If youâre using B vitamins to help prevent hot flashes, be sure to use the form of niacin called niacinamide. Other forms of niacin dilate the blood vessels, which can cause flushing and worsen hot flashes, rather than relieve them. Folic acid helps the body manufacture and use estrogen.
In 2014, a new hepatitis C drug came to market, an innovative treatment offering a cure for a disease that desperately needed one. The price tag: about $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment, enough to make it the most expensive prescription drug in America. In the medical world, the halls of insurance offices nationwide and even our nationâs Capitol, all hell broke loose. The drug, Gilead Sciences Inc.âs Sovaldi GILD, -0.34% remains the most expensive drug in America today, topping a list compiled by drug price comparison website GoodRx. Second on the list is its sister drug Harvoni, which combines Sovaldi with another drug.
In 1985 the patent ended, and there are now more than 500 brands available on the market. Diazepam is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system. The wholesale cost in the developing world is about 0.01 USD per dose as of 2014.