A cerebral embolism is a blood clot that originates somewhere else in the body, usually in the heart or in the neck blood vessels, that then travels to the brain. This creates a blockage of blood flow to the brain and causes a stroke.
It is sweeping the country as the insulin that takes care of postprandial blood sugars, which is the big emphasis now. It went from $30 to $34.73.. Current prices for Humulin and Humalog provided by Lilly and Campbell are very close.
The average wholesale price for 500 tablets of a diabetes drug called chlorpropamide, for example, has increased from $35.15 to $138.97. A blood pressure pill called methyclothiazide has gone from $19.06 for 100 tablets to $49.64. The price of 1,000 tablets of lorazepam, the second most popular generic anti-anxiety drug and sold under the name Ativan, has more than quadrupled from $179.95 to $796.67. And a prescription for a drug that cost $10 last month is now nearly $90. The drugs are manufactured by Mylan Laboratories, which claims the huge increases are necessary because of the increased cost of making the drugs and legal expenses.