If youâre using B vitamins to help prevent hot flashes, be sure to use the form of niacin called niacinamide. Other forms of niacin dilate the blood vessels, which can cause flushing and worsen hot flashes, rather than relieve them. Folic acid helps the body manufacture and use estrogen.
And the title of âMost Expensive Drug in the Entire Worldâ goes to Glybera, a drug so far not approved in the U.S. but recently approved in the European Union. Glybera is a gene therapy used to treat a condition called familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency, a disease affecting only about one in 1 million people.
Shkreli's company raised the price on a drug called Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to $750 overnight. The Daily Beast quickly declared Shkreli the most-hated man in the United States, surpassing the dentist who killed Cecil the Lion. The drug is used by some AIDS and cancer patients. It's been around for 62 years, but Shkreli's company bought the rights to it from another firm in August. The main use of the drug is to treat life-threatening parasitic infections.