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What About Those Drug Price Cuts for Medicare?

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I bet you thought I forgot about this provision. Something the Democratic Party has been trying to provide Medicare recipients for years.  Lowered drug prices because Medicare is granted the ability to negotiate pharmaceutical prices directly with the manufacturers and marketers.  After all, Medicare is the largest purchaser of prescription drugs in the USA- and drugs are our fastest growing medical expense.  And, since Medicare accounts for 20% of all medical expenditures in the USA, of which 1/3 are on prescription drugs, this is a big, big cost center.

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Be a Pill!

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When we take pills, we rarely consider the amazing facts that let us do so.

Do you ever consider that the pill we are taking is required to survive the hydrochloric and other acids in our stomach?  (Even if that pill is meant to travel around our body from the stomach, the “guts” of the pill have to survive our guts!)  And, if we need intestinal transfer (often where the transmission to our body is the best means of delivery), then the pill needs to be able to withstand all the enzymes in our intestines that were designed to break down proteins and then allow the dosage to pass through the mucus layer that protects the intestines from our enzymes and stuff we eat.

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Diabetes Patients Need IT (information technology)

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I’ve followed diabetes mostly because it usually leads to kidney failure.  And, that has been one of my prime interests for nigh 55 years now.   And, if we can preclude this escalation, the quality of life one can have is pretty reasonable.  Given that there are some 30 million folks with diabetes, that means there are a slew of folks who can also find themselves subject to kidney failure.

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Obesity buster?

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Dr. Suraj Unniappan, along with Drs. Gonzalez,Perry, Ceddia,  Reingold, Gao, Gaidhu, and Tsushima from York University (Canada) have been expanding their research on nefstatin-1, a brain protein.  This protein was first described in Nature (2006) by Dr. Mori (along with 14 other researchers from Japan), where it was found to interact with receptors in the nucleus and hypothalamus.

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