{"id":1148,"date":"2016-11-01T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2017-08-21T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:44:45","slug":"primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-md-no-end-to-pharma-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/2016\/11\/01\/primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-md-no-end-to-pharma-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: No End to Pharma Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dr. Geoffrey Modest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have held back from writing about drug company\u00a0shenanigans, mostly because their daily outrageous acts could totally fill up my blogs (witness the Mylan epi-pen example). But, I just couldn&#8217;t resist. I\u00a0will not repeat what is quite well-researched and written in STAT, but refer you to the URL:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/09\/23\/drug-price-skin-gel\/\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/09\/23\/drug-price-skin-gel\/<\/a>\u00a0for details.<\/p>\n<p>But the bottom line: yet again, pretty sleazy business types, moving from one small drug\u00a0company to another to repeat their predatory practices, are buying out old drugs\u00a0and dramatically raising their prices.\u00a0In this case, one of their 3\u00a0gels\u00a0is\u00a0composed of\u00a0aloe and iodoquinol, the latter\u00a0when taken orally being\u00a0an antiprotozoal\/an amebicide!!! ,\u00a0and\u00a0is being promoted as preventing growth of fungus\/bacteria topically to treat dermatitis and eczema. Their own prescribing information states it\u00a0is only &#8220;possibly effective&#8221;, as\u00a0per the FDA.\u00a0Another of their gels throws in some hydrocortisone to this mix. And they raised the price to <strong>$9,561 <\/strong>for a tube (had been around $200). Just think what they would charge if it truly were &#8220;effective&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/category\/pharmacy\/\">https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/category\/pharmacy\/<\/a> for some of the prior blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: No End to Pharma Shenanigans  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/2016\/11\/01\/primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-md-no-end-to-pharma-shenanigans\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}