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the necessary bioequivalence studies require a sample of the existing medication provided directly by the company, and not simply purchased from a pharmacy, which Turing could decline to provide.

Well that's fucking bullshit. For starters, a sample provided by a pharmacy is less likely to have been tampered with than a sample provided by the manufacturer to a competitor. The second point I would make is already made in the quote; a pharmacy is less likely to decline the purchase.

I did not know that was the case but, now that I'm aware, certainly hold the position that it should be changed. That's clearly a bought law.

Mylan still holds patents related to EpiPen...

Mylan is run by a group of absolute scumbags. I very much enjoyed the look of terror on Heather Bresch's face as she testified before Congress last September. I watched the whole thing; it's the first time in my adult life I've intently watched CNN. For the record, though, generic adrenaline autoinjectors are available, FDA-approved, and considerably cheaper than the EpiPen. If you have insurance, the generic may not be on the company's formulary; but, then, you have insurance and should only be paying your copay for prescriptions, anyway. If you don't have insurance, or your insurance won't cover the EpiPen, you can have your doctor write the prescription for the generic.

The only places you'll see the "approved device" issue come up are schools and other government-run institutions, which already get them for free (or at cost) through a Mylan-sponsored program. In that case, you can't really complain about the price of the name brand, as nobody could undercut them in the first place. While I still think Mylan are complete scum, I'll chalk that program up as something good they've done, at least as long as sugh institutions are legally bound to purchase only from a pre-approved list of name brands.

It's like in 1997 when the FDA banned Seldane (terfenadine) in favor of its successor Allegra (fexofenadine) the same month the generic for terfenadine was due to come out.

Now that just reads like a conspiracy theory once you read up on the actual history of terfenadine.

That's not to say none of what you're alluding to actually happens -- I'm certain it does -- but you've chosen extremely poor examples. You chose a drug with a generic available and a drug pulled over legitimate safety concerns.

The fexofenadine patent expired in 2001, Allegra is still on the market and there are generics for it. The real story is that the manufacturer attempted to suppress the release of terfenadine generics by claiming that they infringed on the fexofenadine patent because fexofenadine is the active metabolite of terfenadine. That's right, they claimed that people taking terfenadine generics were violating their patent by manufacturing fexofenadine in their bodies; of course, this also meant that people taking the name brand Seldane were doing the same, but I'm guessing they didn't stop to consider this.

Turns out going outside when it's cold and wet pretty much never makes a difference in the normal course of things. Hypothermia is the exception, and for the most part that means going outside cold, wet, and without much clothing for prolonged periods of time to the extent you're likely chattering the daylights out of your teeth.

This is an important finding since current parenting styles (at least in temperate areas of the US) often include keeping the kids inside much of the winter to prevent them from getting sick. The consequent lack of exercise and being in close quarters with disease vectors (other kids) yields the result of sick, fat kids. I tell my patients to send little Cindy and Juan outside with a good coat when it's cold and wet, unless the little buggers are going to slip on the ice or are shedding genuine tears of misery in a prolonged fashion, which I personally think is good advice for grown up nerds as well, present company included.

The requirements are so high because of AMA lobbying: they keep them that way, limit medical schools, and make sure that patients must see physicians even for problems that could be addressed by nurses or pharmacists.

What kinds of problems are those? As far as I know, patients can see nurses for minor problems that can be addressed by nurses (specifically nurse practitioners). The clinics in pharmacies and supermarkets (e.g., CVS Minute Clinic, Walgreen's Healthcare Clinic, The Little Clinic, Rediclinic) are generally staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

https://www.riteaid.com/custom...
http://www.cvs.com/help/email-...

Here's the message I sent. If you're lazy, feel free to use it:
Disabling Apple Pay and Google Wallet, which were previously accepted is not OK. If you want to come up with your own competing system and give people rewards to use it, that's fine, but don't break existing functionality. Google Wallet just works. Apple and Google's solutions don't cost you any more money than a credit card transaction. Your payment app isn't even available yet and relies on QR codes, which means that when it does launch it will likely be very clunky by comparison.

If you can't come up with a sane response to this, I guess I'll be switching to Walgreens.

