A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexity - KFF Health News
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A new drug is helping families who’ve spent years padlocking fridges, chaining garbage cans, and hiding food as their children with Prader-Willi syndrome deal with unrelenting hunger. But additional progress — and a broader understanding of obesity — is now under threat as the government dismantles the pipeline for promising new research.
  • Badabinski@kbin.earth
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    27 days ago

    Still, the drug’s average price of $466,200 a year is staggering even for rare-disease treatments.

    What uh, the fuck‽

    Hey!

    Hey assholes!

    What the fuck are you doing‽ This medicine is literally just a salt of an incredibly commonplace medicine that’s been around for 50 fucking years. I get that you need to pay for your R&D costs and profit on top of that, but does that actually justify charging patients and insurance companies almost half a million dollars a year?

    I fucking hate it. I’m glad that the people suffering from a horrific disease can have relief, but it makes me so fucking mad that they get a 466k yearly tax on their fucking lives.

    At least the ACA’s preexisting conditions thing hasn’t been rolled back.