$1,500 Preterm Labor Drug Naked Money Grab (W AUDIO Interview)

UPDATE on FDA: Pharmacies Can Still Make Preterm Birth Drug

Naked money grab.  Those are the only words I could think of today after speaking with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano obstetrician Randall Burt.  It seems to me that’s what KV Pharmaceutical was doing when it apparently went trolling around for an old, cheap medication that desperate people would do just about anything to get, made a synthetic version of it, called it Makena, and announced it would charge an obscene amount of money for it.

FDA: Pharmacies Can Still Make Preterm Birth Drug

This is important to so many moms and babies, it’s difficult to calculate.  This WebMD article announces the Food and Drug Administration’s agreement to allow women at risk for preterm birth (ie have had a previous preterm birth) to continue to receive shots of 17-Hydroxyprogesterone from compounding pharmacies for 15 to 20 bucks a pop.  The price of medicine had been set to increase to $1,500 because the FDA had approved KV Parmaceutical version – Makena –  and women using the compounding version would be forced to take the KV version.

This news caused many women taking weekly shots of  17 OHP to go into a full-on panic

Doc Says Drug Test Your Kids

teens and young adults in suburban Dallas have been indicted in a sweeping heroin bust after three young people died of heroin overdoses last year.  These are not the kids you would imagine having a heroin problem.  They are from a middle to upper middle class bastion of suburbia. It’s a land of six bedroom homes […]