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Direct Downfall
Last week we mentioned Eli Lilly was beginning a program where they planned to distribute drugs directly to consumers. Many Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have been doing this for quite a while, but despite the convenience, there are pitfalls when you’re dealing with sending temperature-sensitive medicines through the mail.
In the latest instance, some recipients of Ozempic have become worried about receiving frozen or previously frozen drugs. A patient posted about it on the TikTok, and if you can get past the psychotic nature of him using his fingernails to scrape ice off his glass door, he mentions his pharmacist told him not to use the Ozempic if it had been frozen.
Of course, there's no way for him to know whether it was frozen then thawed in transit. The tech for that exists, and frankly is not all that expensive. But those PBM middlemen have one and only one goal - to get as much money as possible.
So, until this blows up and politicians see a need to rile up their voters, don’t expect extra careful handling of your winter/summer drug deliveries.
Team Roast - Handyman
Many fishermen know that one simple trick to make your fish look huge for a picture. But have you ever seen someone do it to make their own hands look big? Neither did we. Until now.
The CEO of CoreLabs1 has stretched his way into the huge hand hall of fame.
Uncle Jack would be proud.
Bravo!
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals --> Talphera
This one has us a little sad. AcelRx was a pretty cool looking name. (Never actually heard anyone say it - maybe it sounded good too.)
But the company wanted to move on and landed on Talphera, which sounds like a disease from the middle-ages.
Belov'd neighbor, Christopher Wilde, hath met his demise by reason of a grievous affliction known as talphera. His worldly possessions shall be put to auction, forthwith.
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MasterclAss
If you want a great lesson in how to get drug companies and FDA all on your tail simultaneously, here you go: a supplement company created a weight-loss product called “Slimaglutide” and made a statement claiming it helps manage weight.
FDA is usually hands-off with the supplement industry but given this product’s name being so similar to an FDA approved product, along with the company's implication it does the same thing for customers...well, they're probably gonna have themselves a problem.
Good luck to our friends over at Hi-tech. They’re gonna need it.
Founder Levels
Being a Founder is a binary proposition. You're either a Founder or you're not.
But apparently Gritgen does not believe this. They assign people as being to separate tiers of "Founders" or "Co-Founders".
Dude, you're all co-Founders. That's just how language works.
What's the deal with coming up with different tiers of founders anyways? Are they starting a multi-level marketing drug company? Might have to apply to work there and someday work our way up to becoming a Diamond Founder.
Thermo Fisher
Out of fear of human rights abuses, Thermo Fisher decided to stop selling genetic test kits in Tibet.
Good thing Tibet isn't part of an enormous country with an extensive transportation network over which these kits could easily be hauled.
Problem solved!
Team Roast - Reincarnation
One of the greatest American writers, Mark Twain, probably would have enjoyed our poking fun at various biotech companies in the Team Roast.
If he were around today, you may think perhaps he would be writing a brutal newsletter himself, skewering all the tomfoolery in the world.
But, alas, you would be wrong - he is doing just dandy as the CTO of Isotopia Molecular.
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