How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challenge EpiPen Prices

Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by nprz on Thursday August 25, 2016 @09:10PM (#12363676)

How do people think drugs get made? Takes a lot of effort, time, energy to get a drug made and FDA approved. Shouldn't there be some incentive to accomplish this task? Wouldn't there be an overall decrease in drug innovation if there was no money in it?

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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by JshWright on Thursday August 25, 2016 @09:44PM (#12363809)

In the case of the EpiPen, the FDA approval process is _long_ over (as in, decades ago). The price has increased several times over in the past decade, despite no increase in the production cost (it's $0.50 worth of epi and a couple bucks worth of plastic).

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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by iends on Thursday August 25, 2016 @09:11PM (#12363679)

Have you read the story about EpiPen at all? Doesn't sound like it...

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