Appetite Stimulation: Medicinal Marijuana, Marinol, and Megace. by Nelson Vergel and Michael Mooney (Issue # 7, October, 1998) Appetite stimulants can be an important part of the optimal approach to increasing lean body mass in HIV. However, all appetite stimulants are not equal in their effects on your overall health and well-being. The first drug used for appetite in the early years of AIDS was Megace. The Medibolics article on Megace showed us that Megace should probably be relegated to the status of the problematic dinosaur drug that it is.
How much do the tablets cost? a. The wholesale price of both Grastek and Ragwitek will be $8.25 per pill, or $247.50 for a 30-day supply, says Merck spokeswoman Pamela Eisele.
Figure 2. Average itemized cost of treating a myasthenia gravis crisis patient with IVIG ($78,814 per patient) vs. Plasma Exchange ($101,140 per patient). For IVIG, the two greatest costs are the fees associated with patient time spent in an intensive care unit ...sing the above data, the average short term cost for utilizing plasma exchange for MGC was $101,140 per patient compared to IVIG which accrued an average cost per patient of $78,814. The TreeAge 4.0 cost analysis tree for these calculations is demonstrated in Figure 1.