Stop the Epipen Price Gouging
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Mar 3rd, 2017Derek G. from Parsippany, NJ signed.
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Mar 2nd, 2017Janice H. from Evansville, IN writes:
This is just wrong. We have the medicine to save our children, but because of greed we can't afford it. Our children are all very precious to us. Please save their lives!Mar 2nd, 2017Someone from Laguna Niguel, CA signed.
Mar 2nd, 2017Michelle A. from Lewiston, ME signed.
Mar 2nd, 2017Someone from New Canaan, CT writes:
Pricing life-saving medication at exorbitant rates is completely immoral. Medicine is meant to heal, not line pockets. Epipens should be affordable for all.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 2nd, 2017sandy v. from Fort Worth, TX writes:
My grandsons both have life saving Epipens. The cost should always be at a reasonable & affortable rate.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 2nd, 2017Laura P. from Troy, NY writes:
My sweet dear four year old needs epi pens for his life threatening food allergies. The cost of this life saving drug needs to be investigated.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 2nd, 2017Laura P. from Troy, NY writes:
My sweet dear four year old needs epi pens for his life threatening food allergies. The cost of this life saving drug needs to be investigated.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 2nd, 2017Heather H. from Menifee, CA signed.
Mar 2nd, 2017RuthAnna S. from Midland, TX writes:
Completely Wrong! The Epipen cost for our daughter was over $500. That is not right. They expire after a year!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 1st, 2017Someone from Whiteland, IN writes:
Stop allowing this to happen. People. Are. DYING!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 1st, 2017Someone from Yucaipa, CA writes:
Stop exorbitant profiteering that put lives in danger!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 20th, 2017Someone from Edison, NJ signed.
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Feb 14th, 2017Andrew W. from Huntersville, NC writes:
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/boom-thousands-of-medical-studies-found-to-be-useless/ Bookmark the permalink. Boom: thousands of medical studies found to be useless Feb 14 by Jon Rappoport Boom: thousands of medical studies found to be useless Memo to ?medical bloggers? living in mommy?s basement by Jon Rappoport February 14, 2017 I?m talking about little defenders of consensus science, bloggers who love and adore every official pronouncement that comes down the pipeline from medical journals and illustrious doctors. Dear Bloggers: Thousands of published studies you cite and praise are wrong, useless, irrelevant, deceptive?and the medical journals know it, and they?re doing nothing useful about it. The issue? Cell lines. These cells are crucial for lab research on the toxicity of medical drugs, and the production of proteins. Knowing exactly which cell lines are being studied is absolutely necessary. And therein lies the gigantic problem. Statnews.com has the bombshell story (July 21, 2016): ?Recent estimates suggest that between 20 percent and 36 percent of cell lines scientists use are contaminated or misidentified ? passing off as human tissue cells that in fact come from pigs, rats, or mice, or in which the desired human cell is tainted with unknown others. But despite knowing about the issue for at least 35 years, the vast majority of journals have yet to put any kind of disclaimer on the thousands of studies affected.? ?One cell line involved are the so-called HeLa cells. These cancerous cervical cells ? named for Henrietta Lacks, from whom they were first cultured in the early 1950s ? are ubiquitous in labs, proliferate wildly ? and, it turns out, contaminate all manner of cells with which they come into contact. Two other lines in particular, HEp-2 and INT 407, are now known to have been contaminated with HeLa cells, meaning scientists who thought they were working on HEp-2 and INT 407 were in fact likely experimenting on HeLa cells.? ?Christopher Korch, a geneticist at the University of Colorado, has studied the issue. According to Korch, nearly 5,800 articles in 1,182 journals may have confused HeLa for HEp-2; another 1,336 articles in 271 journals may have mixed up HeLa with INT 407. Together, the 7,000-plus papers have been cited roughly 214,000 times, Science reported last year.? ?And that?s just two cell lines. All told, more than 400 cell lines either lack evidence of origin or have become cross-contaminated with human or other animal cells at some point in their laboratory lineage. Cell lines are often chosen for their ability to reproduce and be bred for long periods of time, so they?re hardy buggers that can move around a lab if they end up on a researcher?s gloves, for example. ?It?s astonishingly easy for cell lines to become contaminated,? wrote Amanda Capes-Davis, chair of the International Cell Line Authentication Committee, in a guest post for Retraction Watch. ?When cells are first placed into culture, they usually pass through a period of time when there is little or no growth, before a cell line emerges. A single cell introduced from elsewhere during that time can outgrow the original culture without anyone being aware of the change in identity?.? Getting the picture? HUGE numbers of published studies are based on knowing which cells are being used and tested. And much of the time, the