I chatted w/ a gay friend, and he said he gets tested (for free) every 6 months, doesn't date anyone who isn't tested, doesn't date black guys (he's black so that's at worse personal preference, not prejudice, but also much higher rate of infection among blacks). He says Oralquick is the test of choice. Oral test, results in less than half an hour.

http://www.cvs.com/shop/product-detail/OraQuick-In-Home-HIV-Test
Lists it as $40 which is about 2-4x the price of the condoms they sell.

But he noted that free tests are offered throughout the city by AIDS groups.

I think I've posted this before in response to that article, but it's amusing that parody of a decade ago is the reality of today.

"Don't be a douchebag."

Sorry, can't help you there

You can already do most paternity and forensics stuff, to a quite usable degree of confidence, with much smaller snippets. Trying to do so on the very cheap might well get you results from a lab that can't be bothered with minor stuff like negative controls or not fucking up on a regular basis(luckily, this never, ever, ever happens at crime labs); but you can get it today, cheap. Here's an over-the-counter option for $150(no particular endorsement implied, of course, just an example of what you can find in totally mainstream shops with 30 seconds of searching...)

Whole-organism sequencing will likely remain a research tool for quite some time. The snippet-based stuff is already as or more accurate than the people doing it, and whole-organism for medical purposes will be largely snake oil(although there will certainly be people selling it) until we actually have the knowledge necessary to make meaningful inferences from those sequences.

Here you go. http://www.cvs.com/CVSApp/catalog/shop_product_detail.jsp?skuId=251591&productId=251591

Granted this is only a quick example (and I'm not promoting CVS in any way), but you can see one example here. Now, overall, IANAL, but I fail to see how they can trademark something as simple as a red cross. That would be tantamount to me trademarking the black filled-in circle. I could then sue the makers of Scantron for infringing on my trademark by putting examples of black filled-in circles on their sheets. Crosses have been around for a LONG time, and I'd hazard to guess that people have found ways to paint or dye them red for quite a while as well. Heck, if someone was nailed up on a cross and bled all over the thing to turn it red, would they be infringing on J&J's trademark?

Wow...that was drastic! CVS Pharmacy has such great sales and deals on the stuff I need...when I need it. I can't imagine what would make someone want to not shop there anymore...

Hackers use CVS? Seriously, who cares where they get their drugs, anyway?

They don't provide a CVS history

Well yeah, he could go to CVS and get some headache medicine, he'll probably need it.

the problem is a bug in firefox. it not caused by slashdots fucked up html code. you can get the same display bug on a fully valid html document. they have examples in the bugzilla. and it's already fixed in cvs.

Heh - I did that with a CVS card (CVS is a drug store in this case, not the versioning system). Every time I use it, my receipt reminds me that my information is "incomplete" and tells me to go to their webpage and update the account.

What works really well is to try and take advantage of a loyalty-card holder sale and act rushed. So they'll give you the card and tell you to give them the application later. Just never hand in the application, and you're all set. :)

(Of course, in my case, it's not that I'm paranoid, it's that I don't want the ****ing advertising "newsletter subscription" that comes with the card.)

keeping it free. X.orgi is part of this now.

CVS is a drug store chain. I have no idea what problem would be solved by putting your home directory in a drug store. I hate going into drug stores, because everyone, even the employees, is looking at you like "I wonder what medication _he's_ on." even if you're just there to drop off some film. Okay, nobody drops off film any more, but you know what I mean. Buying a greeting card, or something. Plus, sick people are always in drug stores buying medicine. Who wants to be around sick people?

WineX has a fairly complete version available from CVS.

Since when can you get software from CVS? Isn't CVS a pharmacy?

Oh, wait, your talking about Concurrent Version System Damned you nerds, trying to get the rest of us confused. ;)

...You could also put error checking (parity, checksums, etc) so once you found some bactera you could check to make sure they had the right version and not a mutation
of course, you'd use CVS to keep the right version at hand...

You'll want the one that goes around the thumb, here.

Pick up a pair of wrist braces at the local drug store. Much cheaper, and they do the same thing.

It's a brand of duct tape that has a little duck on the inside band. You can buy it at cvs.

Here's the real link for CVS backups. Enjoy!