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Never heard of them, but sounds interesting! Marie

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>Anyone taking or have heard of nerve regenation drugs?

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Never heard of them, but sounds interesting! Marie

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>Anyone taking or have heard of nerve regenation drugs?

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Anyone taking or have heard of nerve regenation drugs?

Joanie

Yes I have Joanie on Pax television network they have this show about miracles I've seen this peticular show 3 times now bout a boy falling with a old rotten tree landing on top of him, It paralyzes him from the neck down he ends up in a hospital with a head brace on. Dad got online found a drug called SYGEN it is still in testing but seeing as the boy was so young and nothing else he had a choice of FDA agreed. With physical therapy he is now walking. !!!! Thing is has to be administered within 72 hours after spinal cord injury. Its working on rats now.

Sara

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[cancercure] Pharmaceuticals

Let's hear it for Costco! (This is just mind-boggling!)

Make sure you read all the way past the list of the drugs. The

woman that signed below is a Budget Analyst out of federal

Washington , DC offices. Did you ever wonder how

much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in

prescription, medications? Some people think it must cost a lot,

since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We

did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the

active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have

revealed in past issues of Life Extension, a significant

percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active

ingredients made in other countries.

In our independent investigation of how much profit drug

companies really make, we obtained the actual price of

active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in

America .

Celebrex: 100mg Consumer price(100 tablets):$130.27 Cost

of general active ingredients: $0.60 Markup:21,712%

Claritin: 10 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17 Cost

of general active ingredients: $0.71 Markup: 30,306%

Keflex: 250 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39 Cost

of general active ingredients: $1.88 Markup: 8,372%

Lipitor: 20 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37 Cost of

general active ingredients: $5.80 Markup: 4,696%

Norvasc: 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29 Cost of

active ingredients: $0.14 Markup: 134,493%

Paxil: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27 Cost of

general active ingredients: $7.60 Markup: 2,898%

Prevacid: 30 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77 cost of

general active ingredients: $1.01 Markup: 34,136%

Prilosec : 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97 Cost of

general active ingre dients $0.52 Markup: 69,417%

Prozac: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47 Cost of

active ingredients: $0.11 Markup: 224,973%

Tenormin: 50 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47 Cost of

active ingredients: $0.13 Markup: 80,362%

Vasotec: 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37 Cost

of active ingredients: $0.20 Markup: 51,185%

Xanax: 1 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79 Cost of

active ingredients: $0.024 Markup: 569,958%

Zestril: 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) $89.89 Cost of active

ingredients $3.20 Markup: 2,809

Zithromax: 600 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,482.19 Cost of

active ingredients: $18.78 Markup: 7,892%

Zocor: 40 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27 Cost of

general active ingredients: $8.63 Markup: 4,059%

Zoloft: 50 mg Consumer price: $206.87 Cost of general

active ingredients: $1.75 Markup: 11,821%

Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought

everyone should know about this.

It pays to shop around! This helps to solve the mystery as to why

they can afford to put a Walgreen's on every corner. On Monday

night, Steve , an investigative reporter for Channel

7 News in Detroit , did a story on generic drug prices gouging by

pharmacies. He found in his investigation that some of these

generic drugs were marked up as much as 3,000% or more. So

often we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs and

usually rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly lies with the

pharmacies themselves.

For example if you had to buy a prescription drug, and bought the

name brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills.

The pharmacist might tell you that if you get the generic

equivalent, they would only cost $80, making you think you

are saving $20. What the pharmacist is not telling you is that

those 100 generic pills may have only cost him $10!

At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr.

whether or not there were any pharmacies that did not

adhere to this practice, and he said that Costco consistently

charged little over their cost for the generic drugs.

I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and

get its online price. It says that the in-store prices are

consistent with the online prices. I was appalled. Just to

give you one example from my own experience I had to use, the

drug Compazine which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients.

I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at

CVS. I checked the price at Costco, and I could have

bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I paid

$72.57. I could have got 150 at Costco for $28.08.

I would like to mention, that although Costco is a 'membership'

type store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy

prescriptions there as it is a federally regulated substance. You

just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they

will let you in.

I am asking each of you to please help me by copying this letter,

and passing it into your own e-mail, and send it to

everyone you know with an e-mail address.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/generic.asp

<http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/generic.asp> Snopes.com

<http://snopes.com/> confirms this.

Sharon L.

Budget Analyst

U.S. Dep artment of Commerce

Room 6839

Office Ph:

Office Fax:

E-mail Address: sdavis@...