It’s been a little while since I last blogged – I guess I should have expected that after the baby came home! One of the first weird questions we ran into after the baby came home from the hospital was whether or not I could do treatments in the same room as him. I, of...
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If Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company (yes, that’s literally the name) can be sustained, it might be the welcome relief that can drive generic drug prices down for consumers and reassert the kind of balance Hatch-Waxman had intended to establish when the law was passed in the 1980’s. The new venture has been all...
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Salt in My Soul, the documentary version, is something special. If you’ve followed the blog for a long time, you know I loved the book. In fact, Darcy and I had a passage from Salt in My Soul read aloud at our wedding: My life is a miracle. Life in general is a miracle. Our...
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Let’s talk about out-of-pocket costs, or OOP’s. We all confront them when we receive healthcare, and when we do, they distort our perceptions about the true cost of care. They come in the form of copays, coinsurance, and deductibles. Importantly, they come on top of the premiums way pay to buy health insurance. Just reading...
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The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has started off the new year with a handful of new investments that suggest the cystic fibrosis market is accelerated, and not decelerating as some had feared. Not long after Trikafta was approved by the FDA, the world rightly celebrated such an important milestone in the history of biomedical innovation. Cystic...
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What a surreal couple of days! Darcy safely delivered our baby boy, Kaspar Fitzwilliam Esiason, into the world, and when it happened, we both couldn’t stop crying. The rush of emotion was like nothing I have ever felt, and I’m not sure I even have an adequate vocabulary to describe it all. Both Darcy and...
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I am about the same age today as when my parents welcomed me into the world. Though, as I am told, my first few years weren’t all sunshine and rainbows. I suffered from different ailments throughout my early infant years. The most common issue was an incessant ear infection, or so everyone thought. Often my...
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