Posts Tagged ‘reflux’

This is week 24 in my pregnancy and I discuss some ups and downs, the birthing method we’ve chosen and some of my favorite products. I didn’t realize how close I would look on the screen, I’m using our new camcorder and was actually sitting several feet away from it so hope you don’t mind being up close and personal in this one. I would love some feedback on content, volume, etc. and please feel free to ask me any questions. I’m on Facebook too so if any of you would like to connect that way just let me know. Favorite Products: Trader Joe’s Sugar Scrub Dessert Essence blemish stick and face wash Clarisonic skin system Thorne Research Basic Prenatal Vitamin Nordic Naturals ProDHA fish oils Integrative Therapeutics Liquid Calcium/Magnesium Mother’s Special Blend Skin Toning Oil Murad Acne Treatment Concealer Laura Mercier Eyebright undereye brightener Websites: www.hypnobirthingnorthwest.com www.pregtastic.com (or you can subscribe for free on iTunes)

www.encognitive.com Same drug, different patent Anyone who watches television—where the majority of the drug industry’s .5 billion [that figure is now + billion in 2007] a-year-and-growing advertising budget is spent—has seen commercials for AstraZeneca’s acid-reflux drug Nexium®. The ad money worked: Consumers spent 8 million on Nexium, at an average cost of 7 per prescription in 2001, the first year it was introduced. Acid-reflux sufferers could have found just as much relief in an older product that drug experts call virtually identical—Prilosec®. Ironically, Prilosec is made by the same firm that put the Nexium hype into overdrive. Is AstraZeneca cannibalizing its Prilosec profits? Not by a long shot. Prilosec’s patent was set to expire in October 2002, opening the door for other companies to jump into the market with cheaper generic versions. So by tinkering with the formula, AstraZeneca received a new patent and extra years of exclusivity to convince consumers the new product, Nexium, is not only better than the nearly indistinguishable older drug but is also worth the extra cost. The cost of prescriptions for two new oral diabetes drugs jumped 62 and 41 percent in 2001, and on average the costs for the new drugs are twice as much as for the effective older oral diabetes medicines. “The increase in prescriptions—and in spending,” writes Greider, “is largely attributable to the rapid market penetration of a small number of new, expensive best sellers.” In …

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