Draw up the correct dose and self-administer the epi. With a pen you simply flip the cap an inject straight into the thigh.

one of these alternatives may save a life.

Also I think a 'compounding' pharmacist may be able to provide standardized pre-filled syringes and a auto-injector device like I posted above that are used by diabetic patients and it might help out the patient you described.

I think poor people may die. Poor children in particular. It's heartless.

I think it's sick, and bordering on criminal.

K&r

i need epis for the school nurse, for the camp nurse, for the babysitter, and for mrs. unblock to use.

eventually mini-unblock will learn how to use it himself.


*nfw* do i want to be carefully drawing up meds and checking for air bubbles while my son is turning blue and i know that seconds count.


mylan highlights the problem, you *cannot* give an effectively unregulated monopoly pricing power in a life-and-death situation.

capitalism *only* works properly with genuine, effective competition. insufficient competition is a problem throughout our supposedly capitalist economy; life-and-death health care merely makes the problem more obvious.

+1

to forbid compounding pharmacies. There are the usual players like big pharma and the FDA. Please offer your support when you hear about these efforts, to the continuance of these pharmacies as they are essential to so many.

One of the things affected should be drug prices.

Or you can break the need off in the vial!

He was first prescribed the pre-packaged, pre-filled syringes that were very expensive. After doing some research he found he could buy a vial of insulin and a box of insulin syringes for about half the cost and he's been doing that for over a year. Of course people who might need an "Epi-Pen" are in a totally different situation. Since the drug is generic, someone needs to tweak the design of the delivery system, patent it and sell it to the people who need it for an affordable price. It should be illegal to gouge people on any drug, but especially on life-saving drugs.

a new delivery system or administration vehicle would take years to get through the FDA. We're kind of stuck with what we currently have now as I described in my original post and hope that those companies that currently have competive products in the FDA approval pipeline get their products fast tracked.

This might be something Congress can do. Vote to give the FDA the resources to fast track the approval process of competive offerings to Mylan's Epi-Pen.

the FDA recently ruled against allowing a generic pen delivery system to be sold. It was, they said, almost identical to the Epi-Pen, but of course would have been much cheaper. You have to wonder how many people at the FDA are either bought off or investors in Mylan.