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BlameThePeacock , 2 days ago

I had to actually read the FDA page to figure out how this is a problem. Too much Vitamin D for infants with impaired renal (Kidney) function can be bad. It’s unlikely to impact the average infant consuming it.

It takes months of very high consumption of Vitamin D to become toxic. Like 60,000 IU per day (for an adult) for 3+ months continuously.

For comparison baby formula normally contains about 30 IU per 100mL, and they drink about 800ml per day as a newborn (or a total of 180IU per day)

Infant Vitamin D drops are 400IU per drop, these are recommended to give daily in Northern States and Canada in addition to what they get from other sources.

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xmunk , 15 days ago

Admittedly CMS isn’t a news outlet but these are the people who actually make the decisions.

sparky , 15 days ago

I take one of these drugs, Farxiga - I’m diabetic. It’s listed here at $556 a box, I was paying almost $400 a month as my insurance copay in the states. Six months ago I moved to Portugal and here in the European Union it costs me 7 euros to fill that same prescription for 90 days. And that’s through the Public Health Service; I don’t have private health care at all!

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audiomodder , 1 month ago

Here’s all you need to know: GoodRx is offered for free to consumers. They regularly have better prices for drugs than the product that consumers are paying for.

Also, Cost Plus Drugs exists where they operate as a PBM, but refuse insurance. They clearly tell you their markup. I have yet to find a drug that’s not cheaper there.

GBU_28 , 3 months ago

Does the filing division of the IRS handle that?

Zachariah , 3 months ago

No, not it’s a rather neutral change that just makes sense. Now that I’ve got a taste, I want more.

Kostyeah , 4 months ago

It is, but after spending like 5 hours arguing with different customer service reps about it I decided that it wasn’t worth my time. The company went out of business later anyways.

ZMonster , 4 months ago

Cash or original form of payment: Airlines and ticket agents must provide refunds in cash or whatever original payment method the individual used to make the purchase, such as credit card or airline miles. Airlines may not substitute vouchers, travel credits, or other forms of compensation unless the passenger affirmatively chooses to accept alternative compensation.

plz1 , 4 months ago

Good point

CraigeryTheKid , 4 months ago

That wouldn’t even cover cleanup

Substance_P , 5 months ago

Perhaps it’s because the Biden campaign joined TikTok for all that sweet younger gen voter support.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

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Carrolade , 5 months ago

It’s easier to sniff out nice-sounding bullshit than it is to find actual progress.

Psychodelic , 5 months ago

Fair enough. That hasn’t been my experience for the last almost 2 years. Teams in our org have been told that if they lose people they can’t hire replacements. Shit’s sucked

I’ve also been hearing about massive layoffs at tons of the biggest companies. I’d be surprised if they were still hiring, obviously.

Fondots , 6 months ago

From the article

Xolair is intended for repeated use to reduce the risk of allergic reactions and is not approved for the immediate emergency treatment of allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis.

Epi Pens are for immediate emergency response for allergic reactions, they aren’t preventative in any way.

Epi Pens are basically just a shot of adrenaline, they don’t actually act directly on your immune system at all, it’s basically just sends an override message to your body to forget about whatever else it’s doing and focus on opening up your airways, pumping blood, or whatever else you might need in order to, for example, run from a lion.

Which buys you some time, but you’re still probably going to need some treatment or monitoring once the adrenaline wears off, and you’re probably going to feel like shit afterwards, and epinephrine isn’t without it’s own pretty significant risks and side effects.

Evilcoleslaw , 6 months ago

Yeah OIT will slowly “train” your immune system to not react to increasing amounts of an allergen. This is literally a monoclonal antibody that binds to free IgE antibodies so that there will be fewer of them around if you’re exposed to an allergen.

It seems much more well suited for its originally approved uses of allergic asthma and nasal polyps (which are caused by recurrent allergic inflammatory processes involved in sinusitis/rhinitis) than it would be for food allergies.