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.
In 2014, a new hepatitis C drug came to market, an innovative treatment offering a cure for a disease that desperately needed one. The price tag: about $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment, enough to make it the most expensive prescription drug in America. In the medical world, the halls of insurance offices nationwide and even our nationâs Capitol, all hell broke loose. The drug, Gilead Sciences Inc.âs Sovaldi GILD, -0.34% remains the most expensive drug in America today, topping a list compiled by drug price comparison website GoodRx. Second on the list is its sister drug Harvoni, which combines Sovaldi with another drug.
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.