Oct 26 2008 A New HotFlash Pick! QCOR - Sunday, October 26, 2008 ...
About H.P. Acthar® Gel (repository corticotropin injection) H.P. Acthar Gel (repository corticotropin injection) is natural source ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) in 16% gelatin to provide a prolonged release after ...
Questcor Pharmaceuticals Evaluating Acthar(r) Gel as a Potential ...
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that markets two commercial products, H.P. Acthar(r) Gel ("Acthar") and Doral(r). Acthar (repository corticotropin injection) is an injectable drug that is approved for the ...
Small Patient Population - Big Drug Prices
Information regarding Questcor and HP Acthar Gel compiled and analyzed by Lisa Emrich, blogger/writer at brassandivory.blogspot.com, multiple sclerosis patient and patient advocate with direct experience dealing with NORD and other ...
Questcor Pharma Fighting the Tide
The Company?s current commercial CNS product is HP Acthar Gel(r), an injectable drug that is approved for the treatment of certain CNS disorders with an inflammatory component, including the treatment of flares associated with multiple ...
Drug Money
Treatment would cost $1600 per vial of steroid drug HP Acthar Gel, and Trevor would need three of them. As if the idea of a $4800 tab wasn't bad enough, when the Foltzes submitted their claim, they found out the company that made the ...
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Headquarters) Evaluating Acthar(r ...
... therapeutic area for its principal product H.P. Acthar(r) Gel. Nephrotic Syndrome is characterized by excessive spilling of protein from the kidneys into the urine, known as proteinuria. Acthar is specifically indicated to induce a ...
ORPHAN ECONOMICS: THE DOWNSIDE OF SUPPLY-SIDE PHARMACOLOGY
... boosting the price by 1400% overnight seems indelicate at best. Yet that is exactly what Questcor Pharmaceuticals did in August 2007 when it increased the price of HP Acthar Gel (ACTH) from $1600 to $23000 USD per vial...
lifesaving pediatric drug becomes readily available to those in need
patients suffering from a host of difficult to treat orphan disorders have found marked relief from using hp acthar gel. some disorders acthar helps include seizure complex in babies and young children, referred to as west?s syndrome or ...
Health Wonk Review is Up!! and Questcor's CFO is Resigning
Bob highlights my posts regarding Questcor's 1410% increase in the price of HP Acthar Gel and the Senate Joint Economic Committee hearing which I attended on July 24, 2008. In a related note, on July 31, 2008 (only 7 days following the ...
clarification and the true nature of questcor
what he neglects to continually mention is they made the decision to drop nearly every other product line except hp acthar gel. so what chance they had to make money, on their reasonably priced medications, they gave up. ...
