manufacturing procedures. Especially if the drug in question treats a rare or obscure disease, these patents essentially ensure the company has monoselective pricing regimes.

However, if a company can convince the NIH that a particular drug should be considered a public health priority, they can be almost entirely funded by the government, as the research paper showed.

Some market participants, in this case the famous billionaire investor Mark Cuban, have attempted to remedy the issue of drug costs in America by manufacturing generic versions of patented drugs sold for common diseases."

-via Good News Network, December 11, 2023

[unitepharmacy]

Medications are among the healthcare products that patients depend on. Since meds have been specially formulated for health improvement, they are beneficial for symptom management. Most medical conditions have specific medications that can help alleviate them. This is why patients are prescribed medications by their doctors. 

[jay-wasstuff]

Mike: is struggling financially and mentally

Vanessa: *throws his prescription medicine*

Edit: it's not just about whether Mike needed the drugs (which he didn't, i understand), it's about the fact SHE LITTERED and most likely polluted the river too.

[consolecadet]

Here’s something I finished in my stained glass class last night

[reality-detective]

Millions of children have been prescribed an asthma drug that causes suicidal thoughts, hallucinations, and other devastating psychiatric conditions.

Montelukast, marketed as Singulair, directly targets cells in the brain responsible for mood regulation, decision-making, impulse control, attention, and sleep—wreaking havoc on young minds.

The most enraging part? This has been known since 2008, yet nothing was done to protect children.

This video from 2008 reveals the FDA did nothing for 16 years. 🤔

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[lastknownstatus-alive]

sustenance

[maria-ruta]

I'm having a bad mood today

Would you draw my blorbo for me please?

[rubbercasing]

the medical field will always be an institution of violence as long as your doctor is able to cancel your prescription unilaterally and as long as pharmacists can refuse to fill it unilaterally.

[maxpawb]

Lifelong companions

[prince-liest]

I have officially seen my own patients for the first time! :D

I saw inpatient patients and street medicine patients yesterday, and today I got to see my own clinic patients! It feels like a milestone because the clinic patients in particular are the ones who are now establishing with me as their primary care doctor.

Anyway, that's the last day of residency orientation done with! This weekend is my last weekend as a free person and starting on Monday I'll be doing EM-peds for four weeks. We did a cute little last-day team bonding thing this afternoon and got to make our own succulent gardens, which was incredibly up my alley:

This has prompted me to finally look into proper succulent care, set up my remaining grow lights on a bookshelf, and repot my poor long-suffering jade plant to life alongside this little plant garden. And now I have a suitable place for, uh. Any more succulents I impulse purchase. :'D

[unitepharmacy]

Pharmacists: Vital Educators in Patient Care

Pharmacists do much more than just fill prescriptions. They are a vital link in the healthcare chain, especially when it comes to patient education and managing medical supply in Highland Park, New Jersey. As a patient, you might have a lot of questions about your medications – from dosage and side effects to interactions and storage – and your pharmacist is there to provide answers.

[tj-crochets]

So it turns out there's a big craft guild organization thing only a few hours from where I live (I saw an ad for their craft fair), and I got like half my holiday shopping done on their website, and the box arrived today! The thing I was most excited to see in person is fragile, though, and it's really well wrapped in bubble wrap and I don't want it to break when I mail it to the friend it's for, so I am not unwrapping it, but oh man the temptation is there lol I also got myself a little metal bug made of a bottle cap and some wire. It lives on my little corkboard where I put postcards and thank you cards now

[maculategiraffe]

I liked the new doctor okay on our first and so far only meeting but now that she's failed to respond in any way to my refill request for three business days and I'm out of meds I am liking her less

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