Re: INFO - Biologics: what price a miracle?

[Guest guest]

Dear

Thanks so much for this information. I always have called Remicade a miracle

drug! I don't know what will happen to me when I retire. I have good health

insurance now.

Maggie

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> Biologics: What Price a Miracle?

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> AARP

> By Sheree Crute

> November & December 2009

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> Excerpt:

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> " Biologics are proteins taken from living things, " says Hazlet,

> Pharm.D., a professor at the University of Washington. That means

> they're naturally more expensive to develop and manufacture than

> chemical drugs (see " How They're Made " ). But there is also no

> competition for biologics in the pharmaceutical marketplace, in part

> because the FDA does not have a process in place for approving generic

> biologics (or biosimilars). AARP and a host of other organizations

> lobbied Congress intensely during the health care debate, calling for

> legislation that would allow the FDA to approve such a process.

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> http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/biologics_what_price_a_miracle.html

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> Not an MD

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