Zachary Mulkey MDa
Correspondence to Zachary Mulkey MD. Email: zachary.mulkey @ttuhsc.edu
SWRCCC 2016;4(13):60.
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• Check out information on the newly approved oral pulmonary arterial hypertension drug, selexipag (Uptravi). Also, check out the potential costs (more than $150k yearly).
•Advair and Spiriva are numbers 5 and 6 on the list of drugs that CMS spends the most money on annually. How much does CMS spend? Here’s a hint: if you won the largest Powerball lottery in history you still couldn’t afford to cover the costs of either one.
• Here’s a FREE app developed by the American College of Emergency Physicians designed to provide information and guidance on treating patients suffering from overdoses and poisonings. It’s also available for android devices.
• The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak over in West Africa.
• Even though the current shingles vaccine is underutilized, pharma is working towards a newer vaccine that lasts much longer.