Herbal medicine cheaper and more effective than pharmaceutical medicine
Infectious disease specialists are up in arms about a spike in the
price of Daraprim. The drug was acquired by Turing Pharmaceuticals in
August, which upped the price from $13.50 a tablet to $750 a tablet
overnight. The increase in drug prices is driving many people away from
Big Pharmaceuticals in the quest to find cheaper, alternative remedies.(1)
Daraprim, known generically as pyrimethamine, is primarily used to
treat toxoplasmosis, but can also combat malaria. Toxoplasmosis is a
parasite born disease that can cause blindness and even death to babies
born to women infected by the disease, as well as AIDS and cancer
patients with a compromised immune system.(1)