researchers don?t know. They pretend they do, but they don?t. Their work is completely unreliable. Everyone involved (for decades) looks the other way. It?s the secret no one wants to talk about. Thousands and thousands and thousands of medical studies are useless, and their conclusions are unfounded, and turn out to be random. This is like saying, ?Well, we built all those buildings in the city, but the concrete we used was probably cardboard. Let?s not talk about it. Let?s just wait and see what happens.? Millions of patients who are taking drugs are guinea pigs. Researchers originally tested the toxicity of drugs on cells they assumed were relevant, but they were wrong. They said the drugs were safe, but they were working with cells that had no bearing on safety. This is one reason why, on July 26, 2000, Dr. Barbara Starfield, a highly respected public health expert at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, could conclude, in the Journal of the American Association, that FDA approved medical drugs kill 106,000 Americans every year?which becomes a MILLION deaths per decade. The original researchers on those drugs pretended they knew what they were doing. Pretended. Everything I?m describing and citing in this article? The FDA knows about it. The CDC knows about it. The World Health Organization knows. National health departments all over the world know. Medical schools know. Many doctors know. Many, many researchers know. Many hospital executives know. All pharmaceutical executives know. Many mainstream medical reporters know. All medical journals know. But they continue to promote life-destroying fake news. Blog that.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2017Danyale P. from Anchorage, AK signed.
Feb 9th, 2017Andrew W. from Huntersville, NC writes:
There are "Trolls" that seek to Undermine "The Last Western Nation" Please know that "Their is an *Adversary* that Actually ExistsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 8th, 2017Andrew W. from Huntersville, NC writes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4204572/Health-leaders-urge-Trump-vaccines.html 350 Idiots try to trick Trump into believing vaccines are safe. I would not let themREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 8th, 2017Andrew W. from Huntersville, NC writes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4204572/Health-leaders-urge-Trump-vaccines.html 350 Idiots try to trick Trump into believing vaccines are safe. I would not let themREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 8th, 2017Meghann Q. from Traverse City, MI signed.
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No, CancelFeb 5th, 2017Ken R. from Lincoln, NE writes:
Can you say "universal health care"? Then the entire population of the country could negotiate en masse with the Mylan's of the world to obtain reasonable drug prices for all.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 3rd, 2017charlene f. from Brockton, MA writes:
This is a tragedy waiting to happen. How those responsible for this can sleep at night is beyond me. It is disgusting that people's lives are at risk for the sake of corporate greed!! There is a special place in hell for these self- serving bloodsuckers.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 2nd, 2017Someone from Atlanta, GA signed.
Feb 1st, 2017Andrew W. from Huntersville, NC writes:
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-01-fda-quietly-bans-powerful-life-saving-iv-bags-with-vitamin-c.html The FDA needs to be President Trumps next targetREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 1st, 2017Andrew W. from Huntersville, NC writes:
I am very happy you survived that horrible ordeal Mercy. I wish that I could take give Heather Bresch your allergy, and give you her perfect CEO health, so Bresch can know first hand what impending death feels like.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 1st, 2017Mercy W. from Atlanta, GA writes:
With my shellfish allergies I almost died aboard a Delta flight last fall when the whole plane was served shrimp. Went into anaphylactic shock and was saved thanks to a doctor on the plane and my bringing three sets of epipens in my handbag. The flight's emergency kit is supposed to contain epipens but didn't - because they are too expensive, said a flight attendant. Two of my sets had cost $46 each, the third one, which i got a few days before the flight, was almost $700.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 1st, 2017Andrew W. from Huntersville, NC writes:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-31/biotech-stocks-slide-trump-slams-astronomical-prices-tells-drug-ceos-get-prices-down President Trump challenges murderous Big Pharma, where Obama has been silentREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 31st, 2017Diana S. from Williamsport, PA signed.
Jan 30th, 2017Sharon M. from Williamsburg, KY writes:
How can middle class citizens afford this , it must change before someone dies...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 30th, 2017Nicole M. from Hendersonville, TN writes:
This pen should be affordable to any class of citizens.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2017Beth A. from Houston, TX writes:
Pirates are still alive! And holding your health for ransom! These people are taking a page out of the playbook owned by the people who developed our banking and insurance industry here in United States.REPORT COMMENTS
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