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Two New Drugs That Help With COVID 19. Raymond Rupert patient advocate

The two drugs, called tocilizumab and sarilumab, are used to reduce inflammation in patients with arthritis. Hyper-inflammation, whereby the immune system goes into overdrive and destroys the organs, is how covid-19 tends to kill. The search for suitable anti-inflammatory drugs for covid-19 has already turned up one, dexamethasone. It is ...

Solving The Funding Problem For Advanced Cancer Drugs: Raymond Rupert patient advocate

Raymond Rupert2020-11-18T12:13:13-05:00November 15, 2020|Tags: #druginsurance, #erichoskins, #Federalminitryofhealth, #pharma, #pharmacare, doctors, drugs, genomics, insurance, medical doctors, pharmacare, Raymond Rupert, reinsurance, surgeons, targeted therapy, treatemtn for cancer|

The motivation for this piece came from thinking deeply for two years about pharmacare. The thinking proved to be circular and went nowhere. And from a piece in the New York times today on the role of government in solving massive social problems. The private sector can't do that without ...