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Valisure

2019-11-13 16:31:41.846468+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

A tiny pharmacy is identifying big problems with common drugs, including Zantac

Clark-Joseph, an economist with some chemistry training, was drawn to the idea because he kept getting sick. In graduate school, he refilled a prescription only to find that the new, supposedly identical drug didn’t work. When his doctor told him to try another pharmacy because he probably got a bad batch, he was appalled. After similar incidents occurred, he started searching for a lab that would verify the chemical contents of his medication. When he didn’t find an obvious solution, he called his college friend David Light, who had worked in biotech, and suggested that they partner on a business that would verify the chemical contents of drug

It's a marketing piece for Valisure, an online pharmacy that buys drugs in batches and tests for conformance to the expected, and has found problems large enough to cause recalls.

But the notion that there's that much variation in our drug supply (not to mention the various ways in which there are unanticipated drug behaviors in drugs that have gotten to market) is wow.

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#Comment Re: Valisure made: 2019-11-13 17:16:42.825139+00 by: TheSHAD0W

This is exactly the sort of thing the FDA was formed to ensure, and the fact that they're failing at this simple task while standing in the way of both proper competition and innovation is horrifying.

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